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Drainage work on land between junction 12, Tal-y-Bont, and junction 13, Abergwyngregyn, will begin in the autumn, once the landowners agree.
It is part of a stretch of the A55 closed by flooding on Boxing Day.
First Minster Carwyn Jones also said a separate £1.9m Tal-y-Bont scheme is due to start in the spring and be ready for winter.
Mr Jones visited the village, also hit by flooding over Christmas, in January - a week after residents complained they had been left waiting for him after he had driven through the village without stopping.
He apologised but said he did not know they had been expecting him.
Visiting the Traffic Management Centre in Conwy on Thursday, he said: "When I saw the flooding on the A55 and then met residents of Tal-y-Bont who had been affected, I said that the money was available for a flood alleviation scheme to help reduce the risk of it happening again.
"Following discussion with Gwynedd council, I'm pleased to say that construction can start this April and will be complete ahead of next winter."
He said the A55 work "needs a great deal of planning because of its sheer scale".
"The plan is not that there are perpetual road works on the A55," he added.
"At the moment, we need to make sure that the tunnels are safe for the future.
"We're not planning any works after Easter of this year, but you have to remember that the A55 was built on the cheap, unfortunately.
"If you look at some of the sections like the tunnels, it's just the old road. We would never build a road like that now, we would build a far better road. So we have to improve the road's resilience for the future."
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A £500,000 grant to speed up flood prevention work on the A55 in Gwynedd has been announced.
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The AA's index of the cheapest deals on the market showed that the cost of annual comprehensive car insurance rose by 5.2% in the three months to the end of June.
Drivers aged 23 to 29 have seen a 6.2% rise over the same period, the biggest increase of any age group.
They typically paid a premium of £683.
"Insurers have been releasing their reserves to maintain their competitive edge to the point where this is no longer sustainable - and we are seeing premiums beginning to rise once more," said Janet Connor, managing director of AA Insurance.
"The days of cheap car insurance premiums are over - price rises are inevitable."
A quote for a typical comprehensive motor insurance policy for all age groups has risen to £549.
The AA estimates that the rise in insurance premium tax, announced by Chancellor George Osborne in the Budget, will add £18 to the cost of the average comprehensive car insurance policy.
The insurer also reported a 1.3% rise in the index of cheapest home and contents insurance premiums, the first increase since 2012.
The average premium for a contents policy has hit £61.18 with the typical buildings premium up to £108.15.
The anxious process will have seen teenagers visiting university open days and worrying about personal statements on their application forms.
For some of the most competitive courses there are also interviews.
Oxford, keen to demystify its admissions process, has published the type of questions students might face.
"Interviews will be an entirely new experience for most students, and we know many prospective applicants are already worried about being in an unfamiliar place and being questioned by people they have not met," says director of admissions Samina Khan.
In an attempt to make it less intimidating the university has produced a video explaining how the interview works.
And it has published some sample questions - and suggestions for how students might have answered.
This was a question for a French course. Interviewer Helen Swift, from St Hilda's College, said:
"This is the sort of question that could emerge from a student's personal statement, where, in speaking about their engagement with literature and culture of the language they want to study, they state a keen interest in works (such as a novel, play or film) that are "political".
"We might start off by discussing the specific work that they cite (something that isn't included in their A-level syllabus), so they have chance to start off on something concrete and familiar, asking, for instance, "in what ways?", "why?", "why might someone not enjoy it for the same reason?".
"We'd then look to test the extent of their intellectual curiosity and capacities for critical engagement by broadening the questioning out to be more conceptually orientated and invite them to make comparisons between things that they've read/seen (in whatever language).
"So, in posing the overall question, 'What makes this political?' we'd want the candidate to start thinking about what one means in applying the label: what aspects of a work does it evoke? Is it a judgement about content or style? Could it be seen in and of itself a value judgement? How useful is it as a label?
"What if we said that all art is, in fact, political? What about cases where an author denies that their work is political, but critics assert that it is - is it purely a question of subjective interpretation?
"A strong candidate would show ready willingness and very good ability to engage and develop their ideas in conversation. It would be perfectly fine for someone to change their mind in the course of the discussion or come up with a thought that contradicted something they'd said before - we want people to think flexibly and be willing to consider different perspectives...
"Undoubtedly, the candidate would need to take a moment to think in the middle of all that - we expect that "ermmm", "ah", "oh", "well" will feature in someone's responses!"
This was a question for medicine. Interviewer Chris Norbury, from Queen's College, said:
"This is a typically open question, with no single 'correct' answer, which aims to stimulate the sort of discussion that might be encountered in a tutorial teaching session.
"The discussion could take any one of a number of directions, according to the candidate's interests. Some candidates will ask useful clarifying questions, such as, 'Where do these data come from, and how reliable are they?' or "What is the average life expectancy in these parts of the world?"
"Some candidates will seize on the idea that various aspects of the typical lifestyle in the UK are inherently unhealthy, which can make for an interesting discussion in itself. Others, especially if they appreciate that life expectancy in the Philippines is substantially lower than in the UK, will realise that other causes of death are more common in the developing world, and that this is the major factor that gives rise to the difference alluded to in the question.
"This probes selection criteria including problem-solving, critical thinking, intellectual curiosity, communication skills, ability to listen and compatibility with the tutorial format."
This was a question for philosophy, politics and economics, and interviewer Ian Phillips, from St Anne's College, said:
"Questions like this help draw out a candidate's ability to think carefully and precisely about a familiar concept, evaluating proposals, coming up with counter-examples, disentangling considerations, and being creative in proposing alternative approaches.
"Obviously the notion of blame is an important one in moral theory but insofar as blame is an emotional attitude it also brings in issues in the philosophy of mind. Debates about the nature of blame are going on right now in philosophy so the question is also partly a prompt for doing some philosophy together - which is exactly what we hope to achieve in a tutorial.
"With a question like this we're not looking for a right answer but instead whether the candidate can be creative in coming up with examples and suggestions, and can think critically and carefully through their implications...
"Good interviews will often generate all kinds of interesting and revealing discussions that show a candidate's ability for analytical thought: for example about self-blame, cases of blame where the blamer knew the blamed had done nothing wrong, and indeed cases of blaming something inanimate (such as a faulty printer or phone)."
This was a question for maths and interviewer Rebecca Cotton-Barratt, from Christ Church, said:
"This question tests whether you can do what mathematicians do, which is to abstract away all the unimportant information and use mathematics to represent what's going on.
"I'd initially ask the candidate what shape they think will be formed, and then ask them how they can test this hypothesis. They might initially try sketching the ladder at different stages - this is fine, but ultimately what we want is something that we can generalise and that is accurate (you can't be sure that your drawing is that accurate, particularly when you're making a sketch on a whiteboard and don't have a ruler).
"So eventually they will fall back on maths, and try to model the situation using equations. If they get stuck we would ask them what shape the ladder makes with the wall and floor, and they'll eventually spot that at each stage the ladder is forming a right-angled triangle.
"Some might then immediately leap to Pythagoras' Theorem and use that to find the answer (which is that it forms a quarter circle centred on the point where the floor meets the wall)."
This was a question for experimental psychology. Interviewer Kate Watkins of St Anne's College said:
"This is a question that really asks students to think about lots of different aspects of psychology, and we guide students when discussing it to think about both scientific factors such as maternal age (mothers are older when younger siblings are born - could that play a role?) and observational analysis about how birth order might affect behaviour and therefore performance on IQ tests.
"It's a great question because students begin from the point they are most comfortable with, and we gradually add more information to see how they respond: for example, noting that for example the pattern holds true even taking into account things like maternal age.
"This can lead them to think about what the dynamics of being an older sibling might be that produce such an effect - they might suggest that having more undivided parental attention in the years before a sibling comes along makes a difference, for example.
"Then we introduce the further proviso that the effect isn't observable in only children - there is something particular to being an older sibling that produces it. Eventually most students arrive at the conclusion that being an older sibling and having to teach a younger sibling certain skills and types of knowledge benefits their own cognitive skills (learning things twice, in effect).
"But there isn't really a "right" answer and we are always interested to hear new explanations that we haven't heard before."
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Gloucester's Moriarty is set to be the direct opponent to Northampton's Picamoles.
"We know if we can stop him on the front foot then we have got a good chance," said Moriarty.
"He is a huge man, a very experienced player. Hopefully we can do a job on him."
Moriarty added: "I have played against him when he has played for Northampton and he is a huge player for France.
"He is very similar to Nathan Hughes for England, one of their main ball-carriers."
Moriarty has earned praise for his displays during Wales' rollercoaster Six Nations campaign.
They have beaten Italy, then lost to England and Scotland, before redeeming themselves with victory over Ireland on Friday.
A win against France could see Wales finish second behind England if the already crowned champions beat Ireland in Dublin later in the day.
Scotland could also finish second as they bid farewell to coach Vern Cotter against Italy in Edinburgh at lunchtime.
Moriarty says the incentive of finishing second to Eddie Jones' side means Wales will go to Paris feeling the game is "definitely not" a dead rubber.
He added: "France have got everything to play for in their own back yard and we have got everything to play for.
"If results go our way we could still come second in the championship; it is a big game."
The proposed deal to take over Helsinki-listed Metso Corporation is reported to be worth more than £3.3bn.
The Finnish engineering firm said talks had not yet started with the Glasgow-based group but it was considering the proposal.
Both companies produce industrial pumps and valves for global oil, gas and mining operations.
They confirmed the merger move following a report in the Times newspaper.
In a statement, Weir said: "The Weir Group Plc notes the recent press speculation concerning a possible transaction involving Weir and Metso Corporation and the subsequent statement from Metso.
"Weir confirms that it has made an indicative all share merger proposal to the board of Metso."
It added: "The board of Weir believes that there is a strong strategic rationale for bringing the two companies together which would offer the opportunity for significant efficiencies and synergies, creating significant value for all shareholders.
"Weir envisages that the merged entity would be listed on both the London and Helsinki Stock Exchanges.
"Weir will make a further announcement as appropriate in due course."
Metso said it had recently received an unsolicited approach by Weir "with a proposal for commencing discussions concerning a potential combination of the two companies".
It added: "Metso occasionally receives these types of proposals and, in case the board of directors of Metso considers them serious, evaluates such proposals.
"Contrary to market rumours, Metso is currently not and has not been engaged in discussions with Weir although it is in the process of considering Weir's proposal."
One obstacle to the merger is the opposition of Finnish state investment fund, Solidium, which owns 11% of Metso. It has rejected a takeover, saying Metso had a bright future as an independent company.
Solidium managing director, Kari Jarvinen, said: "I don't think this is the right time to sell Metso to Weir Group, or to sell it to anyone".
The talks are aimed at resolving difficulties among the five parties in the devolved Stormont government.
Negotiators are considering flags, parades and the legacy of the Troubles.
Mr Cameron said Secretary of State Theresa Villiers had indicated "progress in those negotiations and that all of the parties have engaged constructively in the process".
"Clearly these are complex and difficult issues, and I recognise the scale of the task that lies ahead," he said.
"The UK government will do all it can to support the parties in their efforts to reach agreement, and I am satisfied that we have done so thus far.
"I urge the parties to continue in their endeavours and look forward to a further report on progress in the near future."
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan, who is also attending the talks, told him that "all parties have expressed their strong support for the talks to continue and intensify".
"Politics - and political leaders - have to now focus on delivering an agreement for all the people, even if that requires difficult negotiation and compromise," he said.
"The window is narrowing and I urge all the parties to intensify their efforts in the immediate period ahead and seize the opportunity to secure an agreement.
"The Irish government will continue to support the parties in their efforts to reach such an agreement."
The statements from the two prime ministers came as former US Senator Gary Hart returned to Belfast to attend the talks.
It is understood Senator Hart will be in Northern Ireland throughout this week.
The Shadow Secretary of State Ivan Lewis said that the parties were "making headway with some extremely difficult issues".
"I urge the parties to continue to make every possible effort to reach agreement in the best interests of people in Northern Ireland," he said.
Last week, Ms Villiers, who is chairing the talks, said she thought there was only a slim chance of a deal.
However, later she qualified this, saying that the negotiations may have reached a turning point.
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.
Helen Astle reports.
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.
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The 36-year-old left Chelsea as their most decorated player, after winning 15 major honours with the London club.
He left the Premier League champions and joined a Villa side that finished 13th in the Championship last term.
"You don't put 22 years on the line, having won what I've won - that remains regardless," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"Over the years at Chelsea, they haven't all been successes, we had some really disappointing ones.
"But if you can have a really good year and get promoted and win a trophy, the disappointing ones get forgotten a little.
"If I can add this to a long list of trophies and successes, fantastic."
Apart from a short loan stint with Nottingham Forest, Terry has spent his whole career at Chelsea, making 717 appearances, winning five Premier League titles, five FA Cups and three League Cups. He also has Champions League and Europa League winners medals.
Terry made his first-team debut for the Blues against Villa in a League Cup tie October 1998, and got his first taste of Premier League, FA Cup and European football by the end of that campaign.
He briefly dropped into England's second tier with Forest the following season, and says lessons learned almost two decades ago will serve him well in the Championship as Villa chase promotion at their second attempt.
Asked about contending with the "blood and thunder" of England's second-tier competition, Terry replied: "When I look back to when I first came into football, that was kind of what it was about - the big battles, long journeys on the bus. There were no private jets and those kind of things.
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"The physicality of the Championship doesn't worry me at all, it has always been a big part of my game.
"I'm really looking forward to it and am excited by the challenge ahead."
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She says she's split between loving the play and wanting to be back home at a politically crucial time in the US.
Jones played President Taylor in two series of 24, from 2009 to 2010. Many saw a distinct suggestion of Hillary Clinton in her appearance and characterisation.
But the actress says none of that gave her an extra reason to back Clinton in last November's US presidential elections.
"I didn't need any extra anything," she told the BBC. "We were all doing everything we could to support Hillary, and keep at bay the darkness that has now descended over America because of our own ignorance and arrogance.
"We are in this moment self-destructing. Even in the Vietnam War, we haven't seen people mobilise the way they're mobilising now."
Jones, one of America's most respected stage actresses, stars alongside her countryman Michael Esper in Williams' intense family drama.
Both are as happy to talk about politics as The Glass Menagerie, a production seen at last year's Edinburgh Festival that is now running in London's West End.
Esper, a 40 year-old New Yorker, recently appeared in London in the David Bowie musical Lazarus.
"When I was here before the election, people initially thought Donald Trump was almost funny and often they'd treat him as a harmless joke," he told the BBC.
"I think now reality has set in. America now has a president who's a constituency of one.
"For me Trump represents the worst of America, while Tennessee Williams was a creative genius Americans should be proud of. So it's a delight to be in the play."
Williams wrote The Glass Menagerie in 1944. A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof later brought him money and worldwide fame, but his early "memory play" had been an extraordinary achievement for a young writer.
"Tennessee was a poet, a rebel and a gay man," says Jones. "He was a unique talent and chose his own path.
"He's influenced other writers, but I don't think anyone has ever quite been like him."
Esper's role of Tom is usually seen as a self-portrait by the playwright, whose real first name was Thomas.
"The extraordinary thing about the way the lines and the structure work is they don't feel almost three-quarters of a century old," he says.
"His humour and the moments of lyricism feel contemporary. The four characters on stage relate in a way which still means something today."
Jones too is full of admiration for Williams the writer.
"For instance, he sets up superbly the arrival of the 'Gentleman Caller' in the second part of the play, who my character hopes will marry her daughter.
"And when he arrives there's so much humour and emotion that the audience is laughing one moment and then suddenly dead silent.
"At the risk of sounding like a flatterer, British audiences seem good at listening and picking up the nuances of what's being said."
Esper, though, says there has been a downside to his extended stay east of the Atlantic.
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Jones has long been open about being a lesbian. So is she anxious about President Trump's views on homosexuality?
In America some gay people have expressed fears about policies which might be put forward.
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The plan has now been approved by the African Union.
But what are the chances that this 8,700-strong regional force will root out an insurgency responsible for the death of tens of thousands in recent years?
The area that the MNJTF will be covering draws the force's first limit.
Military and diplomatic sources have confirmed that MNJTF soldiers will only operate between the outskirts of Niger's Diffa border town, and the towns of Baga and Ngala in Nigeria.
In other words, the regional force's main task will be to secure the Nigerian side of Lake Chad, which represents "only 10 to 15% of the entire area where Boko Haram operates", according to a diplomat based in the region, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
"This plan won't solve the problem, it will remain up to Nigeria to do most of the job," the source added.
As a matter of fact, Nigeria remains extremely reluctant to have an international force on its territory.
Africa's giant would rather show that it can lead regional operations or at least be part of them - Chad in the 1980s, Sierra Leone and Liberia in the 1990s; Darfur later - than host foreign armies to solve trouble at home.
Nigeria has always remained very protective of its territorial sovereignty since the Biafra war.
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But Nigeria also has a history of border disputes with the neighbours who are now pressing for a regional solution. Whether over islands on Lake Chad that belong to Niger or Chad, or the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula that once led Cameroon and Nigeria to the brink of war.
These tensions went live on Twitter two weeks ago when the spokesperson of Nigeria's army, General Chris Olukolade, furiously responded to comments apparently coming from the defence ministry in Niger suggesting that Nigerian soldiers were running away from Boko Haram fighters.
"Nobody will disrespect my Mother[land]!" he wrote.
"We don't cross our boundaries. It is unacceptable for any foreign government to say our soldiers run."
In this context of distrust, it is still unclear whether Nigeria will agree to have Niger and Cameroon conduct cross-border operations, as Chad has already been doing.
Zones of deployment will have to be assigned once the plan agreed in N'djamena is approved by the African Union (AU).
Nevertheless, diplomats concede that the level of co-operation between military planners last week had been "surprisingly impressive".
Diplomatic sources have told the BBC that Nigeria and Chad will provide most of the troops; respectively 3,250 and 3,000 men, including a Chadian special forces unit.
There will be 950 men from Cameroon, 750 from Niger and the remaining 750 from Benin. All of them will be under the command of a Nigerian general.
These figures include infantry troops and artillery but also gendarmes and police squads as well as engineering, logistical and civilian units.
No timeline has so far been attached to the current plan; what will be achieved on the ground may drive any future decision to review this deployment.
On the map, the Cameroonian border area seems left out of the plan, which may force Chad to keep its current scenario going with some of its troops deployed south of its capital to fight alongside the Cameroonian forces.
As for the United Nations, "it comes a bit at the end of the food chain", a source at the Security Council said.
Western powers - perhaps with the exception of France - do not seem inclined to give this force more than a political endorsement to keep it a regional initiative.
Still, Nigeria is "dragging its feet at the Security Council", as another diplomatic source at the UN put it.
"Nigeria remains passive on the issue and it makes sure that things don't move forward when it should be the pen-holder [submitting statements and texts]."
It is election time in Nigeria and there is a sense that mounting a plan against Boko Haram now puts the incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan, in an uncomfortable position.
After six years of escalating violence in Nigeria's north-eastern states, the Nigerian authorities have postponed the general election to allow time for a last-minute offensive against the insurgents.
But although Nigerian troops have recaptured a number of towns from Boko Haram's hands - at times with Chadian help - over the past two weeks, there is little chance that the insurgency can be crushed before the end of the month, when the election is now due.
Mr Jonathan, who is seen as having barely dealt with the crisis, is now squeezed between his electoral campaign and a military offensive, hoping that both will turn in his favour.
In the meantime, Chad has clearly taken the lead. At the UN Security Council, where it is said to be "pushy", and on the ground, with Chadian troops deployed in Nigeria but also in Cameroon and in Niger.
Chad has been impatient to act in order to protect its supply routes, crucial to its economy. Goods come through Cameroon's Far North while it exports oil through a pipeline running through Nigeria's Adamawa state.
There is scepticism that Nigeria will even bring a resolution before the Security Council following the AU vote, in which case Chad would probably seek UN backing for the region.
Funds for the MNJTF will not directly come from the United Nations but from donor countries led by France, the US and the UK, which will all stress human rights issues, given the track records of the armies involved.
In a paper published last month, Marc-Antoine Perouse de Montclos, researcher at Chatham House, suggested that a multi-national response to Boko Haram's threat might just help the Nigerian Islamist insurgency take on a more regional dimension.
After all, Boko Haram launched its first attacks on Chad and Niger after the authorities of both countries said that they were joining the fight.
On the contrary but with tempered optimism, Western diplomats reckon that this current plan will at best stop a Boko Haram spill-over in the region and weaken the insurgency in Nigeria.
But it will not be enough to flush it out of the north-eastern states.
"Nigeria isn't really part of the game so far, but Abuja is obviously key to solving the crisis," wrote Mr Perouse de Montclos.
Diplomats agree. The MNJTF may well get the institutional framework it will need to operate, but the co-operation efforts made by Nigeria's francophone neighbours will not achieve much without a real Nigerian strategy - both military and political - against Boko Haram.
A source at the UN Security Council bluntly summed it up: "All we see is the failure coming from six years of non-action.
"Nigeria needs to get a lot more involved."
Solihull goalkeeper Nathan Vaughan almost gifted Gateshead, who lost to lowly North Ferriby last time out, an early goal.
He slipped in the second minute, with striker Danny Johnson lurking, but managed to recover in time.
From there both keepers had to be on fine form during a tense first 45 minutes, with Johnson continuing to cause problems while Jack Byrne forced a great save out of Gateshead's Dan Hanford in the 43rd minute.
Johnson missed a great chance to clinch it with 10 minutes to go, racing clear from substitute Sam Jones' flick-on only to fire straight at Vaughan from a tight angle.
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Match ends, Gateshead 0, Solihull Moors 0.
Second Half ends, Gateshead 0, Solihull Moors 0.
Substitution, Gateshead. Rhys Oates replaces Danny Johnson.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Stefan Moore replaces Omari Sterling-James.
Substitution, Gateshead. Adam Wrightson replaces Mitch Brundle.
Substitution, Gateshead. Sam Jones replaces Reece Styche.
Second Half begins Gateshead 0, Solihull Moors 0.
First Half ends, Gateshead 0, Solihull Moors 0.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Harry White replaces Andy Brown.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Central defender Stones, 21, is a target for Chelsea who have had bids of £20m and £26m rejected.
Lukaku - who left Chelsea for Everton - said: "John is in a good situation at a good club which believes in him.
"He needs to keep on doing what he's doing. He has the Euros coming up, so why go?"
Everton manager Roberto Martinez has repeatedly said England international Stones will not be sold this summer, but the former Barnsley defender continues to be linked with a move to Stamford Bridge.
Lukaku joined Chelsea as an 18-year-old but failed to break through into the first team, playing just 10 times in the Premier League without scoring before joining Everton permanently last summer.
And the Belgian believes Stones, who will be hoping for a place in the England squad for Euro 2016 in France, should stay and play at Everton rather than risk a similar situation at the Premier League champions.
"John is playing and is learning a lot from [Everton and England defender] Phil Jagielka," Lukaku said.
"He's been here two years now but this is the year where he really needs to confirm he is the top player he can be.
"This club has massive potential, with the players we have and the ambition the manager has. He is in a good place. He's on to a good thing."
Mrs Rhodes, whose aunt was the Queen Mother, died on Friday after a short illness, according to reports.
A spokesman for Buckingham Palace said it was not issuing a statement as it was a "private matter" for the Queen.
Mrs Rhodes, who was less than a year older than the Queen, spent her summer holidays at Balmoral with the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret.
The Queen Mother affectionately called her her "third daughter".
Speaking to the BBC earlier this year, ahead of the Queen's 90th birthday, Mrs Rhodes repeated her belief that the monarch will never abdicate while she has her health.
Mrs Rhodes said: "Her total dedication is something we should all be grateful for."
Margaret Rhodes was a delight to interview. She was direct and honest - perhaps too direct and too honest for the more sensitive souls who reside at royal palaces.
At the height of the hype generated before Prince George was born, CNN's Christiane Amanpour asked her if she was excited.
"Not really," came the reply. "Everybody has babies."
Margaret Rhodes was close to the Queen. She once told me that when they were very small, they occupied their time playing at being horses.
"We were circus horses or riding ponies or anything you like," she said. "But it involved a lot of neighing and cantering and galloping."
Through the decades of turmoil and triumph, they remained close. On Sundays, after church when at Windsor, the Queen would visit her cousin in her grace and favour home. They would have a drink and chat about their families.
The small circle of people who understand the Queen, and who have supported her, has just lost another significant member.
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She attended every key royal event for more than 50 years and recorded her experiences in The Final Curtsey, a memoir which was published in 2011.
During the war, she worked as a secretary for MI6 and lodged at Buckingham Palace.
In her memoir, she recalled going out with the Queen - then Princess Elizabeth - to celebrate VE Day anonymously among the crowds in London. She described the night as "a Cinderella moment in reverse".
Mrs Rhodes later served the Queen as one of her bridesmaids at her wedding to the Duke of Edinburgh in 1947.
Unlike the Queen, Mrs Rhodes did give interviews. Before the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, she told the BBC the duchess, then known as Kate Middleton, had "been totally accepted by the nation as a future queen" but added "it's just a family wedding".
In 2013, when asked about the imminent birth of a royal baby - Prince George - she said she was not "wildly excited" as "everybody has babies".
In June 2012, she recalled the Queen's coronation on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.
She said: "We had only just recovered from six or seven years of deprivation and blackouts and rationing - it was like the sun suddenly coming out behind a lot of very dark clouds and I think everybody felt that with a new young Queen, a whole new era was opening up. It was somehow exciting."
In later life, Mrs Rhodes served as lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother for 10 years and was at her bedside when she died in 2002.
Mrs Rhodes's husband Denys died in 1981. She is survived by two daughters, Victoria and Annabel, and two sons, Simon and Michael.
The claim: Former Paralympian Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson says that "leaving the EU would prevent British people with disabilities from benefiting from upcoming legislation on accessibility".
Reality Check verdict: If Britain left the EU, it wouldn't benefit from future EU legislation. The EU has been influential in the development of disability rights legislation, but leaving would not necessarily mean those rights would be lost.
In December 2015, the EU proposed the European Accessibility Act, with the hope of setting requirements for certain key products and services.
They include cash machines, banking services and TV equipment.
And Baroness Grey-Thompson is concerned a UK exit would mean Britons missing out.
An impact assessment has been carried out as well as consultations with small and medium businesses that the act will affect.
A proposed text has been published, and it will now be debated and amended by the European Parliament and European Council.
It could go back and forth for debate and amendment between the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Council several times until an agreement is reached.
But how much has existing UK disability law has been influenced by the EU?
In 1970, the UK passed the Chronically Sick And Disabled Persons Act, the first legislation in the world to recognise and award rights to disabled people.
Later, in 1995, the UK introduced its first disability discrimination legislation, the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA).
It covered education, transport, and the provision of goods, facilities, services, premises, employment and occupation.
Under the DDA, businesses with fewer than 20 employees were protected if they discriminated on grounds of disability.
The first European Union-constituted piece of legislation against disability discrimination was the Framework Directive for Equal Treatment in Employment and Occupation in 2000, setting out to protect individuals in employment against direct and indirect discrimination on account of race, sexual orientation, religion and disability.
Unlike the DDA, the directive did not provide protection for companies smaller than 20 people, making the UK to remove this exemption from its law in 2004.
The EU had a further impact on disability legislation in the UK in 2008.
Discrimination against employees due to their carer status or relationship to a disabled person became unlawful in England, Scotland and Wales as a result of a European Court of Justice Judgement.
UK carer Sharon Coleman said she had been harassed into resigning from her job because of her disabled son and had suffered "discrimination by association".
The European Court of Justice ruled in her favour, saying the Employment Equality Directive "must be interpreted as meaning that the prohibition of direct discrimination laid down therein is not limited only to people who are disabled".
In terms of transport, EU directives introduced between 2006 and 2011 ensure disabled people are entitled to assistance by trained staff when travelling by plane, train, bus or ship.
However, in the UK, the Transport Act in 2000 set out more clearly what was meant by disability in terms of applying for travel concessions, and further defined the rights of disabled travellers and commuters and what rail companies were expected to do to ensure disabled people's safe and effective travel.
Disability benefits are another area in which the European Court of Justice has intervened.
Because of the Regulation on the Co-ordination of Social Security Systems 2004 (and relevant decisions of the EU Court of Justice), in certain circumstances, people from the UK can live in other EU countries and still receive some benefits, including Personal Independence Payment and attendance allowance.
Law professor and director of the Centre for Disability Studies Anna Lawson has said in a paper that many positive changes in UK laws have resulted from European initiatives.
If the UK were to leave the EU, Prof Lawson said, "EU law would no longer prevent UK governments from rolling them back - nor from rolling back other disability rights measures currently set out in both UK and EU law".
"It would jeopardise much needed financial support for UK disabled people from EU Structural and Investment Funds - which have just been changed to place more emphasis on anti-poverty and social inclusion measures," she said.
However, a report by charity The Papworth Trust suggests the UK is one of the more progressive of the 28 EU member states in terms of treatment of disabled people, and that direct lobbying of the UK government for changes to legislation would be more effective.
Leave campaigners say that the EU slows down the UK's ability to make and implement laws.
A representative said: "The UK acted to address disability discrimination before the EU and provides for much more extensive rights.
"EU governments have a bad track record in protecting the disabled.
"They should not be able to influence our policy."
EU disability legislation has done much to positively change UK disability rights laws, but we do not know how they would have been amended without input from the EU.
EU law governs workers' rights, but other areas of social policy are left to the governments of nation states, meaning UK law on disability is by nature more comprehensive than the EU's.
However, a Brexit would remove the UK's recourse to the European Court of Justice to ensure equality rights are not interpreted too narrowly, and the UK would not automatically benefit from future developments.
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California and New York issued a joint statement saying they would continue the fight against climate change.
Environmental groups have hired a host of lawyers to challenge Mr Trump's move that boosts fossil fuel production.
Mr Trump said he wanted to end "job-killing regulations".
His supporters believe that ending the climate change rules brought in by Barack Obama will create thousands of jobs in the gas, coal and oil industries.
The governors of New York and California summed up opponents' views by saying Mr Trump's stance was "profoundly misguided and shockingly ignores basic science".
In a joint statement, Governors Jerry Brown of California and Andrew Cuomo of New York, both Democrats, said: "With or without Washington, we will work with our partners throughout the world to aggressively fight climate change and protect our future."
The two states have set even stricter targets on reducing greenhouse gas emissions than required by Mr Obama's rules and have far-reaching plans for converting to renewable energy sources for producing electricity.
Governor Brown said: "Erasing climate change may take place in Donald Trump's mind, but nowhere else."
A host of legal issues could be in the pipeline.
California has a special waiver allowing it to enforce tougher measures on vehicle emissions. Mr Trump could rescind that - but this would lead to a fierce challenge.
He could also ask Congress to revoke the Clean Air Act.
Back in 2007, the US Supreme Court ruled that carbon dioxide gas was a pollutant under the Act.
Some experts believe that the ultimate goal of Mr Trump's executive order is to overturn that ruling.
Already tied up in the courts is Mr Obama's Clean Power Plan (CPP), which seeks to cut fossil fuels from electricity production.
The BBC's environment correspondent, Matt McGrath, says Mr Trump will let the CPP fester there while coming up with a much weaker replacement.
David Goldston, of the Natural Resources Defence Council, said activists were gearing up for legal challenges.
He said: "The president doesn't get to simply rewrite safeguards; they have to... prove the changes are in line with the law and science. I think that's going to be a high hurdle for them."
Any legal challenges would dovetail with action to win over public opinion.
Jeremy Symons, of the Environmental Defence Fund, told Associated Press: "In terms of the big picture, our strategy is simple: shine a spotlight on what is going on and mobilise the public against these rollbacks."
But Mr Trump's move does have supporters.
US Chamber of Commerce president Thomas Donohue said: "These executive actions are a welcome departure from the previous administration's strategy of making energy more expensive through costly, job-killing regulations that choked our economy."
Mr Trump's Energy Independence Executive Order suspends more than half a dozen measures enacted by his predecessor.
Although during his election campaign he also vowed to pull the US out of the Paris climate deal agreed in December 2015, he has not spelled out the US intentions.
Whatever the US chooses, the EU, India and China say they will stick to their pledges made in Paris.
On Wednesday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said: "No matter how other countries' policies change, as a responsible large developing country, China's resolve, aims and policy moves in dealing with climate change will not."
Mourinho had claimed officials were "afraid" to award his team penalties after Robert Madley denied Chelsea a spot-kick in a 3-1 loss to Southampton.
The FA charged that his comments "imply bias on the part of a match official".
Mourinho's ban will only be enforced if he repeats the offence within a year.
The home defeat by Southampton was Chelsea's fourth loss in the defending champions' opening eight Premier League games of the season and left them 10 points behind leaders Manchester City and four points above the relegation zone.
Speaking after the game, Mourinho had said the Blues were "always punished" by officials because "there is always a question mark" from the media.
"If the Football Association wants to punish me they can. They don't punish other managers," he added.
A Chelsea spokesperson told BBC Sport the club would wait to read the FA's full reasoning before making any comment on the verdict.
Mourinho was charged hours after the Blues said the Portuguese retained their "full support" following back-to-back defeats.
His side return to Premier League action at home to Aston Villa - four points and two places below them - on Saturday.
Parts of Upper Street, Charlton Place, Camden Passage and Colebrooke Row near the Angel Islington were all closed.
The fire brigade said the water was 2m (6.5ft) deep in basement properties on Charlton Place.
Thames Water has apologised and said it would take several days to fix the pipe. London Fire Brigade said it had pumped water into a nearby canal.
Firefighters from Islington, Dowgate, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green, Shoreditch, Battersea and Edmonton stations are at the scene, and the Metropolitan Police's marine unit was also helping.
The Steam Passage Tavern opened its doors to residents whose homes had been flooded.
Homeowner Trevor Turner said: "I woke up at 05:30 with essentially a river flowing down Charlton Place.
"We're just refurbishing our kitchen. The last bits of the tiling were due to happen this morning and some damp proofing as well."
Mary, another resident, said: "I woke up at 05:45 as I heard something.
"I thought it was torrential rain so I put my head out the window and saw it was a torrential flood instead and then several policemen who were knocking on doors on the other side and said to evacuate."
Motorists were advised to avoid the usually busy area, with the southbound side of Upper Street closed.
A Thames Water spokesperson said the company was "supporting those whose properties were flooded" with help finding alternative accommodation and making insurance claims.
The company said repairs to the pipe would "continue throughout this week" with engineers working "24 hours a day to get the job done".
"It was our pipe that burst and it's our responsibility to put things right," the spokesperson said.
Richard Watts, leader of Islington Council, said the flood had "caused considerable damage and distress".
George North's second-minute try had given Saints the perfect start, but Wasps weathered an early onslaught.
Jimmy Gopperth put them ahead from a superb breakaway try fashioned by the quick-thinking of Danny Cipriani.
Northampton fought back to trail 13-12 through Tom Kessell's try before a decisive late score by Josh Bassett.
Victory moved Wasps three points clear at the top of the table after champions Saracens lost 17-10 at Harlequins.
But the opening stages belonged to the hosts as North crossed in the corner from Ben Foden's offload within 90 seconds to finish a crisp attack from a line-out.
Dai Young's Wasps side withstood further pressure before taking the lead with a counter-attacking score.
Cipriani, making his 100th appearance for Wasps soon after his return to the club after spells at Melbourne Rebels and Sale Sharks, countered from inside his own 22 when he was fed by Joe Simpson from a retreating scrum.
The fly-half regained his precise grubber kick and found support from Guy Thompson, and the flanker's pass freed Gopperth to run under the posts from halfway, eluding North on the way.
Gopperth's boot then stretched the lead to 13-5 approaching the hour mark, and Northampton were their own worst enemies as they tried to fight back, with a series of handling errors killing their momentum every time they looked threatening.
REACTION: Wasps director of rugby Dai Young speaks to BBC Coventry and Warwickshire
However, they kept coming and Wasps had to endure a nervy last five minutes after Nathan Hughes was sin-binned for dragging down a Northampton maul.
Kessell pounced immediately to score and Stephen Myler's conversion brought the game to within a point.
But Saints were let down by their handling yet again and when Wasps pounced on a loose ball visiting scrum-half Dan Robson kicked ahead and winger Bassett out-paced Harry Mallinder to score.
Ken Pisi was shown a yellow card for a tripping the scrum-half as he chased his kick, but with both men down to 14 men Myler's late penalty ensured Northampton at least took a losing bonus point.
Northampton director of rugby Jim Mallinder:
"We just have to be a bit more accurate. We had lots of chances to win that game but sometimes that's life.
"You've got to dust yourself down and get back into it which we'll do and we'll come out fighting against Exeter."
Wasps director of rugby Dai Young:
"I said to the players, we rode our luck today without a shadow of a doubt.
"We won that game today on sheer heart and togetherness. We found a way to win.
"I'm really pleased because we were under pressure for big parts of that game today. I thought we showed a real attitude and a fight."
Northampton: Foden; K Pisi, G Pisi, Mallinder, North; Myler, Groom; Waller, Haywood, Brookes, Lawes, Dickinson, Wood (capt), Gibson, Picamoles.
Replacements: Clare, Ma'afu, Hill, Paterson, Harrison, Kessell, Hutchinson, Tuala.
Wasps: Miller; Wade, Daly, Gopperth, Bassett; Cipriani, Simpson; Mullan, Taylor, Cooper-Woolley, Symons, Gaskell (capt), Jones, Thompson, Hughes.
Replacements: Johnson, McIntyre, Moore, Myall, Young, Robson, Eastmond, De Luca.
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Health officials believe the move is needed as people are consuming 200 to 300 calories too many each day.
It could see the size of products reduced or ingredients changed in food and drinks bought in supermarkets, takeaways and restaurants.
The targets are expected to be set by Public Health England within a year.
They will be voluntary, although officials at the government advisory body said if the industry did not respond they were prepared to legislate.
The calorie-reduction programme comes after the success of the decade-long drive to reduce salt content in food.
It will be modelled on the sugar-reduction programme that was included in last year's child obesity strategy and which committed the industry to reducing the amount of sugar in certain foods by 20% by 2020.
PHE chief nutritionist Dr Alison Tedstone said good progress was being made on the sugar target and it was now time to consider tackling calories.
She pointed out that only a quarter of calories come from sugary foods so if successful it could have a major impact.
"We have a serious problem - one in three leave primary school either obese or overweight," she said.
"If we want to tackle this we have to look at calories. There are a number of ways it can be done - we can reduce the size of the products or change the ingredients."
Source: NHS Choices
She also defended the child obesity strategy, which was announced last August, amid criticism from campaigners that it had failed to have the impact it should have.
Dr Tedstone said she was "delighted" with it as it was the first time there had been a cross-government commitment to tackling the issue.
The plan also included the levy on sugary drinks, which is due to come into force in April 2018.
Caroline Cerny, of the Obesity Health Alliance, said it looked forward to seeing "ambitious" targets being set to cut calories.
But she said the food industry was continuing to "get away with bombarding children with adverts that we know encourage unhealthy food choices".
"Failing to tackle this area is significantly undermining the impact of the child obesity plan. After one year, it is scraping along with a C grade, rather than topping the class with an A star," she added.
A spokeswoman for the Food and Drink Federation said it welcomed "broadening" the focus away from only sugar.
"Singling out the role of individual ingredients and food groups does not help consumers to make good choices about their diet, lifestyle or general health."
She said companies were playing their part by making healthier options available and providing nutritional information on packs.
She added: "Our industry has a proud track record of reformulation to remove salt, fat and sugar from food and drinks. This work will continue as we rise to the challenge of PHE's sugar reduction targets and engage with this new focus on calories."
In the $2.15bn (£1.3bn) deal, Coca-Cola will transfer its worldwide energy business to Monster.
In exchange, Monster will transfer its non-energy business, which includes Peace Tea and Hansen's Natural Sodas, to Coca-Cola.
The deal gives Monster access to Coca-Cola's global distribution system.
For Coca-Cola, the partnership will give it the opportunity to increase its market share in the fast-growing energy drinks market.
In a statement, Muhtar Kent, chairman at Coca-Cola said: "The Coca-Cola Company continues to identify innovative approaches to partnerships that enable us to stay at the forefront of consumer trends in the beverage industry."
Mr Kent added that "investment in Monster is a capital efficient way to bolster our participation in the fast-growing and attractive global energy drinks category".
Also in the same statement, Monster chairman Rodney C. Sacks said the deal gives the company "enhanced access to the Coca-Cola Company's distribution system, the most powerful and extensive system in the world. At the same time, we become The Coca-Cola Company's exclusive energy play".
The deal is subject to regulatory approvals, and both companies hope the transaction will close by early next year.
Monster shares surged 22% in after-hours trading on the news, while Coca-Cola shares rose 1.2%.
Coca-Cola is the world's largest beverage company, with more than 500 brands to its name, including Diet Coke, Fanta and Minute Maid.
The deal comes as consumers in developed economies and more mature markets are turning health-conscious.
One effect of that is they are staying away from fizzy drinks and soda which have high sugar content and are widely known to cause weight gain and in some cases, lead to obesity.
Coca-Cola has been grappling with falling sales from products that used to be its core revenue driver.
Jonathan Godson, 49, from St Ouen in Jersey, admitted 24 counts of inciting, taking and making the images.
Godson, originally from Canada, was sentenced on Monday at Jersey's Royal Court.
The court heard that he possessed more than 68,000 indecent images and hundreds of hours of video.
Det Insp Paul Kennea, of the States of Jersey Police, said: "Jonathan Godson was a prolific supplier of indecent images of children and it is likely this behaviour would have continued if he was not caught.
"He not only downloaded indecent images of children, but actively shared them with others, thus encouraging further offending, and further adding to the suffering of victims.
"He possessed thousands of images of children and hours of video and is clearly a danger to young people."
Robinson took temporary charge at Fir Park, alongside McGhee's assistant James McFadden, and under-20s boss Stephen Craigan, following the sacking of Mark McGhee on 28 February.
The club say they received more than 50 applications for the position.
And the Steelmen aim to make an appointment as soon as possible.
Having worked under former manager Ian Baraclough, then McGhee, on the Fir Park coaching staff, 42-year-old Robinson returned to Well last month after being sacked as Oldham Athletic boss in January.
In his first game at the helm, Robinson oversaw a 2-1 win over Kilmarnock at Rugby Park, ending a run of four straight Scottish Premiership defeats.
He takes the team on Saturday to Pittodrie, where Motherwell were thrashed 7-2 by Aberdeen last month.
Veteran striker Scott McDonald believes most of the Fir Park squad would be pleased if the Northern Irishman secured the top job on a permanent basis.
"We know what Robbo is all about - the majority of us do anyway," he said. "It has always been a joy to work under him and work with him.
"As players, all we are concerning ourselves about is to do our best and do our job and, if we do that, we give Steve every possible chance of maybe taking the reins, which I think most boys would be more than happy with."
McDonald said Robinson had some wise words after McGhee's departure.
"He said: 'You are fortunate as players, you get another opportunity here. Go and take it with two hands and show me, or show whoever else is going to come in, that you are more than capable to stand up and do the job for this football club'."
The Spaniard has made 48 appearances since signing from Espanyol for £2.5m in June 2013.
Swansea go into Tuesday's Premier League game at West Bromwich Albion four points above relegation after recent wins over Watford and Everton.
"This is my home. I am happy here and my family is too," said Amat, 23.
"It's great news and I'm so happy to sign a new extension.
"I've been here for two and a half years and I'm very happy to be here for another three years."
The strap was recovered a few metres away from the south-east London bus stop where the 18 year old was attacked by six white men in August 1993.
Detectives discounted the strap for years because it was mistakenly logged as being found 80 metres away.
The DNA of an unknown woman has been found on the bag strap, the Met said.
Detectives believe the DNA is that of the main user of the bag and are attempting to trace her, although they are not linking the woman with the murder directly.
Mr Lawrence was stabbed to death in an unprovoked racist assault on 22 April 1993 as he waited at a bus stop in Eltham, south-east London with a friend.
In January 2012, Gary Dobson and David Norris were found guilty of being involved in the attack and jailed for life but detectives have always maintained others were involved.
They now want to find who owned the bag from which the strap came and discover why it was at the murder scene.
Chris Le Pere, the senior investigating detective, said: "She [the bag owner] is a witness. There is no evidence to suggest a female was involved in the murder of Stephen Lawrence."
One theory being investigated is that the strap was left at the scene by the murderers and it came from an "adapted offensive weapon".
A similar strap with a hammer-head attached was found at David Norris's house when he was arrested in 1993 on suspicion of murder.
Attempts to link the DNA found on the strap have failed.
Female associates, friends and relatives of all the key suspects have been asked to provide DNA but most have refused, the Met said.
Victims of bag theft in the area at the time of the murder have also been traced.
Could the black leather bag strap be the breakthrough which proves that a suspect was at the scene of Stephen Lawrence's murder?
The strap, which only investigators and crime scene examiners appeared to know about, has suddenly assumed enormous significance given that it was far closer to the attack than was previously thought. It could have been ripped off a bag during a mugging or taken from a bag belonging to a friend or relative of one of the suspects.
If detectives can find out who it belongs to, they'll be closer to establishing who brought it to the murder scene. Little strands like this, threaded together with other evidence, can solve crimes.
But the fact police are appealing for information now, not 23 years ago, puts them at a huge disadvantage - and is another reminder of how tragic it is that the original investigation into Stephen's murder was so badly flawed.
The black leather strap is believed to have been left in Dickson Road, by the junction with Well Hall Road.
It was initially recorded as having been 80m away from the murder scene but in 2014 officers established it was discarded only a few metres from where Stephen was set upon.
Mr Le Pere described the discrepancy as an "honest mistake", adding: "In my judgment there is no misconduct involved in this."
The location of the strap was correctly recorded in notes by examiners who recovered exhibits at the scene.
But when their statements were written up by colleagues "the punctuation hasn't been read correctly" Mr Le Pere said.
Mr Lawrence's own bag was found around six metres (20 feet) from a footway, his blood was 10 metres (32 feet) away and the strap was 15 metres (50 feet) away, according to the revised position.
The latest developments come on the eve of what would have been Stephen Lawrence's 42nd birthday.
The Met Police has offered a reward of up to £20,000 to identity and prosecute perpetrators of the murder.
His father, Neville Lawrence, has also appealed for further information about the murder.
Officers have spoken to around 110 people in connection with this line of inquiry, and gathered 50 DNA samples.
Police are still trying to trace a man reportedly seen in a distinctive green jacket with a V emblem near Well Hall Road roundabout at about the time Mr Lawrence was attacked.
CCTV footage, recently digitally enhanced, showed the man in a nearby off-licence hours before the murder took place.
In a sketch by a police artist, based on their accounts, the wearer of the jacket has light reddish hair. However the man in the CCTV pictures is dark-haired.
Police believe the man could be a witness.
The three towers of the Queensferry Crossing are now at road deck level. Transport Scotland said the project was on time and under budget.
The current budget range for the project is £1.4bn to £1.45bn, down from £1.45bn to £1.6bn in 2011
Transport Minister Keith Brown earlier visited the Queensferry Crossing and praised engineers' work.
Mr Brown said: "This time last year the view across the Forth looked a lot different. Work on the foundations was finishing last summer and the beginnings of the towers themselves started under the water line.
"The progress being made by the men and women building the new bridge is truly impressive.
"All three of the towers are now at or past the level of the bridge deck. Initial temporary supports and first bridge deck sections are due to be fitted to the Centre Tower's complex and reinforced 'power joint' in the autumn, while work on all three towers continues until they reach their full 210 metre height next summer.
"We can also see the v-shaped support piers for the south approach viaduct rising and being completed as the months go past. As each one is erected, the viaduct is then launched further out from the shoreline across the pier."
By the end of the year, assembly equipment will be moved over from the south approach viaduct area to the north to start assembly of the shorter North Approach viaduct steelwork. This is expected to be moved into position later in 2015.
Newcastle City Council was considering enlarging the Blue House roundabout near Gosforth, which would involve laying road on two surrounding moors.
About 2,000 people attended a protest rally on Sunday against the plans, which they described as "overkill".
The council said it would "review alternative proposals" before submitting its final proposal.
Newcastle City Councillor Ged Bell said: "People have come together to express their concerns and there's been significant public opposition to our outline designs.
"Alternative approaches to making improvements will require a willingness to work together from all parties."
The council said the roundabout was the worst in the city for causing injuries and it had a responsibility to make it safer.
Peter MacDonald, of community group SPACE for Gosforth, said: "The news that they are proposing to form a working group of stakeholders and community groups to work with them is exactly what many of us have campaigned for.
"We'd like to thank the council for listening, considering the feedback and for proposing an alternative way forward."
The Perth man is accused of running the alleged paedophile ring involving men he knew, aged 35 to 47.
The girl suffered the alleged abuse over two-years before being saved after a tip-off from the public in April.
"She was rescued from this horrible situation... and is safe," Detective Superintendent Glenn Feeney said.
Police seized several computer storage devices which allegedly contained 149 videos of the girl.
"To give an idea of the scope, one of these storage devices contained 200,000 videos and four million photos," Det Superintendent Feeney said. "It's disgusting material. There's no words to describe it."
The eight men have been charged with a range of offences including sexual penetration of a child, sexual servitude, stupefaction of a child, and child pornography offences.
19 August 2016 Last updated at 16:26 BST
Dashcam footage shows the black VW Golf travelling at speed down Leeds Road, Dewsbury, when it overtook a lorry and hit a white Ssangyong Korando, causing it to spin around.
A 35-year-old woman in the white car was airlifted to hospital with serious facial injuries. Her two-year-old daughter was unharmed in the 12 July incident.
The suspects then left the scene, West Yorkshire Police said.
Dmitry Kovtun is one of two men British authorities believe poisoned Mr Litvinenko with radioactive polonium at a London hotel in 2006.
He said he had been unable to get permission from Russian authorities to give evidence.
Mr Kovtun, who denies involvement, was due to appear by videolink from Moscow.
But he said he needed permission because testifying would risk violating an obligation of confidentiality to a Russian investigation into Mr Litvinenko's death.
Sir Robert Owen, the chair of the inquiry, gave Mr Kovtun a deadline of 09:00 BST on Tuesday to begin giving evidence.
During a meeting with Mr Kovtun and his co-accused Andrei Lugovoi, Mr Litvinenko drank tea containing a fatal dose of the radioactive substance polonium-210.
Mr Litvinenko, 43, had been an officer with the Federal Security Service - the successor to the KGB - but fled to Britain where he became a UK citizen and a fierce critic of the Kremlin.
Attempts to extradite Mr Kovtun and Mr Lugovoi have failed and they remain in Russia.
Mr Kovtun originally refused to take part in the inquiry, but changed his mind in March.
Speaking to the BBC in Moscow on Monday, the former Soviet army officer said he had been unable to contact the relevant Russian investigator.
"Even if the investigator, who I have not been able to reach, gave me permission he would still have to make a decision on how much information I could disclose," he added.
Mr Kovtun dismissed the suggestion he was never serious about giving evidence.
If British authorities contacted investigators in Moscow on his behalf, they could still get permission for him to testify at a later date, he said.
But the BBC's Moscow correspondent Sarah Rainsford said that seemed unlikely as the inquiry had already been delayed from the spring - specifically to allow Mr Kovtun to take part.
On Friday, the Royal Courts of Justice in London heard Mr Kovtun had emailed to say he felt bound by obligations of confidentiality.
At the time, Robin Tam QC, counsel to the inquiry, said: "There's a very strong argument for saying they've had far too much time already."
And Richard Horwell QC, for the Metropolitan Police, said Mr Kovtun's actions did not come as "any surprise".
"It appears Kovtun's request to give evidence was nothing more than an attempt to become a core participant and obtain as much information about these proceedings as he could," he said.
Mr Kovtun denied that claim on Monday.
A lawyer for Mr Litvinenko's widow claimed Mr Kovtun's actions implied he was guilty of her husband's murder, along with Mr Lugovoi, who also denies involvement.
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Frampton, 30, had promised his next bout would be in Belfast during the summer with Windsor Park or the SSE Arena the most likely venues.
The opponent has yet to be named but Frampton has already ruled out a fight against IBF champion Lee Selby.
Frampton has previously said that Windsor Park would be his preferred venue but the Irish FA has confirmed that it is still in negotiations with the boxer over the use of the stadium.
"Cyclone Promotions have held discussions with the IFA but nothing has been agreed," an IFA spokesperson told BBC Sport.
Confirmation of the venue is expected next week with the SSE Arena thought to be an alternative location.
Former two-weight world champion Frampton lost his WBA featherweight title to Santa Cruz in January. He was initially expected to fight the Mexican for a third time this summer but that bout failed to materialise.
A showdown against Selby had also been mooted but Frampton has confirmed that the Welsh fighter is unavailable as he is set to defend his IBF title against mandatory challenger Jonathan Victor Barros later this month.
The robbery, which happened at a Bank of Scotland branch in Kirkcaldy, Fife, on Wednesday, sparked a bomb scare.
The taxi driver picked up the man from The Avenue in Lochgelly and then made him carry out the robbery at the Mitchelston Industrial Estate branch.
Police said the suspect may have been hanging about in Lochgelly beforehand and had a large blue canvas holdall.
During the robbery, the taxi driver was forced to present a note to bank staff demanding money.
A cashier handed over a four-figure sum but it was later recovered by police at the scene.
A dedicated team of detectives have been checking CCTV footage from surrounding premises and carrying out door-to-door inquiries.
Det Insp Charlie Duncan said: "I believe the male we are looking for may have been hanging about in the area of the small industrial estate on The Avenue, Lochgelly between 12.15pm and 12.40pm on Wednesday, before he was able to get a taxi to take him to Kirkcaldy.
"I believe he was carrying a large blue canvas holdall with distinctive stripes on the corners. This male may have walked to this location from Lochgelly or may have been delivered there by another vehicle."
He added: "I also know the male left the area of Carberry Road, Kirkcaldy, as he has been seen running along Carberry Place, which leads to the rear of the Asda store.
"I believe he may have tried to leave the area immediately and in doing so may have again used a taxi or public transport, which would have been around 2pm.
"I would ask anyone who believes they may have transported this male to come forward."
The suspect was described as being as white, 5ft 6in tall, of heavy build. He was wearing a dark green baseball cap, a dark green scarf, a thick, dark blue jacket, tracksuit bottoms and sunglasses.
He spoke with a distinctive Eastern European accent.
Initial reports from the bank described how a possible explosive device was involved and nearby schools and shops were locked down while officers investigated the scene.
Bomb disposal teams scoured the area but they later confirmed no explosives were involved in the incident, police said.
All 108 seats in the new assembly have now been filled after the final count in Upper Bann on Saturday.
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster said she is looking forward to the start of government negotiations.
The DUP remains the largest party at Stormont.
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Those talks will begin at Stormont on Monday.
Mr McGuinness topped the poll in his home constituency of Foyle.
He said that it is "incumbent on all those with a mandate to work together for the greater good in the face of many challenges".
"On Monday, we will be entering discussions to agree and conclude a deliverable programme of government.
"This programme must build on the progress to date and must represent a further step in the new start for our institutions."
He told BBC Radio Ulster's The Sunday News that he hoped the programme for government negotiations could be finished before the two weeks allotted.
"Work on the programme for government has been going on prior to the election for some months.
"I do believe a considerable amount of work has been done. I would hope it could be concluded fairly quickly."
DUP leader Arlene Foster, also speaking on The Sunday News, said that she was "looking forward" to the negotiations.
"What I need to do now is bring forward my plan for the negotiations and to start getting things done for the country.
"That's what I'm very focused on now in the next week."
Mrs Foster added that she was hopeful that the programme negotiations would result in an extra £1bn spending for health.
"I'm heartened that Sinn Féin in their manifesto also pointed out there should be £1bn more spent on health, so hopefully that will be able to be delivered.
"I think people would welcome that right across Northern Ireland."
SDLP's Nichola Mallon said that the negotiations will determine whether her party goes into government or opposition.
"For us it's around the content for the programme for government," she said.
"If it's right, we will be a part of government. If it's not, then we will be in opposition.
"More has to be achieved and we're willing to be at the table to try and achieve that," she said.
Philip Smith, from the UUP, said his party would get involved in negotiations but will not support the programme for government if it is "pre-cooked" or "tinkering around the edge".
"If the programme for government is progressive and if there is a consensus to make it work, we may well go into government.
"If we do, we would love the opportunity to take education as it in such a mess."
Stephen Farry, from the Alliance Party, said there is a "major question" over whether the Alliance Party would go enter the executive.
"There are issues around the quality of the programme for government, issues around how the way business is done," he said.
The Frenchman, 29, has been with Lotus for four years and has 10 podium finishes in 78 grands prix.
Haas, powered by Ferrari engines, will be the first USA-owned F1 team since 1986.
"What everyone at Haas F1 Team is building is impressive, and I'm very proud to be a part of it," Grosjean said.
"While I'm committed to giving my absolute best to my current team in these last five races, I am very excited for what the future holds at Haas."
Grosjean has made the switch despite the expected takeover of Lotus by Renault.
He had been widely tipped to join Haas and his move leaves a vacancy at Lotus/Renault alongside Pastor Maldonado, who recently signed a new deal.
The other Haas seat is expected to be taken by former Sauber driver Esteban Gutierrez, who is Ferrari's reserve driver this year.
The newly-formed outfit was created by Gene Haas, co-owner of the Stewart-Haas NASCAR team, and while their base is in the USA they will also work out of Banbury in Oxfordshire.
Mr Farage said he thought people would be concerned if a group of Romanians moved in next door.
Labour leader Ed Miliband said the comments were a "racial slur", while Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said the remarks had no place in modern Britain.
On Sunday, Mr Farage said he regretted his form of words but said there was a "real problem" of Romanian criminality.
In an interview for LBC Radio on Friday, Mr Farage was asked what the difference was between having a group of Romanian men and German children as neighbours.
"You know what the difference is," Mr Farage replied.
He added: "I was asked if a group of Romanian men moved in next to you, would you be concerned? And if you lived in London, I think you would be."
He also said many migrants coming to the UK had been "forced into a life of crime" by "real poverty" in their country.
In a statement following the interview he said: "Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door."
Mr Miliband said the comments were "deeply offensive".
He told Sky News: "I think they were a racial slur but I don't think of Nigel Farage as a racist himself."
Deputy Prime Minister Mr Clegg said Mr Farage's mask was slipping and that the UKIP leader had "a rather nasty view of the world".
He told BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show: "I think anyone who singles out one community, one nationality, and says 'I don't want to live next door to them', I really think that's the politics of division and I think it really should have no place in modern Britain.
"I would say to people if you don't like that point of view, if, like me, you are really put off by this very divisive, nasty approach to things then please go out and vote."
Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Committee, said the comments had echoes of abuse against members of the Asian community in the 1960s.
He added: "This is just not the language that we should be involved in. I think there should be an explanation and I think there ought to be an apology."
Prime Minister David Cameron has described some of Mr Farage's comments as "pretty unpleasant".
"I just hope people will look at this and recognise that we are an open, tolerant, compassionate country," he said.
"Yes, we want to have a controlled immigration system; yes, we want to sort out the welfare system, but we shouldn't put these labels on as UKIP do."
The Sun newspaper on Saturday also criticised Mr Farage, saying his comments were "racism, pure and simple".
Asked about his comments on Sunday during an interview with ITV, Mr Farage said: "I regret the fact that I was, sort of, completely tired out, and I didn't chose, I didn't use the form of words in response that I would have liked to have used.
"I should have just hit back immediately and said, look, understand there is a real problem here, you can't deny it.
"Too much criminality from those gangs from Romania has come to London - I could have been clearer. But, do you know what? In life, sometimes we get things wrong."
The Glasgow City Alcohol and Drug Partnership said about 500 vulnerable drug users injected in public places.
It said these people were responsible for the majority of discarded needles which posed a health risk and also contributed to public order problems.
The partnership will examine if an injecting area, like those in Europe, Canada and Australia, could help here.
If such a facility was approved, it would be the first of its kind in the UK.
The Glasgow City Alcohol and Drug Partnership (ADP) is a multi-agency group tasked by the Scottish government with tackling alcohol and drug issues.
ADP chair, Susanne Millar, said: "There are approximately 5,500 drug injectors in Glasgow with around 500 of these injecting in public in the city centre.
"While this is a tiny percentage of the city's population, it has a huge level of need and consists of a huge cost to the public purse.
"We need to make our communities safer for all people living in and visiting the city, including those who publicly inject."
ADP said the majority are people who injected drugs in public places experienced problems such as homelessness, mental health issues, recent imprisonment and poverty.
They were at heightened risk of blood-borne viruses, overdose and drug-related death, and other injecting-related complications such as serious bacterial infections.
The partnership said that in 2015 there was an HIV outbreak in Glasgow, with 47 new infections compared to the previously consistent annual average of 10.
There were also several other outbreaks of serious infectious diseases such as botulism and anthrax.
ADP will look at the case piloting a medically supervised injecting facility in Glasgow city centre, extending the existing opioid substitution therapy services to include heroin-assisted treatment and developing a peer support network for harm reduction.
Dr Emilia Crighton, director of public health at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and vice chair of the ADP, said: "We are decades behind other countries in the way we tackle this problem.
"Our ultimate goal is for drug users to recover from their addiction and remain drug free.
"However, until someone is ready to seek and receive help to stop using drugs it is important to keep them as safe as possible while do they continue to use drugs."
The League One club host the Premiership leaders in a fourth-round tie at Airdrie's Excelsior Stadium, with a crowd of 10,000 expected.
"The atmosphere will be electric," Young told BBC Scotland.
"These games don't come along very often, so when they do you've got to make the most of it."
Rovers have already caused a shock in this season's competition, knocking out Championship side Queen of the South with a 2-1 victory.
But former Aberdeen midfielder Young, 38, knows the challenge will ramp up against Brendan Rodgers' men.
"There's no other team in Scottish football that's beaten them this season and I think there's only one team [Inverness CT] that have drawn with them," he said.
"That shows you the kind of task we've got. Even if they rest a couple of players, it will be quality international players that replace them.
"They went away there and signed a player [Kouassi Eboue] for £2.8m and there's a chance he won't even start, so that's the quality we're up against.
"But we'll have a game plan and stick to it and hopefully get a few wee opportunities. If you take your chances at the right time, a wee bit of luck could help get us a victory or a draw."
Six Nations organisers had ruled Marler would not be punished for the comment, made during the first half of England's 25-21 win over Wales on 12 March.
But World Rugby, which governs the international game, says the prop's remark "amounts to misconduct and/or a breach" of its code of conduct.
Marler apologised to Lee, who is from the Traveller community, at half-time.
The Harlequins player was reprimanded by England head coach Eddie Jones, but the Welsh Rugby Union was disappointed he was not suspended.
The electricity fault was reported in the Woodburn area of the city at around 11:20 BST.
All affected customers had their power restored by 16:00 after the fault was repaired. NIE Networks have apologised for any inconvenience.
City centre businesses and traffic lights were affected by a major fault in February.
Gatland's team lost 39-21 in Auckland on Saturday, leading after an hour before conceding 21 points unanswered.
Wales face the Chiefs on Tuesday before the second Test against the world champions in Wellington next Saturday.
"There were a lot of positives out of today and we learn from the experience of that match," said Gatland.
"I think we would have learned a heck of a lot from that and hopefully we are better for it again next week."
Wales have lost 27 consecutive games against the All Blacks, with their last win coming in 1953.
However, Gatland said the performance at Eden Park was a big improvement after a disappointing defeat by England at the end of May.
"We were brilliant for 60 minutes. We said we were going to come out and play. We knew we needed that game after England," he added.
"It's the learning you take from playing against the best team in the world and sometimes the learning takes place out in the middle.
"It doesn't matter what we do on the training field and as coaches, you've got to be out there in the middle and experience the relentlessness that the All Blacks bring.
"We feel like we get better the longer we are together. Players don't have that many games at that level of intensity.
"They get to experience it a lot more than us and are familiar and comfortable with that."
Taulupe Faletau and Rhys Webb scored tries for Wales, but the All Blacks hit back through two tries from wing Waisake Naholo and scores from Julian Savea, Kieran Read and Nathan Harris.
The result ensured New Zealand's 22-year unbeaten run at Eden Park goes on after their 35th successive win at the ground.
Wales play Steve Hansen's side again on Saturday, 18 June as they look for a first win in New Zealand.
"We had to be brave and we had to be bold, and we did that," said Gatland.
"I thought a couple of tries that we scored were outstanding and could have scored a couple more.
"We made a couple of line-breaks where the All Blacks seemed reasonably happy to give away a penalty, rather than giving us a chance at the end of the breakdown.
"They are the world's best team and they showed that at the end of the day because they just kept playing for the full 80 minutes."
Patricia Wilson, 58, formerly of Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, vanished from her home in August 2012. Her body has never been found.
Jean-Louis Cayrou, 54, of La Salvetat-Peyrales, told a court in Rodez near Toulouse that the case was "lies".
The court heard the pair had an affair after her partner returned to Britain.
Mrs Wilson had been living in a hamlet called Les Landes Basses near the village of Vabre-Tizac.
She moved to the area with her partner Donald Marcus in 2008.
Judge Regis Cayrol said the missing woman began an affair with the defendant in 2012 - about six months after Mr Marcus left to receive treatment for multiple sclerosis.
The court heard that the relationship between Mr Cayrou and Mrs Wilson had deteriorated by mid-July 2012 and that she confided in friends that they had had an argument when she tried to end it.
It was alleged by her friends that Mr Cayrou entered her house on 25 July, cut the electricity, attempted to suffocate her while she was sleeping and said: "I am doing this to show that you need a man in the house."
Mrs Wilson returned to England between 8 and 17 August and the judge told the court the defendant was said to have bombarded her with calls.
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Upon her return to France, friends became concerned about her lack of contact, let themselves into her house on 22 August and found traces of blood, the court heard.
French police found blood and DNA in the boot of the defendant's car, on a head torch and a strap, the court heard.
Mr Cayrou, who lived in a caravan, protested as the judge read out the charge of premeditated murder, saying they were "lies".
The hearing continues.
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Garry Lloyd Jones lost his partner, Bernard Hender, 19, and business partner Doug McTavish, 39.
Mr McTavish's funeral was held in Llanrwst, Conwy, on Friday, a week after fire in a flat above the funeral director's which Mr Lloyd Jones runs.
The fire started in a tumble dryer and the flat had no smoke alarms fitted.
"They were two lovely lads in different ways," said Mr Lloyd Jones.
Mr Hender's funeral will take place next Friday and as the local funeral director, Mr Lloyd Jones is having to arrange both.
"That's the business I'm in," he told BBC Wales.
Mr Lloyd Jones said he was awoken by smoke at around 06:00 BST last Friday and tried to pull Mr Hender out while screaming for Mr McTavish.
He described Mr McTavish as "an absolute gentleman" and said Mr Hender was "full of fun" with a "zest for life".
"I've got my friends around me and my family have been unbelievable and the support of the people of Llanrwst is getting me through it. I'm making the arrangements myself - I have to - and for Bernie," he said.
"Lives could have been saved if we'd had fire alarms fitted."
He added: "It's unbelievable, you never think a thing like this will happen."
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The only survivor of a fire who tried and failed to save the two who died has described how he "can't make sense of it".
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The resource kit by the National Health Mission, written in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund, is aimed at "peer educators" - young girls and boys who will be responsible for reaching out to adolescents and discussing issues relating to their physical and mental health and development.
The handbook covers a variety of topics ranging from same-sex attraction to sexual abuse and mental health, all of which are considered taboo topics for discussion in India.
The peer educator programme is expected to be rolled out across India soon.
Here are some of the topics it covers.
The resource kit tells its peer volunteers: "Yes, adolescents often fall in love. They may feel attachment for a friend or a person of the opposite or same sex. It is natural to have special feelings for someone."
This is in stark contrast to the legal status of homosexuality in India. Same-sex relations are a criminal offence in the country and are punishable with prison terms that can range from 10 years to life. It is also widely considered to be "unnatural" and same-sex couples are often stigmatised by society.
"Adolescents often feel vulnerability in relationships. It is a time of great change for them and any effort that tries to help them to deal with these things is a good thing," Dr Samir Parikh, a consultant psychologist for adolescents, told the BBC.
"Currently, there is a complete void in education when it comes to dealing with this kind of issue. What makes it even more urgent is that they already have access to a lot of incomplete and distorted information thanks to the fact that the internet and media has already reached all corners of the country."
Menstruation is widely considered to be "unclean" in India. Menstruating women are not allowed into many religious places of worship, and in some cases even into the kitchens of their own homes.
The resource kit tries to explain what menstruation is, and explains that "adolescent girls should not feel ashamed or guilty of having menstruation; they should follow their daily routines with a bit of extra nutrition and hygiene during these days".
It adds: "Menstruation is not 'unclean' or 'polluting'. If managed hygienically, girls can carry out all activities including schooling, outdoor games, cooking, preparing pickles, and perform regular duties with comfort and dignity."
The reference to "preparing pickles" is in response to a widely held belief that if a menstruating girl touches a pickle, it will go bad.
The concept of masculinity is another issue dealt with in the resource kit.
In a society dominated by patriarchy, boys are forbidden from showing their softer side and are told at a very young age that they are not meant to cry or show feelings.
Gender stereotypes box men into roles that are meant to be strong and macho and tell girls to be soft-spoken and feminine.
The resource book says that it's OK for a boy or a man to cry to vent his feelings, be soft-spoken or shy, just as it's OK for a girl to be outspoken or dress like boys or play sports generally identified as male sports.
It cautions people against labelling boys who don't fit the gender stereotypes as "sissy" or describing outspoken girls as "tomboyish".
"Men and boys are as weighed down by gender stereotypes and social conditioning as women are. Talking about gender equality therefore also inspires males to challenge the cultural messages about masculinity," said Rebecca Tavares, representative of the UN Women Office for India, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka.
Many Indian parents do not allow girls to take part in sports or play outside once they have reached puberty.
At this point, they are often expected to stay indoors and help with housework instead. This is for a variety of reasons including safety, fear that mingling with the opposite sex will result in "improper" relationships, and perceptions that the girl is "too bold".
The resource kit talks about the importance of physical activity for both boys and girls, and in a portion of text aimed at boys says: "As responsible members of the community, we should ensure that girls are not teased or harassed physically or verbally."
It goes on to say that girls not being allowed to participate in outdoor games and activities is "not good for their physical health, self-esteem and self-confidence".
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An Indian government resource kit on adolescent health has received acclaim because of its progressive stance on sexuality.
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The accusation follows a report in the New York Times that says they were targeted with spyware meant to be used against criminals and terrorists.
The newspaper says messages examined by forensic analysts show the software was used against government critics.
A Mexican government spokesman "categorically" denied the allegations.
The report says that the software, known as Pegasus, was sold to Mexican federal agencies by Israeli company NSO Group on the condition that it only be used to investigate criminals and terrorists.
The software can infiltrate smartphones and monitor calls, texts and other communications, the New York Times said. It can also activate a phone's microphone or camera, effectively turning the device into a personal bug.
But instead of being used to track suspected criminals, the targets allegedly included investigative journalists, anti-corruption activists and even lawyers.
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Nine people have now filed a criminal complaint. At a news conference in Mexico City, journalist Carmen Aristegui accused the state of criminal activity.
"The agents of the Mexican state, far from doing what they should be doing legally, have used our resources, our taxes, our money to commit serious crimes," she said.
A spokesman for President Enrique Peña Nieto rejected the allegations, saying that the government carries out intelligence work against the organised crime and threats to the national security in accordance with the country's laws, but that it does not include journalists or activists.
"The government categorically denies that any of its members carries out surveillance or interference in communications of defenders of human rights, journalists, anti-corruption activists or any other person without prior judicial authorization," a spokesman told the BBC.
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Several prominent journalists and activists in Mexico have filed a complaint accusing the government of spying on them by hacking their phones.
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Holders Chelsea were drawn to play at home and beat City 2-1 in extra time at Staines Town FC's Wheatsheaf Park.
Last year's semi-final between the two sides, which Chelsea also won, was played at a neutral venue - Adams Park.
"An FA Cup semi-final at Staines doesn't sit right with me. It should be a neutral venue," said Houghton, 27.
"I don't understand the reason, how somebody can get an advantage at home.
"We have to congratulate Chelsea and make sure, when it comes to the league games, we're right on it."
England striker Fran Kirby won the game for the hosts in the final minute of extra time, after the regular 90 minutes finished 1-1.
"I think we were the better team. Unfortunately it wasn't meant to be," defender Houghton added. "Chelsea brought a lot of fresh legs on and a lot of experienced players.
"The effort levels and the attitude, we were unbelievable. I'm gutted for the staff because I know how hard we work.
"Now we just use this as motivation to kick our season on even more and try to stay top of the league."
Chelsea will now face Arsenal in the final at Wembley on Saturday 14 May, following the Gunners' 7-0 thrashing of Sunderland.
The level of anticipation is huge. Fans have spent most of the week trying to decipher clues from the last episode's title, Felina (an anagram of finale).
Creator Vince Gilligan is keeping his cards close to his chest. The only person outside the cast who has seen the last script is his girlfriend, he told Rolling Stone.
But ending a much loved, long-running show is a daunting task. Gilligan admits that when he wrote the pilot in 2005, he had no idea where the story would go, beyond the initial concept of "Mr Chips becomes Scarface".
"You'd be surprised to know how little I had figured out," he told BBC Radio 4's Front Row.
"The ending was something that was a bit mysterious to us all right up until a month or two before we finished shooting."
In anticipation of the series' conclusion, here are some of the shows that got their dying moments right, and the ones that failed spectacularly.
"I think a lot of people thought they were being made a fool of," said Sopranos creator David Chase, of the show's infamous non-ending.
Broadcast in June 2007, the show's 81st episode was called "Made In America". The last scene was set in a diner, filled with images of the American dream. Mafia kingpin Tony Soprano took a seat in a booth, selected Journey's Don't Stop Believing on the jukebox and waited as, one by one, his family arrived.
His daughter Meadow had been having trouble parking her car. As she finally arrived and pushed the door open, the screen faded to black.
Fans were furious. What did it all mean?
Even the leading man was annoyed. "When I first saw the ending, I said, 'What the... ?!'" actor James Gandolfini (Tony Soprano) told Vanity Fair last year.
"I mean, after all I went through, all this death, and then it's over like that?"
Then he added: "After I had a day to sleep, I just sat there and said, 'That's perfect.' "
Many thought Tony had dodged the executioner's bullet, although the prevailing theory - explained at great length online - is that he was shot dead by a mobster who had been hiding in the bathroom.
Chase has always been enigmatic about the ending: "I think that to explain it would diminish it," he once said.
But an interview last year shed more light on his thinking.
"Did Tony die or didn't he die? Well, first of all, it really comes down to this: There was, what, six seasons of that show? Seven? Am I supposed to do a scene and ending where it shows that crime doesn't pay? Well, we saw that crime pays. We've been seeing that for how many years?
"Now, in another sense, we saw that crime didn't pay because it wasn't making him happy. He was an extremely isolated, unhappy man. And then finally, once in a while, he would make a connection with his family and be happy there.
"But in this case, whatever happened, we never got to see the result of that. It was torn away from him and from us."
For more than a decade, viewers watched the Ingalls family tackle farm life on their 1800s homestead.
Over 184 episodes, they survived tornadoes, teenage pregnancies, typhus and train crashes - and that's just the T's.
But nothing could prepare viewers for the final episode, in 1984, when the residents of Walnut Grove decided to blow up the town.
The episode revolved around a ruthless robber-baron, Nathan Lassiter, who held the deeds to the town, and planned to build a railroad through it. In protest, the residents set the town with dynamite and sent it sky-high.
But the destruction was pragmatic, as well as dramatic.
TV company NBC had built their sets in the Simi Valley, north of Los Angeles, on land leased from the Getty Oil Company - and had agreed to restore the land to its original state when the show ended.
Actor Michael Landon, who wrote and directed the final episode, realised he could incorporate his contractual obligation into the story.
At the time, he called it "a nice catharsis for the cast and crew" but Melissa Gilbert, who joined the cast as a child star, remembers it differently.
"I grew up in and around... all these buildings," she told the Archive of American Television in 2011.
"I got my first kiss behind the church - for real, in real life. And it was just gone.
"It was crushingly sad for all of us."
I Married Dora was an obscure, unloved US sitcom, notable only for casting a 15-year-old Juliette Lewis in an early role.
The show revolved around a single father, Peter (Daniel Hugh Kelly), who married his Salvadorean housekeeper Dora (Elizabeth Pena) to prevent her deportation.
Created by The Cosby Show's Michael J Leeson, it lasted just 13 episodes before the axe fell.
In the dying moments of the final episode, Peter was seen boarding a plane to Bahrain, only to arrive back in the airport lobby moments later.
"It's been cancelled," he announced.
"The flight?" asked Dora.
"No, our series."
The cast then turned to face the camera and waved "Adios" to their audience, as the shot pulled back to reveal the set and the crew.
Wavy lines. Spooky music. "And it was all just a dream."
Dallas famously undid an entire series when Pam Ewing woke up to find her husband Bobby in the shower - a year after he supposedly died in a car crash.
Crossroads and The Brittas Empire both took place in the imagination of their lead characters, while one episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer alluded to the fact that Buffy Summers was hallucinating her story from inside a mental institution.
It's a risky device, which can leave viewers feeling hoodwinked - but undoubtedly the best implementation was when the curtain fell on Bob Newhart's 1980s sitcom.
The show told the increasingly bizarre story of a New York author who moves to Vermont and opens an inn.
In its final scene, the comedian abruptly woke up in bed next to actress Suzanne Pleshette, who had played his wife 15 years earlier, in a separate sitcom called The Bob Newhart Show.
"Honey, you won't believe the dream I just had," he said, and the series bowed out to the theme tune of its predecessor.
Six years after the most expensive pilot in television history, 13.5 million people tuned in to watch the finale of Lost.
Two-and-a-half hours later, chat show host Jimmy Kimmel summed up their reaction: "That's it? Seriously? That's it? Come on. Really?"
The New York Times called the ending a "cop-out" while a fantastically sweary review on Gawker accused the writers of "cheating".
Why? Because after six series of suspense, it turned out the survivors of the show's initial plane crash were dead after all.
It wasn't quite that simple, though. Everyone died at different times, some on the island where they'd been stranded, others many years later.
The cast were reunited in Purgatory (or perhaps the after-life) for a final group hug, and the central mystery was resolved. The island was a cork, designed to contain an evil force so it didn't leak out and infect the rest of the world.
But there were dozens of narrative dead ends, questions and plot points fans needed resolved before they could sleep happy. They didn't get them.
"I make no apologies for it", said the show's creator Damon Lindelof last year. "It's the story I wanted to tell."
"It's not that I didn't care about the mythology of the show, it's just like many shows have come and gone that are very focused on their mysteries and their mythologies and their ambiguity and there is no worse scene in the history of genre than the Architect explaining to Neo everything that happened in The Matrix.
"I wasn't going to touch that with a ten-foot pole."
A medical drama made by the Hill Street Blues team, St Elsewhere was set in St Eligius, an understaffed and overburdened Boston teaching hospital.
For the last episode in 1988, writers packed out the drama with endless in-jokes and strange patients, including a fat lady who needed treatment for her lost voice.
As soon as Dr Fiscus (Howie Mandel) cured her and the fat lady sang, the show was over.
Except, that is, for a spooky last scene in which the entire six years of the drama were revealed to have been imagined by Dr Westphall's autistic son, who was seen staring at a model of the hospital set inside a snow globe.
"I never approved of the last episode," said Norman Lloyd, who had played Dr Daniel Auschlander throughout the show's six-season run.
"There are people who think it was the most brilliant inspiration in the history of television. I thought it was a cheat."
But the story gets stranger still. Since St Elsewhere featured a crossover episode with Cheers and some characters later appeared in Homicide: Life on The Street, the boy must have imagined those shows and maybe more too.
"Someone did the math once," said producer Tom Fontana in 2002, "and something like 90% of all television took place in Tommy Westphall's mind. God love him."
By 1981, Blake (Gareth Thomas) and his gang of space rebels had been battling the evil Federation, led by the crop-haired siren Servalan (Jacqueline Pearce), for four Earth years.
Blake himself had been absent since the second series - but reappeared, disfigured, for the final episode posing as a bounty hunter.
He was shot by his arch-rival Avon (Paul Darrow) and then the rest of the crew died (in slow motion) in a bloody shoot-out with Federation troops.
Broadcast on 21 December 1981 the shocking finale earned writer Chris Boucher the title "the man who killed Christmas".
But the climactic scene was only intended to be a cliffhanger.
Had a fifth series gone ahead, Boucher said, Avon would have survived, and become the show's hero.
"Don't forget you never actually saw him die, did you?" he said. "The freeze-frame ending does leave open the possibility that he may have survived after all."
The premise of The Prisoner was simple. A secret agent (Patrick McGoohan) resigns from his job and is taken to The Village, a beautiful but mysterious idyll he is never allowed to leave.
Branded "Number Six", he spends the series trying to discover the identity of "Number One", the shadowy governor of his fate.
The denouement was baffling. Hooded figures danced in a mock court as someone sang "Dem Bones". McGoohan ripped off Number One's mask to reveal... a chimpanzee mask. He ripped that off as well, and found his own face, laughing back at him.
Supposedly an allegory on the role of the individual in society, it was deliberately surreal and utterly confounding. The revelation of Number One's true identity lasted less than a second, in an era before video recorders allowed viewers rewind and rewatch.
It has been suggested the show went off the rails because ITV pulled the plug and gave McGoohan one week to write the finale.
The more likely explanation is that script editor George Markstein, who had spent months curtailing McGoohan's more outlandish ideas, had quit.
Either way, McGoohan was vilified by fans and "hounded" out of the UK after the show was broadcast in February 1968.
"Walking around the streets, it was dangerous!" he told Canadian television in 1977. "They thought they'd been cheated. Because it wasn't, you know, a 'James Bond' Number One guy."
But he claimed to be "delighted" by the response. "I wanted to have controversy, argument, fights, discussions, people in anger waving their fist in my face, saying, 'How dare you?' "
"I was delighted with that reaction. I think it's a very good one. That was the intention of the exercise."
"We didn't have a gimmick," said Friends creator Marta Kauffman of the series' 236th and final episode.
In an uncontroversial and heartwarming farewell, the show allowed its six characters to move out of New York, and into the next stages of their lives.
Monica and Chandler got their surrogate child, which turned out to be twins ("We only ordered one!"); Joey acquired a new duck; and Ross and Rachel got back together - after a mad dash to the airport in Phoebe's taxi.
The show ended with the cast putting their keys on the kitchen table and leaving Monica's apartment for the last time. "Has it always been purple?" asked Joey.
Kauffman said the writers had been bewildered by the task of wrapping the show up, spending several days staring at blank sheets of paper without writing a word.
But they finally cracked it - taking inspiration from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in which the cast shared a group hug and filed out of the set, leaving Mary to turn off the lights and close the door.
More than 52 million people tuned in for the finale in the US, much to the delight of advertisers, who had stumped up $2.1m (£1.1m) for a 30-second slot.
"What we hope is that people feel good about saying goodbye to them, and that they're all going to be OK," Kauffman said.
After an accident, modern-day detective Sam Tyler (John Simm) woke up in 1973, when men were men, and men were also sexist alcoholics in bad trousers.
Over two series, viewers were left to wonder whether his predicament was real, or a fitful by-product of his coma.
In the final episode, Sam learned that corrupt cop Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister) was the "tumour" in his brain. If he could get rid of Hunt, he could go home. The operation (get it?) was nearly over.
Then, he was told the exact opposite: He really was in 1973, and suffering from amnesia after a car crash.
Eventually, the "real" Sam woke up in a hospital in 2006 - but the writers had one final twist in store. He decided he preferred the 70s after all, and jumped off the hospital roof, sending himself back into a coma, and back into the arms of his dream girl, Annie.
The Guardian called it "the perfect finale" but the Express declared the "shaggy dog story" was ultimately "baffling".
Still, it fared better than the short-lived US remake, where Sam turned out to be an astronaut on the first manned mission to Mars, trapped in a malfunctioning hibernation chamber.
The final episode of Breaking Bad is broadcast in the US at 21:00 EST on Sunday, 29 September. It will be available on iTunes and Netflix in the UK shortly afterwards.
The blade was seen by 1.1m people in 10 weeks after it was installed in Queen Victoria Square in January.
A planning application has now been submitted to put the 250ft-long (75m) blade on show in the grounds of the Hull factory that made it.
Siemens Gamesa said the blade would be seen "by as many people as possible".
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The plan involves positioning the blade on the same mountings as it was in the square to make it partially visible from the A63 Hedon Road, which is close to the factory.
It would be installed next to the public right of way around Alexandra Dock, enabling it to be seen by people using the footpath.
Jason Speedy, of Siemens Gamesa, said: "We considered various locations on our Hull site for the blade and we have chosen this one because it will ensure it is seen by as many people as possible."
It was one of the first blades manufactured at the factory at Alexandra Dock in Hull in December.
Nayan Kulkarni turned the 28-tonne structure into the Blade sculpture, which was transported from the factory at night for a surprise installation in the square.
After its starring role the blade was returned to the factory.
Hull City Council's planning committee is due to discuss the plan at its meeting on 6 September.
If planning permission is granted it is hoped the blade could be in position before the end of the year, said Siemens Gamesa.
The 20-year-old was part of the Shrimps' development side last term and has earned a professional deal after featuring in three pre-season matches.
He started in Crystal Palace's youth setup and spent some of the 2016-17 campaign at Welsh side Airbus UK.
"I'm looking forward to the season and trying establish myself as an important member of the squad," Deakin said.
Neil Lennon, the former Celtic boss, and former Wigan Athletic manager Malky Mackay have already said they would want to be considered.
Deila announced last week that he would stand down at the end of the season.
"There are a lot of good managers out of work and Celtic is a great club," Clarke told Sky Sports.
"If they want to give me a call, it would be nice."
Norwegian Deila, whose side are on course to win a fifth consecutive Scottish title, expressed frustration at being unable to improve his side, who exited both domestic cup competitions at the semi-final stage and also had poor results in European competition.
Former Scotland full-back Clarke spent most of his playing career in England with Chelsea after joining from St Mirren.
He was assistant manager at Newcastle United, Chelsea, West Ham United and Liverpool before taking over at West Brom but has been out of work since being sacked by Reading in December.
"Celtic is a massive club and anybody that comes from the west coast of Scotland understands the size," said the 52-year-old.
"Next year will be fantastic with Rangers back in the top flight.
"Aberdeen made a good fist of it this year and hopefully Hibs will come back up through the play-offs from the Championship and it can be a really exciting league next year.
"It's a big job and Celtic I'm sure have it in their own mind who they want to go after and who they want to target and we should just let Celtic get on with their business."
Former Chelsea manager Roberto Di Matteo, who has been out of management since leaving Bundesliga club Schalke 04 in May, was more guarded about whether he would be interested in the Celtic job.
"I don't know," said the 45-year-old. "If ever it comes up, I will think about it."
Former Everton, Manchester United and Real Sociedad manager David Moyes remains the bookmakers' favourite to succeed Deila.
However, the 52-year-old, who is also believed to be interested in the vacancy at Aston Villa, has stated that he will make a decision about his future in the close season.
He will be replaced by CBS's president and chief executive Leslie Moonves.
There is now speculation that Mr Redstone will also step down as chairman of Viacom, which owns MTV, Nickelodeon and other media assets.
Mr Redstone, who is 92 years of age, has been facing questions and legal action around his ability to lead the companies.
Last year, Mr Redstone's former partner Manuela Herzer filed a lawsuit alleging he was mentally incapable of making decisions.
As part of that legal battle, last week Mr Redstone underwent a mental examination. The results of that test are yet to be made public.
Mr Redstone owns an 80% voting stake in CBS and its sister company Viacom.
His replacement at CBS, Mr Moonves, has served as president and chief executive of the firm since 2006, when it was split off from Viacom. He was widely seen as the successor.
Mr Redstone will become chairman emeritus of CBS and will continue to serve as the executive chairman of Viacom.
His daughter Shari Redstone will continue to serve on CBS's board.
The 45-year-old was placed under formal investigation on 6 March, but magistrates are deciding whether to remand him in custody.
Several alleged victims attended the morning hearing.
The suspect denies the charges, with his lawyer saying there are "real weaknesses" in the case against him.
He is accused of carrying out the premeditated poisonings over a nine-year period from 2008 at two clinics - the Franche-Comté and Saint-Vicente - in Besançon, a city in eastern France.
The suspect is said to have been well-regarded in his field.
According to the investigation, "lethal doses of potassium and anaesthetic" were administered to seven patients, aged from 37 to 53.
They all suffered cardiac arrest, said French news provider Europe1, quoting a judge.
A 53-year-old man died in 2008 during a kidney operation, and a 51-year-old woman died in 2016 during an operation on a fracture.
About 40 other poisoning cases dating from the last 20 years are also being investigated, reported AFP news agency. They account for about 20 additional fatalities.
The agency quoted the suspect's lawyer, Randall Schwerdorffer, as arguing for him to remain at liberty on €60,000 (£52,000; $64,000) bail and barred from medical practice.
Prosecutors are pressing for him to be placed in custody, underlining the gravity of the charges and arguing it is necessary for the investigation to proceed "without pressure".
America's highest court also granted a White House request allowing part of its refugee ban to go into effect.
The justices said they would consider in October whether the president's policy should be upheld or struck down.
Mr Trump seeks to place a 90-day ban on people from six mainly Muslim nations and a 120-day ban on refugees.
The president welcomed the ruling's qualified authorisation to bar visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, which he described as "terror-prone countries".
"As president, I cannot allow people into our country who want to do us harm," he added.
Mr Trump has already said the ban would take effect within 72 hours of court approval.
The Supreme Court said in Monday's decision: "In practical terms, this means that [the executive order] may not be enforced against foreign nationals who have a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.
"All other foreign nationals are subject to the provisions of [the executive order]."
The ruling also said it would permit a 120-day ban on all refugees entering the US to go into effect, allowing the government to bar entry to refugee claimants who do not have any "bona fide relationship" with an American individual or entity.
Mark this down as a win for Donald Trump. The path to entry into the US for immigrants and refugees from the affected nations, if they don't have existing ties to the US - either through family, schools or employment - just became considerably harder.
The decision marks a reaffirmation of the sweeping powers the president has traditionally been granted by the courts in areas of national security. There was fear in some quarters that the administration's ham-fisted implementation of its immigration policy could do lasting damage to the president's prerogatives. That appears not to be the case.
The government, the justices write, has a "compelling need to provide for the nation's security". That includes being able to close the borders based on an evaluation of the potential of foreign threats - at least for now.
The Supreme Court justices will fully consider the arguments on both sides next autumn. Of course, by that time it may not matter. The administration has three months to conduct its "executive review" of immigration policy and devise new guidelines.
In the meantime, the gates to America just got a bit smaller.
Big win for Trump and his travel ban
The ruling clarifies that those who would be deemed to have such a relationship would include a foreign national who wishes to enter the US to live with or visit a family member, a student at an American university, an employee of a US company, or a lecturer invited to address an American audience.
This would not apply, it said, to "someone who enters into a relationship simply to avoid [the executive order].
"For example, a non-profit group devoted to immigration issues may not contact foreign nationals from the designated countries, add them to client lists, and then secure their entry by claiming injury from their exclusion."
Yes. Three of the court's conservative justices - Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch - wrote that they would have allowed the travel ban to go into full effect.
Justice Thomas said the government's interest in preserving national security outweighs any hardship to people denied entry into the country.
Mr Trump restored a 5-4 conservative majority to the Supreme Court when his nominee, Justice Gorsuch, joined its bench in April.
There are five Republican appointees on the court and four Democratic appointees.
The US president insisted his ban was necessary for national security amid a slew of terrorist attacks in Paris, London, Brussels, Berlin and other cities. However, critics called the policy un-American and Islamophobic, and the lower courts broadly seemed to agree.
The president's policy was left in limbo after it was struck down by federal judges in Hawaii and Maryland days following its issuance on 6 March.
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, said in May the ban was "rooted in religious animus" toward Muslims.
The San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said in June: "National security is not a 'talismanic incantation' that, once invoked, can support any and all exercise of executive power."
The original ban, released on 27 January, provoked mass protests at American airports.
It included Iraq among nations whose travellers would be barred from the US, and imposed a full ban on refugees from Syria.
The president issued a revised version with a narrower scope on 6 March to overcome some of the legal problems.
But Mr Trump was unhappy about having to do so, calling it a "watered down, politically correct" version of the first one.
Brendan Rodgers' side had the better of the Hampden match with Scott Sinclair, Tom Rogic, Dembele and Stuart Armstrong drawing saves from Matt Gilks.
Erik Sviatchenko had a goal disallowed for Celtic and Sinclair's free-kick was touched on to the bar by Gilks.
But there was to be a winner, Dembele's heel converting Leigh Griffiths' cross.
Rangers, 5-1 losers at Celtic Park last month, were restricted to counter-attacks, the best of which ended with Jason Holt's shot being blocked well by Jozo Simunovic.
Celtic will return to Hampden to face the Dons on Sunday 27 November.
This captivating semi-final set off at a fair old lick and barely let up all day. It was altogether different to the one-sided encounter at Celtic Park, on the scoreboard at least. Celtic had a huge array of chances but were met with stiff Rangers resistance, most notably from their goalkeeper Gilks.
In the beginning there was controversy. When is there not in this fixture? In the 14th minute, Barrie McKay crashed to the floor in the box under a challenge from Simunovic. The Rangers fans screamed for a penalty. Craig Thomson, the referee, went the opposite way, booking McKay for a dive.
Dembele dived in the Rangers penalty area soon after and got away with it. Not that it needed it, but the intensity cranked up another notch in those moments.
Celtic had so many opportunities but they did not have the ruthlessness of before. They attacked off a Lee Wallace blunder and when Dembele put Sinclair through, Gilks denied him.
Gilks, in the team ahead of Wes Foderingham as per previous rounds of the competition, then almost gifted Celtic a goal when passing directly to Rogic. Had the Australian hit a shot first time he surely would have scored from such close range. Had he squared to a team-mate, it was a goal. Instead, he took a touch and got crowded out. A terrible waste.
In the early minutes of the second half, Sviatchenko headed home only for Thomson to rule it out for a foul on Clint Hill. It was another big call by the referee - and a harsh one. The foul on the defender was highly questionable.
Rangers had their first shot on target in the 50th minute, a tame effort by James Tavernier, playing further forward on the right with Lee Hodson selected at right-back. Celtic drove on. Sinclair forced another save from Gilks after Rangers were sliced open in defence. Then, Rogic had a snapshot that went just wide.
One-way traffic, for sure, but what an almighty scare Rangers gave their rivals just before the hour when Holt had a point-blank shot blocked down by Simunovic. Either side of the big defender and Holt would surely have landed a sucker blow.
Celtic continued to pile on the pressure and create a mountain of chances. Dembele scuffed a shot from close in, then a Sinclair free-kick somehow stayed out, Gilks getting a touch on it and putting it on to the crossbar.
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By now, Griffiths was on the field and Celtic were playing two up front. Stuart Armstrong was also on as Rodgers went for the Rangers jugular. It was Armstrong who had the next chance, seven minutes from time, but once again the quite brilliant Gilks kicked away his effort.
With three minutes left, it looked like extra time beckoned, but no. There was a dramatic last act. Celtic hoofed it out of defence and Wallace lost a physical tussle with Griffiths, who scampered away from him down the right.
He delivered his low cross with the outside of his left boot to Dembele running in at the near post. What Dembele did next was delicious - an improvised back-heel that beat the seemingly unbeatable Gilks. A wonderful goal that finally broke Rangers and sent Celtic into the final, giving Rodgers an early chance to claim the first trophy of his Celtic tenure.
Match ends, Rangers 0, Celtic 1.
Second Half ends, Rangers 0, Celtic 1.
Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Celtic. Cristian Gamboa replaces James Forrest.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Matthew Gilks.
Attempt saved. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Goal! Rangers 0, Celtic 1. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Leigh Griffiths.
Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Matthew Gilks.
Attempt saved. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Clint Hill (Rangers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Rangers. Conceded by Jozo Simunovic.
Attempt blocked. Joseph Dodoo (Rangers) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Scott Brown (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Andy Halliday (Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic).
Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Martyn Waghorn (Rangers).
Joe Garner (Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Erik Sviatchenko (Celtic).
Attempt missed. James Forrest (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Rangers. Joseph Dodoo replaces Barrie McKay.
Attempt missed. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. James Tavernier (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. James Forrest (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Celtic. Leigh Griffiths replaces Tomas Rogic.
Substitution, Rangers. Joe Garner replaces Josh Windass.
Substitution, Rangers. Martyn Waghorn replaces Kenny Miller.
Foul by Josh Windass (Rangers).
Jozo Simunovic (Celtic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Scott Sinclair (Celtic) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick.
Foul by Andy Halliday (Rangers).
Scott Brown (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Lee Wallace (Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tomas Rogic (Celtic).
Attempt missed. Josh Windass (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Celtic. Stuart Armstrong replaces Nir Bitton.
The blast, which ripped through a shopping area, injured dozens more.
Initial reports suggested an electricity generator exploded, but police later said that it may have been a bomb.
Pakistan has been hit by a wave of bombings claimed by Islamist militant groups in recent days. There was no immediate claim for the latest blast.
It happened in Lahore's Defence Housing Authority suburb. Television footage showed buildings, cars and motorbikes damaged by the explosion.
The provincial Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) said that investigators had found traces of explosive material at the site and were trying to establish how and why it was in the building.
Local police chief Haider Ashraf said the blast was in an area that was under construction, adding that work was being carried out by staff at the time.
"Our focus at the moment is to rush the victims to hospitals and secure the scene," Mr Ashraf said shortly after the incident on Thursday.
One witness, Asif, said he saw people lying on the ground before police and security officers arrived.
"As I am not a doctor, it was difficult to tell how many were wounded and how many were dead. But they were many," Asif said.
Last week a Taliban faction said it carried out a bomb attack in Lahore, which killed 13 people and wounded more than 80.
Days later a suicide bomb attack at a shrine in the southern town of Sehwan was claimed by the so-called Islamic State (IS). Police now say 90 people were killed.
In response, Pakistan launched a security crackdown, which included closing border crossings with Afghanistan, and claims it killed 100 militants.
Wallace, 27, the world number 242, shot a final round 69 at the Morgado Golf Resort to finish three shots clear of American Julian Suri.
He finished on 21-under-par and becomes only the second player on the tour this season to win from start to finish.
It was Wallace's fifth start on the European Tour having made the step up from the Alps Tour last year.
"It's the best feeling ever," he said after lifting the trophy. "It's always been a dream to win on the European Tour.
"Those first two days were really easy, that third day was the hardest day of my life and today was tough but it's so satisfying and I'm really happy."
Wallace shot 17 birdies on the first 36 holes and a level-par round on day three left him with a three-shot lead over German Sebastian Heisele going into the final day.
Wallace held off a surge from Suri on Sunday and becomes just the second winner since 2013 to card three bogey-free rounds on his way to victory.
Janet Hart told BBC Scotland that Alexander Gartshore, who died in 2006, attacked her two years after her 11-year-old sister vanished in Coatbridge.
She said police spoke to her after the incident, but nothing more was done.
Ms Hart now lives in Australia, and has come to Scotland to mark the 60th anniversary since Moira disappeared.
She told BBC Scotland she was out during her lunch hour from school when a man called her over to his car.
"He had the bonnet up at the side," she said.
"He told me to hold his dipstick, and under he went and up - groping me.
"I dropped the dipstick and ran."
She said she turned back to note down his registration plate.
Two policewomen came to the school and spoke to Ms Hart, but she said "nothing more was heard".
"Wouldn't you think something would have happened then?" she said.
Afterwards, the school rector spoke to pupils and advised them to go around the community in pairs, she said.
"That was Alexander Gartshore, I identified him, I remembered him so clearly," she said.
"Luckily I was in an area I could get away - it was broad daylight.
"Unfortunately Moira was trapped on his bus."
The last time Moira was seen, she was boarding a local Baxter's bus. But detectives appear to have failed to follow it up properly at the time.
Had they done so, they would have discovered that the bus driver was Alexander Gartshore, who was on bail at the time facing charges of raping his children's babysitter.
Later that year, he was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in prison for the rape of the babysitter.
Ms Hart said Moira was a tomboy who was full of fun, who loved to buy magic tricks and "play fun on everyone".
She said her sister also had a serious side.
"She wanted to be a missionary and she wanted to go to Africa," she said.
"She wanted to give herself to God."
Ms Hart said the Moira Anderson Foundation was her sister's legacy and was continuing to support children who needed help.
"Children now have a voice and someone who will listen," she said.
She was joined at the commemoration by Sandra Brown, the daughter of Alexander Gartshore.
Ms Brown was convinced her father was the killer and campaigned to have him charged.
In 2014, prosecutors took the unusual step of announcing that Mr Gartshore would have faced prosecution for the schoolgirl's murder if he were still alive.
Police have launched a final bid to find the remains of Moira.
Detectives are to examine specific locations in Coatbridge where Moira's body may have been hidden.
Ms Hart said: "I feel that this time that if she is to be found she will be found."
The comments, suggesting that colonialism was not all negative, are likely to roll back some of the significant gains made by the DA into black areas where the electorate is disillusioned with the governing African National Congress.
The DA is already under pressure to take decisive action against Helen Zille for her posts and the party has asked their federal legal commission to investigate the case.
But the controversy will be seen as a major setback ahead of the general election due in 2019 and they come at a time when the ANC itself has been engulfed in a litany of corruption scandals.
The tweets were posted on Thursday.
Radio and television talk shows have been inundated with callers expressing their dismay at the Western Cape premier's tweets.
One caller on local talk radio 702 said praising some aspects of colonialism "is a bit like saying the holocaust was bad but Hitler's engineers were great".
The pressure is now on the young and charismatic black leader of the DA Mmusi Maimane to take a clear and unambiguous stance on this saga.
He replaced Ms Zille as party leader in 2015 with a mission to make the DA, historically seen as a party dominated by whites, more attractive to the black majority.
Last year, the DA gained ground in local elections, taking control of cities such as Johannesburg, Pretoria and Port Elizabeth.
Although it gained 27% of the national vote against 54% for the governing ANC, many analysts had raised the real prospect that the party could take power in 2019 if it continued its upward trajectory.
Especially if the ANC remains bogged down in scandal and in-fighting.
But that progress is now under threat.
What angered many black South Africans, who took to social media to express their disgust, is that these tweets were not just a one-off.
In March 2012, the former DA leader was heavily criticised for describing school children leaving the Eastern Cape education system for the Western Cape as "refugees".
Expressing this kind of thinking in a country that is still fresh from the ravages of the brutal system of apartheid was imprudent to say the least - particularly with her journalism background and extensive coverage of the injustices of white minority rule on the black majority.
In her days as a young newspaper journalist, she eloquently reported about the death of anti-apartheid hero Steve Biko who was killed in police cells in September 1977.
Stories of racial intolerance are reported on a daily basis in South Africa's newspapers.
People accept that there are white supremacists in this country even 23 years after Nelson Mandela was elected the first black president.
But to hear this line of thinking from someone from a group seen as the most progressive in the country has been described as "gut-wrenching".
There are many people who are obviously deeply disappointed by these primitive thoughts.
But for the many black supporters who have walked away from their traditionally left-leaning political parties and joined the DA, it must be cutting like a knife.
Mr Maimane has to demonstrate that under his watch, the DA cannot be seen to be a party of "Uncle Toms".
His inaction so far will certainly give ammunition to those who had been hurling insults at him, suggesting he was just a black face brought in to legitimise a party representing the interests of the white minority.
On the other hand Mr Maimane also needs to hold on to the traditional white liberal establishment vote.
He does not want to send a wrong message which will sound to his white supporters like the Pan Africanist Congress chant of the 1990s - "one-settler-one bullet."
So he has a difficult balance to strike.
Ironically this controversy comes on "anti-racism" week, an annual campaign by the Nelson Mandela and Ahmed Kathrada Foundations aimed at discouraging people from racist behaviour in their daily lives.
Ms Zille's spokesperson, Michael Mpofu, himself a black man, tried to explain the comment away.
"It is important for us to clarify that she was not defending colonialism, she was referring to the Singaporean nation on how they have built a successful economy and she will be responding," he said.
Ms Zille did apologise via the same medium. But the horse had already bolted.
However, sadly for the DA this is not the first time some of its most prominent leaders have been hauled over the coals for making politically incorrect racial comments.
Two years ago, Dianne Kolher-Barnard a DA MP who was the shadow police minister, shared a post on social media suggesting that life had been better under former apartheid leader P W Botha.
She was sanctioned and demoted from her shadow police minister position as a consequence.
Another party supporter Penny Sparrow was forced to resign from the DA after she likened black beach goers in Durban to "monkeys" on Facebook.
And in May 2015, when Mr Maimane was elected at a party conference, the late veteran journalist Allister Sparks, spoke of his admiration for the architect of apartheid Hendrik Verwoerd.
All three were forced to apologise.
Political analyst Ralph Mathekga said Ms Zille's position is untenable and this time the DA must be bold.
"I don't think she's still fit to continue to lead the party as premier of the province. This is a major issue and she's exposing the DA very unnecessarily," he said.
Women in England will be able to get Kadcyla through the Cancer Drugs Fund, but the price tag per patient - £90,000 at full cost - is too high to widen access, say the draft NICE guidelines.
NICE criticised manufacturer Roche for not making it more affordable.
Roche says discussions are continuing, meaning a resolution is still possible.
Kadcyla can add about six months of life to women with incurable disease.
It is used to treat people with HER2-positive breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body and cannot be surgically removed.
Roche, recently agreed a significant price discount with NHS England to stop the drug being taken off the Cancer Drugs Fund - a special fund set up by the government to help people in England access costly cancer drugs that are not routinely available on the NHS.
But the Swiss pharmaceutical company offered a different, smaller discount to NICE for regular NHS use of Kadcyla (Trastuzumab Emtansine) in England and Wales.
NICE says this undisclosed figure is still too high to justify against the drug's clinical merits.
Any person currently receiving the treatment can continue until they and their doctor consider it appropriate to stop, however.
Kadcyla is not available on the NHS in Scotland either.
Sir Andrew Dillon, NICE chief executive, said: "We recognise that Kadcyla has a place in treating some patients with advanced breast cancer, and we have been as flexible as we can in making our recommendation. However, the price that the manufacturer is asking the NHS to pay in the long term is too high."
Roche and other consultees now have until November 17 to challenge the draft guidance.
Roche said: "We need a unified approach, and, moving forward, it is imperative that we work together to build a pragmatic, flexible and sustainable system for assessing medicines that prioritises clinical value. Only then will we be able to ensure the best outcomes for people with cancer in the UK.
"This announcement comes less than two weeks after Kadcyla was retained on the Cancer Drugs Fund. Roche has demonstrated that, when given the opportunity to come to the table with all parties, we can come to an agreement and do the right thing for patients."
Dr Caitlin Barrand, from the charity Breast Cancer Now, said the news was hugely disappointing.
"It's time that the prime minister showed real leadership on this issue," she said.
"People living with incurable cancer don't have time to lose, and a fairer, more flexible system that enables access to the best treatments available on a routine, UK-wide basis is long overdue."
The Cancer Drugs Fund is due to end in March 2016. The government says a replacement is likely to be brought in from April 2016, although there are no details yet.
"We arrived at 12 o'clock at night. It was dead quiet, and frightening to look at," Chaim Ferster says, remembering his first impressions of the notorious death camp.
"We could see from a distance that there were flames coming out from four chimneys. I didn't realise that this was the crematorium."
He had arrived in the middle of two-year ordeal, during which he endured horrific labour conditions, malnutrition and typhus, before finally being freed at the very moment he and his fellow prisoners had been rounded up to be shot, when Allied forces broke into the camp.
Born into an orthodox Jewish family and raised in the Polish town Sosnowiec, Mr Ferster was 17 when war broke out in 1939.
The great-grandfather remembers the rising fears of Jewish communities, as news of the German military expansion began to filter through.
Now aged 93 and living in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, where he settled in 1946, he said: "You could see planes flying over. [The Nazis] came over to Sosnowiec very fast.
"I remember the Jews were very concerned. Very, very concerned about what was going to happen."
Then came the rationing, widespread hunger and illness in the ghettos and, later, the transportation of thousands of Jewish families.
Mr Ferster said: "We'd got ration cards, and there wasn't much food in the shops to fulfil these rations cards.
"We had no medication. People were dying and life was very difficult. Then they assembled various leaders from town and they shot them, just like that."
In 1943, at the age of 20, Mr Ferster was forced from his home. Amid the chaos he had avoided being taken away a year earlier, when his mother and sister disappeared, and his father, Wolf, had died of pneumonia in 1942.
It was widely accepted that people picked up by the Gestapo never returned, Mr Ferster said.
With this in mind, a relative urged him to learn a skill that would make him useful to the Germans, prompting him to learn to fix sewing machines, becoming classed as a "mechanic" as a result.
Between 1943 and 1945 he was moved between eight different camps across Germany and Poland, enduring terrible conditions, in which many died.
At one stage Mr Ferster remembers being forced to shift blocks of cement from a wagon, in freezing weather.
"It was very, very cold, about minus 25 or minus 26," he said.
"The soldiers started beating us and shouting and saying you're not going fast enough. A lot of them couldn't stand it. They got pneumonia. Some of them died."
Towards the end of 1943, Mr Ferster fell seriously ill during an outbreak of typhus in one particular camp. Large numbers died.
Once again though he managed to survive, but describes a horrific scene that remains vivid in his memory.
"There were bodies lying on pallets, six one way, six the other way," he recalls. "There were many many pallets with bodies, very, very high."
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Eventually, Mr Ferster found himself moved to Auschwitz.
He remembers the infamous shower rooms, and the prisoners who were sent there.
"They put us into a block. All of us, one particular large block. Then the following morning, a selection of that block went into the shower room," he said.
"We went to the shower room. It's the same shower room that other people went in and the gas came in. But we got the water that came down and we washed ourselves."
Mr Ferster was one of the few who survived Auschwitz, which was eventually liberated in January 1945.
But in the spring of that year, with Germany losing the war, the Nazis accelerated the programme to liquidate Jewish prisoners.
As a result, Mr Ferster was among a group of prisoners who were marched across Germany to another notorious death camp - Buchenwald.
It was there that Mr Ferster believes he came closest to dying.
Prisoners were being summarily executed from day to day, and the very morning after he arrived Mr Ferster himself was rounded up with a group of fellow inmates, expecting a similar fate.
But, just as he and the others were gathered together, the camp was liberated.
"All of a sudden, the American planes were there and all the German soldiers ran away," he said.
"And after half an hour or an hour, an American tank drove through the gates and the soldiers were shouting, 'You're free, you're free!'."
He later discovered only two other members of his family survived the Holocaust - his sister Manya and cousin Regina.
Through tears, Mr Ferster added: "I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it."
After emigrating to England, he worked for a sewing machine repair business before later setting up a series of successful businesses.
Spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said "in no way was this a personal attack".
He said it was the Pope's long-standing belief that migrants should be helped and not shut behind walls.
Mr Trump initially dismissed the comments as "disgraceful", but later adopted a more conciliatory tone.
The row erupted after Pope Francis said "a person who thinks only about building walls... and not of building bridges, is not Christian", which was roundly condemned by the billionaire businessman.
But Father Lombardi told Vatican Radio on Friday that Mr Trump had not been singled out by Pope Francis and "nor was it an indication on how to vote" in the US presidential election.
He said the Pope believed people "should build bridges, not walls", referring to the thousands of migrants flocking onto European shores over the past 12 months.
"This is his general view, which is very consistent with courageously following the indications of the gospel on offering welcome and solidarity," he added.
The presidential candidate also softened his rhetoric later on Thursday, heaping praise on the Pope at a town hall event in South Carolina where he is leading the polls ahead of the state's primary on Saturday.
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"I have a lot of respect for the Pope. He has a lot of personality and I think he's doing a very good job, he has a lot of energy."
He said the pontiff was misinformed when he criticised the proposed wall, because he was not aware of the drugs coming in and the other security problems that made a strong border a necessity.
His anti-immigration stance is a central plank in his campaign - he wants to deport 11 million undocumented migrants and said Muslims should be temporarily barred from coming to the US.
The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll shows a five percentage point lead for Mr Trump in South Carolina - down by 11 points from compared to last month.
The greatest threat for Mr Trump, who has no political experience but won in New Hampshire, is Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who won the Iowa caucus.
The 18-year-old, who was Glasgow City's top goal scorer in 2016, will join the English side in January, when the WSL transfer window re-opens.
The former Rangers youngster made her senior international debut in June.
"This is a very exciting move for me which will benefit my career greatly," Cuthbert told Chelsea's club website.
"When Chelsea came knocking it felt like something I couldn't turn down. I know it is going to be a big step up but I believe in my ability."
Chelsea boss Emma Hayes added: "I'm am so excited about this signing. She's one for the future but with the ability to make an impact in the here and now."
Norway captain Maren Mjelde and Switzerland forward Ramona Bachmann have also already signed for Chelsea ahead of next season.
However, the beauty of Touch Rugby is that it's minimal contact. In other words, you don't get tackled.
There are also no scrums or kicking.
Also, unusually, men and women of all ages and abilities can play together.
All you need to be able to do, I'm told, is to run.
"Being able to catch and pass a ball helps, but it's not mandatory," says Peter Faassen de Heer of Scottish Touch.
That's lucky because, prior to this, I don't think I have ever thrown or caught a rugby ball.
"The game came from Rugby League originally," says Peter.
"In Rugby League you have six tackles. Here we have six touches before the ball changes hands to the other side."
I'm soon being put through my paces and I'm told to pass the ball backwards to my team mates, while running towards the try line.
The other team attempts to touch the player who is in possession of the ball.
I'm told the aim is to score a try before your team has been touched by the opposition six times.
Any words of wisdom, gleaned from Peter during my practise session, vanish as soon as I pluck up the courage to join in a proper game.
I spend about 10 minutes running forwards and backwards (mostly backwards).
I manage to catch, throw and drop the ball a few times, after it is thrown charitably in my direction.
However, I forget to keep an eye on my opponent, who has been sitting quietly on the wing, before she gracefully catches the ball and glides past me to score a try.
I use the moment, to slope off and catch my breath with the others who are watching the game on the sidelines.
Jackson Thirgood, who previously played Rugby Union, says he enjoys playing a mixed game.
"The girls are actually some of the best people on the pitch," he says.
Iona Smith says: "It's quite daunting at the start because all the boys have played rugby and seem to know what they are doing.
"But once you get the hang of it, it's really good fun."
Iona, and her friend Megan McLaren, have been coming for a year and were recently selected to play for the under 18s Scotland team.
Megan says: "I had no idea what I was doing at the start, but you learn quite quickly.
"I wouldn't have expected to play it as much or to have enjoyed it as much as I did."
Two weeks shy of 60, Dunkan Armstong is the oldest on the pitch. "It's completely inclusive," he says.
"Whatever age you are, whether you're male or female, you can play at any level.
"You can play for fun like we do here, or in a league, or internationally.
"You can come out enjoy being active in the great Scottish weather.
"It's awesome."
As I look around me on a wet Edinburgh afternoon in the Meadows, with the blossom trees in their full glory, and bits of grass stuck to my face, I decide he might just be right.
If you want to find out more about getting more physically active, take a look at the BBC Get Inspired website.
Retired nurse Christine McGuire, 67, from Stranraer, was killed when her car was struck near Penrith, Cumbria, on 7 January 2015.
Appearing at Carlisle Crown Court, Colin McLachlan pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving having previously denied the offence.
The 74-year-old, of Kilmarnock, will be sentenced in September.
Hunter Moore, 28, faces between two and seven years in prison, according to the US Attorney's Office.
He ran IsAnyoneUp.com, on which pictures were posted of naked women without their consent, and was once called "the most hated man on the internet".
Another man allegedly involved has pleaded not guilty and faces trial.
As well as running the site - where people often posted pictures of their ex-lovers, coining the term "revenge porn" - prosecutors said Moore had also enlisted a hacker to steal nude photos from email accounts.
Photos posted between 2010 and 2012 included pictures of an American Idol finalist, the daughter of a major US Republican party donor and a woman in a wheelchair, according to a 2012 article in Rolling Stone magazine.
Moore alleged in the agreement that he had paid Charles Evens to hack email accounts and steal photos.
Mr Evens, 26, of Los Angeles, pleaded not guilty and is scheduled for trial in March. He refused to comment.
Moore is due in court on Wednesday 25 February, although the Attorney's Office spokesman said sentencing could be postponed until March. Moore will also be required to inform his parole officer every time he uses a new device capable of accessing the internet.
Moore was arrested in January 2014 after an FBI investigation. He had previously been ordered to pay $250,000 (£170,000) in damages for defamation after a civil lawsuit.
He was found to have made false claims on Twitter that James McGibney, the chief executive of an anti-bullying website, was a paedophile who possessed child pornography.
The businessman, who owns Sky News and The Sun, wrote: "AUST gets wake-call with Sydney terror.
"Only Daily Telegraph caught the bloody outcome at 2.00 am. Congrats."
He was labelled "heartless" and "insensitive" by Twitter users.
Two people and the gunman died after commandoes stormed the cafe.
One was 38-year-old barrister and mother-of-three Katrina Dawson. The other was Tori Johnson, the 34-year-old manager of the Lindt cafe.
The hostage-taker has been identified as Man Haron Monis.
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World champion Brennan, 31, beat the USA's Genevra Stone by half a length in a time of seven minutes 21.54 seconds with China's Duan Jingli claiming bronze.
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He said illegal economic migrants were risking "lives and money" for nothing.
Mr Tusk visited Greece and Turkey on Thursday to discuss ways to reduce the flow of migrants travelling west.
More than 25,000 migrants have been left stranded in Greece by a tightening of border controls to the north, raising fears of a humanitarian crisis.
On Thursday, a group of migrants blocked a railway line on the Greek side of the border with Macedonia to protest at the restrictions.
They were imposed after several Balkan countries decided only to allow Syrian and Iraqi migrants across their frontiers. Austria also decided to limit numbers.
The move effectively barred passage to thousands of people seeking to reach western Europe, including Afghans as well as some more likely to be regarded as economic migrants.
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After meeting Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Athens on Thursday, Mr Tusk said he was appealing to "all potential illegal economic migrants", wherever they may be from.
"Do not come to Europe," he said. "Do not believe the smugglers. Do not risk your lives and your money. It is all for nothing."
He also said EU member states must avoid taking unilateral action to deal with the migrant crisis.
Separately, UK Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande discussed security and migration issues in the French city of Amiens, including conditions at the French port of Calais, where thousands of migrants hoping to enter the UK have been living rough.
After the talks Mr Hollande warned of "consequences" for management of migrants heading to Britain if the UK voted to leave the European Union in a June referendum.
Earlier, French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron said his country could allow migrants to travel unchecked to the UK in the event of a so-called "Brexit".
He told the Financial Times newspaper that an exit vote could end a bilateral deal allowing the UK to vet new arrivals on French territory.
Authorities in Calais have been clearing part of a sprawling camp known as the Jungle, from where many migrants are trying to enter the UK illegally.
Ahead of an EU-Turkey summit on the issue on Monday, Mr Tusk travelled to Turkey later on Thursday for talks with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
Mr Davutoglu said that the flow of Syrian refugees would lessen if the cessation of hostilities in the conflict held, adding that violations by Syrian government and Russian forces had left it vulnerable.
Turkey already accommodates over 2.5 million Syrian refugees - at an estimated cost of €7 (£5.4bn). The EU has pledged €3bn to Turkey, which is calling for more support.
Mr Davutoglu repeated that they expected the opening of new chapters for Turkey's longstanding EU membership bid and progress on visa-free travel to the EU for Turkish citizens.
Turkey has already offered to sign readmission agreements with 14 countries, a move that could enable it to take back migrants rejected by the EU more efficiently.
Turkish officials also say they have managed to prevent almost 25,000 migrants from travelling to Europe this year. But almost 130,000 have made their way to Greek islands during the same period.
In the EU summit in Brussels next week, there will be calls on Turkey to do more to reduce the numbers of migrants.
Mr Tusk said earlier this week that Europe was ready to grant "substantial financial support" to countries neighbouring war-torn regions such as Syria and Iraq.
"But at the same time we expect a more intensive engagement from our partners as an absolute precondition to avoid a humanitarian disaster," he said.
Turkey has expressed frustration at the lack of a common position from the EU on the crisis.
BBC Europe Correspondent Chris Morris, who is on the Greek island of Lesbos where 75,000 migrants have already arrived so far this year, says the EU wants to see arrivals in Greece drop below 1,000 a day.
New figures suggest last year's total of one million seaborne migrants arriving in Europe could be matched well before the end of the year.
The number of migrants stuck in Greece has soared, after Macedonia began restricting passage to all but a small number. More migrants are en route from Athens.
Earlier this week, the European Commission adopted plans to distribute €700m (£543m; $760m) of emergency humanitarian funding between 2016-18 to help tackle the crisis.
Greece has asked the European Commission for nearly €500m in assistance to help care for 100,000 asylum seekers.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said nearly 129,500 migrants had arrived in Europe by sea so far in 2016, plus another 1,545 by land. It said 418 had drowned or were missing.
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Two lanes of the M25 at the Dartford tunnel were closed, leading to queuing traffic between junctions 1a and 31 because of the faulty sign.
The Highways Agency said the lanes reopened by 09.00 GMT but warned motorists to expect delays.
The closure comes less than a week after the new Dart Charge was introduced to ease congestion.
The new cashless payment system came into force at 06:00 on Sunday, replacing the toll booths on the Kent side of the crossing.
Work on a new road layout at the crossing is expected to be completed by Spring 2015.
On average more than 140,000 vehicles use the River Thames crossing every day.
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The Portaferry woman underwent surgery almost exactly three years ago and it was a further 14 months before she was able to race again.
"It was a long tenuous road back to championship racing," said Mageean, 24.
"I was confident I was going to try but you can never be sure what the future is going to bring."
After bursting onto the Irish Athletics scene by winning a national indoor title as a 15-year-old in 2008, Mageean continued a remarkable junior career by winning silver medals at the 2009 World Youth Championship and 2010 World Juniors.
However after running an Olympic B 1500m standard in 2011, Mageean missed out on qualifying for London 2012 as the ankle problem began to inhibit her severely.
After splitting with her then Belfast-based coach Eamonn Christie in early 2013, Mageean, by now studying at UCD, linked up with former Olympian Jerry Kiernan a few more months shortly before undergoing her surgery in London.
"I had a fantastic group of people behind me with the staff of Athletics Ireland and physio Emma Gallivan and my coach Jerry Kiernan who took me under his wing just before my ankle surgery.
"Jerry would come to watch me training when I was only able to jog for about five minutes but he would make it his business to be there."
Mageean was greeted by a large crowd of family, friends and supporters as the Irish team returned to Dublin from Amsterdam on Monday morning.
The county Down woman was pushed to the front of the arrivals queue by Athletics Ireland's high performance manager Kevin Ankrom.
"Kevin said you have to go out first. I said 'OK'," laughed Mageean.
"I'm over the moon. It's not every day an Irish athlete comes home with a medal from a European Championship."
Mageean finished the race not realising that she was only the third Irishwoman to win a European championship medal, after the previous exploits of Sonia O'Sullivan and Derval O'Rourke.
"It's kind of dawning on me now but it probably won't hit me fully until I'm back in the house or having a chat with my coach."
After earning her first senior championship medal in Amsterdam, Mageean will now refocus for her Olympic Games challenge in Rio next month.
Before that, Irish fans will have a chance to see her in action at the Morton Games at Santry on 22 July.
The state TV headquarters, the international airport and a military base in the city were all targeted.
Religious leader Paul Joseph Mukungubila told the BBC his followers carried out the raids.
Information Minister Lambert Mende said the situation was now under control and about 46 attackers had been killed.
Meanwhile, the army has also clashed with unknown gunmen on the outskirts of Lubumbashi, according to a military spokesman.
He said some of the attackers in Lubumbashi, the main city of DR Congo's southern mineral-rich Katanga province, had been arrested.
President Joseph Kabila, who won his second term in office two years ago, is touring Katanga but was not under any threat, Mr Mende told the BBC.
Mr Mende said the attackers at the state TV and radio headquarters had been armed with weapons such as knives, and there was "no chance of them even to maintain their positions, even for a single hour".
"People were frightened when security personnel were firing against these attackers," the minister told the BBC's Focus on Africa radio programme after visiting the RTNC headquarters.
He said the attackers numbered fewer than 100 and that the security forces had killed about 46 of them and captured about 10.
On the government's side, an army colonel was killed when the attackers struck the military base, Mr Mende told the BBC.
He said he understood that two staff members forced to read a statement on TV were safe.
Reuters said the statement appeared to be a political message against President Kabila's government.
"Gideon Mukungubila has come to free you from the slavery of the Rwandan," said the message, according to Reuters.
In 1997, Rwandan-backed troops ousted DR Congo's long-serving ruler Mobutu Sese Seko and installed Laurent Kabila - the father of incumbent leader Joseph Kabila - as president.
According to Reuters, Gideon is the nickname used for Paul Joseph Mukungubila by his followers. He ran unsuccessfully for president in 2006.
Mr Mukungubila - a Christian leader and self-proclaimed prophet - told the BBC the violence was carried out by his supporters in response to government harassment. He denied it was an attempted coup.
Meanwhile, Mr Mende told the BBC the shooting in Lubumbashi was linked to a disarmament programme and not to the attacks in the capital.
The armed youths stormed the studio in Kinshasa around 08:40 local time (07:40 GMT) during a live magazine programme, shouting slogans - one of which in French said "for the liberation of Congo".
In a separate incident, a taxi driver told AFP that he had heard about "six or seven shots" from heavy weapons fired at the Tshatshi military camp. The shots were heard between 09:00 and 09:30 local time.
After RTNC went off air, a customs official at Ndjili airport told Reuters: "Shooting has started here. They are shooting everywhere. We are all hiding."
Kinshasa RTNC TV has now resumed normal programming.
The US embassy in Kinshasa has advised all US citizens not to travel around the city until further notice.
"The embassy has received multiple reports of armed engagements and fighting around Kinshasa… The embassy has also received reports that there are police and military checkpoints and barricades in many places," it said in a statement posted on its Facebook page at 10:00 local time.
There will be comprehensive coverage of the four-day meeting, which takes place from Tuesday to Friday, on BBC Radio 5 live and 5 live sports extra.
There will be about 12 hours of live commentary on Radio 5 live, and up to another four on 5 live sports extra, with coverage also available online and via the BBC Sport app.
No trainer has ever before assembled such a powerful squad of horses for the Cheltenham Festival. The list of 60 or so runners that will travel from Mullins' County Carlow HQ to the Cotswolds contains the favourite, or at least a strong fancy, for 21 of the 28 races.
So the answer is yes, of course Ireland's champion jumps trainer, who's topped the Festival league table for four of the past five seasons, may equal or even go by last year's record tally.
With the likes of Annie Power, Un De Sceaux, Vautour, Djakadam and Don Poli, he has the equine ammunition to achieve it. But with horseracing as unpredictable as it is, no-one will be amazed if he falls short.
The general consensus is that Douvan (Racing Post Arkle Chase, Tuesday, 14:10 GMT) and Limini (Trull House Stud Mares Novice Hurdle, Thursday, 16:50), both to be ridden like a majority of the team's leading lights by the Festival's winning-most jockey Ruby Walsh (45 victories), are perhaps the standouts.
Mullins modestly insists he goes to Cheltenham hoping rather than expecting, seeking just one winner, but with the millions that have been pumped into his string, particularly by financier Rich Ricci and his wife Susannah, anything less than five or six will be viewed as disappointing.
No question. In 2015, had his quartet of first-day 'bankers' all gone in it would have cost the betting industry a not particularly small fortune, with the final-obstacle fall of heavily backed Annie Power in the OLBG Mares Hurdle said to have saved a £50m payout.
Such was Mullins' luck however that he still won that race with the less-fancied Glens Melody.
For the bookmakers, Cheltenham is the biggest week of the racing year, knocking Royal Ascot into a Champagne bucket with a £150m turnover that can tear gaping wounds in their accounts.
This year some bookies may be more evident than others as the sport's new policy of awarding 'authorised betting partner' status only to those considered to be contributing sufficient of their profits to fund the sport means non-ABPs are no longer welcome as new or renewing race sponsors.
It is, very much so. In contrast to many construction projects the 6,000+ capacity stand was completed within its £45m budget and, after 18 months of work, ahead of the planned schedule so it's been in use since the autumn.
The building blends into the landscape remarkably well, and it's anticipated that balconies looking out over the paddock/winners' enclosure will enhance considerably the amphitheatre atmosphere, especially when there's a popular winner.
Public bars on the ground and first floor have been named respectively after long-serving course chairman Lord Vestey and the four-time World Hurdle victor Big Buck's. Upper floors are reserved, and, in my experience, their exclusivity is policed with a rare determination.
You could do worse than get a good position around the paddock before and after day two's Weatherbys Bumper (17:30) because race-favourite Augusta Kate is owned by a group calling itself The Masters Syndicate, which includes TV's Ant and Dec, football pundit Alan Shearer and golfer Lee Westwood.
The daughter of stallion Yeats has recorded two wins from two career starts so far, and attempts to give her trainer - yes, you've guessed it, Willie Mullins - an eighth Festival Bumper success.
Willie Mullins' dad, the legendary Paddy, trained Dawn Run, probably Ireland's outstanding horse since the great 1960s icon Arkle - and it's 30 years since Jonjo O'Neill, then a top jockey, steered the mare to a famous victory over Wayward Lad, Forgive 'N' Forget and Run And Skip in one of the great Cheltenham Gold Cup finishes of all time.
Sadly, only a short time after the much-celebrated victory of the only horse to have completed the Champion Hurdle (1984)/Gold Cup double, she lost her life in a fall in France and O'Neill was diagnosed with cancer.
He made an inspiring recovery and now trains at stables close to Cheltenham from where former champion staying hurdler More Of That defends an unbeaten record over steeplechase fences in Wednesday's RSA Chase (14:10).
The winner of the Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase in 2013 - when he also took equivalent major trophies at the Aintree and Punchestown Festivals - Sprinter Sacre's apparent invincibility combined with a flamboyant style led him to be dubbed an equine James Bond by adoring fans.
But later that year the now 10-year-old, trained by the Festival's most successful trainer Nicky Henderson (53 winners), dropped from 007 to zero when pulled up in his comeback race.
A heart problem was discovered followed by a long winless period, including pulling up behind Dodging Bullets in this race 12 months ago, but in November, the gelding made a triumphant return to the track at Cheltenham before following up at Kempton after Christmas.
Henderson and new jockey Nico de Boinville, last year's Gold Cup winner, believe 'Sprinter' is back to somewhere near his best. However, with the brilliant Un De Sceaux, Dodging Bullets, Sire De Grugy, another former winner on the comeback trail, and Special Tiara in the mix he will have to be.
It is not quite a Leicester City scenario - trainer Colin Tizzard has been a growing force for some time - but his stable stars Cue Card, bound for the Timico Cheltenham Gold Cup (Friday, 15:30), and Thistlecrack (Ryanair World Hurdle, Thursday, 15:30) have behind them a tide of emotional as well as financial support at least partly because the Tizzards aren't among the 'usual suspects'.
And the former dairy farmer, based on the Somerset/Dorset border and assisted by ex-jockey son Joe and daughter Kim, has the opportunity to win more than most at the Festival. Cue Card will net £1m if he adds the Gold Cup to his Betfair Chase and King George VI Chase successes late last year, as winner of the Jockey Club's new Steeplechasing Triple Crown.
Already a two-time Festival winner, he and Smad Place are the two big hopes for the Britons in the race which has the strongest of Irish challenges. Meanwhile, Thistlecrack is hot favourite for the World after a prolific run.
Tizzard, who as a schoolboy preferred cricket and played with and against Ian Botham at county level, has gone through the season looking part-excited and part-disbelieving at his latest 'innings'. A memorable Festival double is not impossible.
The double Olympic cycling champion's attempt to swap saddles and line up as a jockey on Pacha Du Polder in the St James's Place Foxhunter Chase, the race for amateur riders immediately after the Gold Cup on Friday, has ensured the most frenetic Festival build-up in years.
Pendleton's every high - a first win, at Wincanton - and low - the inevitable tumbles - have been well-documented and forensically analysed.
Either you believe Pendleton has embarked on a daring and bold adventure barely a year after being legged up of a horse for the first time, or it's an extremely well-paid and hazardous sideshow on the most significant day of the jumps season.
Of course there will be an element of distraction on Gold Cup day, but it's hard not to doff the proverbial Trilby to what she's achieved already. As for the horse, the three-and-a-quarter-mile distance is probably a little far and completing the course without incident is, realistically, the best that can be hoped for.
With the reigning Stan James Champion Hurdler Faugheen absent from the first-day feature, along with the next three home from 12 months ago, there may well not be as much strength-in-depth as usual. Last year's fifth The New One, the mount of jockey Sam Twiston-Davies, is being talked up for the race in which he was also a luckless third in 2014.
Yanworth, trained by Alan King and unbeaten over hurdles, is all the rage to get the new association between owner JP McManus and jockey Barry Geraghty, who replaced the new retired AP McCoy, off to a flying start in the Neptune Investment Management Novices Hurdle (Wednesday, 13:30).
On a pre-Festival visit to Ireland I heard the name of McManus' Gordon Elliott-trained Campeador being well-touted for the Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle (Wednesday, 16:50).
And while Geraghty and Ruby Walsh head the betting for the week's top jockey, one or two shrewdies like the look of the chances of Bryan Cooper in his capacity as number one rider to airline tycoon Michael O'Leary's powerful Gigginstown House Stud operation, which is likely to have 30-plus runners.
Final word to Balthazar King, the mount of champion jockey-presumptive Richard Johnson in the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase (Wednesday, 16:10). Returning from serious injury sustained in the Grand National, the 12-year-old veteran attempts to win the race for the third time.
From January 2016, the African Standby Force (ASF) will be able to intervene in cases of war crimes, genocide or crimes against humanity if an African Union member state requests assistance or if the AU itself considers the situation serious enough.
It will also be able to provide humanitarian assistance and undertake peacekeeping and observer missions, although any deployment would be subject to donor funding.
This multidisciplinary force will be made up of five brigades - each with police, military and civilian components that could be deployed within 14 days in their own regions.
The Cameroonian city of Douala will host the logistics base, where equipment will be stored, but the ultimate power remains in Addis Ababa, at the AU headquarters in the Ethiopian capital.
The force was initially expected to be ready by 2008, but AU members have dragged their feet over its creation.
It was part of Muammar Gaddafi's vision for his United States of Africa.
Regardless of the late Libyan leader's intentions, it was clear that the continent needed an improved response to its continuous conflicts.
At the moment, 5,000 troops from around the continent are taking part in an ASF field training exercise in South Africa to help evaluate how ready the force is to deploy.
The number of personnel is expected to rise to 25,000 by the time the force is operational in January.
But Africa does have experience in mounting special response operations, and has already begun taking responsibility for its own peacekeeping, even providing most of the troops in the UN missions on the continent - more than 8,000 troops from Ethiopia alone.
Under the AU's own auspices, South African troops were deployed to Burundi in 2001 to oversee a peace process, while in 2008 Tanzanian-led forces quelled a rebel uprising in the Comoros.
"There's been a positive experience of African contributions to keeping peace on the continent," says Peter Pham, director of the Africa Centre of the Atlantic Council.
The nature of conflict has evolved from being primarily armed intra-state conflicts - mostly rebel groups fighting for control of natural resources or to topple governments - to the increasing threat of Islamist militants.
It means that the role of the intervention forces has also changed from traditional peacekeeping to engaging in active combat like the AU troops fighting al-Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia.
The force which has grown from initial deployment of 8,000 troops in 2007 to more than 22,000 has managed to recapture all major towns and cities from al-Shabab.
This change strengthens the cause of the ASF, says Ben Payton from the risk analysis firm Verisk Maplecroft.
"The rise of cross-border terrorist campaigns in Africa potentially increases the usefulness of the standby force, since African governments will be more willing to use the force to counter what is seen as a common threat."
The 2012 crisis in Mali presented a good example of where the ASF could have intervened but the initial poor response by African nations meant France stepped in to drive away the Islamist militants.
With the escalation of violence by the Boko Haram group in areas bordering north-eastern Nigeria - the insurgents' base - yet another AU-backed multinational force was created.
This one took seven months to become operational - and is still not fully funded.
The existence of the ASF would eliminate the need to set up a fresh force for every conflict.
While the troops should be in place, the force still faces several issues.
The biggest one is funding - the AU says it still needs $1bn (£650m) to properly finance the force.
Without donor support it will be difficult for a mission to actually be deployed.
Home-grown financing could prove a problem, especially as countries with larger budgets might prefer to invest in countering their own domestic threats rather than contributing to a force they have little control over.
Militarily there are weaknesses too - air power and solid intelligence gathering are poor across the continent.
"The concept of specialisation has largely not occurred in Africa," says Mr Pham.
"For example, it's harder to co-ordinate infantry brigades from five different countries that are trained to do the same thing, than having five different units that do five different tasks that learn to operate together and complement each other.
"The latter is more efficient in terms of resources and operation."
Some of the contributing nations also have armed forces that lack training, equipment and discipline.
Another major challenge is that of political will - getting a timely reaction from AU member states when a crisis erupts.
An ASF intervention also has to come with the approval of the UN Security Council, which could further delay the response.
Despite these hurdles, come January, the AU member states do not have much holding them back should troops need to be deployed to trouble spots speedily.
The country's football federation was also fined US$1m (£650,000) and ordered to pay 8m euros (£5.9m) in damages.
Morocco had expressed concerns about hosting this year's event following the outbreak of the Ebola virus in Africa.
They asked for the tournament to be delayed until 2016, but the Confederation of African Football (Caf) rejected the request.
Equatorial Guinea were named as replacement host for the 16-team event, while Morocco, who had qualified as hosts, were expelled.
Caf also fined hosts Equatorial Guinea US$100,000 (£65,000) for crowd trouble during Thursday's Africa Cup of Nations semi-final loss to Ghana.
Tunisian Football Association president Wadie Jary was also banned from all activities by Caf after his organisation failed to apologise for accusing African football's governing body of cheating.
Tunisia made the allegations after being beaten by quarter-final opponents Equatorial Guinea in controversial circumstances.
The 2015 Africa Cup of Nations finishes on Sunday, when Ghana and Ivory Coast meet in the final in Bata.
The scheme started on Monday, but with no agreement yet in place for French police to patrol vessels in UK waters, they arrived by helicopter and boarded a ferry as it approached France.
The two governments are in talks about French officers patrolling for full crossings, France's marine police said.
The Home Office said security plans were under "constant review".
French authorities told the BBC no timeline had been set for an agreement to be reached.
Speaking to the AFP news agency, French marine police spokesman Lieutenant Pierre-Joachim Antona said a "permanent unit" had been deployed since Monday to carry out high-visibility patrols on passenger ferries.
"The marine gendarmes will carry out patrols, which will be random but regular, with the aim of securing these vessels against the terrorist threat," he said.
The first patrol took place on Monday, when three French sea marshals arrived on the Brittany Ferries vessel Mont St Michel by helicopter.
A Brittany Ferries spokesman said the vessel left Portsmouth for Caen in France at 14:45 BST and, in a "pre-scheduled security exercise", the marshals were flown on to the boat at 17:30.
"They then proceeded to patrol the bridge and passenger areas of the vessel," he said.
He added: "Passengers were informed via announcements in English and French before the exercise took place.
"Access to outside decks was not allowed at the time of the helicopter's arrival."
Professor Andrew Serdy, a maritime law expert at Southampton University, said French police have "no jurisdiction" in UK territorial waters, except by agreement with the British government.
But he said airlifting officers showed an "abundance of caution" - and suggested France may be "treading carefully" until a deal with the UK is agreed.
Outside of UK and French territorial waters - which stretch up to 12 nautical miles from the countries' coasts - Prof Serdy said jurisdiction would depend on where a vessel was registered.
Brittany Ferries' 10 vessels are all "French-flagged", meaning French police could operate on them outside territorial waters.
It is not clear whether the French police's plan includes non-French vessels, such as UK-flagged ferries arriving in France.
The UK Home Office did not comment on the talks with French officials.
"We work extremely closely with our French counterparts on matters related to security and counter-terrorism," a spokesman said.
"We keep security arrangements, including those related to maritime security, under constant review."
The French police plan comes in the wake of several attacks in European countries including France.
Last month there were lengthy delays for UK passengers heading to the port of Dover due to increased security checks at French border posts.
The 35-year-old midfielder is coming to the end of his 11th season at the club and has a testimonial on 4 June.
Contract talks have progressed well, and confidence has been expressed on both sides that an extension to his existing deal, which expires on 30 June, will reach a positive conclusion.
Carrick joined United from Tottenham in an £18.6m deal in 2006.
He has made 457 appearances in all competitions, putting him 17th on United's all-time list, and scored 24 goals.
The former England international has won five Premier League titles, the Champions League, an FA Cup and two League Cups during his time at Old Trafford.
The city council said it had earned £4.72m between April 2016 and April 2017.
The RAC Foundation warned money being made from fines should not be seen as "a mark of success".
But the local authority stressed provisional figures showed it made just £390,325 profit, as the majority of the money went on enforcement costs.
According to the council, the average amount of money made in each quarter was £1.2m.
It received the most income between October and December 2016, a total of £1.4m.
A spokesman from the RAC Foundation said: "Councils shouldn't regard large sums of money being made from fines as a mark of success but possibly a symptom of things going wrong.
"Are the rules imposed on drivers fair and transparent? Why are so many motorists finding themselves on the wrong side of the law?
"It is hard to believe that people entering the city are purposefully setting out to wrack up big fines."
Matthew Wakelam, the council's head of infrastructure and operations, who manages the scheme, said the costs to deliver services were "often overlooked".
"These provisional figures - which will be audited - clearly show that the net financial gain for the last year is well under half a million pounds," he said.
"We ask all road users to abide by the Highway Code so we can keep Cardiff moving, reduce congestion and further improve public transport infrastructure across the city."
Yovan Garcia accessed payroll records at Security Specialists, which provides private security patrols, to inflate the number of hours he had worked.
He later hacked the firm's servers to steal data and defaced its website.
District Judge Michael Fitzgerald said Garcia had used the stolen data to help set up a rival business.
Security Specialists first noticed issues with Mr Garcia's pay records in July 2014, about two years after he joined.
In one example, they showed he had worked 12 hours per day over a two-week period and was owed 40 hours of overtime pay, when in fact he only worked eight hours per day.
According to the Central District Court of California, Mr Garcia had obtained login credentials - without ever having been given them - and accessed the records without authorisation.
Judge Fitzgerald said: "As a result, defendant Garcia was paid thousands of dollars more in overtime wages than he was really owed."
This led to his sacking, but soon afterwards he hacked Security Specialists' servers with "at least one other individual".
Mr Garcia took emails and other confidential data to "lure away" Security Specialists' clients to his new business, the judge said.
He also deleted or corrupted back-up files creating "debilitating" damage, according to the company.
A few days later, Security Specialists' website was also vandalised, with the website's header being changed to read "Are you ready".
An "unflattering picture" of a senior member of staff was also published on the site, Judge Fitzgerald said.
He ordered Mr Garcia to pay $318,661.70 to cover costs to Security Specialists such as lost income and lost data.
Mr Garcia could also be liable to pay the firm's legal costs at a later date, he said.
Wykeham House School in Fareham could close at the end of the Autumn term after being open for 100 years.
A statement from the school said: "The school is working hard with families to help find them alternative school places."
Both the boys' and girls' school sites face closure, the school said.
Wykeham House School was founded in 1913 and was originally a girls' school.
In a statement the school said: "'Due to increasing financial pressure, Wykeham House School in Fareham is facing the prospect of closure at the end of the Autumn term.
"The Board of Trustees are confident that the school will be continuing at least until the end of the term and the school is working hard with families to help find them alternative school places.
"With regards to the boys' school, although they are on separate sites and are taught separately, they are part of the same organisation so this news applies to both sites."
The 24-year-old was cited by the Rugby Football Union for shoving Greg Garner with both hands in Friday's Premiership defeat to Newcastle Falcons.
He will miss the final match of the season against Leicester on Saturday.
Rapava Ruskin, who will join Gloucester at the end of the season, is available to play again on 4 September.
The Georgia-born player went before a disciplinary panel on Wednesday.
In a statement, the panel said the sanction "reflects the seriousness of making contact with a referee or any match official".
Rapava Ruskin's suspension rules him out of a potential England squad call, but three of his current Warriors team-mates - lock Will Spencer, stand-off Ryan Mills and winger Perry Humphreys - have been included in a 20-man three-day England 'strength and conditioning' training camp from 9-11 May,
England face the Barbarians on 28 May before playing two Tests against Argentina in June.
Christine Lagarde told the BBC the Brexit process would be complicated.
She said that although the UK economy had performed more strongly than the IMF had predicted, uncertainty over the terms of the deal "is always a risk".
Any deal with the EU will "not be as good" as membership, she said.
"When you belong to a club, whatever that is, the members of the club have a degree of affinity and particular terms under which they operate," Ms Lagarde told me at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
"Someone outside the club has different access."
I asked her if she agreed with the Prime Minister of Malta, Joseph Muscat, that any future UK/EU agreement "necessarily needs to be inferior to membership".
Malta presently holds the rotating presidency of the EU.
"If being part of a club is optimising and leveraging your membership [leaving the club] would not be as good, yes," she said.
Ms Lagarde welcomed the prime minister's speech on Tuesday - saying that Britain wanted to leave the single market - for providing clarity.
"Better clarity, less uncertainty is certainly better for the UK economy and for the rest of the European Union," she said.
But she warned that there were still many questions to be answered.
"The terms under which the [agreement] will be facilitated, over what period of time - question mark," she said.
"Over what kind of transition period - question mark.
"It is only when those questions are better clarified that we will understand how the UK economy is going to pan out.
"We are still of the view that it will not be positive all along and without pain."
Before the referendum result, Ms Lagarde said a vote to leave the EU would have consequences ranging from "quite bad to very, very bad".
Since the referendum, the UK economy has performed strongly and the IMF has admitted that it was too pessimistic.
Earlier this week, the IMF upgraded Britain's growth forecast for 2017.
I asked Ms Lagarde if her "quite bad to very, very bad" analysis was wrong.
She said that the Bank of England's decision to cut interest rates after the referendum had supported the economy and that consumers had remained far more confident than expected.
But she said that there were still downside risks ahead.
"Once uncertainty clears and if people feel that their ability to set up shop in the UK and their ability to operate throughout the geographical area that is the European Union is not working as well as it did - the investment decision will change.
"In the same vein, if exports are subject to significant tariffs, restrictions and so on, the ability of the UK to activate that trade engine is going to be reduced.
"So while we have upgraded our forecast for 2017, we have downgraded for 2018."
The checks, introduced under the Obama administration, are believed to affect an estimated 75,000 people.
The bill now needs to the approved by the Senate and signed into law by President Donald Trump.
The House also voted on Thursday on Obama-era rules and regulations on the environment.
The background-check rules were introduced to provide information on the gun-buying history of people receiving benefits for mental disability.
But Republican lawmakers argued that the regulation reinforced negative stereotypes that people with mental disorders are dangerous.
"There is no evidence suggesting that those receiving disability benefits from the Social Security Administration are a threat to public safety," said Congressman Bob Goodlatte.
"Once an unelected bureaucrat unfairly adds these folks to the federal background check system, they are no longer able to exercise their Second Amendment right," he added.
The House voted 235 to 180 in favour of abandoning the rule.
Barack Obama has previously told the BBC that the failure to tackle gun control had been the greatest frustration of his presidency.
Separately, the Senate gave final approval to a measure eliminating a rule that prevents coal mining debris from being dumped into streams. Mr Trump is expected to sign the move.
Republicans argued that the coal mining rule threatens thousands of jobs and that other industry regulations were already in place.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell described the law as "an attack against coal miners and their families".
The interior department said the rule, announced in the final days of Barack Obama's presidency in December, was aimed at protecting 6,000 miles (10,000km) of streams.
Democrats said Thursday's vote was an attack on clean water and a clear win for large coal mining companies.
Republicans are expected to take a series of actions in the coming weeks to reverse years of what they consider to be excessive regulation under Mr Obama.
Rules on fracking are also being scrutinised along with a number of other regulations introduced during Mr Obama's final months in office.
Northern states are the focus, with both candidates due to appear in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Mr Trump believes a recent rise in polls can help him win states formally seen as Democratic strongholds.
Mrs Clinton will continue to use A-list supporters, buoyed by two polls on Sunday giving her a 4-5 point lead.
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Sunday's campaign stops take Mrs Clinton to Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, while Mr Trump travels to Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
A new NBC/Wall St Journal opinion poll on Sunday suggested a four-point lead for Mrs Clinton.
The latest Washington Post/ABC tracking poll puts her lead at five points.
Mrs Clinton's latest A-list backer - in the wake of Beyonce, Jay Z and Katy Perry - will be basketball star LeBron James.
Mrs Clinton will appear with him in Cleveland, home town of his NBA champion Cavaliers.
She also plans to appear in Manchester, Ohio, with Khizr Khan, the father of a fallen US Muslim soldier, who delivered an emotional attack on Mr Trump at the Democratic National Convention.
Her first stop was in the mainly African American congregation of Mount Airy Church of God in Christ in Philadelphia.
African American turnout could be key in the election. Black clergy have begun a "souls to the poll" campaign to urge people to get out and vote.
More than 40 million early voters have already cast their ballots. Reports suggest many more Latino voters are turning out early in battleground states including Florida, Arizona and Nevada compared to past elections.
Mr Trump is heading into another marathon day of campaigning, hoping to further tighten the gap in states he now believes he can win.
In his first stop in Iowa, he said that if Mrs Clinton were elected there would be an "unprecedented constitutional crisis" over the allegations she faces over her handling of sensitive material during her time as secretary of state.
He cited new claims in the New York Post that Mrs Clinton had directed her maid to print out sensitive and classified emails for her to read at home.
Mrs Clinton has seen her lead slip following last week's FBI announcement that it was looking into emails that may be connected to her use of a private email server while secretary of state.
Campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Mr Trump would keep up his breakneck speed right into election day on Tuesday, when he would visit Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina and New Hampshire.
Republican vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence said: "Our secret weapon is the American people who are saying 'enough is enough'."
Hillary Clinton's chief strategist, John Podesta, said on Sunday that she would focus on Nevada and Michigan, adding that if she won those two in particular, "Hillary Clinton is going to be the next president of the United States."
He said: "We're feeling very solid going into this last weekend."
Mr Podesta also accused Mr Trump of being an advocate of Russian foreign policy and rejecting the bipartisan US approach.
On Saturday evening, Mr Trump was briefly rushed off stage by Secret Service agents at a rally in Reno, Nevada, in a false alarm.
A man holding a sign saying Republicans Against Trump was tackled by security agents.
The Secret Service later confirmed that someone in front of the stage had shouted "gun", but that "upon a thorough search of the subject and the surrounding area, no weapon was found".
Austyn Crites, the man at the centre of the disturbance, said he was attacked when he brought out his sign.
"I keep repeating - I'm down, someone is trying to choke me - and I'm saying to these people; 'There is no gun, I just have a sign'," Mr Crites explained after the incident.
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Khoung Lam was on an escorted shopping trip to Coryton from Whitchurch Hospital on 25 June 2015 when he put a belt around David Owen's neck.
But Mr Owen got free and placed the belt around Mr Lamb's neck instead. Mr Lam became unconscious and was later pronounced dead by paramedics.
Mr Owen was initially arrested but later released without charge.
At the start of what is expected to be a three-week inquest, coroner Chris Woolley said Mr Lam, who had a history of mental health problems, had been sectioned about two weeks before he died.
He said on the day he died, Mr Lam told his carer: "I'm off", before running away.
Police found him in a cafe but he broke loose from them as he was being escorted away.
He crossed into some nearby open land where he met Mr Owen and said to him: "What day do you want to die?", before putting a belt around his neck.
Mr Woolley said the inquest jury would hear evidence about the medical cause of death, the psychiatric care Mr Lam had received and the role of the police.
The inquest continues.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) were tipped off that the body was in a vehicle in Heywood, shortly after 19:35 BST on Thursday.
Officers followed a car matching its description, which was seen in Claybank Street around 15:50, before it was found abandoned in nearby River Street.
A GMP spokesman said its inquiries were ongoing.
How did Jackson Hole - more than 2,000 miles west of Washington DC - become a favoured retreat for central bankers and economists from around the world?
Officially, the answer is work.
A regional branch of the US Federal Reserve hosts an annual conference each August at the Jackson Lake Lodge in the heart of Grand Teton National Park.
But as with the millions of other tourists who pass through the area every summer, nature was the original draw.
The Kansas City Federal Reserve, one of the US central bank's regional entities, started holding an annual conference in 1978. In the early years, the discussions focused on agriculture, but organisers had aspirations for a more high-profile event.
The hope was that the location - in the middle of a national park - might help woo then Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, who was known to be "fond of fly-fishing", the bank's history of the event recounts.
"I said we need a place for our next symposium (where) people can fish for trout," recalled Tom Davis, a former senior vice-president and head of economic research at the Kansas City Federal Reserve.
Mr Volcker accepted, but did reportedly raise questions about the distance.
"He said, 'Roger, how in the hell did you ever get to Jackson, Wyoming?'" former Federal Reserve president Roger Guffey said.
Indeed. Jackson Hole has been a haunt for plutocrats for decades.
John D. Rockefeller, heir to the Standard Oil fortune, vacationed there, famously buying up thousands of acres that eventually formed much of what is now Grand Teton National Park.
The valley counts actors Sandra Bullock and Harrison Ford among its homeowners. Celebrity sightings include Pippa Middleton, while singer James Blunt recorded the music video for his song Bonfire Heart in the area.
"It's one of the most beautiful spots in the United States and it is sometimes hard to tear oneself away from the views to go back inside and listen to more discussions about monetary policy," said economist Alan Auerbach of the University of California, Berkeley, who will be speaking at the conference this year.
The Federal Reserve knows the prime location is part of the conference's popularity, but officials are alert to any implication that the conference is just an excuse for a luxury escape.
"The symposium is not considered a vacation getaway," the bank insists in its materials. "Jackson Hole is well known for its many resorts catering to outdoors enthusiasts from around the world, but the symposium is held each year at the Lodge, which, in line with its National Park setting, does not have some accommodations commonly found at other sites, such as a spa, exercise room or salon. In fact, televisions are not available in the Lodge's rooms."
(The website of the hotel is a bit more enthusiastic, citing "all the amenities and guest services you would expect from a full-service resort".)
A spokesman for the Federal Reserve declined to reveal how much the event costs, what participants are charged or how it is kept within the venue's capacity limits.
The company that runs the Jackson Lake Lodge for the National Park Service also declined to comment on the event or how quickly the 300-plus rooms at the lodge get booked. (Cabins and camp sites are also a possibility.)
Nothing appeared to be available this weekend, but some rooms were going for about £270 a night at the start of September if you can stand a 14-hour flight from London, according to hotel booking websites.
Technically, the lodge, as a National Park Service facility, remains open to the public throughout the event.
In 2014, a group of green-shirted protesters crashed the party. They were convinced to return to meet with officials in a more formal capacity two years later.
The tiny town of Jackson, a 45-minute drive south from the hotel, sees about four million people pass through every summer. Visitors are such a reliable crowd that the Jackson Hole Travel and Tourism Board focuses its promotion efforts on other seasons, says its boss, Kate Sollitt.
So while investors around the world may be alert to any hints given by Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen and European Central Bank president Mario Draghi on Friday, locals say it's practically a non-event.
"The majority of our community doesn't even know they're here," Ms Sollitt said.
This week especially bankers were eclipsed, as Jackson was one of the places in the US where the sun and the moon would fully overlap, said Gavin Fine, owner of Fine Dining Restaurant Group and Rendezvous Bistro, which he said has been patronised by former Federal Reserve chairs Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke among others.
"We were in the path of totality so we had an influx of hundreds of thousands of people," he said.
Still, when it comes to name recognition, Mr Fine says playing host to the Federal Reserve every year "doesn't hurt".
The governor of North Kivu province said the attackers had used heavy weapons in the raid on the jail in Beni.
At least eight of the dead are prison guards, Julien Paluku added. A curfew has been declared.
The identity of the attackers is not yet clear.
Local activist Teddy Kataliko said many self-defence militias, known as Mai-Mai groups, operated around Beni.
DR Congo has been in crisis since President Joseph Kabila refused to step down after his term ended last year.
The incident in Beni is the latest in a series of jailbreaks in the country.
Last month about 4,000 inmates escaped from a high security prison in the capital Kinshasa following an attack blamed on a separatist sect.
St Clement's Church, on Star Lane, has been closed since 1979 but is being transformed into Ipswich Arts Centre.
After two years of planning, the first night of live music took place as part of SPILL Festival of Performance.
Carol Gant, the centre's director, said it was "wonderful to hear the church filled with live music and singing again after so many years".
Dead Rat Orchestra, She Shanties, Cath & Phil Tyler, Documents and MacGillvray were on the line-up at the former church, which was built in the 15th Century.
Mrs Gant said about 200 people attended the gig.
"The audience and performers were so impressed by the way the voices echoed around the space. It was a wonderful night," she said.
"After 30 years of disuse" it was "a great moment for the town", Cad Taylor, part of the community interest company behind the centre, added.
Despite recently receiving permission to change the use of the church into a venue, the group is still fundraising to complete work at the centre.
It is currently asking people to back a bid for £25,000 from Aviva.
Dr Gethin Thomas, a coaching science lecturer, also believes children should be split by ability as young as possible.
The Irish and Welsh rugby unions suggest starting scrums at under-nine level; they start at under-10 in England and under-11 in Scotland.
But Dr Thomas said children should not be in scrums until they are 13.
The call comes after World Rugby's chief medical officer, Dr Martin Rafterty, said changes could be made to tackle laws in order to reduce the risk of concussion.
When it comes to tackling, the home nations are almost unanimous in the way they introduce it to young players.
They all begin with tag rugby and bring in tackling at under-nine level, except for Ireland, where they start contact a year earlier.
Dr Thomas, who lectures at Cardiff Metropolitan University and Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, recently worked with the Rugby Football Union in England.
He said: "I wouldn't introduce scrums until 13 or 14 years old and when I spoke to a number of elite coaches, they agree.
"The same goes with lineouts - there's no reason to begin lineouts unless you can lift and individuals aren't strong enough to lift."
Last month, Wales and Worcester Warriors forward Jonathan Thomas was forced to retire from rugby on medical advice, after he was diagnosed with epilepsy thought to have resulted from multiple head traumas.
Wales wing George North also suffered from concussion in the run up to the World Cup, after suffering four blows to the head in a five-month period last season.
As well as changing days, it's also getting shorter in duration and it's getting a change in presenter as well.
Greg James will take over the hosting duties when it starts airing in his Friday show, which starts at 4pm.
At the moment it is fronted by Clara Amfo, who only stepped into the role in January having taken over from Jameela Jamil.
Newsbeat spoke to Radio 1 boss Ben Cooper, to find out what's going to happen when the new show starts in July.
It's big news. Radio 1's Official Chart Show is moving from Sunday between 4pm and 7pm to Friday between the hours of 4pm and 6pm.
Recently there was an announcement saying there were going to be global release dates. [At the moment] different countries around the world have different release dates.
They said it's all going to be on a Friday in every single country and then the Official Charts Company, which collates all that information, said they were now going to publish the chart on a Friday.
I don't want our audience to be 48 hours behind everyone else. I want them to hear the number one first on Radio 1.
I was trying to remember how long it's been on a Sunday. I was one of those kids with my fingers on record and pause, taping the top 40 on my cassette machine.
For over 30 years it's been on a Sunday. I think people are going to be shocked.
Radio 1 is changing. Our audiences are changing and we have to change to keep up with those audience activities.
The Official Chart Show is currently three hours but if you look at audience figures and you look at where the peaks are in terms of audience listening, you know that obviously the top 20 is more important than the top 40.
We'll reflect the top 40 but we'll actually be playing the top 20. We'll play a range of records between 40 and 20 but we're not going to play the whole of the top 40.
There are some records that hang around in the chart for weeks and weeks on end and we don't need to play those.
It'll be about the new music, the new entries, the ones that are rising up faster than anyone else. That will be condensed into a fantastic new two-hour show with Greg.
I just think this is going to give the chart new energy.
Clara has got the most amazing opportunity. [When Fearne Cotton leaves Radio 1, Clara will take over her mid-morning show.]
She has got the keys to the Live Lounge so I think she's very very happy.
You know from when you've heard Greg fill in for the Chart, he loves the Chart.
He's so excited about getting his hands on it and I think it's going to sound really fun, really energetic, really pacey and be full of the stars who are making the music of today.
On Sunday we'll have from 4pm to 7pm to play with. That's an opportunity to create a brand new show.
I'm working with the people at CBBC on creating something that will take some of the best content from their channel, and some of our great content, and really focusing on a young, teen audience.
I don't know yet. It's got a short commission so we're going to look at Jack and Dean and what they do with the Chart Bite, whether that continues or not, we shall have to see in the future.
The Chart Show has been going since 1967. It will continue to go until 2067 and beyond I believe.
There is always a human need to find out what music your friends and yourself love.
Curated playlists are the thing of the moment and this is the ultimate curated playlist. The Chart Show is exciting and it's just moving days - that's all.
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The Sigurimi relied on a huge network of civilian informers to muzzle any dissent and maintain the communist regime in power for decades.
Communist leader Enver Hoxha seized power in 1944 and isolated Albania as a one-party state until mass protests in 1991, which led to democratisation.
The police destroyed many files, but others will disclose some dark secrets.
Former regime collaborators will also have access to the surviving documents.
Experts estimate that at least 7,000 opponents of the regime were killed and more than 100,000 deported to labour camps. The harsh conditions there often proved fatal.
The new law - passed by 84 votes to 22 - also bars former Sigurimi members from holding public office in future.
The top-level figure - that Scotland's population has grown to a record high of 5.37m - is no surprise. It's been growing steadily since 2000 and NRS statisticians predict it will continue to do so until at least 2039.
But beneath that top number is a huge amount of other data, contained in almost endless spreadsheets, which is published each year as part of the review.
The statistics paint a fascinating and occasionally surprising picture of Scotland - the state of the nation, as the NRS puts it.
Births, deaths and marriages are the bread and butter of the NRS's annual review.
1. The figures tell us there were 55,098 births and 57,579 deaths registered.
2. There were also 29,691 weddings and 1,671 of them were same-sex marriages.
3. Only 64 couples opted for a civil partnership last year - 33 of them male couples and 31 female couples.
4. Of the deaths, 1,150 were related to alcohol.
5. 147 men died in transport accidents, compared to 44 women.
6. There were 504 adoptions - the highest figure for 10 years
7. In 2014, there were 433,235 people in Scotland aged over 75.
8. NRS statisticians predict this figure will grow to more than 800,000 by 2039 - an increase of 85%.
9. If you were a woman aged 50 or 51 last year, there were more of you than anyone else.
10. Your life expectancy at birth in Glasgow was 73.4. In East Dunbartonshire, it was 80.7.
11. The average age at death last year was 76.9.
12. The area of Scotland with the fastest growing population over the last 10 years is East Lothian - up 11.1%.
13. Argyll & Bute and Inverclyde are the fastest shrinking - both down 3.8%.
14. 24 is the most common age for people to leave Scotland. The destination for 2,060 of you last year was elsewhere in the UK, with 1,011 going abroad.
15. If you're aged 90 or more and moved to Scotland from overseas last year, there are seven others who did just that.
Emily McBride and her partner Thomas Carson were on their way to Royal Stoke University Hospital when their car ground to a halt.
The couple from Stone were picked up by officers from Staffordshire Police who took them to hospital in the back of their patrol vehicle.
But before Emily could make it out of the car, she gave birth to baby Darcey.
Darcey Carson McBride was delivered by hospital staff on the back seat of the car at 08:56 GMT on Friday weighing 6lb 9oz (2.98kg).
Both were then admitted to the delivery suite.
The police force said: "Staffordshire Police send their very best wishes to Emily, Thomas and Darcey."
Thanking the officers for getting her to hospital safely, Ms McBride said: "I'm really grateful, they (Staffordshire Police) got us there in time, if it wasn't for them, I would have been giving birth in traffic."
Linebacker Ray Lewis, 37, recently announced that he would retire at the end of the season and his team-mates were determined not to let him down in his final home appearance.
While the Ravens' defence did well to stop the Colts' rookie quarterback Andrew Luck - who has more than lived up to the pressures associated with being the number one draft pick - it was his opposite number Joe Flacco who emerged victorious.
That Flacco did was largely down to a spectacular performance from his main target, Anquan Boldin. The wide receiver broke the team's record with five catches for 145 yards, including an 18-yard touchdown reception in the fourth quarter which sealed a 24-9 victory for the Ravens.
Baltimore will next travel to Denver to face the AFC's top-seeded Broncos, who had earned the right to a bye through the wild card weekend.
Next weekend's other AFC divisional round game brings together the Houston Texans and the New England Patriots.
Thanks to some stifling defence, the Texans were never really in danger at home to the Cincinnati Bengals.
While they struggled to convert possession into points, Arian Foster ran for 140 yards and a touchdown as they ran out 19-13 winners.
In the NFC, Green Bay managed to contain Minnesota's chief threat, Adrian Peterson, to convincingly win the all-NFC North encounter 24-10.
It was sweet revenge for the Packers, whose 37-34 loss in the final week of the regular season to the Vikings deprived the former of a bye week and guaranteed the latter a place in the play-offs.
Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers kept the visitors' defence on their toes throughout, finding 10 different receivers as he completed 23 of 33 passes for 274 yards and one passing touchdown.
Meanwhile Peterson, who last week fell just short of breaking Eric Dickerson's 1984 record for the most rushing yards in a season, was limited to 99 yards from his 22 carries.
The Packers will head west to face the San Francisco 49ers on Saturday, 12 January for a place in the NFC Championship game, which will also feature the winner of Sunday's match-up between the Seattle Seahawks and the top-seeded Atlanta Falcons.
In a match hyped as being a duel between rookie quarterbacks, Seattle's Russell Wilson came out on top against the Washington Redskins' Robert Griffin III.
But that tells only half the story, as an already injured Griffin - widely known as RG3 - was eventually forced out of the game in the fourth quarter with a knee injury.
The Seahawks had earlier responded well to a nightmare first quarter in which Griffin threw a pair of touchdown passes to Logan Paulsen and Evan Royster.
But from 14-0 down, the visitors never looked back, scoring 24 unanswered points thanks to some solid defence and inspired play by Wilson and running-back Marshawn Lynch.
Lynch ran for a touchdown and 132 yards from his 20 carries, while Wilson completed 15 passes for 187 yards and a touchdown.
His performance was typified in the fourth quarter when, having handed the ball off to Lynch, he charged downfield before throwing a brilliant block to allow his team-mate to score.
That gave the Seahawks the lead for the first time and, less than a minute later, the game was all but over when Griffin's knee buckled as he tried to field a bad shotgun snap, the pain so bad that he did not even try to recover the ball.
Dr Rowan Williams says he's worried by news that half as many children know the prayer compared with 40 years ago.
He said: "I'd like to see schools introducing children to the Lord's Prayer, so that they know that it's there, they know what it means and know why it matters.
"Then they may make up their minds about whether they use it."
To mark 40 years since Newsround was first broadcast, the programme surveyed over 1,000 children aged 6-12 and 1,000 adults who'd have been that age 40 years ago, and compared the answers.
The results suggest that children today are twice as likely to say that religion is important to them compared with 40 years ago - but they are now half as likely to know the text of the Lord's Prayer.
Speaking to Newsround, Dr Williams said: "The Lord's Prayer isn't a very big or complicated thing.
"It's not as if you have to learn pages on end of things in a strange language. There are modern language versions of it.
"I don't think it's too difficult to introduce children to this and introduce it in plain language and say not 'You've got to pray this,' but this is something that's really, really important to lots and lots of people and can change their lives."
It is a major cemetery of the Wari culture, a civilisation which flourished in the Andes between the seventh and the 12th Century.
The site was discovered by Julio Tello and Toriba Mejia Xesspe in 1925. The two Peruvian archaeologists found more than 300 bundles containing mummies.
Heavily looted by grave diggers in the 1980s and 90s, Huaca Malena is now looked after by archaeologist Rommel Angeles Falcon.
Helen Soteriou travelled to Huaca Malena to speak to him about his work watching over the dead.
The area around Huaca Malena, located in a valley about 4km (2.5 miles) from the coast, is believed to have been inhabited by an ancient agricultural society as far back as 2,000 BC.
Centuries later it became one of the most important burial places for the Wari, a pre-Columbian society living in parts of what are now Peru, Colombia and Chile and considered to be one of the first great empires of the Andes,
Thousands of Wari fabrics and tapestries have been found at here, indicating that those buried in Huaca Malena were of high rank.
Many of the woven fabrics were abandoned by grave robbers, locally known as huaqueros.
Rommel Angeles Falcon says the bones found in Huaca Malena are exceptionally well preserved.
He says the main challenge for the archaeologist working here is not a race against the elements - as the desert conditions preserve the bones well - but one to keep the grave robbers away.
They appear on nights with a full moon, and with bribes of alcohol, cigarettes or coca leaves gain access to the site.
If their spade hits the hard surface of a tomb, they will dig it up and take anything inside that they think may be of value.
Most of the 4,000 textiles found by archaeologists at the site are believed to have been discarded by grave robbers.
It is impossible to know how many were originally there.
"They don't respect anything," Mr Falcon says.
Some of the textiles not looted from Huaca Malena have been taken to the Municipal Museum in the nearby village of Capilla de Asia.
Mr Falcon holds the key and shows me around.
The museum does not have the funds to meet the conservation and restoration needs for the textiles, so the team behind it has created an adopt-a-textile project, trying to get members of the public to donate enough to ensure their preservation.
Mr Falcon explains that textiles are one of the finest legacies from the Wari. They are characterised by geometric patterns depicting animals and human forms.
Some are believed to have been worn as tunics by the Wari men, but there are also some well-preserved bags used and feather head pieces at display at the small museum.
Mr Falcon knows that the Huaca Malena site and the small municipal museum in Capilla de Asia cannot compete with such well-known tourist draws as the Inca trail or the Machu Picchu.
But he is adamant small sites like this one should not be ignored, especially as the Wari artefacts and fabrics found here actually predate those of the Incas, giving the visitor a rare glimpse into the lives, and above all, death rites of a little-known culture.
But a criminal probe is indeed continuing into alleged corruption at Brazil's largest business.
A number of directors at state-run Petrobras are accused of taking bribes from construction companies, in return for awarding them lucrative contracts.
Public prosecutors and federal police claim that bribes of up to 5% of contract values were being skimmed off.
And it is further alleged that some of these funds were funnelled to officials in the ruling coalition of the Workers' Party and Brazilian Democratic Movement Party.
In the wake of the continuing investigation, the federal prosecutor's office has launched a three-month, economy-wide anti-corruption campaign, including increased punishments for those found guilty, and improvements to the recovery of the proceeds of crime.
But as the Petrobras scandal continues to dominate the headlines in Brazil, how much of a corruption problem does the country have?
The Petrobras investigation, named Operation Lava Jato (or Car Wash in English), may be the biggest corruption probe in Brazil's history, but it is far from the first.
Instead for many commentators, corruption is endemic and institutionalised in Brazil.
Take the case of former billionaire Eike Batista, once the richest man in the country.
He fell from grace last year after his energy, mining and shipbuilding empire collapsed, and he was charged with insider trading and market manipulation, charges he denies.
Standing trial this year, the case was suspended back in February after the presiding judge - who had ordered the seizure of 1.5bn reals ($388m; £252m) of the businessman's assets - was found to be driving one of Mr Batista's luxury cars.
Separately, Mr Batista, 58, who was once worth as much as $30bn (£20bn), was fined 1.4m Brazilian reals in March by regulators for failing to alert investors about the imminent takeover of his EBX Group.
Meanwhile, both Brazilian investigators, and the US's FBI, are continuing to investigate allegations of corruption at last year's World Cup in Brazil.
"Unfortunately, despite the importance and the recurrence of the subject, ethics is not yet in fact valued by a large number of companies operating in Brazil," says Douglas Linhares Flinto, founder and president of the Brazilian Institute of Business Ethics.
A non-profit pressure group, it was set up back in 2003.
Mr Flinto adds: "Many businesses can talk about ethics, and even highlight it in the list of the company's values hung on the wall and emphasized on the website.
"However, corporate actions prove that ethics is not a value to be pursued and used on a daily basis.
"And this is the biggest problem of the business world - the inconsistency in which many companies preach and act."
One of the factors behind prevalent corruption in Brazil is the high level of bureaucracy in the country, according to Transparency International, the global organisation that monitors the problem.
It says that companies in Brazil face a number of regulatory hurdles to do business, which opens up opportunities for bribery.
Separately, a 2009 survey by the World Bank Group found that almost 70% of Brazilian business owners and managers said corruption was a major obstacle.
Yet despite such findings, the Brazilian government says it is working hard to tackle the issue.
It points to a new Anti-Corruption Law that came into force last year, and highlights the continuing investigations into Petrobras and Mr Batista as a sign of the renewed efforts.
Inspired by the new law, a think tank called the Brazil Compliance Institute was set up last December by lawyer Sylvia Urquiza.
It aims to promote best practice and help companies meet their duties under the new regulations, and has been backed by the International Business School of Sao Paulo and Candido Mendes University.
Google's compliance director, Camila von Ancken, and Ana Leao, compliance manager at global drinks giant Diageo are among the experts who have worked with the institute.
Mrs Urquiza says: "Managers' accountability for irregularities committed in the name of the company, attitudes that can mitigate punishment, suggestions of good practices... are some of the points that the institute clarifies.
"[We do this] through workshops, lectures and meetings."
Petrobras has also increased efforts to prevent misconduct, and late last year issued a new code of conduct.
It has also developed ethics courses for staff, as well as introducing more stringent controls on the management of suppliers.
A Petrobras spokeswoman says: "[Supplier] companies must provide detailed information on structure, finance and compliance mechanisms and combating fraud and corruption, among other things, being evaluated by the process known as Due Diligence of Integrity.
"The aim is to increase safety on the procurement of goods and services and mitigate risks related to fraud and corrupt practices."
Back at the Brazilian Institute of Business Ethics, Mr Flinto says that despite the recent controversies, he is hopeful that the country may now be changing for the better, and that the recent high profile scandals will lead to better standards in the future.
"All this is turning a page in the history of my country and, more than that, it will be a milestone in the improvement of ethical standards of government and companies, and an entire society that can, in a short time, reach the strict standards of more developed nations," he says.
"I am convinced that ethics is coming to Brazil to stay. Brazil will never be the same."
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The 21-year-old, who agreed a three-year deal, scored 10 goals in 83 league appearances for the Spireites after making his debut at the age of 17.
He is the second player to sign for Villa this week following the arrival of Middlesbrough full-back Joe Bennett.
"He's a good player. The hunger will be there for him, he could surprise a few people," Villa boss Paul Lambert said
Villa, who have lost both their Premier League games this season to sit bottom of the table, claimed their first win of the season with a 3-0 victory over Tranmere in the Capital One Cup on Tuesday.
The FAW Trust said there was a "real threat" to developing young players with looming council cuts to facilities.
Neville Southall, who represented Wales 92 times, said: "We won't get success if we ignore grassroots football."
The Welsh Government said it provided £1m a year to develop the sport.
Wales' qualification for Euro 2016 in France marked the first time the national side has featured at a major tournament since 1958.
Speaking to the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales, former goalkeeper Southall said: "We don't know what's going to happen in the future so we've got to look at this as a one chance in a million to change the way we do things in grassroots football.
"We need every kid in school playing football, we need every kid being given the dream they can be the next Gareth Bale.
"But then we need to give them the facilities to play on and give good coaching.
"We won't get success if we ignore grassroots football and we need to seriously think about where the kids go and where they play football."
Ex-Wales international and former chairwoman of Sport Wales, Prof Laura McAllister, described the tournament as a "huge opportunity for sport in Wales".
"In terms of legacy, I hope it will be that every boy and girl in Wales will have the opportunity to take part in football at whatever level," she said.
"What we really need is a much stronger joined-up relationship between local councils, schools and clubs and sports organisations.
"If you don't have enough pitches, children can't play. It's as simple as that."
The FAW Trust, which works to develop the sport at grassroots level, said "more people in Wales are playing football than ever before".
However, the organisation's head of growth, Jamie Clewer, said: "We have a real challenge as we move forward with some of the local government cuts around access to facilities and investment.
"That's a real threat to grassroots football so we need to make sure we're working together with national and local government to make sure pitches are accessible."
A Welsh Government spokeswoman said: "We provide nearly £1m each year, via Sport Wales, to support the development of grassroots football.
"We hope people across the country are inspired to take up the sport by the historic success of Chris Coleman's Wales team."
A spokesman for Sport Wales said: "Significant investment has been made in Welsh football.
"We know that football has grown in participation and the current enthusiasm is another catalyst to keep growing the game."
The Kremlin says the move is for data protection but critics fear it is aimed at muzzling social networks like Twitter and Facebook.
The Russian government is thought to be seeking greater access to user data.
Social networks were widely used by protesters opposing President Vladimir Putin's return to the Kremlin in 2012.
Analysts say there are fears that Russia may be seeking to create a closed and censored version of the internet within its borders.
The new bill must still be approved by the upper chamber and President Putin before it becomes law.
If passed, the new rules will not take effect until September 2016 but will give the government grounds to block sites that do not comply.
"The aim of this law is to create... (another) quasi-legal pretext to close Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and all other services," internet expert and blogger Anton Nossik told Reuters news agency.
"The ultimate goal is to shut mouths, enforce censorship in the country and shape a situation where internet business would not be able to exist and function properly."
But introducing the bill to parliament, MP Vadim Dengin said "most Russians don't want their data to leave Russia for the United States, where it can be hacked and given to criminals".
"Our entire lives are stored over there," he said, adding that companies should build data centres within Russia.
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Belgian capital Brussels, 35 miles away, remains on a high state of alert amid the threat of Paris-style attacks.
The British team arrived in Ghent on Monday, a day later than planned as security arrangements for the final were confirmed.
"Everyone, I think, is very comfortable in the team," said Murray.
"It was obviously a bit concerning a few days ago," Murray added. "I think once we got here and got into the hotel, came to the venue and saw what it was like here, I think that made everyone a lot more comfortable."
Britain will try to win the Davis Cup for the first time since 1936 when the final - their first since 1978 - gets under way on Friday.
The team consists of Andy Murray and his brother Jamie, Kyle Edmund, James Ward and Dom Inglot, with Dan Evans included as a hitting partner. Including coaches and trainers, the playing staff in Ghent number 13 people.
British captain Leon Smith said it had been the correct decision to delay travelling by 24 hours, with the team arriving via Flanders airport on Monday.
Extra security measures have been put in place at the Flanders Expo for the three-day final, as Brussels remains under a security lockdown.
"We made the right decision to delay it - it helped calm things down a little bit," Smith told BBC Sport.
"I know it's a different picture in Brussels and of course there are natural concerns for people who were either opting to stay there or travel through there, but all I can say, and the team can say, is that it is very, very normal in Ghent.
"It is quiet, it's calm and we're not seeing any different issues here. Ghent feels very, very safe."
Murray added: "Everyone was a little bit concerned. Everything seems fine in Ghent. I know in Brussels it's a slightly different situation, but everything seems fine here. "
Smith liaised with the players over the weekend but Jamie Murray said he was "always planning on coming and playing".
He added: "Obviously things had happened that made it a bit more concerning. But we're here, we're training, business as normal. We're ready to play on Friday."
Andy Murray said: "I think we just listened to all of the right people. They have a fantastic security team here.
"At [most] ties you think everything is fine, and the security, you don't necessarily need it. But in situations like this, it's great we have such capable people that are able to give us the best advice."
The British team were well wrapped up when they faced the media on Tuesday, with the temperature in the venue around 3C as both teams practised.
Murray described conditions as "really cold", adding: "Hopefully it won't be like this over the weekend."
Smith has yet to make a decision on his second singles player, but Edmund, ranked 100th, could be in line to make his Davis Cup debut having won a Challenger title nine days ago.
"In sport you want to play, especially for your country," said the 20-year-old from Yorkshire. "You want to do your best. You just deal with it when it comes to it."
The captains must make their final team nominations one hour before the draw, which takes place at 13:00 GMT on Thursday.
Anna Yocca, 32, was released on Monday after spending more than a year in jail after the incident, which led to charges of attempted murder.
She was released after pleading guilty to a lesser charge of attempting to procure a miscarriage.
The 2015 attempt led to complaints about access from pro-choice groups.
Tennessee is one of the US states where no abortion provider offers the procedure after the foetus reaches 16 weeks.
Under state law, the medical procedure must be performed by a licensed doctor, and a 48-hour waiting period is required.
Yocca's child survived after her husband rushed her to the hospital when she began to bleed.
The baby boy, who was born at 24 weeks, will require life-long medical attention, sheriff officials say.
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The home side won thanks to an impressive hat-trick from Kemar Roofe while substitute Samu Saiz and Ronaldo Viera also found the net.
Skipper Joss Labadie had given the Welsh side a surprise lead on 33 minutes following a mistake by home goalkeeper Rob Green.
Newport started the game brightly and were rewarded with Labadie's opener.
But just before half-time Leeds were level when Newport failed to deal with a corner and Roofe was alert to slot the ball home.
The Championship club wasted no time after the break with Roofe volleying home his second before executing a spectacular bicycle-kick to complete his hat-trick.
Despite a battling showing from the visitors, Saiz came off the bench to find the net on 78 minutes and, with two minutes left, a Viera shot meant Leeds go into the third round draw.
Newport manager Mike Flynn told BBC Radio Wales: "I thought it was a bit flattering for Leeds. But you could see the quality the Championship side have got where they take their chances and anticipate things in the box.
"There were some things that concerned me and I've just said that to the players.
"But we played some fantastic football and created a lot of good chances and you need to be prepared and put your neck on the line and get on the end of one."
Match ends, Leeds United 5, Newport County 1.
Second Half ends, Leeds United 5, Newport County 1.
Mark O'Brien (Newport County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Samuel Sáiz (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mark O'Brien (Newport County).
Foul by Madger Gomes (Leeds United).
Ben White (Newport County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ezgjan Alioski (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Frank Nouble (Newport County).
Liam Cooper (Leeds United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Liam Cooper (Leeds United).
Robbie Willmott (Newport County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal! Leeds United 5, Newport County 1. Ronaldo Vieira (Leeds United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Liam Cooper.
Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by Ben White.
Attempt blocked. Stuart Dallas (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Ezgjan Alioski (Leeds United) left footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right is saved in the centre of the goal.
Ezgjan Alioski (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Mickey Demetriou (Newport County).
Attempt saved. Stuart Dallas (Leeds United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Mickey Demetriou (Newport County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Frank Nouble (Newport County) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Joe Quigley (Newport County) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by Robbie Willmott.
Attempt blocked. Madger Gomes (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Stuart Dallas (Leeds United) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Matthew Dolan (Newport County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Madger Gomes (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matthew Dolan (Newport County).
Goal! Leeds United 4, Newport County 1. Samuel Sáiz (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Matthew Dolan (Newport County) left footed shot from long range on the right is saved in the centre of the goal.
Stuart Dallas (Leeds United) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Ronaldo Vieira (Leeds United).
Joss Labadie (Newport County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Leeds United. Ezgjan Alioski replaces Kemar Roofe.
Luke Ayling (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Joe Quigley (Newport County).
Attempt missed. Mickey Demetriou (Newport County) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Mateusz Klich (Leeds United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Mateusz Klich (Leeds United).
Frank Nouble (Newport County) wins a free kick on the left wing.
The FTSE 100 closed down 0.7% at 5,912.44 after initially being bolstered by strong US jobs figures.
The stats showed 292,000 jobs were created last month in the US, beating expectations.
However, shares in Sports Direct dived nearly 15% to 436.80p after it warned on profits.
The retailer said that since its interim results on 10 December, it had "seen a deterioration of trading conditions on the High Street and a continuation of the unseasonal weather over the key Christmas period".
It added that it also expected similar trading conditions between now and the end of April.
As a result, it says it is "no longer confident" that it will meet its full-year underlying earnings target of £420m, and now expects earnings to be between £380m and £420m.
Shares in Tesco were having a better day, rising 5.5% to 146.90p after Barclays upgraded its rating on the stock to "overweight" from "equal weight".
On the currency markets, the pound fell by 0.006 of a cent against the euro to €1.3314, but was down a cent against the dollar at $1.4519.
The news came as Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, arrived in Washington on her first official visit.
Myanmar's access to trade benefits for poorer nations had been suspended in 1989 over human rights abuses.
President Obama said the country should now be allowed to benefit from preferential tariffs as it emerges from decades of military rule.
He confirmed the move in a letter to Congress on Wednesday, adding Myanmar - also known as Burma - to the Generalised System of Preferences, a list which exempts certain countries from high import taxes.
Though many companies will now enjoy lower tariffs, there are some sanctions which remain in place.
These include a "blacklist" of at least 100 companies and individuals with links to the former military junta, as well as trade in jade and rubies.
President Obama said the lifting of some sanctions would happen "soon", but did not give further details.
"It is the right thing to do to ensure the people of Burma see rewards from a new way of doing business, and a new government," he said.
He also paid tribute to the efforts made towards peace in the country, and the "enormous potential" of the country.
Ms Suu Kyi called on the US Congress to eliminate all remaining sanctions against Myanmar.
"Unity also needs prosperity," she said. "People, when they have to fight over limited resources, forget that standing together is important."
"We think that the time has come to remove all of the sanctions that hurt us economically," she said.
Ahead of Aung San Suu Kyi's visit, Human Rights Watch said the sanctions targeted military officials, and "shouldn't be fully lifted until the democratic transition is irreversible."
Ms Suu Kyi, who as opposition leader was kept under house arrest for 15 years, led her National League for Democracy party to victory in Myanmar's first openly contested election for decades in November 2015.
She is barred from the role of president under the country's constitution - instead holding the title of state counsellor - but is widely seen as the country's leader in all but name.
Whyte, found not guilty of taking over the club by fraud in May 2011, was fined by the governing body in 2012 but the money was never paid.
SFA chief executive Stewart Regan confirmed the body will take advice about how to recover the money.
Regan declined to comment on the High Court verdict concerning Whyte.
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"Clearly, the trial verdict is a matter between Craig Whyte and the Crown," he said.
"The verdict is the verdict. It's not a matter for the Scottish FA.
"It has had a telling effect on Scottish football. We found Craig Whyte not to be a fit and proper person several years ago. He won't be involved in any football club or any member of the Scottish FA.
"That money (the £200,000 fine) has never been recovered. That will be something we will take advice on and should the opportunity present itself then we would certainly consider that."
Regan intimated that the SFA had not previously chased payment of the fine through the courts because the cost of doing so might outweigh the sum owed.
And although he described the Rangers story over the past five years as "regrettable" he said he himself had "no regrets" over the way he and the SFA handled the situation.
Sister Clare Theresa Crockett, 33, who was from the Long Tower area of the city, died when a school collapsed in Playa Prieta.
The 7.8-magnitude earthquake killed at least 480 people, and left more than 4,000 injured and 231 missing.
Her funeral Mass was held at Long Tower Church in Derry.
Fr Eamon Graham, who led the service, described Sr Clare as "a striking example of Derry womanhood".
"Clare asked herself what she could do to make the world a better place and how she could serve God and help the most vulnerable," said Fr Graham.
"To do that, she went to the far end of the earth and she took her goodness with her."
Some members of Sr Clare's order - the Home of the Mother - were also in attendance.
The Bishop of Derry, Donal McKeown, told BBC Radio Foyle he has been comforting Sr Clare's family.
"They've lost a daughter, a beautiful daughter and the first born of their family as I understand. That's bound to be an awful loss particularly for any parent to see the burial of their child.
"On the other hand, they've been hearing stories about what she did and what a wonderful person she was," Bishop McKeown said.
"I'm sure the family have got some consolation simply from the wonderful member of their family that people are so proud of."
Sr Karen McMahon travelled to Derry with two other nuns from the Home of the Mother Order.
"She was our sister, she was a wonderful person," said Sr McMahon.
"She gave her whole life to God. When she discovered our Lord, he was the centre of her life and everything she did revolved around him.
"All the good she did, always her goal was to bring souls to heaven. For us it's a grace to be here today."
The three sisters paid tribute to their friend by singing hymns during the service.
In his homily, Fr Eamon Graham expressed his deepest sympathies to the Crockett family.
"Words are really not adequate because you're having to deal with an unimaginable cross. Its not the way things should be, that parents bury their children," he said.
"We've asked many questions about God and his ways. We've felt feeling of anger and bewilderment and we haven't had too many answers.
"But one thing has emerged in this past fortnight, we've received an insight into Clare's life and motivation."
Wakefield Council plans to eventually close Knottingley Sports Centre, Castleford and Pontefract pools.
They would be replaced by the Pontefract Park complex with a 10-lane swimming pool and sports facilities.
Dr Karen Forshaw said: "I do think there will be a massive impact on people's abilities to exercise."
The GP, who lives in Pontefract, said: "Swimming is an excellent form of exercise and physical activity is one of the most important things that we can do to improve our health."
There are fears people would be put off travelling to the new leisure centre.
Steve Tulley, councillor for South Emsall and South Kirkby ward, said although he supported the plans in principle he was worried "some of our poorer people will struggle to get to the new centre".
Knottingley Sports Centre (built in 1969), and Castleford Swimming Pool (1983) would close in January 2017 with Pontefract Swimming Pool (built in 1985) staying open until the new centre was open, said the council.
The new complex would also have a gym, exercise studios, outside tennis courts and five-a-side pitches.
Les Shaw, council cabinet member, said: "Updating the current pools is not an option."
Modernising the existing premises would require major construction works and refurbishment would be "extremely expensive", he added.
A consultation on the plans runs until November.
Leon Briggs, 39, died in hospital in November 2013 after being detained at the Marsh Road police station in Luton.
Bedfordshire Police said its security concerns about the memorial - which had grown much larger than it had initially been - involved the risk of something untoward being hidden there.
The Justice 4 Leon campaign warned of a backlash if it were removed.
Liberty Louise, from the campaign, said: "There will be some sort of community backlash.
"If this is the message they want to give out to the community, that 'we are not going to listen to you', it is up to them to deal with the aftermath."
Bedfordshire Police Chief Constable Colette Paul said she had listened to the concerns raised by the family about the memorial, which has been at the station for more than a year.
The memorial, which includes flowers, candles and messages, has repeatedly been the focus of vigils in memory of Mr Briggs.
"It is regretful if we have caused any upset to Leon Briggs' family who have been informed about the recommendations in the security report," she said.
"It is correct that the report contains a recommendation to remove the memorial and the risk is being assessed as part of our overall review of estate security.
"We will be liaising with Leon Briggs' family to be as sensitive as we can about removing the security risk but at the same time providing a safer option for a focus of vigil for the family and friends of Mr Briggs as well as meeting the security requirements."
The case is still being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
Christchurch is the largest city on the South Island of New Zealand, home to over 350,000 people.
In 2010 and 2011, 2 major earthquakes destroyed many city-centre buildings.
Located on the South Island this picture shows Mount Cook, centre left, which is the largest mountain in New Zealand.
Mount Tasman to the right is the second highest mountain in New Zealand.
This picture also shows a number of glaciers in the middle and the Tasman Lake at the front.
A UN official said there was still a need to focus on providing relief rather than reconstruction.
More than 8,000 people died in the disaster and many remain homeless.
Nepal's government, which has been criticised for being slow to respond, has called for more direct aid funding.
Finance Minister Dr Ram Sharan Mahat told the BBC less than 10% of the money spent on relief by his government came from overseas.
Dr Mahat said he hoped future international donations would be managed directly by his government.
On Monday evening, hundreds of Nepalis joined a candlelit vigil at the Brikutimandap grounds in Kathmandu to remember the dead and mark a month since the earthquake hit.
The earthquake that hit on 25 April, and a second major tremor on 12 May, killed more than 8,600 people and brought down buildings in Kathmandu and the country's central districts.
Shelter materials and food aid have been slow to reach some areas, and many Nepalese have complained that the government is not doing enough to help those affected.
As aftershocks continue to be felt, thousands of people are still living in make-shift tents and there are fears these will not survive the summer monsoon, which is due to start next month.
There are also fears the rainy season will bring further landslides and the threat of disease.
The World Food Programme described its response to the earthquake as "one of our most complex operations" due to Nepal's difficult terrain.
Richard Ragan, WFP Emergency Co-ordinator, said the organisation had provided food for 1.8 million people in the hardest-to-reach locations since the disaster struck.
For the government, Dr Mahat said he recognised there were complaints over the way it had handled the aid effort.
"People are still under tents in the open parade ground and they cannot go back home," he said.
"Some people have not received the relief materials they expected. You cannot satisfy everybody."
But, he said, his government's ability to act had been hampered by international aid agencies who are working independently of government structures.
He said much of the hundreds of millions of dollars being raised around the world for quake victims was being spent directly by organisations such as the United Nations and aid agencies.
The United Nations has appealed for $423m (£273m) to be able to provide up to two million survivors with basic relief such as tents or tarpaulin sheets, dry food rations, safe drinking water and toilets for the next three months.
The organisation's Financial Tracking System shows that $92.4m has been raised so far - only 22% of the required funds.
"The international community provided relief materials, the services and some goods but they didn't give money - they have their own institutions and agencies to deliver the services," said Dr Mahat.
"It would be better if it had come through the government - that way we would have equitably distributed the relief materials to all the people."
In the past, Nepal has been criticised by international donors for its poor governance and high-level of corruption. It ranks 126th out of 174 countries on the 2014 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index.
But international aid organisations, which have been working in Nepal for the past four decades, have also been criticised for wasting money on ineffectual projects.
As well as government and international relief efforts, much of the aid being provided in the earthquake-hit districts is coming from local volunteers who have banded together to provide food and help build shelters.
Joe Allen put the Reds in front as he guided in a Christian Benteke knock-down after Philippe Coutinho's cross.
Roberto Firmino added a second when he drove in a shot keeper Heurelho Gomes should probably have saved.
Watford's most promising chances fell to Odion Ighalo but he failed to capitalise, with his best effort seeing him shoot into the side-netting.
Relive Liverpool's win over Watford
Reds boss Jurgen Klopp made eight changes from the Europa League semi-final win over Villarreal on Thursday and, unlike in the defeat at Swansea after the first leg, his support cast showed their promise.
Midfielder Kevin Stewart, 22, impressed with his work-rate and 18-year-old Sheyi Ojo produced some neat touches on the right wing as he also played a part in the build-up to Firmino's goal.
Cameron Brannagan, 19, came on and provided a chance for Christian Benteke, who failed to make proper contact with his far-post header.
"I'm really pleased for the young lads," said Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp.
"In another situation you don't get these opportunities but we can give them. It's good for all of them."
Wasteful Watford
There are question marks over the future of Watford boss Quique Sanchez Flores and his side could have helped his cause had they taken some of their chances at Anfield.
Ighalo was the main culprit as he showed the lack of confidence of a striker without a league goal since 23 January.
The Hornets forward was twice well-placed in the first half but was dispossessed by Alberto Moreno and Martin Skrtel. When he did get in a shot after a neat bit of skill to sidestep Moreno, it was saved by keeper Simon Mignolet.
"In the first half, we created chances and didn't take them," said Watford midfielder Ben Watson. "We came out second half and gave it a real go, and were unlucky not to get anything out of the game.
"There's been loads of talk of late [about the manager]. All of the boys are behind the manager."
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: "We deserved to win. We scored nice goals at the right moment. Everything is OK."
Klopp has been in charge for 49 of Liverpool's 60 games this season and added: "Usually, where I come from, you need one and a half years to have 49 games."
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Watford boss Quique Sanchez Flores: "During the match we had chances. We were competitive but we need to remove the little mistakes."
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Both these side are in action on Wednesday, with Liverpool playing their last home game of the season when they host Chelsea (20:00 BST), while Watford visit relegation-battling Norwich (19:45 BST).
The order was imposed in June 2012 as violence flared between Buddhist and Muslim communities.
Dozens of people died and about 140,000 people, mainly from the Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority, were forced to flee their homes in the western state.
Most of them have been unable to return, forced to live in refugee camps and denied basic rights.
"According to the Rakhine State government, there is currently no threat of danger to people's lives," said an order published in state media. It means the military will no longer be providing day-to-day security in the area.
It comes as Thein Sein ends his five-year term as president. On Wednesday President-elect Htin Kyaw will be sworn in, after the National League for Democracy won a landslide victory in the November elections, ending decades of military-backed rule.
Rakhine: Myanmar's restive state
In 2012, the rape and murder of a Buddhist woman sparked violence. More than 200 people died.
Most of the Rohingya that were driven out because of the tensions now live in camps for internally displaced people with limited access to food, healthcare and education.
The Rohingya are denied full citizenship as they are seen as illegal migrants from neighbouring Bangladesh. Rising Buddhist nationalism in Myanmar has led to further discrimination.
The United Nations refers to them as a "persecuted religious and linguistic minority".
Last year, thousands of Rohingya were found stranded on boats in the Andaman Sea trying to leave Rakhine for Malaysia, bringing the world's attention to their marginalisation.
The win lifts the second-bottom side to within four points of their hosts with three games remaining as they compete to avoid a relegation play-off.
"My team are very proud of themselves and rightly so," said Clark.
"They have been terrific, but what we haven't got to do is get ahead of ourselves and get too excited."
Partick Thistle, who were thumped 4-1 at home by Inverness Caledonian Thistle, are also not safe from finishing second bottom and are Kilmarnock's visitors next weekend.
"We've won a game of football, we've won it very well," Clark told BBC Scotland.
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"Now we are focusing on Partick Thistle and have forgotten about Hamilton very quickly.
"We've got three more of our Champions League finals - that's what I keep calling them - and we've got to go again next weekend.
"I would love to still be in Hamilton's position - four points ahead of us - but we know, if we can look after our results from now until the end of the season, it gives ourselves a fighting chance to not be involved in the play-offs."
Greg Kiltie scored Kilmarnock's first two goals and Kris Boyd added the third from the penalty spot.
However, Clark picked out midfielder Craig Slater and former Josh Magennis, who scored the fourth goal, for special praise after their return to the side after illness and injury respectively.
"We went with an attacking formation, we were a little bit more offensive, but the players who played in those positions did a terrific job without the ball and the lads who came in were magnificent," said the Kilmarnock manager.
"Josh Magennis again shows you the threat he's got and Craig Slater I thought was really good. His work with and without the ball show that he is a top young prospect in Scottish football."
Hamiltonplayer-manager Martin Canning was left rueing what he believed was a mistake by officials for the opening goal, with his players claiming that Kiltie had run the ball out of play before scoring.
"It definitely had and it's really disappointing that the officials get that wrong because it's such a big decision and such a big game," he said.
"The first goal in this type of game is always going to be of massive importance.
"If they couldn't see it, they couldn't see it, that's part of football, but for me that's why they're there - to get big decisions right."
However, Canning accepted that his side's performance was not good enough as they sought a third straight victory that would have ensured that they avoided a play-off.
"Our use of the ball for a side that prides ourselves on getting it down and passing it was miles away from what I expect," he added.
"Our players knew the importance of the game, they were up for the game.
"They know they have let themselves down. It was an opportunity for us to guarantee our safety and they haven't taken it."
Others called the Mac "just a demo - not a real computer yet," Randy Wigginton, creator of the Mac's first word processor, tells the BBC.
"We didn't have all the software that the IBM PC had or even that the Apple II had," he says.
"It was slow. There were things that it didn't do well."
Back then, programmers also thought it absurd the Mac designers had abandoned the typical alpha-numeric interface in favour of a friendlier graphical one and a point-and-click mouse, making it too easy for users, recalls Leander Kahney, editor of The Cult of Mac news website.
"They thought it trivialised their profession," he adds.
The original model's 128 kilobytes of RAM (random access memory) also limited its use.
But three decades later, Macs are still here and selling briskly.
Over the weekend, more than 100 members of the original Mac team were reunited at the Flint Center in Cupertino, California, where Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs had first introduced the computer on 24 January 1984, to commemorate its 30th anniversary.
Below, in their own words, are excerpts from the pioneering software and hardware developers' recollections of creating the all-in-one computer.
The developers were asked if they had felt defensive about other PC-makers laughing at them for selling a "closed box".
Jerry Manock (industrial design lead):
Steve had an incredibly good answer to that. [When] the Apple II came out, third-party vendors could put boards in, you could use other monitors, etc.
Whenever there was a failure, or the customer had a problem, Apple Computer got the call.
It could have been [the fault of] any number of third party vendors. It could have been the monitor, the disk drive, whatever.
So, Steve made the decision: if we supply the display and the boards [and] everything is sealed up inside the box and it works when it leaves the factory, then we're willing to take the responsibility of answering the service calls.
Bill Atkinson (developer of MacPaint & MacDraw):
We were trying to make something that was user-friendly and that meant someone could walk up to it and figure out how to use it without using a manual.
Jerry Manock:
Jef Raskin's [original Mac project leader] idea was portability.
When Steve took the Mac project over, he had a vision that this computer was going to be sitting on a worker's desk.
He wanted it to [take] minimal space on the desk, so that was a pretty radical change.
George Crow (analogue circuit board engineer):
We knew if [Steve] just ground you down a few days you'd come up with an even better idea a few days later.
Bill Atkinson:
Steve wasn't really an engineer but he knew how to get the best out of people.
One time Larry Kenyon was working on the operating system, and Steve said: 'We need to make this thing faster, it's taking too long to start up. Now Larry, if it would save someone's life, could you make it 10 seconds faster?'
Larry said: "Yeah, probably I could."
Two days later, it was 30 seconds faster.
The team were asked what it was like having Microsoft write some of the application software, knowing that co-founder Bill Gates later remarked he had more people working on the original Mac's software than Apple did.
Randy Wittington (MacWrite developer):
If they had more people than us it doesn't speak very highly of the quality of the piece that they had.
Andy Hertzfeld (Mac operating system developer):
Microsoft wasn't what they became at that time. They were a small private company. Apple probably had 20 times the revenues of Microsoft when they started, but they were our close collaborators.
They were the first company we gave a Mac to. They really helped us.
We didn't have enough applications. We really only had MacPaint and MacWrite, [and] they were working on three applications.
The Mac's early development team envisioned selling the personal computer for $1,000 (£605), but later, after the cost of essential parts like Motorola's 68000 microprocessor were factored in, the price bumped upwards.
Andy Hertzfeld:
$1,495 that was our price for years and years and years.
Then... John Sculley [Apple's chief executive at the time] convinced us we have to charge $2,495 to pay for a big marketing campaign. That kind of broke my heart because that really is the difference of a kid being able to get their hands on one or not.
Caroline Rose (Documentation developer):
I remember the meeting where that price was announced. It was such sad day... We were all just really depressed.
Andy Hertzfeld:
Because we all thought we were making something for ourselves and the people we cared about. And that price, once it got up above $2,000, it could no longer be that.
Bill Atkinson:
It wasn't work. We were making art. Steve insisted that we sign our names on a piece of paper with a Sharpie [pen] and he engraved it on to the mould [inside of the case of the first production run] so all of our signatures would be on it. And the reason is: real artists sign their work and they're proud of it.
Rod Holt (co-developer Mac Finder):
This process of invention is very unusual... we were more than willing workers.
The peculiar thing was that [Jobs] didn't understand somebody would work day and night on a computer or any other project and not do it out of love.
But, see, we weren't doing it for money. I don't think anybody would have quit if Steve had come and said: "You guys don't get paid."
I think we would have still had a group and we still would have been working.
Bonatini, 23, scored 15 goals for Al Hilal last season after joining from Portuguese side Estoril, where he managed 24 goals in 53 appearances.
The former Brazil Under-17 forward previously played for Cruzeiro and also spent time on loan at Juventus.
"The Championship is a very good league and I am looking forward to the project here," Bonatini told the club website.
"It is a big club and is also famous in Brazil and I am very excited to play here."
Bonatini becomes new Wolves manager Nuno Espirito Santo's 11th signing ahead of the Championship season, which begins when they take on Middlesbrough on Saturday at Molineux.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
The 21-year-old world number 15 lost the first set and saved five break points to hold for 2-1 in the next before breaking to level the match.
Kyrgios, seeded six, claimed the key break in the 11th game of the deciding set against the fifth seed.
He completed victory in two hours.
Police were using tear gas and water cannon to try to quell street protests.
Mr Bongo secured a second seven-year term with 49.8% of the vote to Mr Ping's 48.2 %, a margin of 5,594 votes.
Mr Ping disputes the result. His camp has said figures from the president's stronghold showed a 99% turnout.
In 2009, Mr Bongo took over from his father, who came to power in 1967.
Witnesses said flames and smoke could been seen rising from the national assembly building in Gabon's capital, Libreville.
Security forces fired tear gas to disperse supporters of Mr Ping who were also trying to access the electoral commission (Cenap) headquarters.
Blanche Simonny, a Jean Ping supporter and member of the civil society group Ca Suffit Comme Ca (Enough is Enough), told BBC Focus on Africa that thousands of people had gathered at the opposition headquarters before starting the march to the commission.
She said smoke was billowing from burnt tyres left on the streets.
There was no independent statement from Cenap, after Interior Minister Pacome Moubelet-Boubeya announced the results.
Delegates representing the opposition on the commission walked out of the vote count and refused to sign papers validating Mr Bongo's victory, according to a BBC Afrique reporter in Libreville.
Before entering politics Mr Ping was a renowned career diplomat who served as the chairman of the African Union Commission.
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Captain Paul Paton headed the visitors ahead from an early corner and Billy McKay almost doubled United's lead shortly after half-time.
The striker did secure all three points from Ryan Dow's neat square ball.
Then the latter added a third after County's Paul Quinn hit the bar.
United seemed to start a little more positively and it was Paton who struck his second goal in two games.
A nice move down the left earned a corner which seemed well rehearsed as the midfielder manoeuvred superbly to meet the ball with a firm header.
United seemed to be profiting down the left and Scott Fraser produced a moment of excellence to skip by defenders all the way to the goal-line, only to see his cutback cleared. It was fabulous, incisive play.
County's best chances came from corners but a lack of fluency, with a bumpy pitch perhaps playing a role, was evident.
As half-time approached, the hosts seemed a little more purposeful going forward. Ian McShane delivered a great corner which Andrew Davies headed over. They were beginning to knock on the door, but not hard enough.
United came out for the second period intent on going further ahead and McKay tried an audacious lob right after half-time that had Scott Fox scampering but narrowly missed the target.
Paul Dixon then sent a lovely ball across the six-yard box which Fraser almost buried at the back post before Quinn eventually cleared.
Jim McIntyre introduced strikers Brian Graham and David Goodwillie in the hope of getting back into the match. But it didn't work.
A lovely move released United substitute Dow down the left and, when his ball across wasn't dealt with, McKay slotted in from close range, despite Fox's despairing dive.
Graham perhaps should have buried a close-range effort under pressure and County then were very unfortunate to see a scramble in the box result in the ball bouncing off the bar and away.
United capitalised on that bit of luck to seal the points when Dow showed real determination to nod home after a corner kick caused chaos in the box.
Michael Gardyne hit the inside of a post as even a consolation eluded County.
The Dingwall side have occupied the top six for a long time this season but this was a significant dent in their hopes of staying there.
It was a truly wonderful afternoon for United fans who were delirious and perhaps, for the first time in a long time, believed their side can escape the drop.
His Twitter handle is @POTUS (President Of The United States) and within few hours he had attracted over a million followers.
"Hello, Twitter! It's Barack. Really! Six years in, they're finally giving me my own account" is his first tweet.
The president's official feed, run by Organizing for Action staff, has 59.3m followers.
The account @BarackObama was launched in 2007, and the president initials tweets he writes himself with the letters BO.
"The @POTUS Twitter account will serve as a new way for President Obama to engage directly with the American people, with tweets coming exclusively from him," reads an entry on the White House website blog.
"President Obama is committed to making his Administration the most open and participatory in history, and @POTUS will give Americans a new venue to engage on the issues that matter most to them."
President Obama is currently following 65 people, including Bill Clinton, George Bush and @FLOTUS, the First Lady's account - but not Hillary Clinton or UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
Former Pope Benedict XVI attracted nearly 280,000 followers to his English Twitter account on its first day when he launched it in December 2012.
The account is now run by Pope Francis and has 6.1m followers. It follows eight other accounts, which all belong to the Pope and tweet in different languages.
Winger Burke, 19, has joined German side RB Leipzig for a fee in the region of £13m.
The move, which makes Burke the most expensive Scottish player ever, has angered some Forest fans.
"This money will be used and reinvested back into the squad," Al-Hasawi wrote on Twitter.
Al-Hasawi also pointed out that Forest previously bought Michail Antonio, who is now at West Ham and has been called up by England, and Britt Assombalonga after selling Jamaal Lascelles and Karl Darlow to Newcastle.
Burke, who had been linked with several clubs, signed a five-year contract with Leipzig.
He scored for Forest in the 3-1 victory over Leeds United on Saturday - his fourth goal of the season.
Leipzig sporting director Ralf Rangnick told his club's website: "He is an outstanding talent with an awful lot of potential.
"He fits with the high pace and way of playing very well and will make his next sporting development step with us.
"This transfer is important, especially because several top clubs were interested."
Rescuers have dug for days in the village of Cambray near the capital, but say some of the homes they have reached are filled with water.
Tons of rain-sodden soil slid off a mountain on Thursday, burying houses.
Bulldozers were used to speed up the work but no survivor had been found over the weekend.
Rescuer reported that the smell of rotting bodies was spreading across the mound of earth that had buried the village.
About 30 people have been rescued. Burials began to take place of those brought out of the disaster zone over the weekend.
Alejandro Maldonado, the head of the Guatemalan disaster agency told the BBC the communities had been told the area was high risk and should have been removed by the local authorities,
" We have here a very steep hillside of over 35% inclination which is very high risk for the community and should have been avoided. "
"Other factors are the river that runs at the base is eroding the support for the hill, it is very sandy material and we also have several illegal sewage discharges which weakened further the hillside causing collapse."
The rescue authorities said they were following international protocols which recommended 72 hours of search and rescue.
That period ended on Sunday night but spokesmen said their teams were prepared to continue to try to find the victims of the landslide.
Pope Francis and the presidents of Mexico and Spain have sent their condolences to the families of the missing.
Although Guatemala has had larger landslides, they have been in rural areas with far fewer victims.
The government established an emergency zone along about 100 km (60 miles of coast) and had asked people to avoid swimming and fishing.
The ship had been carrying almost 200 tonnes of ammonium nitrate used in fertilizers and explosives.
But a spokesman later said only small traces had been found in the water.
Costa Rica's Emergency Commission said bathing was considered safe but fishing would be banned for a further 72 hours.
Reinaldo Carballo said the emergency alert had been considered preventive "because of the potential impact ammonium nitrate could have on human health".
He said they hoped the chemical, which is highly soluble, had dissolved and been taken out to sea on the tide.
Government officials said an enquiry into who was responsible for the ship sinking and the spillage would begin as soon as possible.
Costa Rica has the largest number of foreign tourists in Central America and is a popular destination for nature and eco-tourism because of its pristine beaches, tropical forests and large nature reserves and parks.
Nick Hardwick, chief inspector of prisons, said abuse of psychoactive substances had turned them into the top jail security problem.
Mr Hardwick said emergency calls for prisoners with fits and blackouts had "depleted" local ambulance services.
The Prison Service said it took a "zero tolerance" approach to drugs in prison.
While some substances remain technically legal, all forms of synthetic cannabis, often known as spice or mamba, are banned in prisons.
Legislation currently going through Parliament will create a blanket ban on all new psychoactive substances (NPS) and their successors.
But Mr Hardwick said NPS use was now so rampant that emergency calls to deal with fits and blackouts were leaving local ambulance resources "depleted" - and in at least one jail they were dubbed "mambulances".
One incident at HMP Wealstun, near Wetherby, West Yorkshire, led to all available ambulances being sent because of the number of inmates needing treatment.
"There wasn't the resilience," said Mr Hardwick. "If there had been something happening in the community, they weren't there to deal with that because they were in the prison. It is a big issue."
Sophisticated smuggling operations included occasions when Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs had been used to secrete the drugs inside a carrier's body. Gangs used large catapults to fire packages over jail walls - and the latest technique was package-carrying drones.
Some offenders deliberately breached their release conditions so they could return to jail carrying a new batch of NPS products inside their bodies.
Mr Hardwick said the report team's review of evidence from 61 prison inspections plus a survey of nearly 11,000 prisoners led to them conclude that the drugs were now the most serious threat to safety and security.
"The risks involved in supply are low and large profits can be made," he said. "Distribution... may be linked to organised crime."
The report said that they had heard credible accounts of prisons being used as "spice pigs" to test newly arriving batches and debts were being enforced against friends and family.
"We think we need ministers to actually lead a process of keeping patterns of drug use under review and making sure there's an adequate response," said Mr Hardwick.
"Otherwise we think there is a danger that complacency will creep into the system."
A Prison Service spokeswoman said: "We take a zero-tolerance approach to drugs in prison and there are already a range of robust measures in place to detect drugs, including the use of sniffer dogs, searches of cells and mandatory drugs tests.
"We recently introduced tough new laws which will see those who smuggle packages over prison walls, including drugs, face up to two years in prison.
"Those who involve themselves in the distribution of drugs in our prisons should know that they will face prosecution and extra time behind bars."
The review led by NHS England medical director Sir Bruce Keogh looked at whether the figures were being caused by failings beyond those that have already been identified by regulators. Eleven of the trusts under investigation have been placed on special measures.
Here is a breakdown of what has been said about each.
Criticised for having seven "never events" in three years. These are serious, largely preventable patient safety incidents, such as leaving behind swabs or surgical instruments in patients, that should not occur if the available preventative measures have been implemented.
Also criticised for its infection control measures and staffing levels.
Sir Bruce's report says the Trust's historical culture has been focused on financial targets and the tone from the top now needs to focus on improving quality and long term sustainability.
Shortcomings include nursing staff failures in dealing with patients nutritional and medication needs.
Complaints from families about how patients with dementia were treated.
The report highlighted a concern over staffing levels of senior grades, in particular out of hours.
The Trust has recently undergone significant change, most notably the consolidation of the A&E department from Wycombe to the Stoke Mandeville site and the creation of three large organisational divisions from the original six. The review said the Trust need to "provide assurance" on the impact of this.
Concerns about safety as staff were found to be working for 12 days in a row with no break.
Allegations that death certificates were not being completed in line with the Trust's procedures.
Examples of poor communication with patients and staff, particularly junior doctors, many of whom felt unsupported
Criticised for poor governance, inadequate staffing levels at weekends and for staff "talking down" to patients and their families when they voiced concerns.
Sir Bruce's report said the Trust's complaints process was "poor and lacking a compassionate approach".
The panel identified a high level of still born babies in March 2013 but this had not been escalated to the Board or investigated. The Trust is now investigating this and is setting clearer procedures for triggering escalation.
Criticised for its out of hours care and for its poor track record on bed sores.
The panel also noted that patients were often shifted from ward to ward - multiple bed moves were not uncommon during a patient stay.
Criticised for poor communication with patients, poor management of deteriorating patients, inappropriate referrals, delayed discharges and long waits in A&E.
Criticised for poor maintenance of two of its operating theatres which were closed immediately.
Criticised for inadequate staffing levels and over-reliance on locum cover in some areas of the Trust.
Criticised for its out of hours stroke services at Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital.
The Trust's provision of patient dignity was also questioned - the review panel witnessed a patient who was inappropriately exposed where there were both male and female patients present.
Significant concerns around staffing levels at both King's Mill Hospital and Newark Hospital and around the nursing skill mix, with trained to untrained nurse ratios considered low, at 50:50 on the general wards.
Poor attention paid to oral hygiene.
Patient dissatisfaction. Feedback from patients treated by the trust revealed many were left unaware who was caring for them. And bedside buzzers often went unanswered.
Panel found a general culture of accepting suboptimal care.
Patients treated by the Trust reported being left on unmonitored trolleys for excessive periods of time.
Concerns about infection control policies.
Criticised for having 12 "never events" in three years and for its "Do Not Attempt Resuscitation" paperwork (which the Trust has since rectified).
Not placed on special measures.
Not placed on special measures.
Not placed on special measures.
Karla Homolka served a 12-year sentence for the rape and murder of two schoolgirls in a case that horrified the country.
It emerged this week that she was helping out at her children's private school in Montreal.
Homolka, 47, was freed from a maximum security prison in Quebec in 2005.
CityNews reported this week that she had been helping supervise kindergarten students at Greaves Adventist Academy.
The Christian school has received a flood of complaints from parents and the public.
Homolka and her ex-husband, Paul Bernardo, killed Ontario schoolgirls Kristen French, 15, and Leslie Mahaffy, 14, in the early 1990s.
Homolka also played a part in the 1990 rape and murder of her 15-year-old sister Tammy.
But she was given a relatively light sentence in 1993 after agreeing to testify against Bernardo.
He received a life sentence for murder, kidnapping, forcible confinement and aggravated sexual assault, and remains in jail in Ontario.
After her release from prison, Homolka married her lawyer's brother and they have three children together.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church, which runs the Montreal school, announced on Thursday it had changed its policy on volunteers to exclude anyone with a criminal record.
"We have heard and listened to the concerns of parents and members of the community uncomfortable with recent reports in the media," the church said in a statement.
Earlier in the week, a spokesman for the church said they had been aware of Homolka's crimes.
A centre-left political leader, Thomas Mulcair of the New Democrats, was lambasted in the press for even daring to raise the question of whether Homolka deserved forgiveness.
Relatives of the victims do not believe she has paid her debt to society.
Tim Danson, a lawyer for the French and Mahaffy families, said on Friday that Homolka has not shown a "scintilla of remorse or contrition".
He said the school had neglected its responsibility to inform parents of her presence.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church operates 43 schools in Canada with 4,362 students in Canada.
Eastmond will be out for six months after having surgery on the injury, which he suffered in the first half of the win over Gloucester on 26 February.
The 27-year-old made 16 appearances for Premiership leaders Wasps this season, scoring two tries.
"Kyle will be a big loss for us as we go into this last part of the season," director of rugby Dai Young said.
"It's obviously really disappointing for Kyle that he will miss the rest of the season, and I really feel for him because it came at a time when he was really starting to find his feet in this side and get a good run of games."
Cornwall Council granted permission in February but the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company (IoS) has been given the go-ahead for a judicial review.
IoS said any helicopter service to Scilly would be better based out of its airport at Land's End.
Penzance Heliport, the company behind the scheme, said it was disappointed by the decision.
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Tourism bosses say trade on the Isles of Scilly has suffered since the old helicopter service ended in 2012.
Since then, the link has been covered by a seasonal ferry and fixed wing planes, operated by IoS.
It said it supported the return of a helicopter service but believed Land's End Airport would be a better location, and was calling for an independent and evidence-based debate about the potential impact of a new heliport.
Penzance Heliport said: "We remain disappointed that the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company has taken this move, but are absolutely convinced that Cornwall Council's decision was the right one and that this will be reflected in the outcome of the case."
Andrew May, chairman of IoS said: "The judge's decision to grant leave to pursue a judicial review is recognition that the original planning decision is worthy of further scrutiny."
Cornwall Council said it would "now be considering what action to take in the light of the decision to grant permission for the judicial review to proceed".
A petition started by an islander calling on the company to stop its action against the heliport has gained more than 7,000 signatures.
The 6.5-magnitude quake struck in the sparsely-populated north of Sichuan, the US Geological Survey said.
Some reports suggest the death toll could be much higher. The epicentre was close to an area popular with tourists.
Sichuan province is prone to earthquakes. More than 70,000 people were killed in a quake in 2008.
The quake struck at around 21:20 (13:20 GMT) some 300km (180 miles) north of the provincial capital Chengdu, and was 10km deep.
Photos showed damage to buildings, including a hotel, in Jiuzhaigou, home to one of China's most famous nature reserves and a Unesco World Heritage site.
A restaurant owner in the town said this quake felt stronger than the 2008 tremor, though there is no suggestion yet that the death toll could reach anywhere near the levels caused by that disaster.
Tang Sesheng told the AFP news agency that many people had fled buildings in Jiuzhaigou county - which includes a national park - and were taking refuge in the main square.
"People didn't dare grab anything like money or clothes - we just all ran outside right away," she said.
Gwendolyn Pang of the Red Cross Society of China said it would take time to learn the extent of the damage and number of casualties.
"Communications lines and electricity are disrupted and people are no doubt shocked and scared," she said.
China's National Commission for Disaster Reduction, quoted by AFP news agency, said as many as 100 people may have been killed and 130,000 homes damaged.
Some reports in the Chinese media said tourists were among the dead and injured.
President Xi Jinping called for "all-out efforts to rapidly organise relief work and rescue the injured people", state news agency Xinhua reports, and fire officers and soldiers were being deployed from nearby areas.
Shaking was felt in Chengdu and in Xian, home to the Terracotta Warriors, some 700km (430 miles) away.
12 September 2015 Last updated at 12:59 BST
He's now in charge of the second largest party in parliament.
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When students from Wolfreton School in Hull set out on their school trip to France, none would have thought their classmate Jessica Lawson would not be returning with them.
The 12-year-old, who died while swimming in a lake, is the latest child to die while on a school trip - but such tragedies are rare.
On average, one child a year dies while on a school trip in the UK according to figures from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.
"That is still one too many," says Steve Lenartowicz, chairman of the Outdoor Education Advisers Panel, "but there are 114 who die in road transport accidents, 24 die in fires, and we've got to balance the benefits against the risks."
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Lenartowicz said school trips were fundamentally good for children.
"There are so many benefits to young people getting involved in sporting activities in outdoor education.
"Health benefits, benefits to developing their confidence and character and so on and, while obviously one accident is too many, we really need to make sure we understand those benefits as well as the risks."
British school trip tragedies
School excursions are a long established part of a child's education, an exciting chance to get out of the classroom and try something new.
And while legislation is in place to ensure proper risk assessments are done and reduce the chance of harm befalling children, no enterprise is entirely risk free.
John Kileen, from the National Association of Head Teachers, told BBC Radio Humberside: "It's something that you hope will never happen, you hope that the plans you put in place will protect the young people but, as all parents know, accidents happen.
"Obviously, we do not know the full details but sadly each year, even on family holidays, these tragic events happen."
Mr Kileen said extensive assessments were carried out before a trip takes place.
"The schools do not undertake this lightly."
It is "inevitable" some schools will now shy away from such trips, but that would be a mistake, Mr Kileen added.
He said tens of thousands of children go on trips each year.
"These activities create sometimes once-in-a-lifetime and sometimes quite life-changing opportunities for young people.
"When a tragic event like this happens each and every school, head teacher and teacher rethinks why they are doing this because this is not part of their contractual duties.
"They do it because they want to develop the whole child and in some cases this might be the only opportunity for these young people to take part in that sort of activity or go and visit that sort of place.
"But, each time these accidents happen - and you can imagine how people at Wolfreton School are feeling now - they will think 'Is it worth it? Dare we?' and you would understand if the schools and teachers withdrew from that.
"Sadly, in previous tragic events schools have rethought and some schools have withdrawn from taking part in these, but that would be a retrograde step as far as I am concerned."
Energy company E.On said it had further consultation work to carry out on the proposed Rampion project before resubmitting the development consent order.
It wants to build 195 turbines off the Sussex coast.
E.On said it hoped to resubmit the application in February and remained "completely committed" to the project.
A spokeswoman said: "We have identified some areas that we need to add to the application.
"We want the application to be complete before the Planning Inspectorate decides whether to accept it and the only way to do this is to withdraw it and resubmit again as soon as we are ready.
"We remain completely committed to the project, but wish to take extra time now to maintain our comprehensive approach to consultation."
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Mr Zhou and a Communist party committee spent three years developing the Pinyin system in the 1950s.
It changed the way the language was taught and helped raise literacy rates.
Mr Zhou, who was born in 1906 during the Qing Dynasty, later became a fierce critic of China's communist rulers.
He died in Beijing on Saturday a day after his birthday, Chinese media reported.
As a young man Mr Zhou spent time in the US and worked as a Wall Street banker.
He returned to China after the communist victory in 1949 and was put in charge of creating a new writing system using the Roman alphabet.
"We spent three years developing Pinyin. People made fun of us, joking that it had taken us a long time to deal with just 26 letters," he told the BBC in 2012.
Before Pinyin was developed, 85% of Chinese people could not read, now almost all can.
Pinyin has since become the most commonly used system globally, although some Chinese communities - particularly in Hong Kong and Taiwan - continue to use alternatives.
It is also widely used to type Chinese characters on computers and smartphones, leading some to fear it could end up replacing Chinese characters altogether.
The achievement protected Mr Zhou from some of the persecution that took place under former leader Mao Zedong.
However, he was later sent to the countryside for re-education during Mao's Cultural Revolution.
In his later years he became strongly critical of the Chinese authorities and wrote a number of books, most of which were banned.
In a 2011 interview with NPR he said he hoped he would live long enough to see the Chinese authorities admit that the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989 had been a mistake.
He said ordinary people no longer believed in the Communist Party, and that the vast majority of Chinese intellectuals were in favour of democracy.
The British Ironworks Centre was sealed off after the explosive was discovered at the bottom of a pile of metal.
Bedfordshire Police said a centre worker had picked up knives which had been placed in an amnesty bin.
The weapons had been collected by forces nationwide to help the centre create a "knife angel" sculpture.
The attraction in Oswestry, Shropshire, was evacuated on Thursday after the explosive Gelamex was discovered and a controlled explosion was carried out by the Ministry of Defence.
A statement from Bedfordshire Police said: "We are aware of reports that suspected explosives were found in amongst a large amount of knives that had been donated to the Ironworks Centre.
"Bedfordshire Police was one of the locations visited by a representative from the Ironworks Centre on Tuesday to collect the knives that had been placed in the knife bins following a recent knife surrender.
"We were alerted by the centre that suspected explosives had been found and we are looking into whether they originated from us."
The centre, which is also home to the Shropshire Sculpture Park, had asked police forces across the UK to send weapons to them to form part of the sculpture, which will be 20ft (6m) high when complete.
Tens of thousands of knives have been donated already, with 100,000 needed to finish it.
The centre was open as normal on Friday.
But now a source close to the player now says he "doesn't want to stay in Spain" because he is "upset" after being accused of tax fraud in the country.
Ronaldo, 32, joined Madrid from Manchester United for a then world-record £80m in 2009.
The Portugal legend has scored a club-record 406 goals in his 394 appearances for Real.
Only two weeks ago, he helped Zinedine Zidane's side win a 12th European Cup with two goals in a 4-1 victory over Juventus in the Champions League final in Cardiff.
Will that turn out to be his last appearance for Los Merengues? Where could he go? And what would Madrid do without him?
Ramon Calderon, Real Madrid president between 2006-2009, speaking to BBC Radio 5 live
Maybe he's just upset. Maybe it is something he said in a moment when he's really angry. We don't know yet. He's been happy here, he helped us to win three Champions Leagues over the past four years, so I hope he will stay.
But, if he's made his mind up, I don't think it's going to be easy to change. He's very strong-minded and clear in what he wants. If he leaves I don't see him in a place like China or the Middle East. He will be always playing for a big club and trying to get more titles and more personal awards.
He's a fighter and he's in good shape. He can play again for the best club and I think that club now is Real Madrid. I can't tell you what he's doing but I hope he will stay, I'm sure he'll stay.
Richard Martin, sports correspondent in Spain for Reuters
This is not the first time Cristiano Ronaldo has sought to demonstrate his power at Real Madrid by flirting with leaving. In 2012 he used a pitch-side interview to declare "I'm sad and the club know why," provoking panic among fans and at boardroom level.
This latest move, using a newspaper from his own country to declare his discontent, feels remarkably similar. It should also be noted that sources close to Ronaldo called the offices of all Spanish newspapers last night to inform them of the impending front cover story in A Bola.
This latest power struggle is likely to have the same outcome as the last: the offer of an improved contract to legislate for the damage caused by the tax scandal. There is also more than a whiff of deflecting attention from his wrongdoing to a soap opera of where his future lies, emphatically shifting the agenda.
Although he is their all-time top scorer, Ronaldo does not feel undying loyalty to Madrid and has repeatedly aired his grievances at being occasionally booed by supporters.
Even so, the four-time world player of the year believes he still has plenty to give at his 32 years and he knows there is no better club for him than the European and Spanish champions, which is why, in reality, he is going nowhere.
Pete Jenson, Madrid-based football writer
Ronaldo's intention of leaving Real Madrid may well come to nothing, but if he does not back down and looks to force his way out of the club, Madrid will not stand in his way providing they find a club prepared to make it worth their while.
The reaction in Madrid on Friday was one of calm acceptance. The player has indicated a desire to leave before, most notably in 2012 when he complained of not being supported by the club's directors.
The question will be: who buys him? His 1bn euro (£874.88m) buyout clause is beyond everyone's reach but Madrid would probably accept closer to 150m euros (£131m) and immediately look to reinvest it in 18-year-old Monaco forward Kylian Mbappe.
His former club Manchester United would be the romantics' choice to take him but Paris St-Germain are perhaps more likely suitors.
They have long been admirers and their president Nasser Al-Khelaifi is a friend of the Portugal international. Ronaldo would fill the hole left 12 months ago by Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Rob Wilson, football finance expert and lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University
Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Bayern Munich and Juventus would have the financial resources to put together a competitive offer within the realms of Financial Fair Play rules.
The other side of the question would be whether they would want to commit so much on one player.
It would be interesting to see what kind of fee Madrid would demand. I would estimate something in the region of £100-120m. To put that into a wider context, that's like a Premier League club spending the entirety of its TV deal money on one player. Plus of course, there's the wages on top of that.
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Another point to bear in mind is that this would not be a 'Galactico' move, where the value of commercial endorsements and merchandise sales would help a club recoup money spent on the transfer fee.
Ronaldo comes surrounded by a group of very well-informed advisors, who already have all various commercial deals in place. For a potential buyer like Manchester United, they might look to leverage something from the story of his return to the club, somehow make that commercially attractive, but we are scratching around on the margins really.
Where you can start to make leverage on players is when they are younger - which is why a player like 18-year-old Monaco striker Kylian Mbappe would be a far more attractive proposition. A buying club knows they can make an awful lot back.
BBC Sport's Simon Stone
Manchester United and all of their fans would love to have Ronaldo back. He made 292 appearances in his time at the club, scoring 118 goals. Wayne Rooney has played double the number of games and scored double the number of goals, but he is held in nowhere near as high esteem.
The fans still sing Ronaldo's name, and all the talk on social media today has been encouraging United chief executive Ed Woodward to get him back.
The problem for United is that they have been down this road before. They have thought they could get players from Madrid in the past, notably defender Sergio Ramos in 2015, who ended up signing a new deal with the Spanish club.
United will be surveying the situation, keeping their head down. They won't be telling anyone that yes, they want to sign Ronaldo, but if they got the chance they would be straight in there.
The word is that he and Jose Mourinho fell out when the latter was in charge of Madrid, but if you were to ask United fans to choose between the two, they would say Ronaldo.
It would be up to Jose to make it work, because I don't think many United fans would understand if they did not take the chance to sign him - if the option was there.
Ronaldo is only one of four players in the club's history to have won the Ballon d'Or while still a United player. The other three - George Best, Dennis Law and Bobby Charlton - have a statue outside the stadium.
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Eduardo Alvarez, Madrid-based football writer speaking to BBC World Service Sport
The reaction among Madrid fans has been one of shock and frustration after a fantastic end to the season. If the Spanish taxman wants him to pay his taxes and he feels mistreated there is not a lot the club can do. You cannot replace 50 goals a season for the past nine seasons. It would be huge if he left Madrid.
It just seems the wrong moment to do this, especially to say it through a Portuguese paper. But it is obvious he feels unfairly treated. He can voice his concerns but the reaction of many supporters is that he should talk to the club instead of talking to the press.
It is unbelievable, most Madrid fans felt like they had a good five years of success ahead of them. The fact that the top scorer seems to be leaving suddenly, out of nowhere, no-one will have expected that.
Rhondda Labour MP Chris Bryant, doyen of parliamentary historians, think so.
As part of the BBC's "Democracy Day" I appeared alongside Mr Bryant on a two-hour programme looking at democracy within and beyond the UK.
My role was to summarise developments in Welsh governance through the ages. I mentioned Owain Glyndwr in passing.
Chris Bryant took the earliest opportunity to correct me: "David Cornock said that Owain Glyndwr held a parliament. He didn't. That is complete myth.
"The only person who ever referred to it anywhere near contemporaneously was Geoffrey of Monmouth and he said he pretended to hold a parliament. Actually, if he gathered anybody he gathered a few barons."
Compared to James Blunt, I got off lightly, but then I did go to a comprehensive school.
The Geoffrey of Monmouth reference may though have come as a surprise to some people, not least because Geoffrey of Monmouth lived three centuries before Glyndwr's day.
A contrite Mr Bryant later realised he had got things wrong and gracefully corrected his own mistake on twitter.
"An apology. I corrected @davidcornock but I was wrong. It wasn't Geoffrey of Monmouth but Adam of Usk who wrote about Owain Glyndwr."
Aside from the reference to Geoffrey of Monmouth, was Chris Bryant right? Was the Glyndwr parliament a myth? Is the Owain Glyndwr industry under threat? Let me know what you think.
You can watch the programme again on BBC Parliament tomorrow at 8pm. If you can't wait until then, why not watch on the BBC iplayer here?
Inside the wood-panelled sanctuary of a small, North Philadelphia church, a group of men - and one woman - are busily folding handouts and talking strategy.
"I'm gonna be the one they attack," says Bruce Carter, gesturing to his T-shirt which says TRUMP in large red lettering. "They're comin' for me."
Calvin Tucker, a tall, nattily dressed Trump surrogate in a coat, tie and Make America Great Again cap, acts the moment.
"'Wow - you're supporting Trump?' … 'Man, what are you doing?'" he says, then answers himself: "Hey - we gotta try something different."
Parked just outside of First Immanuel Baptist Church in North Philadelphia is a line of vans and SUVs wrapped in various slogans, like "Black Republicans for Urban Communities", and "Famous Black Republicans" over photos of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman.
Then there's the lead van, plastered with pictures of the billionaire candidate's face.
"TRUMP for Urban Communities," it proclaims.
In neighbourhoods that vote overwhelmingly Democratic, in a city that hasn't had a Republican mayor since 1952, the vehicles are sure to draw plenty of attention, especially since there are pockets of these predominantly African American communities where Mitt Romney did not receive a single vote in 2012.
"It's real simple," says Carter, the founder of Trump for Urban Communities. "Your district has some of the deepest poverty in America and you've only voted for the Democrat. So it's reasonable for you to try something different."
This has been Trump's pitch to black voters as well: "You're living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58% of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?" He's called the inner cities of America war zones, and blamed Democrats - who often hold local power - for the cities' decline.
Trump's 58% youth unemployment figure is inflated and critics says his characterisation of black life in America as "hell" is out of touch with reality. But the predominantly African-American neighbourhoods in North Philadelphia do have the highest rates of violent crime in the city. The streets are lined with empty homes and businesses. A 2012 estimate for unemployment among high school drop outs in the area came close to Trump's figure: 50%.
While the message has not resonated with most black voters - various polling around the country shows Trump's African-American support somewhere between 0% and 4% - Tucker heard it loud and clear. A lifelong Republican, Tucker was Trump's lone black delegate at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.
As a loan officer and financial services contractor, Tucker loves what he sees as Trump's business acumen.
Back in September, Tucker moderated a panel discussion with Trump and black Philadelphian business owners as anti-Trump protesters demonstrated outside. At the time, Tucker thanked Trump for "being brave enough to come" to the neighbourhood.
"Typically, Republicans don't travel in the heart of the underserved communities and talk about issues," he says. "He's also talked about the solution, and the solutions are jobs and employment and opportunity and entrepreneurship - those are the kinds of things that our community needs to eradicate poverty and unemployment and reduce crime."
Ten minutes further north, the head of the Philadelphia GOP is leading a poll-watching training in the dim offices of an anti-violence non-profit called the Urban Crisis Response Center, which also houses a headquarters for the Trump campaign.
"I don't think we could have opened a Romney office [here]," says Joe DeFelice, Philadelphia's Republican Party chairman. He says black voters don't identify Trump as a Republican so much as his own brand of politician.
"Do I think he's going to win this neighbourhood we're standing in? No, I'm not naïve. I get it. Do I think he's going to do a hell of a lot better than Romney did? One-hundred percent."
Daphne Goggins, a North Philadelphia native and lifelong Republican, is in a bright orange "Hillary for Prison" T-shirt, handing out poll-watching packets The tiny former barbershop is filled with both the politically engaged as well as people with no love for Trump, just eager for the $100 pay.
"Donald Trump is already creating jobs in the black community," she points out.
Goggins resents the way that Democrats in Philadelphia have always been able to rely on the black vote, despite the fact she says most people she talks to don't even know why they vote the way they do. She is a social conservative - pro-life and against gay marriage - and wants lower taxes. Many black Democrats she speaks to agree with her.
"You're a Republican," she informs them.
"We have a violence problem - the Democrats [have done] nothing to really address these murders," she says. "There's no legislation, there should be a curfew, something - we're losing our babies just like in Chicago.
"Black children are just doomed to die and that's OK with America."
Back outside the church, the Trump for Urban Communities group doesn't even make it into their vehicles before the fireworks begin.
"You've got to be kidding me," one woman snarls, brushing past the men and refusing to talk.
"Trump is evil, Trump do not care about us," a young woman in a denim jacket calls out. "He is ignorant!"
Two women in a passing car flip the Trump van off, then drive away as Carter knocks on the windows calling, "Sister! Sister!"
In a nail salon with a Clinton-Kaine sign in the window, the group finds a captive audience - women with their hands under heat lamps.
"Dallas, where I'm from, we're number two in poverty in the black community - it looks similar to this," Carter tells the sceptical salon customers. "I know he understands economic development and I know he understands business - that's why I support him."
"Where were you guys the rest of the year?" a young woman with her feet in a bubbling bath chimes in.
Tucker turns to her.
"This is hard work getting folks to listen to a different philosophy," he says. "You've heard all this Hillary Clinton stuff - what are they going to do for your community? That's why we gotta bring young people like you into this process, that think differently, that's going to ask the hard questions."
Carter pays for one of the women's manicures and they leave, to a chorus of anti-Trump shouts from a man across the street. Standing outside, Tucker says he knows no one in the shop will likely vote any differently.
"I'm not necessarily here to convert, I'm just here to educate," he says. "When you are 95% in one party, Democrats take you for granted. When you're 2% Republican, they say, 'You don't make a difference, therefore why should we provide opportunities for your community?'
In front of the Trump van, Carter looks around at the blighted buildings, the mattresses and smashed TV sets laying in a vacant lot - he catches a whiff of what smells like raw sewage seeping out of an abandoned building.
"There's no way you can walk through these communities and not get mad," he says. "Yes, the Republican party has failed the black community because they have given up on them. But Democrats - they failed them far worse. The blacks belong to them, but they get nothing for it. It's political slavery."
Its investigation uncovered dozens of fake accounts on the social network, across a variety of industries.
Posing as recruiters, the fake accounts allow hackers to map the networks of business professionals and gain the trust of those in them.
The security firm has worked with LinkedIn to remove all of the fake accounts it identified.
By making these connections, criminals can entice users to give up personal details, direct them to malware-laden websites and, if they can get their email addresses, launch spear-phishing campaigns - targeted emails that aim to steal personal information.
"LinkedIn users expect to be contacted by recruiters, so this ruse works out in the scammers' favour," it said in its report.
"Most of these fake accounts have been quite successful in gaining a significant network - one had 500 contacts. Some even managed to get endorsements from others," Symantec researcher Dick O'Brien told the BBC.
In response LinkedIn said: "We investigate suspected violations of our Terms of Service, including the creation of false profiles, and take immediate action when violations are uncovered.
We have a number of measures in place to confirm authenticity of profiles and remove those that are fake. We encourage members to utilise our Help Center to report inaccurate profiles and specific profile content to LinkedIn."
The researchers found that the fake profiles tended to be made up of text that had been copied and pasted from the profiles of real professionals. They used photos, often of women, pulled either from stock image sites or of real professionals.
They also used keywords such as "reservoir engineer", "exploration manager" and "cargo securement training" which are likely to gain them visibility via the site's built-in search engine.
Many of the terms related to the logistics, information security and oil and gas industries, Symantec said.
Mr O'Brien had some tips for LinkedIn users worried that they might have befriended a hacker.
"You can do a reverse image search by dragging and dropping the profile picture into Google Images and see what it brings up.
"Copying and pasting the job information in Google can also reveal whether it has been taken from somewhere else."
Twitter and Facebook also have problems with fake accounts but LinkedIn seems to be particularly attractive to hackers, said Mr O'Brien.
"It reveals the greater sophistication of cyber-criminals that they are prepared to play the long game by gaining information for future attacks in this way," he said.
It is not the first time that researchers have pointed out the dangers of fake LinkedIn profiles.
In October, researchers from Dell's counter-threat unit identified a network of at least 25 fake profiles that had links to over 200 legitimate ones, belonging to people working in defence, telecommunications, government and utilities.
The fake accounts were linked back to an Iran-based hacker group.
A drop of gin was once advised to ward off the plague, a glug of wine to "defend the body from corruption" and a sip of absinthe to cure the body of roundworms.
Of course all this has changed.
As our understanding of the harms of alcohol on society and the individual has grown, it has given up its place on prescription pads - instead to be superseded by advice to refrain from all but cautious use.
An exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians in London traces its use and sometimes fatal misuse by medical men and women of the past, up to the calls for greater regulation today.
One of the earliest records in the many leather-bound books on display is a translation of the work of Roger Bacon, a 13th Century English philosopher and writer on alchemy and medicine.
According to the translation (published in 1683) Bacon suggests wine could: "Preserve the stomach, strengthen the natural heat, help digestion, defend the body from corruption, concoct the food till it be turned into very blood."
But he also recognises the dangers of consuming ethanol in excess: "If it be over-much guzzles, it will on the contrary do a great deal of harm: For it will darken the understanding, ill-affect the brain... beget shaking of the limbs and bleareyedness."
Wine-based concoctions also make frequent appearances in the handwritten domestic cookery books of the 16th to 18th Centuries, sitting alongside tips on general food preparation.
One recipe for the discerning 17th Century householder recommends an "excellent drink against the plague". Its ingredients include rue, sage and two pints of wine - much more than the UK's daily recommended limits today.
Caroline Fisher, curator of the exhibition says: "While wine has its place in history as more of a fortifying tonic, spirits were seen in a different light.
"While considered as therapies in their own right, they also served as carriers and preservatives for substances that would be otherwise difficult to bottle and sell."
Absinthe, for example, distilled from herbs such as wormwood, has been documented for use against roundworms and other intestinal parasites for many years.
But according to Dr James Nicholls, of Alcohol Research UK, by the 18th Century spirits such as gin were considered by a growing number of people to be a major cause of drunkenness, poverty and crime.
In 1725, the first documented petition by the Royal College of Physicians expresses fellows' concerns about "pernicious and growing use of spirituous liquors".
A gin craze was sweeping across England, as improved distillation methods together with lax regulation in comparison with wine and beer, meant the spirit was affordable to much of the population.
Yet it was not until the 19th Century that alcohol was regarded as a problem in a consistent way, says Dr Virginia Berridge of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
As Britain became increasingly industrialised and urbanised it needed efficient and time-aware workers, making sobriety a virtue.
Temperance movements began to emerge - at first some advised restrictions on certain drinks only, but over time their stance shifted to call for total abstinence.
And by the mid-19th Century, physicians were involved in temperance movements of their own.
An 1871 statement from the British Medical Temperance Society, printed in the British Medical Journal said:
"As it is believed that the inconsiderate prescription of large quantities of alcoholic liquids... has given rise, in many instances, to the formation of intemperate habits the undersigned while unable to abandon the use of alcohol in the treatment of certain cases of disease, are yet of the opinion that no medical practitioner should prescribe it without a grave sense of responsibility."
Society's views of alcohol and that of the medical community gradually changed, heralded, in part, by an increasing focus on efficiency as World War One dawned, and as scientific advances provided compounds with much greater medicinal potential.
Yet one of the most modern pieces to feature in the exhibition is a bottle of Atkinson's Infants Preservative, a remedy for teething babies, dated between 1919-1941.
The packaging reassures parents it can be given "with the utmost confidence" as it had no narcotic content. It does however contain 50% alcohol among its ingredients.
John Betts, Keeper at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum says: "This is perhaps surprising considering what was known about the effects of alcohol by this time.
"But it wasn't until 1941 that legislation in Great Britain forced pharmaceutical manufacturers to list all the ingredients in their medicines."
Over the years the Royal College of Physicians has had a long history of raising awareness of the health damage caused by alcohol.
The college is currently calling for a range of measures, including a fifty pence minimum price per unit of alcohol in the UK and tighter restrictions on marketing and advertising, particularly where children may be exposed to it.
The college says: "Alcohol is a factor in more than forty serious medical conditions, including liver disease and cancer, and one of the major preventable causes of death in the UK."
They were seized on 26 October during a rebel ambush in which 11 soldiers and one policeman were killed.
The rebels turned them over to a delegation of the Red Cross and the Catholic Church in Arauca province.
The ELN and the government have been holding "exploratory talks" with a view to entering into peace talks.
At the time of the attack the rebels said that the attack did "not contradict" its wish for peace.
In a statement, the rebels said they were forced to respond to "intense counter-guerrilla operations".
After the release of the soldiers, the ELN published another statement on its Twitter account saying it had "kept its word and handed over the captured soldiers safe and sound".
Following the attack in October, President Juan Manuel Santos ordered the security forces to step up their attacks on the ELN.
The president has in the past said it wants the rebels to give up kidnapping people for good before it is willing to consider more formal peace talks.
Meanwhile, peace talks between government negotiators and members of Colombia's largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), are continuing apace in the Cuban capital Havana.
President Juan Manuel Santos and the Farc have agreed on a deadline of 23 March 2016 to sign a final agreement.
Junior Bulumakau was gifted an early try at Murrayfield and Josh Strauss crashed through a rolling maul to restore the visitors' lead.
Duncan Weir had kicked the hosts in front with two penalties and added two more but that was it for Edinburgh.
In a largely scrappy contest, Alex Dunbar finished off the best move of the game for Warriors' third try.
Having won the last three derby matches, Edinburgh, who sit a lowly 10th in the table, will have to wait until the final weekend of the league campaign for the return, with the 1872 Cup at stake, since the traditional Boxing Day - New Year double-header has been removed from the calendar this season.
Edinburgh's start to the match could scarcely have been more calamitous. They lost their own line-out and when Glasgow spread the ball wide Dunbar dropped a clever kick deep into Edinburgh territory.
Full-back Blair Kinghorn looked to have the situation under control but his attempt to go down on the loose ball served only to knock it over his own try-line for Bulumakau to touch down inside a minute.
The sides spent the next 20 minutes feeling each other out. With the match drifting from set-piece to set-piece, two Weir penalties nudged the home side in front.
Warriors penalty count was becoming a problem, conceding seven to Edinburgh's none after half an hour. Only a lack of accuracy from the hosts in the attacking third kept the gap at one and they would soon be made to pay.
Glasgow elected to pop a very kickable penalty into the corner, and the gamble was rewarded when Strauss scored to finish off a highly effective rolling maul from the line-out. Russell converted to put his side 12-6 to the good.
Mark Bennett showed tremendous footwork and searing pace to slice through the heart of the Edinburgh defence. The home side scrambled to avert the immediate danger, but an infringement allowed Russell to kick Glasgow into a nine-point half-time lead.
The skill level on show was lacking quality, perhaps best summed up early in the second half when Russell passed up a straightforward penalty chance, only to put his kick to touch dead.
Scrappiness was the order of the day - as it is in so many derby matches - and yet Glasgow's game-changers can spring to life from nowhere.
Stuart Hogg, a peripheral figure, gathered a clearance kick and looked to be heading towards a mass of bodies, but in trademark style he tore through a tiny gap to take his side into the red zone. The attack yielded nothing though as Russell missed a straightforward penalty after an Edinburgh offside.
Weir made no such mistake as he brought Edinburgh back within six points.
The number 10s traded kicks, Russell improvising with a drop-goal when the ball wobbled off the tee, and, with the match delicately poised, the next score was crucial.
It was magnificently manufactured by Glasgow. After several phases spent pounding the Edinburgh line, a succession of stunning off-loads from Russell, Brian Alainu'use and Sean Lamont put Dunbar over. Russell's conversion sent Warriors 13 points clear.
Edinburgh tried to rally in the last five minutes but a lack of composure and the fearsome tackling of Warriors skipper Jonny Gray kept them at bay.
A consolation score looked certain when Damien Hoyland slalomed forward with the clock red and Viliame Mata plunged under the posts, only to be held up by three determined defenders.
An ugly but important win for Glasgow after three straight Pro12 defeats. For Edinburgh, the search for consistency continues, with eight losses from their 11 league outings.
Edinburgh: Blair Kinghorn; Damien Hoyland, Chris Dean, Phil Burleigh, Tom Brown; Duncan Weir, Sam Hidalgo-Clyne; Alasdair Dickinson, Ross Ford, Simon Berghan, Ben Toolis, Grant Gilchrist, Magnus Bradbury, Hamish Watson, Cornell du Preez.
Replacements: Stuart McInally, Allan Dell, Murray McCallum, Fraser McKenzie, Viliame Mata, Sean Kennedy, Jason Tovey, Glenn Bryce.
Glasgow Warriors: Stuart Hogg; Junior Bulumakau, Mark Bennett, Alex Dunbar, Lee Jones; Finn Russell, Henry Pyrgos; Alex Allan, Fraser Brown, Zander Fagerson, Brian Alainu'uese, Jonny Gray, Rob Harley, Simone Favaro, Josh Strauss.
Replacements: Pat McArthur, Ryan Grant, Sila Puafisi, Adam Ashe, Chris Fusaro, Ali Price, Nick Grigg, Sean Lamont.
The federation's chairman Mark Lindsay said the PSNI's ability to deal with terrorist threats was being put at risk by "balance sheet politics".
His comments follow warnings that the Stormont executive's failure to implement welfare reform will leave its finances unsustainable.
That could create a "black hole" in budgets for public services.
A total of 171 bombings, shootings and paramilitary-style attacks were carried out in the last year, according to the PFNI.
"Every resource should be devoted to the task, with no short cuts or skimping," Mr Lindsay told the PFNI's 43rd annual conference.
"We have to remain vigilant as we continue with a decade of centenaries, which are highly emotive and could potentially fuel an upsurge in activity.
"The job of combating terrorism, and keeping officers safe, will not be served well by an adherence to best accounting practices."
Mr Lindsay said fewer officers, restricted opening times at inquiry offices and a reduced number of stations would have "dire" consequences for the PSNI's overall level of service.
"There is a harsh reality here," he said.
"We will continue to do our best for people in their hour of need - that's in our police DNA.
"But far from being more responsive to the needs of the community, we will see a worrying reduction in service.
"Officers are caught up in an unprecedented shake-up, with members forced to gather statistics instead of being out on the ground serving the public."
Mr Lindsay said police officers are owed over 33,000 rest days and would find it increasingly difficult to deliver the service the community had a right to expect.
"People will soon see an impaired service. The future of policing is uncertain," he added.
But PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton played down the impact of current budget cuts.
"We need to focus on what resources we do have available - we have 6,800 police officers," he said.
"I don't share the (PFNI) chairman's view that we will be incapable of keeping people safe because of budget cuts.
"What we'll have to do is prioritise the resources that we have in a way that maximises the benefit and community safety of Northern Ireland.
"We'll do that, we're good at it and we've been doing it for a long time."
The former Derby and Nottingham Forest manager spoke to the club about the vacancy and advised on the changes he would like to make.
The Hearts board were expected to meet on Tuesday to discuss their options, which no longer include Davies.
"I spoke to Hearts, looked at their structure and gave a plan on how to alter it to improve the club," he said.
"It appears they are not ready to make the internal changes required to achieve greater success.
"It seems to me they just want to change the figurehead."
Hearts owner Ann Budge has been leading the recruitment process since the departure of Ian Cathro before the beginning of the Premiership season.
Dougie Freedman was interviewed but has joined Crystal Palace as sporting director, while former England manager Steve McClaren was on the shortlist but has taken up a coaching consultancy role with Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Former Hearts players Steven Pressley and Paul Hartley have also been interviewed, along with interim head coach Jon Daly. Talks were held with Davies about the role, which involves working under director of football Craig Levein, but Davies believes more radical change is required.
"It's my belief just changing the manager will not achieve what's required for success," he added.
"I wish them well in their future endeavours."
The Hearts board are due to discuss if any of the interviewees are outstanding enough candidates to appoint straight away, if second interviews are required for some candidates, or to open the recruitment process out further to new candidates.
Daly could, therefore, remain in charge for Saturday's Premiership visit to Motherwell.
The researchers collected self-reported data from 120,000 English 15-year-olds about their digital device habits.
They found a "Goldilocks effect" where a few hours of device-use seemed to boost mental wellbeing.
One developmental psychologist welcomed the paper but said there was still room for more study.
"Moderate engagement in digital activities is not harmful," notes the paper, published today in the journal Psychological Science.
In addition, the first hour or two of screen time was actually associated with an increase in mental wellbeing for those using computers, smartphones, video games and watching TV or films.
Weekday use with a positive effect on wellbeing was described as follows:
The effect was boosted at weekends, with the peak lasting up to four hours and 50 minutes when watching TV.
However, after this point a negative effect was reported.
The authors describe this as a "Goldilocks effect" - referring to the version of the fairy story in which Goldilocks discovers, for instance, that the best porridge is neither too hot nor too cold.
Young people's screen time has increased with the rise of digital devices used at home.
For example, children - including pre-schoolers aged three and four - are spending eight hours and 18 minutes a week online on average, according to a recent report by Ofcom.
Their research stemmed from a larger survey about the habits of nearly 300,000 English 15-year-olds, explained co-author Andrew Przybylski at the University of Oxford.
"We found that the negative effect of screen time was about a third of the size as not getting regular sleep or a regular breakfast," he told the BBC.
But Dr Przybylski acknowledged that most children don't simply use one device during the day - and in fact often use more than one concurrently, such as when texting a friend while watching TV.
He suggested that rather than totting up screen time and demanding that children stop using a device after a certain point, it might be more beneficial to negotiate longer sessions and suggest alternative activities when appropriate.
"It's not so much that it's bad for a kid to play Minecraft for 12 hours on a Sunday, it's that as parents we often don't have a valued activity that we put in place of that," he said.
"It's much more important that the parents focus their limited attention and resources on picking smart battles - that might be more important than having an arbitrary cut-off."
The paper's results on the "Goldilocks effect" were welcomed by Sue Fletcher-Watson, a developmental psychologist at the University of Edinburgh.
"I think that is quite new - at least, previously, it's only been a hypothesis.
"It's really nice to have concrete evidence on that idea," she told the BBC.
However, she said there were still questions about how using digital devices affects children over time.
"One of the categories they look at is using smartphones - but that covers a huge variety of activities," she said.
If an activity exposes a child to trolling or cyberbullying, then it would naturally be likely to have a more negative effect on mental wellbeing, she suggested.
On Christmas Day last year, an open letter was published in the Guardian by a group of educators and psychologists that called for better guidelines, since screen-based lifestyles might harm children's health.
This was followed in January by a another open letter - co-signed by Dr Przybylski and others - that argued more evidence was needed before the full effects of children's use of screens was understood.
"I do feel there needs to be much clearer guidance available," said Prof Jayne Osgood at Middlesex University, a signatory of the first letter.
"Parents and educators feel ill-prepared to know what is an appropriate amount of exposure to screen time for children."
In 2013, a Public Health England briefing paper warned that too much time in front of screens combined with a sedentary lifestyle was harming children's wellbeing and increasing their anxiety.
"A few simple steps, like regular physical activity and spending time together as a family at breakfast and dinner, can minimise young people's screen time and support their wellbeing," said Eustace de Sousa at Public Health England, reacting to today's research.
Paul Archer put on old fire-fighting equipment and searched for casualties in the house on Sunday morning.
The bodies of a married couple, named locally as Simon and Shelley Saxton-Cooper, were later found in a bedroom of the house in Riddings, Derbyshire.
Investigations into the cause of the fire are continuing.
"The flames started straight away," said Mr Archer. "One of the neighbours had got a key and they opened the back door."
A pet dog got out of the house as the door was opened.
"I made my way in shouting 'Can you hear me?' and the downstairs was really clear," said Mr Archer.
"I got to the bottom of the stairs, shouting again, and made my way up to the top of the stairs.
"By this time the house was pretty well ablaze - the front bedroom door was on fire but I was shouting, 'Hello, can anyone hear me?'"
Mr Archer feared the roof might cave in, and eventually left the house via the front door as he heard the sirens of the first fire engines to arrive.
The fire destroyed much of the building's roof, and fire crews had to wait for several hours for the remaining structure to be declared safe before they could recover the victims' remains.
Mr Archer, who knew the couple "to say hello to", said what had happened was "very, very sad".
"I just thought I would try and do my bit," said the firefighter, who had worn old equipment stored in his garage including a tunic, flash-hood and fire-retardant gloves.
"With our training, I might have been able to do more with the proper kit."
The alarm was raised at about 07:30 BST when neighbours in Valley View Road heard what they described as a "bang".
Emergency services declared a "major incident" and neighbours were evacuated from their homes as a precaution.
Police said they were keeping an open mind about the cause of the fire. A gas leak is one possible cause.
A Home Office pathologist will be carrying out post-mortem examinations on the bodies as soon as possible to determine the cause of their deaths.
"Because of the extent of the fire damage, it's a difficult and complex investigation and there will be a full forensic examination of the scene," police said.
The dog is fine and is being looked after by relatives of the couple.
Speaking during a live link-up with a primary school in London, he also said he was "immensely proud" to be wearing the Union Flag.
Major Peake added that he was now into the final phase of training, in which he was focusing on the essentials.
He said astronaut training had been rigorous and involved retaining immense quantities of information.
Tim Peake is the first Briton to be selected as an astronaut for the European Space Agency, through a route backed by the UK government.
He was in Houston, Texas, when he spoke live to schoolchildren at Queen's Park Primary School in West London. The event was organised as part of a UK Space Agency programme called Esero, which is designed to use space to help enhance science education.
"I'm immensely proud to be British and to be serving in the European Space Agency," he told BBC News.
"It's always very apparent to me, wherever I'm travelling, whether it be Houston, here, or Russia, that you're wearing the flag and you're representing your country."
Major Peake, who was a British Army helicopter pilot before his selection for the astronaut corps, is set to fly to the International Space Station in December on a Russian Soyuz rocket.
He will be accompanied on the launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome by the American astronaut Timothy Kopra and the Russian Yuri Malenchenko.
The Briton said the training was now "ramping up" as the 15 December launch date approached.
"The training is a long process and we've covered such a huge variety of subjects. One of the main challenges is actually being able to retain all of that information over a two-and-a-half-year period," he said.
"I'm in the final six months before launch and we're just focusing on the essentials of the Soyuz spacecraft, emergency training... and scientific payloads that are going to be on the space station."
Pupils who listened to Major Peake talk, and got the opportunity to ask him questions, seemed to be impressed by the experience.
Abdullah Hashim, who is 10, said he was "an extraordinary man" and an "inspiration". Salma Sarumi, 8, said it was "amazing" to have the live link-up at her school.
Fellow students Cherise Panzu, Mario Albu and Susu El-Abbas also seemed to have been inspired by the event. Cherise called it a "once in a lifetime opportunity".
Major Peake believes the flight will bring significant benefits to the country and British industry.
"This is a step forward in that it's the UK government supporting human spaceflight," he explained.
"What that means is that UK industry, UK education and the UK scientific community can now embrace human spaceflight. That means taking part in scientific research that's being conducted not only on the International Space Station, but within the other European Space Agency human spaceflight programmes."
The Child Poverty Bill would commit the government to reducing the number of children living in relative poverty to less than 10% by 2030, and in absolute poverty to less than 5%.
The rates currently stand at 22% and 21% respectively.
The Scottish government will bring forward the bill in the new year.
It has published the 116 responses to its consultation on the proposals, which would also protect families' income by law.
Equalities Secretary Angela Constance said "simply unacceptable" that many children are still growing up in poverty in Scotland.
And she said it was encouraging to see "overwhelming support" for the proposals aimed at tackling the problem.
The responses were published alongside the government's annual child poverty report, which covers 2014/15.
It showed that 220,000 children were classed as living in relative poverty once housing costs were deducted - a figure that has remained constant for the previous three years, and which is higher than the 19% recorded in 2011/12.
The report also said 200,000 children were living in absolute poverty once housing costs were taken into account - 30,000 fewer than the previous year.
Both measure of child poverty have fallen over the past two decades, with relative poverty standing at 31% and absolute poverty at 41% in 1998/99, including housing costs.
The most recent UK government figures - which covered 2013/14 - showed there were 2.3 million living in relative poverty across the UK.
The Scottish government report also showed that the number of children classed as living in low income and material deprivation after housing costs had fallen by 20,000 after two years of increases.
Material deprivation is a measure of whether children are going without necessities which are considered essential to maintaining an acceptable standard of living.
There was little change in many of the 37 measurements of deprivation and inequality contained in the report.
But the nine measurements that did show improvement included a narrowing in the employment rate gap between the most deprived areas and the rest of Scotland.
The percentage of school leavers from the most deprived areas who are classed as being in "positive destinations" has also increased
And the employment rate of parents has increased while the percentage of parents with low or no qualifications has decreased.
Ms Constance said: "For those areas where we can do better, we can use this report to help inform our approach and actions going forward."
Some political opponents have criticised ministers for not using Holyrood's new tax powers to combat inequality - but the Scottish government argues that tax rises would penalise low earners.
Scottish Green MSP Alison Johnstone said: "We have the ability with our income tax powers to give lower earners a tax cut while generating more funds for anti-poverty measures and public services by ensuring higher earners pay a fairer share.
"Today's report shows boldness is required if we're to see improvements in child poverty levels."
The Northside scheme is an area between Royal Avenue and Carrick Hill on the northern edge of the city centre.
An outline planning application was submitted in June 2015 and planners then requested more information on environmental impacts.
The deadline for that was not met so the application was "deemed refused."
Northside Regeneration Ltd said "the extent and scope of the information requested required more time than was available within the deadline."
The firm said it will be resubmitting the application and "remains fully committed to the development."
It added that the outline application had been developed following "an extensive preplanning community consultation process."
However it acknowledged concerns that the Sunflower Bar was threatened by the plan and will now start discussions with its owner.
Northside is a partnership between developer Kevin McKay, global construction firm Balfour Beatty and Northern Ireland's Department for Social Development.
Most of the properties in the project area are controlled by Mr McKay and government departments.
The scheme is planned to have a mix of uses including managed student accommodation, private housing, social housing and retail.
But while we wait for that to resolve itself - the former prime minister's daughter Carol is reported to be in talks with museum bosses - we decided to take a look at some of her most memorable fashion moments.
Lady Thatcher (then Margaret Roberts) working as a research chemist in 1950. She is reputed to have helped invent Mr Whippy ice cream, although there is some debate about that.
This is a royal blue velvet dress, a colour she favoured throughout her time as prime minister, and a halo style hat trimmed with ostrich feathers on her wedding day in 1951.
Thatcher attends a Cabinet meeting in 1972 with a ministerial red box in one hand and one of her soon-to-be famous handbags in the other.
Thatcher wears a pale blue waistcoat, and one of those pussybow shirts, for which she would become renowned in 1979 before she became prime minister.
Outside the Oval Office in the summer of 1987 with US President Ronald Reagan, Thatcher shows off a stylish two piece.
Looking defiant in a cream headscarf and jacket during her visit to British forces in Fallingbostel, Germany in 1986.
During her trip to Moscow in 1987, Thatcher greeted crowds in an elegant, fur-trimmed winter coat. She was first dubbed the Iron Lady by Soviet Army newspaper Red Star.
Ten years after entering Downing Street, Thatcher thanks the applauding crowd at the Blackpool 1989 Conservative conference dressed in brilliant blue.
At the start of her third term, the "helmet" of swept back hair is (very) firmly in place, along with the pearls, a hangover from her pre-Downing Street days.
Donning her customary blue as she opens an infirmary with Chelsea pensioners and Prince Charles in 2009.
Six people died and 10 more were injured when a council bin lorry crashed into pedestrians in Glasgow city centre on 22 December.
The Crown Office said there was no evidence that either the driver or city council was to blame for the accident.
But it said a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the tragedy will be held "as soon as possible".
The next of kin of those who died have been informed of the decision not to bring a prosecution.
The FAI will aim to determine the cause of the crash and establish what lessons can be learned.
Earlier this month, Harry Clarke, the driver of the Glasgow City Council bin lorry, told the Daily Record newspaper that he had fallen unconscious at the wheel and could not remember anything about the crash.
Mr Clarke, 58, also said that he understood that bereaved families and those who were injured wanted answers about what exactly had happened.
The bin lorry went out of control on Queen Street before crashing into the Millennium Hotel at George Square, close to the city's Queen Street rail station.
Many of those who were struck by it had been out Christmas shopping.
Police investigating the crash submitted their initial report to prosecutors at the end of January.
Lawyers for some of the families affected by the tragedy just before Christmas have welcomed the announcement that the courts service is to be asked to ensure a Fatal Accident Inquiry can be held as quickly as possible.
Yet no announcement has yet been made about either prosecutions or an FAI in the Clutha helicopter crash which happened 13 months before the George Square tragedy.
This is because the investigation into the bin lorry crash was carried out by Police Scotland under the direction of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS).
In the helicopter crash, COPFS is still waiting for a report from the Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) which undertook the lead in trying to determine what happened.
This was a purely criminal investigation to determine if the conduct of the bin lorry driver, Harry Clarke, had breached the law - and also if Glasgow City Council had broken health and safety regulations.
Police and prosecutors decided they had not.
However the FAI will be able to hear evidence on Mr Clarke's health, based on his own testimony and medical records before and after the crash.
The police report has now been considered by Crown Counsel - the most senior lawyers within the Crown Office.
In a statement, the Crown Office said: "Crown Counsel have concluded that the driver of the lorry should not be prosecuted in respect of this tragic incident.
"Despite its catastrophic consequences there is no evidence to suggest that the driver's conduct at the time amounted to a breach of the criminal law.
"There is no evidence to support a prosecution of Glasgow City Council in respect of any health and safety concerns breaches in health and safety law.
"Crown Counsel have decided that a fatal accident inquiry should be held into the causes of this tragedy to ensure that there can be a full public hearing of the facts of the case."
A spokesman for Glasgow City Council said: "We will provide any assistance that the inquiry needs."
The six people who died in the crash were teacher Stephenie Tait, 29, from Glasgow; student Erin McQuade, 18, and her grandparents Lorraine, 69, and Jack Sweeney, 68, from Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire; tax worker Jacqueline Morton, 51, from Glasgow; and 52-year-old Gillian Ewing, from Edinburgh.
Patrick McGuire, a partner with Thompsons Solicitors which represents many of the victims, said the announcement of an FAI would "begin the process of finding out what happened to cause this terrible accident which is of the greatest importance to the victims and their relatives."
He added: "My clients and I are particularly heartened that the Crown has moved so quickly towards convening a Fatal Accident Inquiry.
"It has often been the case that years can pass before a FAI is set up, if indeed one is set up at all. This leads to further anguish to victims and their families. Therefore the Crown Office is to be commended for its swift action which reflects the huge public concern about this accident."
The Nikkei 225 index closed up 0.4% to 20,058.95 as investors shrugged off news that retail sales fell at the fastest pace in 17 years in March.
Retail sales for the world's third largest economy fell 9.7% from a year earlier.
Meanwhile, US ratings agency Fitch downgraded Japan's credit rating to A, five notches below the top rating.
Fitch said the government had failed to offset the impact of a delay in a sales tax hike with measures to address the deficit.
Japan's debt is the biggest among developed nations and more than twice the size of its economy.
In China, the Hong Kong's Hang Seng index ended flat at 28,442.75, while the Shanghai Composite fell 1.1% to 4,476.21 - leading the region's losses.
Shares of oil giants PetroChina and Sinopec fell around 5% after they dismissed speculation that they would merge.
In Australia, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed down 0.6% at 5,948.5 despite rising iron ore prices.
The price of iron ore, which is Australia's most important export commodity, rose to its highest level since March on Tuesday to $59.09 (£38.81) a tonne.
Analysts said the price rise could give a boost to shares, but that the resistance to the benchmark breaking the 6,000 mark was "incredibly strong".
"The ASX has tested this point five times this year," said Evan Lucas from IG Markets in Australia, "[but] each time it has considered touching 6,000, it has failed."
Meanwhile, South Korea's benchmark Kospi index closed down 0.5% to 2,147.67.
Eagles ran out 115-94 winners to secure the first silverware of the campaign.
"It's an engulfing feeling that has set upon us as a team," New York-born Flournoy told BBC Newcastle.
"We wanted to win so bad to re-establish ourselves, with a chip on our shoulders to prove to everyone we're a good basketball team."
It was an afternoon of broken records, with Eagles' points haul smashing the competition's record score, while guard forward Charles Smith broke the individual record with 39 points.
"That's Chuck, with an exclamation point, it was a fantastic performance," Flournoy continued.
"People might not remember, we were in the same building fighting for our lives against Milton Keynes, we were out of the game and we crawled back into it.
"It came down to one final possession, we drew it up, Charles had the basketball and he took a beautiful shot from the baseline that rolled in and came out, and subsequently we didn't get back in it.
"He's having that special type of year, especially after all that was said about him being too old, doesn't play defence, all he does is shoot the three points.
"You say that, and then you come out and see the performance he's capable of, he's one of the most underrated players in the history of this league."
Smith, 36, was expected to retire at the end of last season, but was tempted back to Sports Central for an eighth campaign with the promise of a push for honours.
"I've put up bigger points than that before, but it's my first cup win," Smith added.
"It was great, the guys kept finding me, and the ball just kept going in.
"I couldn't leave without winning something, that's why I came back."
Robert Fidler hid the four-bedroom home behind hay bales for four years before it was discovered by officials.
He failed to appear at the High Court for a contempt of court hearing after refusing to demolish the house.
A warrant was issued for his arrest and the case was adjourned until 2 November.
Mr Fidler then arrived at the court after the hearing, saying he had missed the case because he thought it was taking place later in the day.
He said: "Apparently, at some point, without my knowledge, it's been changed and there's a warrant out for my arrest."
He said he was still "hopeful" the property could be saved from demolition, but he would be "homeless" if it was knocked down.
Mr Fidler built the house in 2002 at Honeycrock Farm in Salfords.
Reigate and Banstead Borough Council first ordered the house to be knocked down in 2007, before a government planning inspector rejected Mr Fidler's appeal a year later.
This decision was upheld first by the High Court in 2010 and then by the Court of Appeal.
Mr Fidler had been due to face a claim of contempt of court at the High Court earlier, brought by the council after he failed to knock the house down by the 26 June deadline, but he failed to attend.
Judge Mr Justice Dove said it would be unusual to proceed without offering him "one last opportunity to provide some explanation of matters relating to the breach of the injunction".
If the claim is upheld, Mr Fidler could face a jail sentence.
In 2008, he said he hid the four-bedroom "castle" because he believed a house that stood for four years without objection had a legal right to remain.
In a statement the council said it would set an "unacceptable precedent for development in the green belt" if the house was allowed to remain.
Suzanne Gardner, 60, of Blisworth, developed necrotising fasciitis after cutting herself when she slipped on her driveway in snow on 17 December 2010.
She died four days later at Northampton General Hospital.
High Court judge Sir David Eady said Mrs Gardner's care was "negligent".
Her husband Colin Gardner was awarded full compensation for the loss of his wife but the amount has not been disclosed.
The court heard when Mrs Gardner cut her elbow in the fall, she put resulting pain and chills down to a flare-up of arthritis or a cold.
Blisters developed on her hands and arms causing excruciating pain and she went to the hospital on 21 December but despite her pain she was not a priority.
Sir David said Mrs Gardner's treatment was delayed and the killer bug spread through her body.
She urgently needed amputations to stop the bug spreading but was left waiting for hours.
Lawyers argued Mrs Gardner's death would have been prevented if staff had examined her sooner and amputated her arms in time.
Mr Gardner told the court his wife would have had no trouble agreeing to the potentially life-saving operation.
The hospital claimed Mrs Gardner had presented only moderate pain and was dealt with in good time.
Sir David said: "A greater sense of urgency was clearly required than that displayed."
He added she should have been seen by a doctor sooner and blood tests taken.
A competent microbiologist would have diagnosed the infection, he said.
"Had Mrs Gardner been treated non-negligently she would probably have survived," he said.
"She would have lived but for the breaches of duty identified."
The offer was made in a letter from regions chairmen Peter Thomas (Blues), Martyn Hazell (Dragons), Roger Blyth (Ospreys) and Nigel Short (Scarlets).
In extreme circumstances the regions may even be forced to offload players.
They stated if a deal is not done: "We will have to scale back on our playing costs and development."
It is unlikely that the WRU would accept the offer to take control of the game's professional tier because of the financial state of the regions.
In the letter the chairmen stated: "Together we can be strong, but in the disharmony that currently prevails, we will ultimately all be weak.
"We cannot continue in this fashion any longer.
"The alternative, which we have tabled before, but which you have always rejected, is that you [the WRU] makes a fair offer to take over the regions if you believe you could make a better job of running the same, although this is something you have refused to countenance previously.
"If it is of attraction, then it would need to be concluded rapidly."
Short, Thomas, Blyth and Hazell added: "There will be clear consequences for the WRU in respect of the retention of Welsh players, with regard to release periods and additional international fixtures.
"For the regions we will have to scale back on our playing costs and development accordingly with the financial consequences that will have for us.
"Unfortunately that is the harsh reality of the situation we find ourselves in and the outcome of the existing relationship we feel we have with the WRU."
The last participation agreement between the WRU and Regional Rugby Wales (RRW) ended on 30 June, leaving the regions believing they face a combined £6.7m shortfall next season.
That contract guaranteed the release of players for Wales coach Warren Gatland's two-week squad training camps ahead of November games, the Six Nations and for the fourth autumn Test which Wales regularly stage outside the approved International Rugby Board window.
If a new deal is not finalised the regions could ensure Wales face South Africa on 29 November without any regional players.
The regions would also withhold players from Wales Sevens duty.
In the letter to WRU chief executive Lewis and chairman Pickering, Thomas, Blyth, Short and Hazell said: "We have been negotiating with the WRU for a considerable period.
At every point when we think we have made progress and reached a commercial outcome, we are subsequently frustrated by the constant shifts and manipulation in the WRU position
"But we have come to the conclusion that... the harsh reality is that the WRU has no interest in concluding negotiations with the regions and entering into a long-term agreement for the betterment of Welsh rugby."
The quartet go on to say:
•Despite some reservations they have accepted - for the first time - the concept of dual national contracts for the nation's Test stars.
•On the subject of the regions' funding, that a failure to strike a deal would mean them having to live within their means and become less competitive against Pro12 and European rivals.
•The relationship between the WRU and "its principal clubs" is a "national disgrace" and has left Welsh rugby "not held in high esteem".
•That "the true objective of the WRU is actually to starve the regions to the point of financial ruin".
•The WRU and regions' goals "are not incompatible"
•Any agreement must mean a partnership, not an "employer/employee or master/slave" relationship.
•For developing players for Wales the regions should be "adequately rewarded".
The chairmen went on: "At every point when we think we have made progress and reached a commercial outcome, we are subsequently frustrated by the constant shifts and manipulation in the WRU position.
"This has been amply demonstrated on any number of occasions."
In the letter, the four chairmen go on to claim they have been left with no option but to suggest their current course of action.
"This is not meant as a threat nor is it a decision that has been taken lightly, but rather as a position in respect of which we have no alternative," they stated.
"That will have severe and dramatic consequences for all of us and in respect of which there will be no going back."
The row between the Union and regions has been running for over a year and a half.
Pickering outlined the WRU's position during the impasse when he said in May: "We will do whatever we can to support our regions, but we cannot bankrupt the Union.
"There will be a defined amount of money we have to give to our game at regional level, semi-pro level and the community game."
The board of the WRU overwhelmingly survived a vote of no confidence at an extraordinary general meeting on 15 June.
At that meeting board member Gerald Davies said the Union was "not held in high regard, it is held in low esteem overseas... it is distressing we have this reputation… we need to restore common purpose, trust and unity".
The former Wales and British and Irish Lions wing has since announced he will not be standing for re-election to board.
During the protracted row, teams from around Europe negotiated a revamp of cross-border competitions that will succeed the Heineken Cup next season.
The regions, represented by RRW, were party to that deal and are represented on the board of the new company set up to run the three-tier tournament from Switzerland.
However, none of the funding from that tournament is scheduled to be in the regions' hands until October, 2014.
The regions have been partly funded via the WRU in an agreement which guaranteed a set level of income and covered the release of players for Wales international duties.
Other funding came via participation in competitions.
The regions contended the previous agreement did not give them enough money to compete against leading French and English teams.
A number of high-profile Wales international players have already made big-money moves to play in France or England, with the Welsh regions claiming to be unable to match the wages on offer elsewhere.
British and Irish Lions Leigh Halfpenny (Blues to Toulon), Richard Hibbard (Ospreys to Gloucester) and Jonathan Davies (Scarlets to Clermont Auvergne) are among the players to have left Wales.
None of the Welsh teams reached the knockout stages of the European Cup or the play-offs of the Pro12 in 2013-14.
Regional Rugby Wales issued a statement saying they: "Must now urgently consider the stark practical consequences of operating within a business model that does not include any form of agreement with the WRU outside IRB regulations and no WRU support or involvement in the development of professional regional rugby."
The WRU responded: "The WRU is confident that the governing body and RRW are in substantial agreement on the total monies contributed by the WRU within the RSA (Rugby Services Agreement) and the governing body will work to ensure the rugby commitments associated to the payments are acceptable to all parties and in the best interests of Welsh rugby."
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Wales' four regions have offered the Welsh Rugby Union the chance to take them over and want a deal to end their impasse by 18 July.
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Merseyside Police PC Jonathan Webb, 48, was in a patrol car with colleagues last December when a Tesco manager asked them to help his guard nearby.
A disciplinary panel found him guilty of gross professional misconduct and gave PC Mark Higgins a final warning.
The hearing was told the officers had been discussing their Christmas party.
Two others who also faced the disciplinary hearing in Wavertree, PC Paul Birch and PC Joanne Parr, are to be given "management advice."
The officers were discussing an incident at the Christmas works party before driving off, the tribunal heard.
PC Birch, 36, previously told a disciplinary hearing he did not hear Tesco manager David Markey requesting help from his front seat passenger PC Webb as they were flagged down in Dale Street.
They were all yards away from security guard Shaun Rigby as he apprehended Roy Fagan, 31, a shoplifter. Fagan later admitted assault and stealing £4.62 of whisky.
The interaction between the officers and Mr Markey was said to have lasted nine seconds.
PC Webb said he did not realise the seriousness of the situation, and told the man he did not have the correct kit, and to call the police later.
CCTV played to the panel showed Mr Rigby struggling with Fagan.
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Owners Benson Elliot hope more than 250 jobs will be created at the Fishergate centre in Preston.
The redundant T J Hughes store would be replaced with six modern shop units, a new mall, five restaurants and a cinema.
A planning application will now be submitted to the city council before a public consultation starts on Friday.
Given a life expectancy of 19 years, Mandy was one of more than 10,000 babies worldwide born with a disability caused by the drug thalidomide.
Thalidomide was prescribed during pregnancy to ease morning sickness before it was withdrawn in 1961 because it was causing birth defects.
Speaking 40 years since a compensation deal for thalidomide survivors was agreed, Mrs Masters - now a grandmother of six - says the sums paid might still not be enough.
Thalidomide affected babies in various ways, including shortened arms and legs, blindness, deafness, heart problems and brain damage.
Mrs Masters, of Grays in Essex, was born without arms and uses her feet as hands.
Now 51, she is increasingly feeling the effects of using her feet as hands.
She spends much of her time in pain and is beginning to experience other medical issues, such as problems with the roof of her mouth and her hearing.
Ageing, she says, was one of the issues which passed under the radar when the compensation payout was agreed four decades ago.
Under the agreement, the Distillers Company, which marketed Thalidomide in the UK, paid £6m in direct claims and set up a £14m trust fund to look after the children's future.
But in the early 1970s, nobody knew how long thalidomide survivors would live for, how they would age, of if further symptoms of the drug would materialise in later life.
"I'm struggling with my joints," said Mrs Masters.
"My legs are doing two jobs, not only for walking but are also used as arms.
"It is very tiring now. I walk for five minutes now and I'm in absolute agony. I am struggling."
Mandy, who used to work as a beautician and now works as a medium, uses her feet to feed herself, brush her hair and her teeth.
Arthritis is a major fear.
"I once worried about getting to 60, but I'm finding it is now that I'm struggling.
"In a few years' time, I will be in a wheelchair."
She said an expanded compensation pot would help meet the future costs - such as changes to people's homes to accommodate wheelchairs.
Fellow thalidomide survivor Geoff Adams-Spink, the BBC's former age and disability correspondent, said: "Our bodies are wearing out.
"These (thalidomide survivors) are people who might be inside bodies which are 50 years old but in fact in terms of our actual age, the age of our muscular-skeletal systems, we're probably 20 years ahead of that.
"In our bodies we are really in our late 60s or 70s. And we are wearing out fast."
Although the £20m fund for thalidomide survivors might sound "reasonably large", Mr Adams-Spink, of London, said: "In terms of accident compensation they are fairly minimal."
"That's why we have had to keep going back, and thank goodness Diageo act as a very responsible corporation and recognise the legacy of Distillers and recognise that they have a responsibility to this group of people.
"I hope that we can use some of the funds that have been given to us to enable a soft landing into old age.
"This could help make sure we have the infrastructure and care and support around us that we need.
"And maybe even move to sunnier climes, so that our bones don't ache so much and so we can enjoy our autumn years without being wracked in pain or confined to the house."
Last year, the creator of Thalidomide, German-based Gruenenthal issued its first apology in 50 years for the impact the drug had on babies.
The loss to United, who play in the second tier of the USA's league system, followed a 1-1 draw against Chivas Guadalajara on Wednesday.
I've been very hard on them and that showed
Monk said he was not concerned by the outcome against Minnesota.
"We can't let the result detract from a very successful two weeks for the boys," Monk told the club's website.
"They have worked extremely hard and the level we are at is very good because of that training.
"But perhaps the 90 minutes tonight was a bit too much because of the work we've been doing.
"I've been very hard on them and that showed."
Spurs and Liverpool target Ben Davies did not feature for the Swans who fell behind after just eight minutes.
Minnesota full-back Justin Davis latched onto Simone Bracalello's through ball and fired a low shot through the legs of Swansea goalkeeper Gerhard Tremmel into the net.
Swansea dominated possession as they pressed for an equaliser but failed to take advantage.
Just before half-time Minnesota were 2-0 up, as Greg Jordan got on the end of Christian Ramirez's flick, to slot the ball past Tremmel.
The woman was found with stab injuries by officers called to an address in Ridge Avenue, Winchmore Hill, on Saturday afternoon.
The London Ambulance Service was called, but the victim, aged in her 20s, was pronounced dead at the scene.
A 28-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder. Police are trying to trace the woman's next of kin.
15 April 2016 Last updated at 00:17 BST
On the 23rd of June, the whole of the UK will vote on whether to continue being part of the European Union.
Voters will be asked just one question:
"Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?"
The referendum will be organised just like a general or local election - those who are registered will be able to cast their votes at polling stations or by post.
We've had a referendum like this before - in 1975 we voted to stay in what was then the European Economic Community.
This referendum is happening because David Cameron promised to hold one if the Conservatives won the last election.
Before announcing a date, the Prime Minister negotiated with other European leaders to get some changes to Britain's relationship with the EU.
Jonny Dymond explains.
Lawro's opponents for this weekend Premier League fixtures is comedian and Brentford fan Nathan Caton.
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Caton told BBC Sport: "The mighty Bees are my local club in west London and they are my team.
"The best moment I have had supporting them was either getting promoted to the Championship in 2014, or beating our neighbours Fulham 4-1 at Craven Cottage last season.
"I went to that game and it was brilliant to see all our goals go in."
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
Last weekend, Lawro got three correct results and no perfect scores from seven Premier League matches, to give him a total of 30 points.
He drew with world heavyweight champion boxer Anthony Joshua, who also got three results correct, with no perfect scores.
Lawro also picked up 40 points for correctly predicting Arsenal's 3-0 win over West Brom on 21 April. Another world champion boxer, super-bantamweight Carl Frampton, also added 10 points to his score for choosing the right result.
Make your own predictions now, compare them to Lawro and other fans and try to take your team to the top of the leaderboard by playing the BBC Sport Predictor game.
All kick-offs 15:00 BST unless otherwise stated
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Caton's prediction: Everton lost at Wembley last week but they played really well in the second half against United. 2-0
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Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Caton's prediction: Palace will be on a high after winning their semi-final but they might be saving themselves for the final, while Newcastle are scrapping. 1-0
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Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Caton's prediction: I have a sneaky feeling Sunderland will get something. 1-1
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Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Caton's prediction: Villa could play a bit better now that relegation has taken the weight off their shoulders, but I'm backing Watford. 2-0
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Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Caton's prediction: West Ham are still going for a European spot and I think they will have too much for the Baggies. 1-3
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Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Caton's prediction: 3-0
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Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Caton's prediction: This was the Brendan Rodgers derby - I guess it is the Joe Allen derby now. 1-2
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Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Caton's prediction: Oh, this is a massive game. If United play like they did in the first half of their FA Cup semi-final against Everton then I can't see them losing. With Leicester striker Jamie Vardy still suspended I am going for United to shade it. 2-1
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Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Caton's prediction: Both teams are on form, but City might want it a bit more to cement a top-four place. 2-3
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If Leicester draw at Old Trafford on Sunday and Tottenham drop points too then the title race is all over.
It is clear that Chelsea's fans would love Spurs to miss out - and so would the some of the Blues' players. In fact, Eden Hazard spoke out about it this week.
I think they might get their wish.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Caton's prediction: Chelsea will not let Tottenham beat them, I know that for a fact. So as good as Spurs are playing, Chelsea will be playing their hearts out to let Leicester win the league. 2-2
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Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
*Does not include score for postponed games
Lawro's best score: 160 points (week 19 v Guy Mowbray)
Lawro's worst score: 20 points (week one v Graeme Swann & week 23 v Ice Cube and Kevin Hart)
The pop star, 37, was unsuccessful in the semi-final in Stockholm, Sweden, on Thursday, where he was one of 18 acts competing for the last 10 places.
Ireland is the most successful country in the contest's 61 year history, with a total of seven wins.
The UK qualifies automatically, with duo Joe and Jake this year's act.
It is guaranteed a place in the final as one of the "big five" countries along with France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
As reigning winners, Sweden also automatically advance to the grand final.
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The 10 countries that qualified on Thursday are Latvia, Georgia, Bulgaria, Australia, Ukraine, Serbia, Poland, Israel, Lithuania and Belgium.
They will join Azerbaijan, Russia, The Netherlands, Hungary, Croatia, Malta, Austria, Armenia, Czech Republic and Cyprus who all made it through the first semi-final on Tuesday.
The Ukrainian entry, jazz artist Jamala, which got through Thursday's heat, has stirred political tensions with Russia.
Jamala is first ever Crimean Tatar to perform at the contest, and her song 1944 is about former Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin, Crimea and claims of ethnic cleansing.
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, as conflict between the two countries escalated.
After Thursday night's semi-final, Byrne thanked his fans, and apologised for failing to make the final.
He tweeted: "Amazing time amazing support, I gave it my all, I'm sorry I didn't get us there. I pass on the torch to someone else now next year."
Ireland's Eurovision fortunes have waned over the past few years, especially since the introduction of the weeknight semi-final rounds.
In 2007, Ireland came last for the first time ever, scoring just five points for Dervish's They Can't Stop The Spring.
The last time Ireland won the contest was in 1996, when Eimear Quinn triumphed with her song The Voice.
It has been a bad year for Scandinavian entries.
Denmark and Norway were knocked out in the semi-finals, which were decided based on a combination of public and jury voting. Iceland and Finland also failed to make it through.
Australian X Factor winner Dami Im, who was mentored by pop star Dannii Minogue, was voted through to the final with her song Sound Of Silence.
Despite being on the other side of the world from Europe, Australia was invited to join Eurovision for its 60th anniversary in 2015, when contestant Guy Sebastian finished in fifth place.
Centre-back Dawson, 32, was injured during the club's pre-season friendly victory over Mansfield on Tuesday.
It means the Tigers have just 13 fit senior players less than a month before the new season starts.
On Monday, full-back Moses Odubajo was ruled out for up to six months with a knee ligament injury.
Earlier this month, goalkeeper Allan McGregor (back) and defender Alex Bruce (Achilles tendon) were ruled out for between four and six months.
Hull begin their Premier League campaign against champions Leicester on Saturday, 13 August (kick-off 12:45 BST).
Although the figure was slightly below analysts' expectations, it shows growth in the bloc has been accelerating slowly over the past year.
It was also the fastest quarterly growth rate for nearly two years.
Earlier, figures showed Germany's economy grew by less than expected while France grew faster than forecast.
Germany's economy grew by just 0.3% in the first three months of the year. This was below analysts' estimates of 0.5% and down from growth of 0.7% seen in the previous quarter.
Despite private consumption and investment in construction and industrial equipment rising, Germany's growth was held back by a fall in exports.
The German Federal Statistics Office also released inflation data which showed consumer prices rose by 0.5% in the year to April, up from 0.3% in March.
Inflation in German, as in the rest of the eurozone, remains below the European Central Bank's (ECB) target of just below 2%.
In France, the economy grew at its fastest rate in nearly two years, expanding by 0.6% in the quarter.
The growth figure is the strongest since the second quarter of 2013 when France's economy expanded by 0.7%.
Last month, official statistics agency INSEE said French consumer spending grew by 1.6% in the first three months of the year, boosted by lower oil prices and a weaker euro.
French industrial production grew at its fastest pace for four years in the first quarter, INSEE added.
There was also good news from Italy, which recorded its first growth since the third quarter of 2011.
The economy expanded by 0.3% in the first three months of the year, official figures showed, the fastest quarterly growth for four years.
However, Greece's economy shrank 0.2% in the first quarter, slipping back into recession following a 0.4% contraction during the final quarter of 2014. Greece is still locked in negotiations with its creditors over the country's bailout terms.
Spain reported 0.9% first quarter growth two weeks ago, marking its fastest rate of expansion since 2007 and the best rate of expansion among the eurozone nations.
Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist at IHS Global, said the eurozone growth figure suggested the economy had benefited from sharply lower oil prices, a weakened euro and increasing European Central Bank monetary stimulus.
"It is evident that improved growth was due to strengthened domestic demand," he said.
"Domestic demand was certainly behind the improved growth in France and Italy, and it also reportedly held up reasonably well in Germany."
The initial public offering on Friday is set to raise £52m in shares, and values the company at £161m.
Kainos is headquartered in Belfast and has approximately 730 staff across its seven offices.
It was founded in April 1986 as a joint venture between ICL and QUBIS Ltd. Kainos reported profit before tax of £11.8 million last year.
The firm's floatation is being supported by the bank Investec.
The flotation will make it one of three publicly listed companies in Northern Ireland, along with First Derivatives in Newry and UTV.
Kainos's chief executive Brendan Mooney said the company had been "delighted" by the response to the initial public offering.
"The task for us now is simple - to maintain our growth trajectory," he added.
"We have a clearly defined strategy in place to see that happen and are looking forward to life as a listed company."
Law firm Pinsent Masons aided Kainos with the process.
Paul McBride, the head of its Belfast office, said that although the number of listed companies in Northern Ireland was small, there is "potential fit for many more firms to access investment via the markets".
Vipers' Charlotte Edwards fell for a first-ball duck in her first innings since her international retirement.
But Suzie Bates and Arran Brindle both made 45 not out, adding 99 to help the hosts recover from 19-4 to 118-4.
Linsey Smith's competition-best 4-10 saw the Diamonds dismissed for 64, handing the hosts a bonus-point win.
In a tie that pitted first against last, it was the winless Diamonds who took the early initiative when Katherine Brunt had former England captain Edwards caught behind and Sara McGlashan caught at first slip for six.
The returning Katie Levick (1-10) had Lydia Greenway dismissed on a slow pitch before Bates and Brindle slowly rebuilt, with just two boundaries coming off the bat in the first 16 overs.
New Zealand captain Bates and ex-England all-rounder Brindle eventually accelerated as both finished unbeaten on 45.
Diamonds skipper Lauren Winfield hit Morna Nielsen for two boundaries off her first over but was caught well by Brindle off Bates for just eight as the away side started their chase poorly.
With the Vipers spinners - Smith and Nielsen - claiming 6-28 between them, only Beth Mooney (17) could manage double figures as the visitors were bowled out for the lowest score in the inaugural Super League.
The unbeaten Vipers remain on course to top the table, with two matches remaining.
Prisoners had been unable to play the instruments outside supervised sessions since rules were changed last November.
Bragg, Marr, Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Elbow's Guy Garvey were among the guitarists who signed a letter saying the move undermined rehabilitation.
The government said the rules had been relaxed after feedback from governors.
However, a Ministry of Justice spokesperson said rules preventing prisoners from receiving books would remain in place.
Billy Bragg founded Jail Guitar Doors, a scheme that has sent around 350 to prisons since 2007. Most were steel-stringed, he said.
"As an incentive to engage in rehabilitation individual access to steel strung guitars can really help the atmosphere on a prison wing," the musician said.
"I've had a number of projects involving guitars on hold which now will be able to go ahead, and will allow those using music in prisons to get on with this important work."
The ban was introduced in November as part of a wider tightening of the privileges that prisoners were allowed.
Inmates will still need to earn the right to have the instruments through good behaviour.
A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: "Following feedback from prison governors, we have made a few minor adjustments to the property prisoners are allowed to have.
"These are still subject to individual risk assessments and can be refused by governors.
"As a result of this government's reforms, prisoners are now expected to engage with their rehabilitation and comply with the regime. Those who don't will have privileges withdrawn."
"If we're going to talk the talk, we have to walk the walk," insists the Pritzker Prize-winning Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena - curator of this year's Venice Architecture Biennale.
"[The Biennale] is not about the advancement of architecture but about improving the quality of life… and the way architects try and do that is through the built environment.
"The first thing was to define what are the front lines, what are the challenges, what are the problems?
"Inequality, migration, pollution and the production of waste are the kind of things every single citizen suffers or experiences."
So, instead of "producing more debris", he decided to create the first room of his sprawling exhibition in Venice's Arsenale out of the waste materials from the unwanted exhibition stands used in last year's Art Biennale.
The walls of the room are constructed from 100 tonnes of discarded plasterboard, layered horizontally to look like elegant rows of chalky bricks, while the ceiling shimmers with the effect of a huge mass of misshapen metal studs hanging down like stalactites from above.
For him, "value should not be dependent on the cost of materials, but from the way you deal with them."
It's a point underlined in a modelled plan for how a modern European city might respond, in architectural terms, to a large influx of migrants.
It shows a public realm designed by the architect, around which are a series of low-rise apartment blocks that have been plumbed and wired but have little else - for example, there are no dividing walls or windows.
These, says Aravena, would be supplied by the new resident after taking a trip to the local DIY store. Basic, yes - but far better, he thinks, than a tent in a muddy field pitched on the edge of a city.
His concerns about the practicalities of city living in the 21st Century are echoed in the British Pavilion, which has been commissioned by the British Council.
Three young curators have presented an exhibition that explores possible answers to the country's housing problems.
An over-sized mock-up of the front door to 10 Downing Street sets their show and ideas into a political context, while questioning the Elizabethan notion of a front door for all.
They argue that our attitude to the home needs to change - it shouldn't be how big it is, but how long do you need it for.
Hence, their exhibition starts with A Home For Hours, a crash-pad full of day beds in which resources are pooled for a better quality of life, where domestic appliances, board games, clothes and shoes are shared.
It's an idea that might seem a little far-fetched to some, but for those Millennials who have grown up in an age of student debt and rocketing house prices, it could present a practical solution to a pressing problem.
Another room is a Home for Days, consisting of two "Zorbs", giant spherical inflatables into which you can jump and sleep - the concept being that we already spend so much of our time living in a virtual bubble, why not go the whole hog and live in an actual one?
A Home for Months, meanwhile, is a tiny two-storey tower containing a bed, bathroom and kitchenette - a structure designed to be arranged in rows within a larger room where residents would share communal spaces.
It's a contemporary take on the boarding house: affordable city living for the i-Generation.
The celebrated architect Lord Foster is also in Venice presenting his latest creation - not, this time, a fancy tower block or gorge-spanning bridge, but a modest, vaulted brick-built building which he claims to be the world's smallest airport.
It's the next stage in a project he's being working on for some time, which would see this "drone-port" installed in Rwanda as a base from where remote-controlled machines can take off and deliver much needed supplies to inaccessible areas.
It looks a little like a mud hut, but is actually a highly complex computer-based design that is the result of a partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
With the aid of cutting edge computer science and buried steel tension ropes, the largely self-supporting structure uses a fraction of the materials such a building would normally need and can be made with minimum expertise.
It's a project that fits perfectly with Aravena's vision for this Biennale.
"The scarcer the resources, the greater the need to think creatively about the use of those resources - and that, in the end, is down to mind power, it is creative.
"To build quality projects doesn't mean you have to have costly materials."
The Venice Architecture Biennale runs from 28 May to 27 November 2016.
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Phillips, 27, led home a British one-two in the elite men's event ahead of team-mate Kyle Evans.
"I can't stress how hard that was," said Phillips, who skipped the opening World Cup event of the season in Argentina last month.
"It was by far most challenging day of racing I've had in a very long time."
The 2013 world champion burst from the start-gate to lead from the front and pip 22-year-old Evans, who earned his best ever World Cup result.
Phillips recently made headlines after speaking out about the Rio 2016 Olympic BMX course because of the safety risk to riders.
He became the figurehead for a movement among the world's elite riders, who refused to compete in a test event at the course in October 2015.
In the women's competition in Manchester, Bethany Shriever, 16, reached the semi-finals on her debut at this level.
Shriever finished in fifth place in her semi, just missing out on the final.
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The British team has only secured two BMX places - one male and one female - at an Olympics since the sport made its debut at Beijing 2008.
They should again seal one female qualification place, but will attain the maximum three male spots if they rank inside the top four at the end of the Olympic qualification period in May.
Former Chelsea and Italy striker Zola, 50, has signed a two-and-half-year contract with the West Midlands club.
Blues, who are seventh in the table, sacked Rowett on Wednesday after he spent more than two years in charge.
Club director Panos Pavlakis said Zola's "pedigree" fits with Blues' ambition to "move in a new direction".
Birmingham announced Rowett's departure at 13:29 GMT on Wednesday with a statement saying "an immediate replacement will be sought" to allow a new manager to assess the squad and spend money in the January transfer window.
Less than six hours later, at 19:15 GMT, the club announced Zola's appointment.
His first match in charge will be at home against second-placed Brighton on Saturday.
Zola's last managerial job was with Qatari side Al-Arabi, but he was sacked in June after just one season. Prior to that, the Italian managed West Ham, Serie A side Cagliari and Watford.
Fellow former Chelsea and Italy team-mate Pierluigi Casiraghi joins him as part of a new backroom team at St Andrew's.
Casiraghi and another Italian Gabriele Cioffi become first-team coaches, while former Chelsea keeper Kevin Hitchcock becomes goalkeeper coach and Blues have also appointed a video analyst, Sebastiano Porcu.
Birmingham were taken over by Chinese firm Trillion Trophy Asia Limited (TTAL) in October.
Rowett's dismissal and Zola's appointment came after the new owners making three new boardroom appointments on Monday.
Wenqing Zhao, Chun Kong Yiu and Zhu Kai, all existing directors of Hong Kong-based Birmingham International Holdings, have formed a new five-man board at St Andrew's, alongside existing directors Pavlakis and Victor Ma.
Rowett was dismissed with Birmingham just outside the play-off places on goal difference after winning 2-1 at home to Ipswich on Tuesday.
The club's two results prior to that were a 4-0 defeat by Newcastle, preceded by a 3-0 loss at home to Barnsley, Blues' only two defeats in seven league matches.
13:29 GMT: Club director Panos Pavlakis on Rowett: "Such a parting of the ways is always difficult, particularly so on a personal level as I have worked very closely with Gary and have got to know him well. Our relationship was very strong but in football you can never stand still.
"I would ask that our supporters trust our judgement and look forward to and embrace the future as we begin to implement the exciting vision of TTAL."
19:15 GMT: Pavlakis on Zola: "His pedigree, philosophy and ambition fits with what we would like to achieve as we move in a new direction.
"Gianfranco has a wealth of top-level experience as both manager and player and we are extremely excited about his appointment."
Zola had a 43.9% league win percentage during his most recent job in English football, as he guided Watford to third place in the Championship in 2012-13, before resigning midway through the following season.
Rowett's highest finish with Burton Albion was fourth place in 2012-13 and he left to join Birmingham with a 44.9% win percentage from 188 league games.
At Birmingham, he won 38.8% of his 98 Championship games - finishing 10th in both 2014-15 and 2015-16.
BBC Radio 5 live Midlands football reporter Pat Murphy
"Rowett took over a couple of days after Birmingham were beaten 8-0 at home by Bournemouth. They were lucky to get nil. They were rubbish.
"On a shoestring in the last two years he's got them to two 10th position finishes in a row. A little wobble recently, but these things happen.
"It's the star syndrome gone mad. Autograph hunters in charge of football clubs now."
Gavin Horne, 37, from Caerphilly, died following the incident involving a Seat Ibiza on the A4042, near Llanellen Bridge, at about 11:50 BST on Monday.
The road was closed while Gwent Police investigated, but has since reopened.
Miss Norkett, 20, from Llandarcy, Neath, had been the youngest player in the 2014 Rugby World Cup.
She died in a two-car collision on the A4109 Inter Valley Road, between Banwen and Glynneath, at about 19:40 GMT on Saturday.
The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) said it was "deeply saddened to hear the tragic news".
Miss Norkett was in her final year of a sport development degree at Cardiff Metropolitan University and planned to pursue a career in rugby coaching.
Her family described her as "kind-hearted and caring".
In a statement, they said: "She was the youngest player in the Rugby World Cup and had gained four Welsh senior caps at the age of 17.
"Elli also represented Wales at Sevens and was selected for the Great Britain Students Sevens.
"On the club front she was proud to represent Swansea Ladies and the Ospreys.
"Elli was loved and valued by many and has touched the hearts of all her family and friends due to her kind nature and endearing personality."
A spokesman for the WRU said: "A talented, dedicated player and popular teammate, Elli was a treasured member of the Welsh rugby family.
"Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this difficult time."
A statement from the Ospreys said Miss Norkett had "her whole life in front of her".
"Not only was she a talented rugby player she was a good human being, probably the most important thing about her," a spokesman said.
"As an Ospreys in the Community coach, she was an inspiration to boys and girls of all ages who enjoyed being instructed by an Osprey and a Welsh international."
South Wales Police is continuing to investigate the collision, which involved Miss Norkett's silver Toyota Yaris and a silver Vauxhall Insignia.
A 42-year-old woman and her 12-year-old passenger sustained non-life threatening injuries in the crash.
Developer PegasusLife wants to replace the Lyndhurst Park Hotel with 74 pensioner flats.
More than 240 objections have been received during the planning consultation, many calling for affordable housing to help families.
PegasusLife said the development would have "many benefits".
It plans to replace the hotel - originally built as a private mansion house in the early 19th Century - with 74 "age restricted high quality assisted living" apartments and 12 holiday lets.
Campaigner Lisa Knight said there was "overwhelming" opposition to the plans in Lyndhurst.
She said: "Our young people are being priced out. We need affordable housing for young families to bring some vibrancy into the village and help the businesses that are struggling.
"Our facilities like Scouts, the Brownies and the football team will all go if we don't encourage young people to be able to live here."
Among the objections published on the New Forest National Park (NPA) planning website, one said the village would become "one large old peoples home", another stated "the village does not need yet more age restricted residential units".
In a statement, the developer said: "PegasusLife firmly believes its proposals for the hotel will enhance the site and provide many benefits for the village and people of Lyndhurst.
"The proposals have evolved as a result of our engagement with the local community as well as an assessment in line with planning policy."
The company's application stated that as an "assisted living" development, it was not required to provide affordable housing.
Among the public comments in favour of the development, one said the building was a "blot on the landscape".
The development is due to be discussed by the NPA in the coming months.
The blaze erupted in a restaurant at Fleet services on the M3 at 22:30 GMT on Wednesday, leading police to temporarily close the southbound lanes.
Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service (HFRS) said 100 firefighters were sent to the scene.
Firefighters from Surrey were also called and crews stopped the blaze spreading to other buildings.
The fire was brought under control in the early hours. No-one was injured.
Crews have remained at the scene to dampen down and prevent any re-ignition.
The service station on the southbound carriageway and the slip road leading to it on the M3 remain closed.
The footbridge which runs over Fleet services on the M3, named after BBC Radio 1's Scott Mills, is also closed due to smoke logging.
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The allegations relate to irregularities concerning third party consultants.
The France-based aircraft manufacturer said it was co-operating with the probe, which was launched last month.
In April, UK authorities froze export credit applications by Airbus.
The SFO was asked to look at documentation provided by the company about its use of overseas agents.
Export credits are used by many governments to support exporters, often by underwriting bank loans offered to overseas buyers of UK products.
Last year Airbus used export financing for 6% of its deliveries.
The main parts of Airbus commercial aircraft are made in France, Germany and the UK.
Britain usually provides export support to Airbus in partnership with the other two nations.
Germany and France joined the UK in halting export credits.
The Chinese company said revenue fell by 8% in the three months ending in December because of slowing demand for its smartphones and computers.
However, Lenovo logged a better-than-expected quarterly profit of $300m.
Analysts had expected it to fall to around $243m.
Lenovo's chairman Yang Yuanqing said in a statement that its results "were impacted by the global macro-economic slowdown, currency fluctuations in key markets, and PC market decline".
Lenovo gets more than half of its revenue from computers but has been looking to diversify its business as the global PC market shrinks.
The firm bought Motorola Mobility from Google in 2014 for $2.9bn, making it the world's third-largest smartphone maker.
That business has yet to make a profit but Lenovo has remained optimistic about its potential in emerging markets such as Brazil and India.
"In mobile, we will build scale and efficiency to accelerate our growth in emerging markets, breakthrough in mature markets with innovative products and premium brands, and expand in the open market in China with a stronger product portfolio," Mr Yang said.
Lenovo has also undertaken an aggressive cost-cutting plan that will see more than 3000 jobs eliminated.
The Israeli army said had fired artillery shells into southern Lebanon in response to rocket fire. There are no reports of injuries on either side.
The exchange came after Samir Qantar was killed in a rocket strike near the Syrian capital, Damascus.
The Shia militant group Hezbollah blamed Israel for the air strike.
Qantar was jailed in Israel in 1979 for a notorious deadly attack, and freed as part of a controversial prisoner swap with Hezbollah in 2008.
An Israeli minister welcomed his death but did not confirm that Israel was responsible.
When asked about Israeli involvement, Construction and Housing Minister Yoav Gallant told Israel Radio: "I am not confirming or denying anything to do with this matter."
But he added: "It is good that people like Samir Qantar will not be part of our world."
Qantar was known as the "dean of Lebanese prisoners" for the time he spent imprisoned in Israel.
He was convicted of murder over an attack on a civilian apartment block in Nahariya in 1979, carried out when he was 16.
Two policemen, a man and his four-year-old daughter were killed. A baby girl was accidentally smothered by her mother as she hid in a cupboard.
He was accused of killing the four-year-old girl with a rifle butt, which he denied.
His release in 2008 in exchange for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah in 2006 was highly controversial.
Qantar is believed to have become a key figure in Hezbollah since his release.
Hezbollah has sent hundreds of fighters to fight alongside troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the country's conflict.
The rockets hit a residential building in Jaramana near Damascus on Saturday night. The area is a stronghold of government supporters.
The Assad loyalist group, the National Defence Forces in Jaramana, said: "Two Israeli warplanes carried out the raid which targeted the building in Jaramana and struck the designated place with four long-range missiles."
Israel is believed to have carried out a number of attacks inside Syria during its civil conflict, targeting Hezbollah.
It means the men's winner this summer will win entry to next year's Masters, US Open, Open and US PGA Championship.
Exemptions for the 2016 Evian Championship and next year's ANA Inspiration, Women's PGA Championship, US Women's Open and Women's Open will be given to the winning woman.
Golf is returning to the Olympics in August for the first time in 112 years.
Masters chairman Billy Payne told a news conference at Augusta National: "We believe our game's visibility will be dramatically elevated by the global platform that only the Olympics offer.
"From this greater visibility, we believe will evolve greater participation in our game, and it will be a certain beneficiary."
While some of the world's top players would already hold exemptions to the majors, Pete Bevacqua, the chief executive officer of the PGA of America, said: "From our perspective, whether it's someone that is in the top rankings of the world or someone who is that Cinderella story, in both ways it's a positive."
Exemptions for major tournaments can be achieved in a variety of ways, such as being a previous winner, while world rankings can also play a part.
The Central Election Commission said 80% of voters backed the reforms, from a turnout of 42%.
Backers say the reforms make government more efficient, but critics say they were designed to prolong President Almazbek Atambayev's grip on power.
Here's what you need to know.
Aside from measures to strengthen the prime minister, there are a raft of other changes.
Under the old constitution, Kyrgyz citizens could turn to international organisations such as the UN's Human Rights Committee if they felt that their rights had been infringed.
If the organisation agreed, the Kyrgyz constitution said the government had to take measures to reinstate their rights or compensate the damage. This clause has now been removed and decisions by international organisations may no longer be recognised.
The new constitution will also allow the government to revoke a person's citizenship, and says that the country's judges are bound by "certain restrictions" which are not defined.
And it changes the definition of marriage to "a union between a man and a woman", which many have viewed as a constitutional ban on gay marriage.
The new constitution significantly increases the power of the prime minister. He and his deputies can now be members of parliament and keep their executive offices at the same time - barred under the previous constitution.
Critics of the changes say that this creates a clash of interests, since the head of the cabinet will be responsible for implementing laws he voted on in parliament. But the government points to Western democracies in which this is standard, including the UK.
The prime minister will also be able to appoint heads of local administration without the recommendation of the local judiciary body, and he will be able to dismiss members of the cabinet himself without the president's approval, except the ministers for defence and security.
Government legislators say that the new constitution will address "problems" with the previous document, passed in 2010, and strengthen the country's independence. They argue that the changes will clarify the process of collaboration between executive and legislative branches.
Opposition members say that the changes were made to help President Atambayev cling on to power. His current term will finish next year and he will not be able to run for the presidency again, but critics have pointed out that he will be eligible to become prime minister - the very office which has had its powers increased - and de facto continue running the country.
Kyrgyzstan is the only state in Central Asia to have a parliamentary system of government and it has been referred to as "an island of democracy" in a region prone to authoritarian regimes.
Critics of the changes say they fear that the new constitution will dilute Kyrgyzstan's democracy, reducing checks and balances and making it harder to protect human rights. Activists have voiced concerns that the power to revoke citizenship could be used to threaten dissidents.
But the government argues that the changes will improve the work of different branches and prevent clashes between the parliament and the cabinet, which can bog down legislation.
14 June 2017 Last updated at 15:16 BST
They're a type marine fish, related to a sea horse, and can be found in the ocean around Australia.
Nick-named 'Weedies', scientists are now worried that the little seadragons might be endangered.
So, they are asking divers to take photographs of them and send them in for research.
Then they use a special type of facial recognition software to identify each seadragon.
One of the three, Aymeric Chauprade, is an independent right-wing member of the European parliament.
The pilots were arrested in 2013 preparing to take off in a plane carrying 26 suitcases of cocaine.
They were sentenced to 20 years but during the appeal process fled to the French Antilles and then on to France.
Announcing the warrants for Mr Chauprade and fellow French nationals Christophe Naudin and Pierre Malinowski, Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito alleged the trio had helped organise the escape from the Dominican Republic of pilots Pascal Fauret and Bruno Odos.
The pilots were convicted in Santo Domingo in August in the so-called "Air Cocaine" drug-trafficking case.
They had been arrested in March 2013 at the resort of Punta Cana on a privately hired jet carrying 680kg (1,500lb) of cocaine.
After their conviction they were freed under the judicial review process and barred from leaving the country.
But they reportedly escaped by boat to the French Antilles and from there by plane to France.
French media earlier said the pilots had worked previously for the French navy and had been helped by former intelligence agents.
The French government said it had nothing to do with their escape.
The pilots say they are innocent and have vowed to clear their name.
They were arrested earlier this month in Lyon but legal experts say an extradition is unlikely.
The bone, now being cleaned ahead of tests, could be between 500,000 and two million years old.
Archaeologists Dan Chamberlain and Russell Yeomans made the find near West Runton where a full mammoth skeleton was unearthed in 1990.
Fossils are often found as cliffs crumble between Sheringham and Happisburgh.
The cliffs are the raised bed of a fresh water river that existed long before the ice ages and contain the fossilised bones of many now extinct animals that roamed the area, the archaeologists said.
The bone will be dated and tested by experts at Norfolk's archaeological unit.
1 June 2016 Last updated at 13:11 BST
It is the first fully funded state pension in East Africa.
Each pensioner will be entitled to 20,000 Tanzanian shillings ($9, £6) a month.
Campaigners have welcomed the move and say it will lead to a huge improvement, not just in the lives of the elderly - considered to be among the poorest in society - but for the rest of the country as well.
BBC Africa's Sammy Awami reports.
Resuming on 138-2 in reply to Somerset's 553-8 declared, Petersen (155) shared century stands with Liam Livingstone (57) and Steven Croft (58).
Petersen and Croft were then both out in the space of six balls.
Although Luke Procter went cheaply, Lancashire closed safely on 422-9.
Somerset lead by 131 runs going into the final day but, with rain forecast in Manchester, a draw looks almost certain.
After losing just one wicket in the first two sessions, the evening session proved dramatic by comparison as the end of the 157-run stand between Petersen and Croft triggered the fall of six wickets, three of them for visiting paceman Lewis Gregory.
But the hosts reached the close with Tom Bailey on 17 and last man Toby Lester still to score on his first Championship appearance for a year.
Both sides would receive 10 points if the game is drawn, to further improve their hopes of staying in Division One.
Lancashire centurion Alviro Petersen told BBC Radio Lancashire:
"We started off by saying that we wanted to bat the whole day because that was the only way in which we could avoid the follow-on. There were some decent partnerships and we've done that.
"Somerset ensured we couldn't win the game but it's pretty tough when the follow-on is 400 runs away but it's the sort of wicket that, if you get into a partnership, the easier it becomes to score runs.
"It was nice that the top order took responsibility. In cricket, you're never satisfied but I think that the season has gone all right for me but it's not about personal achievements."
After a win for each in Iowa and New Hampshire, the next round took place on Thursday evening with a debate in Milwaukee, during which the pair clashed over President Obama's legacy.
These are key moments in the campaign. Mr Sanders will try to convince a national audience that his strong performance in Iowa and his victory on Tuesday were no flukes, while Mrs Clinton will need to demonstrate that Mr Sanders has no path to victory.
So, perhaps the next round actually started on Tuesday evening in New Hampshire.
Polls had barely closed when Mrs Clinton's campaign manager Robby Mook sent out a memo papering over the loss by explaining why the first two states mattered little because they were unrepresentative of the typical Democratic electorate (both were at least 90% white and far more liberal).
He threw forward to the upcoming contests in Nevada and South Carolina.
"The nomination will very likely be won in March, not February," wrote Mr Mook. "And we believe that Hillary Clinton is well positioned to build a strong - potentially insurmountable - delegate lead next month."
Some 56% of delegates will be delivered in those contests.
Even if Mrs Clinton is still the front-runner nationally and well ahead in endorsements and delegate counts, Mr Sanders is gaining momentum and giving her a run for her money, literally.
He outraised her in January and he will likely do it again in February. Since his big win on Tuesday, he's already raised almost $7m (£4.8m).
Mr Sanders knows he has a Sisyphean climb to the nomination, but even if he can't win he will stay in the race as long as he has the money to do so. He can challenge Mrs Clinton and push her as far as left as he can.
So there's also a frantic battle to rack up the endorsements. My inbox is flooded by email from both campaigns touting the latest high profile personalities or politicians who have sided with each candidate.
Today, it was American singer Harry Belafonte for Mr Sanders and members of the Black Congressional Caucus for Mrs Clinton.
Except for the wide margin by which Mr Sanders won on Tuesday, none of what we have seen so far is a total surprise.
Last summer, I already heard from the Clinton campaign that they were looking at the possibility of losing Iowa and New Hampshire and banking on primaries and caucuses in March.
Needless to say, Mrs Clinton would have preferred a different race, one where her position as the prohibitive nominee is not put in doubt by a 74-year-old self-described socialist senator from Vermont.
The question now is whether the rest of the campaign plays out according to this scenario. Does Mrs Clinton go on to win in Nevada, South Carolina and most of the March states, leaving behind the narrative of a campaign in trouble?
Probably, but the Clinton campaign is taking nothing for granted in a year when both the Republican and the Democratic races have been upended by a strong dose of populism.
And that's been Mrs Clinton's main failing so far - running a solid but traditional campaign in a year of insurgents, a year when people want to hear uplifting speeches or simple solutions. The former secretary of state has provided neither, for two reasons.
Mrs Clinton doesn't do simple solutions. She is always the woman with the plan.
As a candidate, she has a plan to reduce college debt, to tackle climate change and create jobs through renewable energy industries, fund research to cure Alzheimer's, and tackle the opiate epidemic in New Hampshire.
Sitting through Mrs Clinton's stump speech as she goes through all these issues can be dizzying.
Neera Tanden, an informal advisor to the campaign and head of the left-leaning Center for American Progress, told me that Mrs Clinton is simply responding to the concerns voters have expressed to her.
"The sum total of Hillary's campaign is that 'there are a lot of problems that the country faces and I have ideas to solve them and the ability to get it done'," she said.
"People have talked to her about Alzheimer's, or substance abuse in New Hampshire," she added.
But absent in the binders of plans is the clear, succinct formulation of a vision that inspires, gives hope and captures the imagination of those young people who are flocking to Mr Sanders.
And that's the second issue - Mrs Clinton has never been one for big promises and soaring speeches. She's a pragmatic policy nerd who looks at a problem from all angles, a public servant rather than a politician with sales skills.
As secretary of state she was often frustrated by President Barack Obama's lofty rhetoric, which came with no detailed, workable plan - just think of his 2009 Cairo speech, which was meant to reset the relationship with the Muslim world.
But Mrs Clinton will have to inject a bit more poetry in her campaign without sounding contrived - and without looking like she's mimicking her opponent.
In her last campaign events in New Hampshire she started peppering her speeches with the expression "imagine a world where" as she laid out her solutions.
It can feel hackneyed for a speechwriter, but the word ''imagine'' polls well with voters.
Her concession speech on Tuesday night was one of her best so far, and more inspiring than Mr Sander's victory speech.
So will Mrs Clinton shake up her campaign staff as has been reported?
Probably not, though her team will be taking stock and try to understand why they've not been able to tap into the sense of frustration of young voters and adjust the messaging accordingly.
Too much of the focus is currently on Mrs Clinton's resume and her history working on issues such as healthcare or children's rights, and not enough on appealing to voters' emotions, including in her television ads.
This might require bringing in fresh blood rather than firing people, while buckling down on their strategy in the next two contests and the March states.
But in tonight's debate, Mrs Clinton's challenge will be threefold - inspire with a more succinctly formulated vision and undermine Mr Sanders without angering his supporters. But she will need to signal openness to Mr Sanders without giving fodder to the Republicans and weakening her position in a general match up.
"She's under an interesting constraint in this primary. She doesn't want to alienate Bernie Sanders and she doesn't want to alienate that young constituency. She needs him and she needs his supporters [to win in November]" said Washington Post columnist EJ Dionne.
In a general election, Democrats are dependent on high turnout of voters under 35.
The Republican Pac America Rising has already lumped both together in a video decrying how the Democratic party is being transformed into a Democratic socialist party and the dangers they believe this represents for America.
This is the kind of three-dimensional chess that Mrs Clinton usually handles well. So the road ahead is about to get a bit easier for her, while it gets harder for Mr Sanders, who will now start to come under intense scrutiny.
They'll meet in the middle of the road for a hard slog over the next couple of weeks.
I'm not going to trouble you with any more of my predictions for the actual result - there are plenty of people playing that game already.
But is it already possible to consider how we will look back at this election once it is all said and done?
The man who used to be charge of the Civil Service, Lord Gus O'Donnell, who was so instrumental in putting together the coalition in 2010 thinks it is, and that there are two very significant shifts that makes this election very significant, and potentially very messy.
Interestingly, his observations apply, whoever ends up in Number 10.
Talking to me for Newsnight, Lord O'Donnell was clear: the probable significant success of the SNP will "put extra tension" on the union between Scotland and the rest of the UK, and the union will be "subject to strains".
Cabinet Secretary, the highest office in the Civil Service, from 2005 to 2011 under Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron.
On stepping down the post was split into three separate positions.
1989-1990: Press Secretary for the Chancellor
1990-1994: Press Secretary to the Prime Minister
2002-2005: Permanent Secretary of the Treasury
2012: Created a life peer as Baron O'Donnell, of Clapham
Also held director level positions at the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Government Economics Service
The SNP of course say, time and time again, that this election is not about independence.
This old Whitehall hand, however, believes their likely transition to the third biggest party at Westminster will put new pressure on the UK as an entity.
But he also believes, as the share of the votes of the mainstream parties declines, and we move to a multi party system, the incoming government may face "legitimacy issues" because there will be "unparalleled divergence between votes cast and seats received".
Lord O'Donnell, a cross bench peer said: "It looks likely the Conservatives will win England, the SNP will win in Scotland, and we will end up, quite possibly with Ed Miliband and Labour running the UK.
"People will think at the end of this, are there better systems? On 8 May, is this relationship between votes and seats so out of kilter that we should think again about it?"
Although the public overwhelmingly rejected a move to an alternative vote system, Lord O'Donnell suggests the voting system is not fit for purpose.
The irony of course, is that over the course of the last Parliament, the public have been consulted on whether it was time to end the union, and whether the voting system need to change.
In both cases, voters chose the status quo.
But will the likely messy outcome of next week's ballot cause people to think again?
Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche was one of two men who were stabbed to death on a train on Friday in Portland, Oregon.
Another passenger was wounded before the attacker was arrested.
Police have identified the suspect as Jeremy Joseph Christian, 35, a convicted felon.
Reports in Oregon named the other man who died as Ricky John Best, 53, a father of four and an Army veteran.
A senior researcher with the Southern Poverty Law Center, a hate-attack monitoring group, said Mr Christian's Facebook page said he held "some racist and other extremist beliefs".
An article in a Portland local alternative publication reported that he was a "known white supremacist" who had previously given a Nazi salute at a right-wing march.
The police have declined to share details of his criminal history.
Mr Christian has been charged with offences including aggravated murder, attempted murder, intimidation and being a felon in possession of a restricted weapon.
"Suspect was on the train and he was yelling and ranting and raving a lot of different things, including what would be characterised as hate speech or biased language," said Sergeant Pete Simpson.
"In the midst of his ranting and raving, some people approached him, appeared to try to intervene with his behaviour.
"Some of the people that he was yelling at, they were attacked viciously by the suspect, resulting in the two deaths and one injury."
Mr Namkai-Meche's mother wrote on Facebook: "My dear baby boy passed on yesterday while protecting two young Muslim girls from a racist man on the train in Portland.
"He was a hero and will remain a hero on the other side of the veil.
"Shining bright star I love you forever."
Mr Christian was arrested shortly after he got off the train. The two women he was abusing - one of whom was said by eyewitnesses to have been wearing a headscarf - left the scene before police could speak to them.
However one of the girls' parents later told the Oregonian newspaper that they were teenagers.
Dyjuana Hudson said the attacker "was saying that Muslims should die".
The 27-year-old, who joined the Toffees from Manchester United in 2015, has played only twice since 5 November.
An England international, he spent the 2009-10 season on loan with Watford, then in the Championship, and won the club's Player of the Season award.
The Hornets have an option to buy Cleverley, who leaves Everton after they signed Morgan Schneiderlin.
The France international moved to Goodison Park for an initial £20m, rising to £24m.
The blaze broke out at a property in Berry Street, Clifton, just after midnight, police said.
The body of a man, who has not been named, was discovered inside the property by firefighters.
A joint investigation with Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service and Greater Manchester Police has been started to establish what caused the fire.
A senior official at the National Agency For Food and Drugs (Nafdac) said the minister's Twitter statement "is not their position".
Health Minister Isaac Adewole had tweeted that tests by the agency found "no evidence" of plastic material.
About 2.5 tonnes of the "plastic" rice has been confiscated.
Rice is Nigeria's staple food and it is a tradition for people to give bags of rice as a gift during the Christmas period.
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Lagos customs chief Haruna Mamudu said on Wednesday the fake rice was intended to be sold during the festive season but has not commented on the health minister's statement.
The official at Nafdac told the BBC's Stephanie Hegarty that the tests were still ongoing:
"We are not done with comprehensive tests. We are still in the laboratory. We haven't concluded analysis and it is not something we can conclude in two days."
"We are yet to conclude the chemical and biological analysis," he added.
Mr Adewole had said the agency would "release detailed findings to public as soon as it concludes investigations", adding that Nigerians should remain calm.
It is not clear where the 102 seized sacks of rice came from but rice made from plastic pellets was found in China last year.
Mr Mamudu had said the rice was very sticky after it was boiled and "only God knows what would have happened" if people ate it.
The BBC's Martin Patience in Lagos, who felt the rice, said it looked real but had a faint chemical odour.
The Lagos customs chief had called on "economic saboteurs who see yuletide season as a peak period for their nefarious acts to desist from such illegal" business activity.
We haven't heard any reports that the rice is still on sale in markets. Customs officials were investigating but as of now have found nothing.
Nigeria's custom officials say they seized a total of 102 sacks, each containing 25kg (55lb), branded "Best Tomato Rice".
It is, however, unclear how many bags had been sold, if any, and if there are other forms of contraband in the market.
We haven't heard of any members of the public eating it.
Customs officials cooked the rice and said that the texture was very gummy and it smelled odd, they refused to eat it.
When asked the same question on Twitter, Health Minister Isaac Adewole joked that no, he wouldn't eat it without salt.
An unverified video of the rice being cooked has been shared on social media.
In it the cook says the rice catches fire and sticks on the pan.
Very worried. There have been several media reports warning the public about fake foodstuffs especially from China and their potential dangers.
Speaking to the BBC's World Have Your Say programme Ibrahim, from Kano State, said selling fake rice was wickedness of the highest order.
Customs officials did say that they were awaiting tests by Nafdac, the food standard agency, before they could confirm what the rice was made of.
They suggested they would accept the results of those tests.
However, a customs agent told the BBC that the texture of the rice was like nothing he had seen before.
It is possible that this is a different type of rice that they weren't familiar with.
It is also possible that the Ministry of Health is making an effort to avoid public hysteria in the run-up to Christmas.
Exactly how it gets rid of the abnormal build-up is not understood.
The small Nature Communications study hints at a way to tackle the disease even once its in full swing, dementia experts say.
But there is no proof the same method would work in people - many more years of animal trials are needed first.
Currently, there is no cure for Alzheimer's disease. Treatments can lessen the symptoms, but scientists are looking for ways to prevent, halt or reverse the disease.
As the dementia progresses, more plaques (clumps of abnormal proteins and chemicals) form in the brain and healthy brain cells die off.
Scientists reason that preventing or removing the plaques might help, and many drug candidates are in development.
Some drugs still being tested appear to stop the plaques from forming - but that is if it taken early enough, before the disease has advanced.
However, the South Korean researchers believe they may have found a molecule, called EPPS, that could work even if plaques have already formed.
They gave EPPS to mice (bred to have the Alzheimer's plaques) by spiking their drinking water for two weeks, and then monitored them over the next three months to see what effect it might have.
Compared with a control group of mice who received only normal water, the EPPS mice performed better on memory and learning problems (running through a maze).
The EPPS mice also had far fewer plaques in their brain at the end of the trial than they had had at the beginning. The same could not be said for the control group.
The Alzheimer's Society and Alzheimer's Research UK said it was important to remain cautious - animal study findings may never apply to humans.
Prof Tom Dening, an expert in dementia research at the University of Nottingham, said: "From a clinician's point of view, this research is of interest, but we still don't know if removing amyloid plaques is useful in humans.
"It may well be that the appearance of plaques is too far down the chain of molecular processes to be beneficial.
"We don't know if this animal work will lead to any useful agent that can be used for clinical trials."
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New drugs, treatments and therapies are coming on stream and patients understandably want them.
The burden of chronic disease continues to rise and that has a price tag.
Then there is the familiar underlying trend of an increasing and ageing population.
All this adds up to a financial squeeze on the NHS in England and there have been new warnings about the impact of that in the next few years.
The debate over the HIV prevention drug PrEP focused partly on how to meet rising patient expectations with a constrained budget.
The Aids campaign charity that won the High Court battle over the NHS funding the drug (though there will be an appeal) argued it was cost-effective, with the bills for lifetime care of an HIV patient greater than the cost of the preventative medicine.
NHS England, however, said if it did decide to fund PrEP it would have to be assessed against other requests for new specialist drugs, including one for children with cystic fibrosis.
The thinly veiled message from NHS chiefs was that if voters want the service to provide more, then higher funding will be required.
As patient expectations increase, so too does the requirement for the NHS to cope with chronic diseases across the population.
A report from NHS England has laid bare the financial consequences of diabetes.
It said that in the last financial year (2015-16) there were nearly 50 million items prescribed for diabetes at a cost of more than £950m, compared with about 27 million and just under £515m a decade earlier.
The bill last year made up about 10.5% of all primary care prescribing in England, compared with about 6.5% in 2005-06. A continued increase in those numbers seems inevitable.
Few would doubt that the pressures will intensify and a new appraisal of the financial implications has been drawn up by the Nuffield Trust think tank.
Author Sally Gainsbury returns to the thorny issue of the £22bn of annual efficiency savings that have to be made in England by 2020. She argues that even if hospitals and other trusts manage efficiency improvements of 2% per year there will still be a £6bn gap in 2020.
More ambitious efficiency improvements will be required but that has not been achieved at a sustained rate at any time in the history of the NHS.
Nuffield's conclusion is that curbing the growth in demand for services will be required, which will be a big ask for local health commissioners.
The bleak alternatives, according to the think tank, will be extending waiting times, narrowing the range of patients eligible for treatment or cuts to services.
Chris Hopson of NHS Providers, representing trusts in England, argued that the report was another important piece of evidence that the service faced deep-rooted systemic problems: "We need to be honest with the public about the consequences of the longest and deepest financial squeeze in NHS history. The NHS will be performing heroically well to just maintain existing standards of care."
Further scepticism about the £22bn of efficiency savings has emerged with a survey of health professionals who have signed up to attend the UK Health Show in September.
Of the 400 who responded, 85% said they were not confident the savings could be delivered in full. Only 10% were confident that the £5bn of hospital cost savings identified by the government adviser Lord Carter could be achieved.
NHS England recently unveiled plans to help trusts control spending this year, including a relaxation of the fines regime.
A carrot-and-stick approach has been adopted to link additional funding for trusts to efficiency savings. Chief executive Simon Stevens talked of stabilising the finances and "kick-starting wider changes".
But the financial challenges for the NHS are immense.
They are likely to occupy an increasing amount of Theresa May's time once the holiday season is over and the new team at No 10 Downing Street have their feet fully under the table.
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There have been yet more reminders this week about the intense pressures on the NHS.
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Resuming on 258-7, England lost Chris Woakes to the first ball of the day and were all out for 293, debutant spinner Mehedi Hasan Miraz finishing with 6-80.
Moeen Ali claimed two wickets in the final over before lunch but Tamim Iqbal made an assured 78, with seven fours.
Gareth Batty, after a world record gap of 142 Tests, ousted Tamim and Ben Stokes trapped Mushfiqur Rahim late on.
Batty, 39, is playing his first Test since 2005 but is some distance from the longest spell between Test appearances in terms of time, which is the 22 years and 222 days held by John Traicos, who played for South Africa and Zimbabwe either side of apartheid.
Bangladesh, in their first Test since August 2015, have lost all eight of their previous Tests against England.
The England spinners stuck valiantly to their task, but were unable to match the consistent brilliance 18-year-old Mehedi had shown with the ball.
Returning to Test cricket after an absence of 11 years and 137 days, Batty opened the bowling, only the third time since 1928 that England have begun a first innings with a spinner.
There was no immediate fairytale as his first delivery was savagely cut to the boundary, and it was Moeen - England's top-scorer with the bat - who made the breakthrough with a magical delivery that pitched on middle stump and clipped the off bail of left-hander Imrul Kayes.
Three balls later Moeen found more turn and bounce to take the edge of Mominul Haque, caught at slip via wicketkeeper Bairstow's pad.
But Moeen could not repeat his exploits for the remainder of the day and, though Adil Rashid dislodged Mahmudullah in the final over before tea, the Bangladesh batsman had shared a 90-run partnership with Tamim.
Left-hander Tamim, who successfully reviewed a catch to slip on 55, has now scored five fifties and two centuries in nine Test innings against England but was denied an eighth Test hundred when he got a bottom edge to 39-year-old Batty.
In the closing stages under the floodlights it was the seamers who looked more dangerous, Stokes ending an obdurate partnership of 58 by finding Mushfiqur's edge for the first wicket by a pace bowler in the match.
After seeing the pitch spin so dramatically on day one, England's quest for an imposing total was immediately dented when Woakes was smartly caught at short leg.
Stuart Broad, no stranger to the review system, had successfully overturned an lbw dismissal but was the final wicket to fall when technology detected the merest noise from the bat off Mehedi, bowling his 40th over.
It was the 10th review of the innings, a Test record.
It was also the first time since December 1987 that all 10 England wickets had fallen to spin.
England spinner Gareth Batty on BBC Test Match Special: "It's probably evenly poised. We finished really well at the end, the seamers bowled really well and the game has ebbed and flowed a bit.
"You felt like the batters were on top at times and the bowlers came back into it and vice-versa. It's going to be a hell of a game of cricket.
"Just sticking the shirt on itself is a huge honour so the nerves start jingling at that point, then you stick a new ball into the equation, then you have the boys at the top singing Jerusalem. If your emotions are not buzzing I would say you're probably not an Englishman.
Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal: "I think we are slightly at an advantaged position at the end of the second day. We still have wickets in hand. We will gain the upper hand if we can bat well in the first session [on Saturday].
"A batsman is never set on this wicket, even if he is batting on 70, 80 or 100. You will be in trouble if you think you are set. Something keeps happening every over. It is a difficult wicket."
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: "Bangladesh made England work hard, and the tourists took all of their wickets in clusters really.
"All the signs are that this pitch is deteriorating and it's making for a fascinating contest."
Former England women's batter Ebony Rainford-Brent: "I thought Bangladesh might fold after Moeen took those two wickets before lunch but they batted well, particularly Tamim.
"The England seamers can still come into play in this game. They have a few more tricks up their sleeve than the Bangladesh quicks. You saw how Ben Stokes was able to bowl quick at the end of the day."
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Bangladesh moved to within 72 runs of England at 221-5 after two days of a captivating first Test in Chittagong.
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The hosts were facing a heavy defeat after closing on 169-7 on Monday, still 150 short of making Ireland bat again.
Paul Stirling dismissed JJ Smit before spinner George Dockrell sealed victory with the final two Namibia wickets.
Ireland, who declared on 570-6, top the table with maximum points from their opening two games.
A second-wicket stand of 326 between skipper William Porterfield (186) and Ed Joyce (205) laid the foundations for a big total.
Tim Murtagh starred with the ball, taking 2-44 in Namibia's first innings before a superb opening spell in the second innings.
His three quick wickets helped to reduce Namibia to 12-4 and he finished with figures of 4-18.
Dockrell chipped in with five wickets in this one-sided encounter which leaves Ireland 14 points clear at the summit.
Ireland opened their Intercontinental Cup campaign with an innings and 26 runs success against United Arab Emirates.
The Algeria international, 25, had been strongly linked with a move to Arsenal this summer.
He scored 17 goals and added 11 assists last season and was voted the Professional Footballers' Association Players' Player of the Year.
Mahrez joins team-mates Wes Morgan, Jamie Vardy, Kasper Schmeichel and Andy King in signing new contracts.
Manager Claudio Ranieri has also signed a new four-year deal and, after losing midfielder N'Golo Kante to Chelsea, has repeatedly reiterated his desire to keep hold of the club's top players.
Mahrez joined the Foxes from French second-tier side Le Havre in January 2014.
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Politics professor George Jones said half of a recent Thanet District Council meeting was "wasted" by councillors arguing.
The council is currently under Labour control, after the Conservatives lost their majority when a councillor quit the party to become an Independent.
Councillors have reacted with mixed views to Prof Jones's analysis.
After being shown the webcast by BBC South East Today of the last full council meeting in September, Prof Jones, who lectures at the London School of Economics and Political Science, said it was "clearly dysfunctional".
"It's a tremendously important meeting, but it bores the pants off most of the public who see no reason for tuning in," he said.
"What we've seen are these councillors contemplating their own navels.
"They've turned in on themselves and their own private and personal grudges, and not devoted themselves to matters that are really matters of public interest."
In November 2011 Councillor John Worrow left the Conservatives and became one of four Independents on the council.
This resulted in Labour taking control of the authority, after nine years of Conservative rule.
Since then Mr Worrow said the Conservative councillors have run a campaign against him, by lodging a string of official complaints and putting forward a vote of no confidence in him.
Mr Worrow, who is bisexual, was left a voicemail message by Tory councillor Ken Gregory saying, "with a bit of luck you'll get Aids".
Gregory received a police caution for this and was suspended from the party for six months.
Leader of the Conservative group Bob Bayford denied there was any campaign against Mr Worrow.
"Quite frankly I'm getting tired of my group being called homophobic because that isn't the case," he said.
He added: "In all honesty we don't feel very good about it [Mr Worrow leaving] and we think it's through what we perceive as the disloyalty of one our members that has led to the change of power."
Labour's council leader, Clive Hart, said: "I can honestly say with my hand on my heart that my group, we come in we do the business and get on with the job in hand."
However, Independent councillor Ian Driver said behaviour within the chamber could be akin to bullying.
"It's almost like a tribalistic gang culture that has developed," he said.
Operators at Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua temple, known as the Tiger Temple, are accused of wildlife trafficking and animal abuse. They deny the charges.
On Wednesday, wildlife officials found the bodies of 40 dead tiger cubs at the temple complex west of Bangkok.
The temple has been accused by experts of not keeping the animals properly and illegal trade in tiger parts.
Body parts found at the temple have increased suspicions that it is run as an admission-charging zoo while engaging in unethical breeding and trafficking of endangered animals.
Tiger Temple's long history of controversy
BBC visit to the Tiger Temple in 2012
The Buddhist temple first started taking in tigers nearly 20 years ago and since then has developed into a big and profitable tourist attraction.
Wildlife activists have accused the temple of illegally breeding tigers while online commentators have complained that the animals seem to be sedated.
The temple denies these accusations.
Department of National Parks spokesman Adisorn Nuchdamrong told the Reuters news agency that 22 people had been charged with wildlife possession and trafficking, including 17 members of the temple's foundation and three monks caught trying to flee with a truckload of tiger skins on Thursday.
It followed the discovery of the 40 dead tiger cubs inside a freezer.
Correspondents say it is not clear why the dead cubs were being stored. Tiger bones and body parts are used in traditional Chinese medicine.
"We've confiscated all the hard disks of closed circuit cameras in this temple for police to find evidence of wrongdoing," Mr Adisorn said.
The temple officially opened in 1994 near a wild tiger habitat. Its first cub was found by villagers in 1999. Since then they have continued to bring cubs to the temple, especially when their mothers are killed by poachers.
Monks have prevented frequent moves to close it.
Thailand is a renowned centre of trafficking of illicit wildlife products, including ivory.
The wildlife department first raided the temple on Monday. Most of the 137 tigers inside the complex have now been removed.
The 142-page "discussion draft" repeals most of President Barack Obama's signature health law.
The Senate plan drops a requirement for individuals to have health insurance and eliminates taxes on the wealthy.
Republicans, who released the bill after weeks of behind-closed-door talks, need 50 votes to pass it.
That means they can only afford to have two Republican rebels voting against it when it comes to the floor next week. No Democrats are expected to back it.
Repealing Mr Obama's law, called the Affordable Care Act but also known as Obamacare, was a central promise of Republicans throughout his presidency.
Senators wrote their own version after their colleagues in the House of Representatives passed Obamacare repeal legislation six weeks ago.
The legislation affects tens of millions of Americans and a fifth of the US economy.
Senate Majority Mitch McConnell, who crafted most of the plan, presented the Better Care Reconciliation Act Of 2017 to the upper chamber on Thursday.
"Republicans believe we have a responsibility to act - and we are," Mr McConnell said in a speech on the Senate floor.
The bill mostly aligns with a measure passed by the House last month, but ties federal subsidies for individuals based on their income rather than age - as the Affordable Care Act currently does.
It would make it more difficult for recipients to qualify for those subsidies, however, by implementing more restrictions on income requirements.
Critics of the House bill, which tied the subsidies to age, say it unfairly penalised older Americans.
The Senate plan phases out the expansion of Medicaid, a government health programme for the low-income Americans, more gradually than the House bill.
But it would impose deeper long-term cuts to the programme.
The bill also gives states more latitude in requiring insurers to provide essential health benefits guaranteed under Obamacare, including emergency and maternity care and mental health services.
Details of the draft also include:
The great unveiling - Anthony Zurcher, BBC News North America reporter
The curtain has finally come up on the Senate healthcare bill, and the product of weeks of back-room negotiations looks a lot like the oft-derided House version.
Sure, there are a few key differences. In some places, it's more moderate - keeping in place income-adjusted subsidies to help less affluent Americans purchase insurance, for instance.
In other areas the cuts are actually much more aggressive.
It appears Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hopes to mollify moderates and hard-liners by pushing the painful changes to low-income insurance programmes farther down the road.
Whether that's enough to cobble together the bare-minimum 50 votes necessary from the 52 Republicans in the Senate will be the big question next week.
Moderates and at-risk senators up for re-election last year are the ones to watch - folks like Susan Collins of Maine, Dean Heller of Nevada and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
The others may groan, and try to wrangle a few last-minute deals to sweeten the pot, but they face the same reality as their House brethren.
They've spent the last seven years saying they'd tear Obamacare up "root and branch", in Mr McConnell's words, and they can't risk walking away empty handed.
Senator McConnell expects the bill to come to the Senate floor as early as next week, when the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office releases the plan's estimated cost and impact on Americans.
But many have expressed concern over both the House and Senate bills to overhaul the system.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has already been critical of the plan.
"I think the death spiral of Obamacare continues," he said. "The Republican plan doesn't fix that; the Republican plan just subsidises it."
Asked whether he has seen the bill, Arizona Republican John McCain said on Tuesday: "No, nor have I met any American that has.
"I'm sure the Russians have been able to hack in and gotten most of it."
Democrats stand firmly against it and are expected to ask for more time to review the measure.
He was best known for his Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, which was composed in 1976 and sold more than a million copies following a 1992 re-release.
The symphony - part of which drew on an inscription scrawled on a Nazi prison wall during World War II - featured vocals from US soprano Dawn Upshaw.
It was often played on radio station Classic FM when it launched in 1992.
Gorecki had been suffering from a prolonged illness, a spokeswoman for Polish Radio's National Symphony Orchestra said.
Monumental style
Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki was born close to the industrial city of Katowice in southern Poland, where he studied music and taught at the city's music academy.
His early works were avant-garde in style, and later influenced by folk music of his native land.
By the 1970s he had developed the monumental style for which he became famous.
He was often at odds with the communist authorities in Poland and withdrew from public life in the 1980s to concentrate on composing.
His Symphony No. 3, which dealt with themes of war and separation in a slow, stark style, became the best-selling record by a contemporary composer.
Gorecki had completed his fourth symphony, the premiere of which was shelved on account of his illness.
Last month he was awarded the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest honour.
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She injured herself early on in the race but not wanting to give up, she limped her way around the track to the finish line.
The crowds appreciated her effort and willed her on by cheering louder for her than the person winning the race.
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Isle of Wight Council said the vessel was halted "as a precaution due to anticipated high winds and low tides".
A launch was used to ferry foot passengers from 05:00 BST with the ferry resuming service from 07:00.
The vessel has had a bumpy launch: it broke down a day after starting service on 14 May leading to its suspension and has also grounded since its re-launch.
The council said a build up of silt that caused the first grounding when the new £3.2m service was resumed on 7 June had been cleared.
The re-launch followed its suspension due to "training issues" on its second day in service on 15 May by the Maritime Coastguard Agency (MCA).
What caused the grounding on 10 June is yet to be revealed by the authority.
The chain ferry, which operates between Cowes and East Cowes, was brought after its predecessor was retired in January and cuts a 10-mile road diversion for drivers.
On Friday more than 130 campaigners who have nicknamed the chain ferry "Floaty McFloatfarce" protested against a range of design faults on the ferry.
The former WBO Featherweight Champion was sentenced to four years in prison by a court in Malaga in 2012.
A European arrest warrant was issued by the Spanish authorities after claims he left before starting the sentence.
Earlier this year a Scottish sheriff ruled the 37-year-old, from Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, could be extradited. Appeal judges have upheld the ruling.
Earlier this year, Harrison's legal team argued at Edinburgh Sheriff Court that the Spanish authorities had not followed extradition law when they issued a European Arrest Warrant for him.
Sheriff Thomas Welsh QC, however, ruled that the former boxer should be extradited.
Harrison's lawyers sought leave to appeal that decision but their application was rejected by Lord Carloway, sitting with Lady Smith and Lady Clark.
Lord Carloway also said bail would be refused, after which Harrison was handcuffed and led away from court by security officers.
Eilidh Doyle, Zoey Clark, Chris O'Hare and Steph Twell sealed their spots with gold medals, while Josh Kerr and Eilish McColgan also secured their places.
Andrew Butchart's performance on Saturday ensured he joined the four who had qualified previously.
The 11 Scots now in the GB & NI team surpasses the previous best of seven.
And that number could still increase before the event in August.
On a day when Scots shone in Birmingham, the highlight came in the men's 1500m as O'Hare took gold in a Scottish podium clean sweep, with fellow-Edinburgh AC athletes Kerr and Jake Wightman taking silver and bronze.
Doyle will compete at her fifth World Championships after winning the 400m hurdles.
"Obviously I came here for the win but the race wasn't the best," she said. "I think I've lacked that bit of consistency this year, but hopefully I can build on the good races."
Clark, meanwhile, will enjoy her first taste of a major championships thanks to her 400m triumph.
Twell took the 5,000m gold with McColgan's silver-medal winning display enough to ensure she will also be in London next month.
Lynsey Sharp, the 2012 European Champion, finished third in the 800m and still has work to do to make the team for the Worlds.
Butchart won gold in the 5,000m on Saturday, securing his spot in the team, with Beth Potter, Laura Muir, Robbie Simpson and Callum Hawkins having sealed their places earlier in the season.
The court said that people accused of dowry harassment should not be arrested until charges were verified.
Thousands of people are arrested every year under the tough anti-dowry law, but conviction rates are low.
Women's rights activists say that the changes will make it harder for the victims of dowry abuse to get justice.
Government data shows that 7,634 women were killed in 2015 in dowry-related incidents.
The practice of dowry has been illegal in India since 1961, but it continues to thrive and campaigners say it leaves women vulnerable to domestic violence and even death.
Paying and accepting dowry is a centuries-old South Asian tradition where the bride's parents gift cash, clothes and jewellery to the groom's family.
To prevent dowry deaths and harassment of brides in their matrimonial homes, India introduced a tough anti-dowry law - Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code - in 1983.
A complaint under the law allows for immediate arrest and jailing of the accused, often the husband and his family members, but campaigners say the provision is frequently misused with many women filing false cases.
On Thursday, the top court asked states to set up a family welfare committee in each district to address these concerns.
"At the time of filing of the complaint, implications and consequences are not visualised. At times, such complaints lead to uncalled for harassment not only to the accused but also to the complainant," the court said.
It added that the committee must speak to all parties involved in a harassment case because "uncalled for arrest may ruin the chances of settlement".
The judges also took notice of the objections against any changes in the law.
"We are conscious of the object for which the provision was brought into the statute. At the same time, violation of human rights of innocent cannot be brushed aside," it added.
The court had taken notice of the misuse of the law during another hearing in 2014.
It had said that the law was enacted to help women, but it was being used as "a weapon by disgruntled wives".
Thammanuthamma-patipatti is a set of dialogues, supposedly between two prominent Thai monks last century.
It had been attributed to one of them - Venerable Luang Pu Mun Bhuridatta.
But scholars believe it was really by a female devotee, making her one of the first Thai women to write such a text.
Printed in five parts between 1932-1934, initially without a named author, Thammanuthamma-patipatti (Practice in perfect conformity with the Dhamma) is viewed in Thailand as a valuable and profound Buddhist text which deals with Buddhism's different stages of awakening.
Dr Martin Seeger from the University of Leeds believes he has traced the authorship of the text to one Khunying Yai Damrongthammasan - a wealthy and extremely devout woman who developed an impressive knowledge of Buddhist scriptures during her lifetime.
Ms Yai Damrongthammasan was born in 1886 to Thai nobility and grew up in Bangkok. Unlike most women in Thailand at the time, she was taught to read and write and, having studied with monks, she reportedly developed a sophisticated understanding of Buddhist doctrine.
After her husband died, she retired to a Buddhist monastery in southern Thailand where she meditated and studied scripture until her death in 1944.
"For those who know the text, it is very profound and significant and it has been reprinted many times," Dr Seeger says.
Dr Seeger, who was also ordained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand between 1997 and 2000, recalls how he owned the book when he was studying Buddhism.
At the time he did not even consider that it might have been by anybody other than the Venerable Luang Pu Mun - who is revered in Thailand and was a founder of the Thai Forest Tradition revival movement.
But a friend of his insisted that something about the text did not add up: "When [my friend] said he heard that a woman may have written it, I became interested," Dr Seeger says. This interest intensified particularly as he had never heard of Ms Yai Damrongthammasan before.
With a grant from the British Academy, Dr Seeger set about investigating this thesis. The first clue came in a biography by her adopted son - who was also ordained as a monk - in which he said that the treatise had been written by her.
Dr Seeger interviewed people who had met Ms Yai Damrongthammasan and descendants of those who had known her. He , researched biographies of various monks, cross-checking different sources until, he says, it became clear that she must have been the author of the book.
There are also several clues within the text which indicate that it was unlikely to have been written by a monk.
In fact, none of the most authoritative biographies of Luang Pu Mun ever claimed that he wrote it. He was only credited with authorship in later editions of the book, which featured pictures of him and another monk on the cover. Dr Seeger thinks it unlikely that Ms Yai Damrongthammasan ever met Luang Pu Mun.
The monk died in 1949, a national figure, and the text appears to have been attributed to him after that.
Dr Seeger believes some followers of Luang Pu Mun may disagree with his findings. The Thai Forest Tradition movement has monasteries worldwide, including four in the UK.
But Justin McDaniel, associate professor of South-East Asian and religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania, says he does not think it is likely to provoke controversy.
"You have to understand that authorship in Thailand is never considered to be by just one person. This idea that a single person owns ideas is seen as a ridiculous notion," he said, adding that authorship is often seen as a composite.
He adds that the idea that Ms Yai Damrongthammasan produced the text is consistent with how women were viewed at the time.
"At that time and in the present day, women were seen as having the same capability when it came to Buddhist scholarship as men, especially in the realms of meditation and scholarly study."
Indeed in 2006, of the top 100 scores in the highest level of Thailand's monastic exams, 97 were by women.
"I think it's actually a lot more common than people realise, that students of monks - and especially women who tend to focus more on scholarship - would be writing," Dr McDaniel says.
Even though little direct evidence survives, stories about Ms Yai Damrongthammasan have been passed down generations from people who knew and met her - attesting, Dr Seeger says, to her charisma.
And her achievements, being able to read and write and her knowledge of canonical scripture, were very rare for a woman at that time. There was only one other woman who in 1928 wrote a similar text but she was a princess and Dr Seeger says it does not achieve the same level of profundity as this work.
"We have been looking for the original manuscript," he says, but much has been destroyed in the area where she lived out her last years.
However, Ms Yai Damrongthammasan never claimed authorship of the book and Dr Seeger says "the real reason that Khunying Yai decided to omit her name from the first edition might never be known".
He says there are several possibilities: people may have considered it inappropriate for a woman to discuss Buddhist doctrine at such a profound level at the time or she may have thought that Buddhist doctrine should be independent of an individual.
She may also have wanted to remain anonymous out of respect because of conversations that took place with a group of women who met regularly in the temple of Wat Sattanatpariwat to discuss Buddhism - but there is no evidence to confirm the dialogues are based on these.
Ms Yai Damrongthammasan's life story is striking: from wealthy wife to a reclusive life of meditation.
Her husband, a well-known judge, had been cremated at one of the most prestigious places in Bangkok, but her funeral was a simple affair that took place on a beach in southern Thailand.
"It appears as if she was also a very humble person and not interested in promoting herself," Dr Seeger says.
In a video posted on Facebook, the woman is approached by the youths, one of whom seems to throw a stone at her.
When she asks why the men do not respect girls, they reply: "You are not a girl... You're an immigrant and you shouldn't be in this country."
The woman said she had been scared at the time, but would not move away.
She told the BBC she had lived in Antrim for three months and had been on her way to collect her son when the incident happened.
"I feel OK, it's OK now," she said.
"I'm here, my son is at school, my husband's working. I like it here, because my family's here."
Police said they had identified the three boys involved.
In a statement, Ch Insp Arthur Davidson said: "Arrangements will be made to speak to them formally over the next few days.
"We are also working to identify the victim in order to ensure she is offered every support as we move forward with our investigation."
In the video, having told the woman she should not be in Northern Ireland, one boy asks if she has a passport, to which she replies: "Yes".
He then asks to see it, but she says she does not have her bag with her.
One of the youths then asks the woman if she speaks English, to which she answers: "Yes".
He then asks her where she is from, and she says: "Romania."
He responds: "We don't like Romanians."
The lady then walks off and one of the young men continues to follow her, before the video clip ends.
Police have not given any more information about when and where the incident happened, but say enquiries are ongoing.
Patrick Yu, director of the Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities, said: "This behaviour is not acceptable in our society and it is particularly worrying due to the timing of this incident and the ongoing Brexit debate at the Conservative Party Conference."
Joanna Flett, manager of the Migrant Centre NI said: "Verbal abuse incidents are the most underreported because victims often do not believe anything can or will be done.
"It is important to take notice of these incidents and create an environment where victims or witnesses are confident to report them."
Alliance councillor Neil Kelly said he was horrified by the video.
"This is not reflective of the vast majority of people in Antrim, who are welcoming and friendly to all," he said.
"I have been inundated with people voicing their concern in relation to it and wishing to express their best wishes to the victim.
"I hope she is OK after this incident and does not judge everybody in this town by the disgraceful actions of a few."
Welshman Dredge, 42, bogeyed the 18th and finished on 10 under par, three behind winner David Horsey of England.
It came after birdies on the 16th and 17th had put him back in contention.
"I was trying to give myself a chance of a three on the last and try and put some pressure on the guys coming behind me, but the tee-shot just went in the rough," he said.
"I knew the shot from the rough was going to fly and I ended up in the down slope in the bunker - not a nice place to be, so there we go."
Dredge picked up more 40,000 Euros and valuable European Tour ranking points ahead of next Thursday's Czech Masters.
The Welshman finished second in the Danish and Czech events in 2014.
Dredge is hoping to repeat that form after admitting he was disappointed with his driving at Himmerland on Sunday.
"For quite a spell I was driving the ball terrible today, but to score one-under [par] the way I played was a decent score," he added.
"I was hoping to do something a bit better, but it's points on the board and another good week next week would be great.
"The course is one I've done well on before in the Czech Republic."
Englishman Horsey led the event from start to finish, while other Welsh golfers Stuart Manley (joint-35th) and Oliver Farr (joint-44th) finished down the field.
The aircraft, resembling a miniature space shuttle and known as the Orbital Test Vehicle or X-37B, spent 674 days in orbit around the planet.
It was the unmanned plane's third space flight, but its mission has been shrouded in mystery.
A theory that it was taking a look at China's space lab has been downplayed by experts.
Air Force officials have only told US media the aircraft performs "risk reduction, experimentation and concept-of-operations development for reusable space vehicle technologies".
The X-37B programme, started in 1999 and is currently run by the Air Force's Rapid Capabilities Office.
The first plane flew in April 2010 and returned after eight months. The second launched in March 2011 and remained in space for 15 months.
The current aircraft - built by Boeing - uses solar panels for power in orbit, measures over 29ft (9m) long, has a wingspan of nearly 15ft and a weight of 11,000lbs (4,989 kg).
It looks like a mini space shuttle and can glide back down through the atmosphere to land on a runway, just like Nasa's re-usable manned spaceplane used to do before its retirement.
A fourth X-37B mission is said to be planned for launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 2015.
Europe is to test its own automated space plane technology in the coming weeks.
The IXV vehicle will be launched into space atop a rocket from French Guiana and then make its way back through the atmosphere to splash down in the ocean.
BBC News science correspondent Jonathan Amos
The reality is that no-one really knows what this vehicle does. The only credible explanation I have seen is that it is testing technologies that could find their way on to future satellite missions.
If you consider how expensive a satellite mission is - several hundred million dollars - you'd like to be sure that any innovations are going to work straight out of the box.
By flying early prototypes on the X-37B, you can test these technologies so that when you put them on future satellite missions, you can be sure they will deliver.
Nasa recently agreed to give over work space formerly used to service the shuttles at the Kennedy Space Center to the X-37B programme, which tells us this is a long-term project for the Air Force. Whatever it is they are doing up there, they deem it to be high value.
The Lib Dem leader told the party faithful in Cardiff on Tuesday that the parties will have to put the country first to find a workable solution.
Mr Clegg said the "last thing" Britain needed was "a second election before Christmas".
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, also in Cardiff, promised Labour would make the economy work for working people.
Leanne Wood has told disillusioned voters they can trust Plaid Cymru while Tory Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb has been promoting tax cuts and economic growth.
Mr Clegg was visiting Cardiff on Tuesday as part of a 1,000 mile, two-day campaign road trip from Land's End to John O'Groats before polling day.
He said only the Lib Dems could provide "stability", claiming Labour and the Conservatives would create a "shambles".
"We all know that no-one is going to win the election outright on Thursday, despite what Ed Miliband and David Cameron says.
"So that means politicians will have to behave like grown ups, treat each other like grown ups and put the country first.
"Now we Liberal Democrats have put the country first over the last five years, we've shown that coalition government can work, that it's stable and that it is strong."
Mr Clegg warned that voting for the SNP, Plaid Cymru or UKIP would result in a Labour or Conservative government pulled to extreme positions.
Also on the campaign trail on Tuesday, Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls returned to Wales to drum up support for Labour in what the party called a "clarion call" to voters not to go for smaller parties and risk leaving the Conservatives in power.
"The Tories have been patting themselves on the back, saying they've fixed the economy, but who have they fixed it for?" he asked.
"For most people, their wages have not been rising, prices have been going up much faster, and we're seeing more zero hours contracts, more cuts in public services coming from the Conservatives.
"It's not working, and it's not working for working people."
For the Conservatives, Stephen Crabb stressed their role as the party of tax cuts and economic growth while visiting a supermarket in Cardiff.
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood, campaigning in Cardiff city centre, urged voters to trust her party to make sure Wales' voice was heard "loud and clear" at Westminster.
Meanwhile, the Greens said they feared the controversial issue of fracking - drilling deep underground to find gas trapped in rocks - had been "deliberately buried" by the major parties.
Natalie Putt left her home in Thornleigh, Lower Gornal, on 1 September 2003, leaving her 11-week-old son in the house with relatives.
It was the last time anyone reported seeing the 17-year-old.
West Midlands Police said it was investigating after a man in France called them with information.
Det Sgt Matt Morgan said he received the call after the force made the renewed appeal on Monday.
He said: "I had a gentleman from France contact me, having heard this information, passing on some third-hand intelligence which may or may not be of some use to us and that's something I'll be following up.
"Any credible intelligence that's passed to us will be acted upon."
An 18-year-old man was arrested in 2004 in connection with Natalie's disappearance but was later released without charge.
Police searched land in Wombourne, south Staffordshire, earlier this year after a tip-off but said the investigation remained a missing person inquiry.
Natalie's father David Putt said: "I don't want to fear the worst but 10 years is a long, long time and obviously the longer it goes the more reality sinks in that she may never return.
"Every little bit of information helps and I hope that can lead us to find what has happened to her."
They parted at 0810 BST on 7 July 2005 on their way to work and Ms Daplyn boarded the Piccadilly Line train. She died in the blast.
The 26-year-old administrator worked at University College Hospital in the neuro-radiology department.
When she was reported missing, her father Michael returned to the country and travelled to London to meet her mother, who lives in Swansea, and sister.
Ms Daplyn was born in Leicester but spent her early years abroad before attending schools in Rochester, Kent.
After an art foundation course, she studied Fine Art at Oxford University.
Graduating with a 2:1, she set herself the difficult task of making a living in the art or publishing world.
But after several unpaid internships, her pragmatic streak surfaced and she began to look for paid work.
In 2002, she moved to London and worked in a number of administrative roles before joining the hospital.
During her short life she moved all over the UK and around the world, from Kent to Lahore and Newport to Nigeria.
This fuelled her love of travel and food, which she shared with others in person and on blogs.
At the inquest into her death five years on, her sister Eleanor Daplyn said in a statement: "From a young age, she had the ability to fit in to almost any location and situation readily, with humour, and with a sizeable appetite for all that was new and interesting."
Her sister went on to say that at the time of her death, Ms Daplyn had been as settled and content as she had ever known her, and was very happy to be living with Mr Brennan.
"When thinking about what she might have done in the future, I honestly have to say I don't know," she said.
"The scope of her intellect and imagination mean that it could have been everything and anything."
Speaking shortly after her death, her uncle, the Reverend Tim Daplyn, in Somerset, said: "She was very bright, and a talented singer who had a lot of friends.
"We didn't realise she had so many until she disappeared."
Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service said the fire broke out at Mr Smith's on Wilson Patten Street at 02:00 BST.
The building suffered "severe damage" and nearby buildings were evacuated.
No-one is thought to have been injured in the blaze. The fire service said the scene was dangerous for crews as the roof collapsed into the building.
More than 50 firefighters have been tackling the blaze.
Nearby roads have been closed and drivers have been advised to avoid the area.
Mathew Cassidy, 19, from Liverpool, died in Connah's Quay on 29 May.
A man, also 19 and from Liverpool, has been remanded in custody to stand trial for murder in November.
Mr Cassidy's family said their loss was "tragic and devastating" and would be "forever etched in our hearts and on our minds".
They said in a statement: "Matthew was a funny, caring, thoughtful and loving son, brother, grandson, nephew and cousin to his family.
"He will be remembered as someone who was always fiercely loyal to those that mattered to him.
"He had a big heart and loved all of his family, but none more so than his young cousin... When Matthew and his cousin played together Matthew's face would light up with a big smile. The love was obvious for all to see."
'In love with life'
Mr Cassidy, a fan of music and attending music festivals, had been starting out on a career in construction and "loved nothing more than to be busy," his family said.
"There would always be some music being played out of his bedroom and the passion and vibrancy of a young man in love with life rippled outwards for all to see and hear."
North Wales Police said two other men who were being held on suspicion of murder have been released pending further investigation.
The Britons, considered gold medal prospects at Rio 2016, were fourth in their semi-final, a race won by Poland.
Alan Campbell also failed to make the A final after finishing fifth in the single sculls in Brandenburg, Germany.
GB will have 13 crews in Sunday's A finals, which will be shown live on the BBC Red Button from 08:30 BST.
The competition schedule has been moved forward by an hour to avoid increasingly high winds at the venue.
Britain's chances of gold will be headed by Olympic, world and defending European champions Helen Glover and Heather Stanning in the women's pair, and the men's four of Olympic champion Alex Gregory, Mohamed Sbihi, George Nash and Constantine Louloudis.
The men's and women's eight crews will also be aiming for success after strong showings in their heats on Friday where seven British crews qualified for the finals.
That includes 40-year-old Katherine Grainger, who is aiming to become Britain's most decorated female Olympian in Rio, as she lines up alongside Vicky Thornley in the women's double sculls.
A further six crews joined them from Saturday's semis which included a win for Stewart Innes and Alan Sinclair in the men's pair, a third place for John Collins and Jonny Walton in the men's double sculls, and good finishes from both Britain's quadruple sculls.
Taylor, who died aged 72 on Thursday, managed both West Midlands rivals.
Striker Mason profited from Villa goalkeeper Sam Johnstone's mistake to bundle into an open net.
In an end-to-end-match, Villa's Ross McCormack headed Jordan Amavi's cross over the crossbar as Steve Bruce's side failed to muster a shot on target.
It was the first time the two teams had met at Molineux in the second tier of English football, with Paul Lambert's side winning for the third time in five league matches to move up one place to 16th in the table.
Defeat for Villa was their first at Molineux in 11 visits - the last coming in May 1978.
Despite the lack of goals and quality in the final third, there was plenty of entertainment with fast-paced, counter-attacking play throughout.
The game's only goal came through Mason, after Nouha Dicko's cross was parried into his path by Johnstone, and the striker drove into the ground and into the net.
McCormack had Villa's best chance of the game in the first half, and later felt he could have had a penalty when Danny Batth pulled back on his shirt.
Wolves did have their chances to extend their lead though, with Dicko shooting straight at Johnstone when played in by Helder Costa, before substitute Bright Enobakhare fired wide late on.
The evening at Molineux was full of emotion as supporters remembered former England manager Taylor, with chants of "One Graham Taylor" and applause in the 72nd minute of the game.
He had two spells as Villa boss, winning promotion to and finishing runner-up in Division One in his first stint in charge.
It was the second time a Taylor team had finished second only to Liverpool, having done the same with Watford in 1983.
Wolves was Taylor's first job after his time with England came to an end in 1993, and he led them to the play-offs before being sacked the following season.
And his final stint at Villa Park came in 2002 and 2003, when he left after finishing just three points above the Premier League relegation zone.
Match ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1, Aston Villa 0.
Second Half ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1, Aston Villa 0.
Attempt blocked. Ross McCormack (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
James Chester (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jón Dadi Bödvarsson (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Substitution, Aston Villa. Keinan Davis replaces Mile Jedinak.
Hand ball by Ross McCormack (Aston Villa).
Attempt missed. Bright Enobakhare (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Jón Dadi Bödvarsson.
Gabriel Agbonlahor (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Batth (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Gabriel Agbonlahor (Aston Villa) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Danny Batth (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Jack Grealish (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Bright Enobakhare (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Attempt saved. George Saville (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Bright Enobakhare.
Offside, Aston Villa. Ross McCormack tries a through ball, but Andre Green is caught offside.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Jón Dadi Bödvarsson replaces Nouha Dicko.
Foul by Mile Jedinak (Aston Villa).
Bright Enobakhare (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. George Saville replaces David Edwards.
Offside, Aston Villa. Sam Johnstone tries a through ball, but Ross McCormack is caught offside.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Richard Stearman.
Attempt blocked. Mile Jedinak (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Gabriel Agbonlahor.
Andre Green (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Conor Coady (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Jordan Amavi (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Hélder Costa (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Tommy Elphick (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Bright Enobakhare (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Matt Doherty.
Substitution, Aston Villa. Andre Green replaces Albert Adomah.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Jack Grealish.
Gabriel Agbonlahor (Aston Villa) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Conor Coady (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Bright Enobakhare replaces Ivan Cavaleiro.
Offside, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Matt Doherty tries a through ball, but Nouha Dicko is caught offside.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Nouha Dicko (Wolverhampton Wanderers) because of an injury.
Foul by Alan Hutton (Aston Villa).
Nouha Dicko (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
The Frenchman has led the Gunners to a top-four spot and Champions League qualification for the past 20 seasons.
But with 10 games left, they are currently in sixth place, seven points off the league's leading quartet.
"It [finishing in the top four] is a good challenge but I think it is perfectly possible," said Wenger.
"I have done it for 20 years and it looked always like nothing. Suddenly, it becomes important so I'm quite pleased people realise that it is not as easy as it looks."
In 2012, Wenger compared finishing in the top four to winning a trophy and that view was recently echoed by Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola.
"If you listen to Guardiola, he said the other day that to finish in the top four in England is a trophy because it is so difficult," he added.
Wenger's contract at Arsenal expires at the end of the season and speaking before Wednesday's game with West Ham, he was again asked if he would extend his stay.
He has been offered a new two-year deal and reiterated he would make his decision public "soon".
Talks about extending forward Alexis Sanchez's contract beyond June 2018 are on hold until the summer and, despite the Chile international being linked with Chelsea, Wenger played down concerns over the 28-year-old's future.
"I don't see what all the debate is about," said Wenger. "We are professional football people. Our job is to perform as long as we are somewhere.
"I don't understand this kind of anxiety one and a half years before the end of contracts. It is denying what the professional guy is about."
The Gunners will be without centre-back Laurent Koscielny on Wednesday, and Wenger fears the France international could face a lengthy absence.
Koscielny was substituted at half-time during Sunday's 2-2 draw with Manchester City and will have a scan on an Achilles injury.
"It is certainly serious," said Wenger.
"If he has ruptured a few fibres of his tendon it could be a few weeks. If it is just an inflammation he could be available next week against Crystal Palace."
The data dump also included episodes of Insecure, Ballers, Barry, The Deuce, a comedy special and other programming, according to the Associated Press.
An earlier leak indicated HBO had offered the blackmailers $250,000 (£192,300), Variety reported.
Over recent weeks, one Game of Thrones episode, scripts and sensitive internal documents have also been exposed.
HBO confirmed that its computer network had been attacked on 31 July.
The hackers claimed to have stolen 1.5TB of company data and demanded a multimillion-dollar ransom to prevent them from leaking sensitive proprietary files, as well as entire television series.
It has now emerged that the television network offered a "bounty payment" to the hackers on 27 July, according to Variety.
"You have the advantage of having surprised us," a member of HBO's technology team is reported to have said in an email.
"In the spirit of professional cooperation, we are asking you to extend your deadline for one week."
HBO has said that it does not intend to release a statement each time the hackers leak more information.
"It has been widely reported that there was a cyber-incident at HBO," the television network said on Sunday.
"The hacker may continue to drop bits and pieces of stolen information in an attempt to generate media attention.
"That is a game we are not going to participate in."
About 750,000 properties were affected, and many left without power for days.
UK Power Networks' Basil Scarsella said "tried and tested" plans struggled to cope in worse-than-forecast weather.
But Commons Energy Select Committee chairman Tim Yeo said there seemed to be a lack of any "expression of real concern" by firms for those affected.
After the first 45 minutes of the hearing, Mr Yeo told the bosses that the "tone of this conversation and its contents has been utter complacency".
He criticised trade body the Energy Networks Association for failing to be able to confirm whether it stood by its earlier report suggesting that 75,000 customers were left without power for more than 24 hours.
The ENA could not provide the "most basic information on a totally predictable question", he said.
Mr Yeo concluded the session by saying there was "no sense of urgency" in plans to improve capacity to respond to severe weather, despite "clear warnings that extreme events are likely to take place".
He said: "I've heard nothing at all this morning which reassures me that you are taking this problem seriously enough...
"I have to conclude that you are exploiting your privileged monopoly position and you have displayed a neglect of your customers which I personally find absolutely astonishing."
Strong winds brought down power lines just ahead of Christmas, with the south east of England, particularly parts of Kent, Surrey and Sussex, and northern Scotland worst hit. Winds on the evening of December 26 affected residents in north Wales and north-west England.
The committee examined how the companies reacted to the weather and communicated with their customers.
Bosses from Scottish Power, Scottish and Southern Energy, Electricity North West, and Western Power Distribution - the companies behind the networks that carry electricity - also gave evidence.
Mr Scarsella, chief executive of UK Power Networks, which maintains cables across the South and South East of England, told the MPs the storm turned out to be more severe than forecast.
"We have a methodology that estimates the damage expected on the network based on the wind speeds. But the wind speed and the weather forecast escalated significantly."
Stormy December: In numbers
He said: "The damage was not caused by weak points in the network."
Mr Scarsella said another issue was "that this was a national storm and it lasted over two or three days. There is a well-tested mutual aid system which enables any of us to call on our colleagues to send additional resources.
"But because of the severity of the storm and the national nature of the storm we were not able to provide additional resources to other networks or indeed receive additional resources."
The committee heard of repairs in some flooded areas taking place on boats and how engineers were unable to begin their work because hundreds of trees needed to be cut through.
Mark Mathieson, managing director of Scottish and Southern Energy's electricity networks, praised the efforts of staff who turned out to reconnect properties.
He added he felt affected customers were understanding of the problems caused by a "unique" weather situation.
But he said the industry has to "learn lessons".
"We as an industry clean these events up much quicker than we used to. But we also recognise the impact that has on customers," he said.
"We are sorry and I did go out to communicate with customers that we were sorry that they were off."
The MPs also quizzed the energy chiefs on the compensation paid to customers.
They confirmed they will pay out higher than usual compensation to people who were without power for long periods and on Christmas Day.
The committee was told that planning for the 999-style emergency number which customers could call to report power outages was "in its early stages".
The Briton and his Brazilian partner won 6-3 6-4 to top their group at London's O2 Arena.
Murray and Soares must wait for the result of the evening match to see if they have qualified with one round-robin match remaining.
Treat Huey and Max Mirnyi play Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo at 18:00 GMT.
Any result other than a two-set win for Dodig and Melo will ensure Murray and Soares reach the last four.
Murray and Soares have won Grand Slam titles at the Australian and US Open this year, and could end 2016 as the world number one pairing.
"We both really enjoy being out here, playing in front of a lot of people, on a great court in the biggest tournament of the year," said the Scot.
The victory over the Bryans moves them within 175 points of France's Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut at the top of the standings.
Soares added: "We came here happy to be here but we want to win the tournament, and I think number one is going to come with that.
"So don't think about number one, think about winning the tournament and see how it goes."
The i6 project by international company Accenture was dropped after it emerged it could not be delivered within the expected budget and timeframe.
Doubts arose earlier this year after Police Scotland said they found multiple faults.
Accenture said i6 passed tests but flaws emerged when Police Scotland tested it, a committee heard in February.
The Scottish Police Authority (SPA), Police Scotland and multinational technology firm Accenture have now "mutually agreed" to end their contract relating to the i6 project.
Martin Leven, director of ICT at Police Scotland, told MSPs in February he had "doubts as to the capability of the contractor to deliver this going forward" as they had "very clearly let us down".
SPA chief executive John Foley said on Friday that a commercially confidential and "mutually agreed settlement" had now been signed by "all parties" and claimed the settlement resulted in no financial detriment to the police budget.
He added: "While we are disappointed that i6 will not be delivered as expected, the SPA believes the decision to end the contract at this time is the right one.
"We would seek to reassure the public and our workforce that the output of i6 was only one element of our overall ICT plans."
The British world number two broke Berdych in the third game and saved two break points in the next before racing through the first set in 38 minutes.
Murray made it nine successive games to get to 3-0 in the second set before securing a semi-final against Novak Djokovic at 13:00 BST on Saturday.
"I felt I dictated the whole match," the 28-year-old Scot told Sky Sports.
"Against someone serving as big as him, it's not always easy to do. I didn't have too much defending to do. I served well and got a good read on his serve."
Murray was relieved the contest only lasted 78 minutes, saying: "I'm very happy with the performance and I get to conserve some energy. It's pretty late here and it takes an hour-and-a-half to get back to the hotel."
World number one Djokovic moved into the last four with a 7-6 (8-6) 6-1 win over Australian Bernard Tomic.
The Serb was pushed all the way in a thrilling opening set, edging the tie-break, before Tomic capitulated in the second.
Djokovic won his last match against Murray in Shanghai, in the 2012 final.
"It'll be an extremely tough match," the Briton said of Saturday's encounter.
"We played great tennis in the 2012 final, but I feel like we are quite different players since then. I feel both of us have progressed and play different tennis. We are now quite aggressive."
Earlier, Rafael Nadal's renaissance took a big step forward as he thrashed a flagging Stan Wawrinka for the loss of just three games.
The Spaniard beat the world number four 6-2 6-1 for his first win over a top-five player in more than a year, building on his run to last week's China Open final.
Nadal will meet Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga - a 7-6 (8-6) 5-7 6-4 winner over South Africa Kevin Anderson - in the last four.
Relatives say the miners have been missing since Friday.
They fear they may have been killed by a gang trying to take control of a wildcat mine near the town of Tumeremo.
The reports were initially dismissed by the local governor, who accused the opposition of stirring up trouble.
"So far there's not any indication of any person killed or missing," said Bolivar state Governor Francisco Rangel of the governing socialist PSUV party on Monday.
"What happened there, according to the security forces, was another clash between armed gangs that are trying to control mining activities in the area," added Mr Rangel.
Venezuelan air force troops have been searching for the bodies in the remote jungle area.
"We won't rest until we find those responsible for these acts, which in the eyes of all Venezuelans are abominable," said Mr Padrino.
The missing miners worked at the Atenas gold mine. Reports of their disappearance first emerged on Saturday when worried relatives reported that their loved ones had not returned from work.
The number of missing miners soon grew from two to 28.
The families blocked a road in Tumeremo to demand an investigation. With tempers running high at the roadblock, reports soon spread about a deadly stand-off at the mine.
Local media quoted "eyewitnesses" who said the discovery of a significant gold deposit had pitched the miners against members of a gang who wanted to lay their hands on the lucrative find.
The gang members allegedly opened fire on the miners and later forced the survivors to load the bodies onto a lorry.
There are conflicting reports as to where the bodies were taken, with some locals saying they were driven further into the mine and others alleging they were dismembered by chainsaw and disposed of on land belonging to the gang leader.
Opposition lawmaker Americo de Grazia accused Mr Rangel of trying to cover up the alleged massacre.
He compared Mr Rangel to the governor of the Mexican state of Guerrero, where 43 students disappeared in September 2014.
He was giving evidence at the start of the trial of west Belfast man Christopher O'Neill, who denies murdering his baby daughter Cárágh .
Three-month-old Cárágh Walsh died on 7 February 2014.
She died two days after being rushed to hospital from her Glasveigh Park home in Twinbrook.
Mr O'Neill, 26, from Whiterock Road appeared at Craigavon Crown Court, sitting in Armagh, on Tuesday.
The court heard that the baby had been left alone in her father's care but within half an hour or so Mr O'Neill made a 999 call for help because she had stopped breathing.
Later, the rapid response paramedic revealed that he was just moments away when the 999 call came in and on arriving found a "distressed and agitated" O'Neill outside.
Under cross-examination the medic accepted it had been 'upsetting' and that Mr O'Neill was in an 'extremely distressed state', such as any father worried about an injured child would be. The medic also accepted that despite working on the infant for sometime, he noticed nothing unusual about her appearance, or of her being cut or bruised in any way.
The prosecution barrister said that O'Neill claimed, on differing occasions, he had just lifted the 14-week-old and shook her in an attempt to revive her.
However the prosecution said her condition deteriorated and she later died.
He also revealed that subsequent post-mortem investigations revealed that the infant not only suffered brain injury, but also had a number of fractured limbs and bruises.
They were not consistent with limited shaking, but were more akin to swinging by the arms and legs and with impacts on the child's head.
"The version of events, as put forward by Mr O'Neill, does not constitute a plausible cause of the injuries which Caragh received," said the lawyer.
He concluded by telling the jury it was not suggested that Mr O'Neill intended to kill his baby daughter, but that being unable to quieten her, he "must have lost self-control and that he caused those catalogue of injuries identified by the pathologists".
The trial, expected to last up to three weeks, continues on Wednesday.
The 35-year-old, who represented the Super Eagles at the 2010 and 2014 World Cup tournaments, has signed a one-year deal with the option of an extension.
The ex-WBA and Stoke man last played for Rotherham but left in January.
"These are exciting times for Indonesian football and I'm happy to be a part of it," he told BBC Sport.
"Hopefully I can roll back the years by scoring important goals for Madura."
He becomes the third former English Premier League star to move to Indonesia after Michael Essien and Carlton Cole.
"I had no idea what it's like here but I had a brief chat with Michael Essien and he gave me positive feedback," Odemwingie explained.
"To be regarded as a marquee signing is huge - I've played in different European countries but this place is really beautiful - and the people are very friendly.
"I've scored goals at all the top clubs I played and I believe with the help of my teammates I can still do the same here."
Based in in Pamekasan, Madura, East Java, Madura United finished third in the league last season.
Capped 67 times by Nigeria, Odemwingie's final chapters in English football were at Championship clubs Bristol City and Rotherham - having been a free agent since leaving the latter following a seven-game stint.
Born in Uzbekistan, he also played in Belgium, France and Russia before spending the last seven years in English football including stints with Premier League sides West Bromwich Albion and Stoke City.
He marked his Nigeria debut with a goal against Kenya in Lagos in 2002, and was widely regarded as one of the most committed and dedicated players to have represented his country.
As well as winning a silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games, he was part of the squad that finished in third place at the 2004, 2006 and 2010 Africa Cup of Nations.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said 136,119 new cars were built in May, 9.7% fewer than the same month in 2016.
However, in May 2016 output had risen by more than 26% to the highest total for the month in more than a decade.
The SMMT said carmakers were now set to ramp up production of new models, with exports the main driver of demand.
Some 576,556 new cars have been shipped abroad since January, a 0.8% increase year-on-year. although production for overseas markets fell 9% in May.
Almost 80% of all cars made in Britain are exported, with more than half going to Europe.
Meanwhile, production for the home market fell 12.8% in May, with 153,199 cars destined for UK showrooms.
"After a record start to the year, car production in the UK has slowed as production lines gear up for a range of new models," said SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes.
"Global demand is strong and exports remain the driving force for British car production volumes in the UK.
"Maintaining our current open trade links with Europe, our biggest market, and further developing global markets is vital for this sector."
The 32-year-old was driving the Vauxhall Astra when the collision took place near Dundonald at about 17:40 on Saturday.
His passengers - two men aged 24 and 25 - were seriously injured and remain in Crosshouse Hospital.
Police officers investigating the crash have appealed for anyone who saw it to make contact with them.
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Sharapova plays Italy's Roberta Vinci in the first round of the Porsche Grand Prix in Stuttgart on Wednesday.
The 30-year-old's wildcard entry has already been called "disrespectful" by ex-world number one Caroline Wozniacki.
"I don't agree about the wildcard here and about the wildcard in Rome and the other tournaments," said Vinci, 34.
Sharapova was given a two-year ban last year, backdated to 26 January 2016, after testing positive for heart disease drug meldonium at the Australian Open.
Her suspension was reduced to 15 months in October, following her appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Sharapova will also receive wildcards for upcoming tournaments in Madrid and Rome.
World number 36 Vinci added: "She made her mistakes for sure, but she paid and I think she can return to play - but without any wildcards."
Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland, who could meet Sharapova in the second round in Stuttgart, has also been among those to question the treatment of the former world number one, saying she should not be invited to Grand Slams.
Those views were met with a scathing response by Sharapova's agent Max Eisenbud, who labelled Radwanska, 28, and 26-year-old Wozniacki of Denmark "journeyman" rivals who wanted to prevent the Russian playing at next month's French Open because it is their "last chance to win a Slam".
Sharapova, twice a winner at the French Open, is unranked and will require a wildcard to compete at Roland Garros when the tournament starts next month, with France's tennis federation yet to announce its decision.
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Kurdish MP Faysal Sariyiliz, who visited Reker Ahmed in hospital, said the 17-year-old was "very pleased to be alive" after the assault
The teenager was beaten and kicked by a gang while waiting at a bus stop in Croydon on Friday night.
Police are still looking for five males over the attack.
Mr Sariyiliz visited the Kurdish-Iranian teenager with Zinar Demeni, from the Kurdistan Solidarity Campaign.
He told the BBC, Reker had said "the number of people attacking him" had made him fear he would be killed.
Mr Demeni said the victim was still "in pain" and that "his body was battered and... he wasn't able to move much."
"I told him that many British people in the UK are behind you, they support you, they condemn this attack," he added.
"When he heard this, and heard how many people were supporting him, this put a huge smile on his face."
The 17-year-old suffered a bleed on his brain, a fractured eye socket and fractured spine in the attack.
He was visited by his brother Hadi Ahmed on Tuesday, who said Reker had not recognised him.
A demonstration by Kurds was held in Croydon earlier.
Thirteen people, aged between 15 and 24, have been charged with violent disorder in relation to the attack.
A total of 16 people have been arrested. Three of those will face no further action.
Turkey will receive €3bn (£2.1bn) and political concessions in return for clamping down on its borders and keeping refugees in the country.
Talks on Turkey's accession to the European Union will also be revived.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said it was a "historic day" in Turkey's relations with the EU.
Under the deal, Turkish citizens may be able to travel without visas in Europe's Schengen zone, which allows free movement between many European countries, by October 2016.
However, the rules will be relaxed only if Turkey meets certain conditions.
More than 720,000 migrants have arrived in Europe on Greek shores so far this year, the International Organization for Migration says, with most arriving from Turkey.
Many are fleeing conflict in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, and lived in makeshift camps in Turkey before their journey.
The €3bn will go towards helping Syrian refugees in Turkey. Ankara has already spent $8bn on helping those in need, Mr Davutoglu said.
"We are paying the price of the failure of the UN system not to solve the problem of the Syrian crisis at the earlier stages of the crisis," he said after the meeting, referring to his country and the EU.
The BBC's Istanbul correspondent Mark Lowen says there was reluctance among some EU members to bow too deeply to Turkey when there are serious concerns about its government's respect for democracy and the rule of law.
The editor of the main centre-left newspaper in Turkey, arrested this week after an article that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan disliked, published an open letter to EU leaders urging them not to prioritise the refugee crisis over respect for human rights in Turkey.
But after the talks, Jean Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, said the deal "would not lead to a situation where we forget about the main differences and divergences we have with Turkey - human rights and freedom of the press."
Over the past five years the number of EU nationals living in the UK has gone up by almost 700,000 to 3.3 million.
The report said 49% of the 700,000 were from Poland and Romania, but Spain, Italy and Portugal accounted for 24%.
The Migration Observatory says there is no single "pull factor" but a mixture, including wages and economic prospects.
Just over 70% of EU citizens coming to live in the UK for at least a year say they are coming to work, with more than half of them already having a job to start.
The Migration Observatory research team at Oxford University said it had tried to identify the domestic and international triggers behind migration from the EU over the past five years.
While the UK had experienced huge movements from eastern Europe, particularly from Poland, southern Europeans were now looking for work in the UK to avoid the economic crisis at home.
An analysis of official figures shows six countries provided almost half of all EU nationals in the UK - Poland, Romania, Spain, Italy, Hungary and Portugal.
The number of people from those six nations living in the UK had gone up by more than 500,000 between 2011 and 2015. During the same period, Spain, Italy and Portugal together had lost almost a million jobs.
Madeleine Sumption, director of the Migration Observatory, said the rise in southern European arrivals indicated that the reasons why people moved differed depending on their origins - and could also change over time.
"There is no single factor driving high levels of EU migration in recent years," she said.
"Some drivers are likely to remain in place for some years, such as the relatively low wages in new EU member states, particularly Romania.
"Others could potentially dissipate more quickly, like high unemployment in Spain.
"Migration may respond more to factors that governments don't directly control, like demographics and economic growth in other EU countries."
In Portugal, hundreds of thousands of workers have left in recent years, many well qualified youngsters such as nurses. There are worries about a brain drain, although some argue that high fliers will return, with valuable experience.
The International Monetary Fund, in a recent report on post-bailout Portugal, described as a "fundamental problem" the shrinking of the workforce with ageing and emigration.
Economic recovery might have stemmed the outflow, but so far has not.
Just before October's general election, with emigration a hot campaign topic, figures from an emigration watchdog at a Lisbon university confounded expectations: some 110,000 people left in 2014, similar to 2013.
Not only the jobless left, but also people lacking job security. Given that, there is much uncertainty about current trends.
With Brazil - a traditional destination - in crisis, fewer are heading there, many more to Spain and above all the UK.
This week, representatives from Portugal's largest union federation, the CGTP, joined counterparts from Poland and the TUC in Norwich to discuss migration trends and related issues.
Brexit campaigners say the UK's benefit rules act as a magnet for foreign workers.
The government says its recent deal with other EU member states means it will be able to pull an "emergency brake" to withhold in-work benefits from future migrants, reducing the incentives for them to come in the first place.
However, the Migration Observatory analysis found no clear evidence of the role that benefits might be playing in those arrivals.
EU migrants are more likely to be in work and therefore less likely to claim jobseeker's allowance, says the research.
At the same time, they are more likely to be claiming tax credits supplementing the income of low-paid families.
The research says it is difficult to predict what effect the National Living Wage, which is designed to progressively rise until 2020, will have on EU employment.
"If higher wages encourage employers to restructure their workforce and reduce their reliance on low-wage workers - for example by mechanising production or hiring people with higher qualifications or skills - this could potentially make it harder for EU citizens to find low-wage jobs," the report says.
Another long-term factor that could influence the rate of migration to the UK is the birth rate in Europe.
The population of 20 to 34-year-olds in the six top nations has fallen by more than six million - or 15% since 2006.
If those fall continue, it could lead to a corresponding decline in the number of workers willing to travel to the UK as demand for them at home, and wages, increase.
Leave campaigners say: Britain would regain full control of its borders. UKIP wants to see a work permit system introduced, so that EU nationals would face the same visa restrictions as those from outside the EU, which it says would reduce migration numbers. This would create job opportunities for British workers and boost wages, as well as easing pressure on schools, hospitals and other public services, they say.
Remain campaigners say: Britain might have to agree to allow free movement of EU migrants as the price of being allowed access to the free market. In any case, pro-EU campaigners argue, immigration from the rest of the EU has been good for Britain's economy. The UK's growth forecasts are based, in part, on continued high levels of net migration. The Office for Budget Responsibility says the economy relies on migrant labour and taxes paid by immigrants to keep funding public services.
Stephen Parkinson, of Vote Leave, which is campaigning for Britain to leave the EU in June's referendum, said the Migration Observatory's report "tells us what we [already] know".
"People come to the UK for a variety of reasons - not, as the prime minister has claimed in the context of his renegotiation [with EU leaders], because they want to claim benefits," he said.
"There's nothing in his renegotiation deal that will help us to control numbers."
Will Straw, of Britain Stronger in Europe, agreed that the report confirmed "what we already know" and said the question now was how to respond.
He said David Cameron's renegotiation had delivered a "brake on people coming here and getting immediate access to benefits" - and this would "reduce one pull factor".
He added: "Most people think that if people come here, work hard, pay their taxes and contribute they should be welcomed."
They claimed to be "citizens of Islamic State (IS)", despite never having travelled there. Their reason for not migrating was because they thought they were too old and one was already married.
The women's concern with age and marital status is unsurprising.
Online discussions also stress a swift marriage upon arrival in Syria as an expectation of women.
Marriage to a fighter provides a strong identity, a sense of belonging to the wider community, the Umma.
The majority of analysis presents these women as rejecting Western liberalism - and assumes the same access to these goods as other European women - confirming how little the mainstream understands the difficulties they face.
They are offered a false choice: either they get rights and feminism, or, "tradition" and "faith".
Asking for both is seen within their communities and by mainstream public discourse as unreasonable.
IS capitalises on this, constantly questioning the status of women in the West, highlighting battles over body images, the double bind of domestic work and paid labour, rape culture, pornography, racism, and so on.
This is not to suggest IS is feminist; for them women are not equal to men, and they reject the potential of Western liberal feminism.
Women in IS are granted little freedom to travel, work, or have public roles.
According to a recent manifesto translated by the Quilliam Foundation think tank, women are only permitted to abandon domestic roles for fighting "if the enemy is attacking her country and the men are not enough to protect it, and the imams give a fatwa for it".
Women of IS are clear this time has not yet come.
This demonstrates that IS's messaging encompasses both the personal-private and the public-political.
Accounts of Jihadi brides are full of hope and naive romanticism.
One undercover reporter, Anna Erelle, became a minor online celebrity once she was known as the fiancee of Bilel, a well-known European Jihadi fighter.
In IS, marriage represents more than the private union between two people.
Personal desires are combined with broader ideas of the good life, and common purpose.
Bint Nur, the wife of a British fighter in Syria, wrote on Ask.fm in 2014, "women build the men and men build the Umma".
Their personal choices - domestic chores, children, marriage - are about building a new state.
According to the news website Vocativ, 45% of IS propaganda centres on efforts to build and sustain the burgeoning caliphate.
Along with roadworks and local infrastructure, there is messaging on traffic police, charity work, judicial systems, hospitals, and agricultural projects.
For young women travelling to Syria and Iraq the personal has broad purpose - their duty is to become founding mothers of the new state.
This World: Britain's Jihadi Brides is on BBC Two on Wednesday 8 April at 21:00 BST.
Or watch afterwards on the BBC iPlayer
This contrasts with negative public discourse about young Muslims living in Europe: constantly presented as threatening, "at risk", alien and unwanted at worst; with little and limited future at best.
It is almost a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Challenging IS will require more than countering their religious narrative, more than new legislation or granting new powers to the police and security services: a successful counter-radicalisation programme requires addressing the lives of young Muslim women without securitising them.
Too many young Muslims are silenced by the current political atmosphere because they fear being spied on, or treated as "already radical" just for asking questions, which only drives them towards extremists.
Instead, understand their fears and aspirations, and seek to overcome Islamophobia, discrimination, and other material disadvantages.
The forthcoming Daughters of Eve conference, run by the Muslim Women's Council is an example of this broad approach.
We must allow them to ask critical and difficult questions not only of IS, but of Britain.
Dr Katherine Brown is a lecturer in the Defence Studies Department at King's College London. In her work, she has examined the roles and portrayal of women in terrorism, counter-terrorism, and violent politics, and investigated Muslim women's radicalised political activism.
This World: Britain's Jihadi Brides is on BBC Two on Wednesday 8 April at 21:00 BST, and will be available afterwards on the BBC iPlayer.
The 36-year-old had arranged to go off against Sunderland in the minute matching his shirt number.
BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer said it raised questions of integrity.
The FA has asked the betting companies involved for information on bets they received on the substitution.
One bookmaker said it had paid out on three bets, with one customer claiming he had been paid at 100-1 on a £25 stake.
He was given his winnings after being involved in an exchange on Twitter with the bookmaker as to whether the substitution occurred in 26th minute, when the board went up for Terry to come off, or the 28th minute, when he left the pitch.
The bookmaker said: "Clearly the send-off was planned for the 26th minute to commemorate JT - hence why we paid out."
Another successful gambler, who staked £10, anonymously told the Press Association: "I only put money on this because I thought this is surely going to come in.
"I don't normally bet. It's only the second time I've ever placed a bet.
"I was surprised the odds were that high."
Terry has admitted his 26th-minute farewell was his idea and he had agreed it with manager Antonio Conte.
Conte said: "He deserved this. He's a legend of this club, not just this club but one of the best defenders in the world."
Sunderland boss David Moyes said his side agreed to put the ball out to allow the substitution.
Former England captain Shearer said he was "not sure" about the timing of the guard of honour, adding on Match of the Day: "It was done with good intentions but I don't think anything should be done that could undermine the integrity of the game."
Fellow BBC pundit Garth Crooks was also critical, saying: "This has obviously been set up. I'm a bit uncomfortable with it."
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Chelsea gave a similar send-off to former striker Didier Drogba in a fixture against Sunderland on his farewell appearance at Stamford Bridge.
He was carried off by team-mates midway through the first half.
FA rules on match fixing state: "Fixing is arranging in advance the result or conduct of a match or competition, or any event within a match or competition.
"Fixing is prohibited and is treated very seriously."
There is no suggestion the substitution was carried out in any way other than to mark Terry's final appearance for the club.
The children have come from a French town called Calais, where there is a very big camp where as many as 10,000 migrants and refugees currently live in temporary homes.
Many have arrived at the camp from all over the world in order to try to reach the UK, where they want to live.
This is often because their home countries are no longer safe to live in because of war and poverty, or they want to find a better life.
There is a problem at the moment because the camp - which is known as the Calais Jungle - is due to be closed down next week but thousands of people are still living there.
One of the biggest worries is that there are many children who are living there on their own. They are called 'unaccompanied minors'.
The UK Government say about 100 children will be brought over to the UK before the Jungle camp is dismantled.
Millions of people all over the world have left their own countries to find a better life or a safer place to live.
Some children are able to travel with their families. 11-year-old Manar told Newsround how she was moved to the UK with her family from a refugee camp in Lebanon.
However, there are many children who travel on their own.
Some had to leave their parents behind in the countries where they're from, or others may have got separated from them on the long journey.
One girl called Ruth told Newsround her story of how she travelled without her parents from Eritrea in Africa to the UK, because she didn't want to join the army or marry someone she didn't know, which she would have been forced to do.
Another 11-year-old boy called Safid told Newsround how he travelled to the UK from Afghanistan - a journey which took him a whole year.
He started the journey with his father, but they became separated so he and his brother were living on their own in the Calais camp.
Child refugees who have family members in the UK are allowed to come to this country to live with them. The process can take a long time as there is a lot of paperwork.
Under the law, claims to stay in a European country must be made in the first safe place a person reaches, but children can have their claim transferred to another country if they have family members living there.
However, there are children in camps who do not have family in the UK, and European leaders are trying to work out what to do with them. Some of them have already come to the UK.
As one young boy called Omar told Newsround: "There is no way out of the Calais jungle unless somebody helps you."
When the unaccompanied children come over to the UK from Calais today, they will need to be registered at a special office in London.
This is so that the authorities know that they are here and who they are living with.
Once they've done this, they can be reunited with their family members who will be waiting for them in nearby churches.
Politicians have said they are also trying to find homes for children who don't have relatives in the UK and it has been reported that councils are working to create space for refugees.
But some people say not enough is being done to make sure that all of the children who have been living in the Calais refugee camp will be safe.
Other European countries are also working to help give refugees and asylum seekers a home. Eight-year-old Karim told Newsround that Germany had been extremely welcoming when he moved there.
In the past year millions of people from countries like Syria have made long and dangerous journeys to get to Europe or have fled to refugee camps in other Middle Eastern countries.
However, European leaders have still not decided how many people should be allowed to come to Europe.
Children need to go to school and the adults will need to find jobs, so many countries are worried that they cannot cope with so many extra people.
Some don't think any migrants or refugees should be allowed to come at all.
Earlier this year Newsround spoke to some UK schoolchildren about the issue:
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But the battle for second place seems to be hotting up, with opinion polls suggesting that Scottish Labour and the Scottish Conservatives are currently neck and neck.
Here, John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University and the chief commentator at whatscotlandthinks.org.uk, looks at what the polls have been saying, and what we should be reading into them.
One of the first rules in the reporting of opinion polls is that those that purport to show a change in who is ahead and who is behind secure much more publicity than do those that suggest that little, if anything has changed. The exceptional is more interesting than the mundane.
However, the exceptional may be just that - unrepresentative of the real picture, a "rogue" poll that misleads rather than informs.
So what should we make of the poll from YouGov in Thursday's edition of the Times that has been widely reported as showing that the Conservatives have, for the first time since the creation of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, overtaken Labour in voting intentions for this coming May's Holyrood election?
Such an outcome would constitute an earthquake in Scottish politics. Not since 1959 have the Tories managed to outpoll Labour in a national election north of the border.
Well, first of all, the YouGov poll does not constitute clear evidence that the Tories have overtaken Labour.
True, with 20% of the vote to Labour's 19%, the party is put slightly ahead in the battle for constituency votes.
But given the random variation to which all polls are subject, this statistically is simply a dead heat. We just cannot be sure which of the two parties is ahead.
Meanwhile on the second of the two votes that voters will be invited to cast in May, that is, for a regional list, the poll did actually put the two parties neck and neck in 20% each.
At the same time, no other poll has suggested the two parties are even equal with each other. Perhaps then it is but no more than a "rogue".
That said, YouGov is not alone in one respect. In recent weeks every single poll has identified a modest but noticeable increase in Conservative support.
Since the beginning of the year four companies have conducted polls of vote intentions for May's election. On average they have put the Conservatives on 17.5% (on both ballots).
But when those same four companies polled back at the beginning of September they credited the Conservatives on average with just over 14%.
While the result of one poll might be dismissed as an aberration, when four polls all point in the same direction we can be pretty sure that something really has happened.
Meanwhile, Labour's support, already much diminished, has ebbed away yet further over the same period.
Back in September Labour was averaging between 21% and 22%. Now the party stands between 19% and 20%. The party has apparently slipped by another couple of points.
Between them the three point increase in Conservative support and a two point drop in Labour is enough to ensure that all the polls agree that the Conservatives are now breathing down Labour's neck, even if they may not necessarily as yet caught them up.
But there are of course still three months to go to polling day. Perhaps the slow Tory advance will continue, in which case maybe they will be able to edge past Labour.
But equally, of course, Labour might recover - and avert the threat that Ruth Davidson's party currently apparently poses.
Read more analysis from John Curtice at What Scotland Thinks.
The recalculation means it will now be considered by economists and the World Bank as a middle-income country, rather than a low-income one.
As a result growth for 2013 was calculated to have been 5.7%, up from an earlier estimate of 4.7%.
It is now the fourth biggest economy in sub-Saharan African.
Nigeria, South Africa and Angola are the three biggest economies in the region.
Economic output was calculated to be 4.76 trillion shillings ($53.1bn; £32.8bn) in 2013 after rebasing, up from 3.8 trillion shillings, the minister for devolution and planning, Anne Waiguru, said on Tuesday.
Some of the most profitable sectors in Kenya - communications and property - were not considered in earlier calculations of GDP which used 2001 as a base year.
Authorities in the East African country have now changed the base calculation year to 2009 and revised the annual and quarterly national accounts statistics for the period 2006 to 2013.
Standard Chartered Bank Africa economist Razia Khan said the recalculation confirmed "what we had previously suspected".
"The economy has demonstrated good momentum and has been growing faster than the official data indicated all along. It fits with much of the anecdotal evidence available to us - still-robust business confidence and healthy private sector credit growth."
Ms Khan said the rebasing lifted the average per capita income in Kenya to $1,246 "effectively meaning that the country moves to lower middle income status".
According to the World Bank middle economies are those with a GDP per capita of more than $1,045 but less than $12,746.
While the recalculation is expected to lower debt levels and increase foreign investor confidence, analysts said the figure will change little for much of the population.
Poverty levels in the country remain at 45.9%, and life expectancy is at 61 years, as estimated by a 2013 World Bank report.
Several African countries have recently been reworking their economy figures, a trend which the Africa Development bank has said will show the continent's economies collectively being one third bigger than previously thought.
Earlier this year Nigeria vaulted ahead of South Africa to clinch the number one position after it conducted a similar rebasing of its economy, placing the country's GDP at $522.6bn.
"Kill him. We must kill him," young men are shouting, brandishing machetes and knives.
These angry men are militiamen, calling themselves "anti-balaka". They took up arms, they say, to defend the Christian population.
But they have now turned into lynch mobs.
They have just found their prey - a Muslim man, whom they accuse of having fought with the Seleka forces who seized power last year.
Covered in amulets and talismans, which they believe will make them invincible, they all want to have a go at him.
Blood is trailing from the back of his head already, as he keeps being shoved.
"Seleka killed our families like animals, we have to kill him," one of the militiaman says.
Another one runs closer and whips him. After several failed attempts, he manages to escape, but he is quickly cornered again in a side street in the town of Bozoum, 400km (250 miles) north-west of the capital, Bangui.
"We have suffered terribly but I can't accept that we should kill as a result," a woman comes to tell us.
"They should hand him over to Misca [the African Union peacekeeping mission] instead."
Two Cameroonian soldiers force their way through the scrum, automatic rifles forward.
The man is finally extracted; the peacekeepers are dragging him toward their base down the road.
Dozens of militiamen are following them at a steady pace, some protest, shouting that they shouldn't be prevented from what they "have to do."
The anger is rising and the peacekeepers are almost encircled. One of them has no other choice, he pulls the trigger pointing toward the sky.
Only the gun makes a difference in front of these lynch mobs. It will take another burst of warning shots to keep the anti-balaka at a safe distance.
"If you cross this line, we will shoot you," the AU team leader screams, leaving a horizontal trace with his foot on the dirt road.
There are 11 AU soldiers here. They have prevented a man from being killed - but can they save the next one?
Men with machetes strapped to their trousers or wearing belts of ammunitions for their homemade guns are all over the town, we bump into them every few metres.
Seleka forces left the town of Bozoum on Monday. Since then, the anti-balaka keep pouring out of the forest.
They are on the hunt, unleashed to kill and seeking "revenge".
On Wednesday night, some of them attacked the house of imam Ahmad Mohamed.
We had heard a volley of gunfire.
As we meet the imam at his house the morning after, he explains that his quick call to the AU soldiers saved him and his family.
"In 40 years here, I have never seen that," he says.
"But the violence is out of control, we don't have a choice, we must leave or get killed."
More than 1,000 Muslims were evacuated this week. Those, like imam Mohamed, who had thought they could stay, now say there is no more alternative.
They are waiting for a military convoy - organised by the Chadian army most likely - to come and escort them all the way to Chad.
A fearful countdown has started.
Perched on a hill, the Catholic mission is holding a last church service for the displaced people it has hosted since early December.
Time seems up for some, but for the displaced Christians, the departure of the Seleka forces may allow them safe passage back to their neighbourhoods.
Many have lost relatives, and the church became their only sanctuary.
"We've had enough, we want to go home," says Martien Yeremanda as he starts walking down the hill, a wooden bench with pots and basins on it swaying on his head.
His brother was hit in his chest by a poisoned arrow and died during the violence last month.
"An international force must come to protect us because we live in fear."
The 3,500 Christian people who had chosen to camp out by the church returned home on Thursday, but they were not sure of what they would find.
On the roads north and south of Bozoum, villagers have nowhere to return; they are still hiding in the forest.
We immediately understood why as we drove outside the town.
We saw the signs of the brutality they have faced: Every single house on either side of the road has been burned down.
An estimated 1,300 homes were torched in two days last week, hours before the former Seleka's Michel Djotodia stepped down as interim president.
Jerome Ngaina is returning to his village, Bokongo, for the first time.
A group of anti-balaka militiamen - the only ones to venture around here - give him the local greeting; they gently touch foreheads together, and pat his head.
Mr Ngaina worked at the parish before he was captured last week, beaten and held for three days, deprived of water and food.
Like in all others in the village, there is nothing left in his house but cold ashes.
The man who negotiated his release is an Italian priest, Father Aurelio Gazzera.
After 22 years in this country, he has seen rebellions and coups, but he is now dealing with unprecedented sectarian violence.
He is extremely worried that the worst may still happen.
"It is possible to avoid it but it will be more and more difficult, and the margins are getting very narrow," he says.
"Especially now that the former Seleka forces have left, it was clear that we were going to need a deployment of military forces to protect both communities, avoid the looting and attacks of anti-balaka fighters, and quickly disarm them all."
Without a stronger international force around, he may be the last chance of mediation between the communities here.
He's been driving around kilometres of land outside Bozoum to meet hundreds of anti-balaka fighters.
He addresses them fluently in the local language, Sango.
When he convinced the Chadians and the AU force to force the Seleka combatants out of Bozoum earlier this week, his car was stoned and he was nearly killed by Muslim civilians who were scared that they would lose protection.
Other Muslims praise his courageous attempt to ease inter-communal tensions, and it was a Muslim man who saved him.
On the road back to Bozoum, a group of anti-balaka comes out of the bush to stop our car.
They have become Christian vigilantes and they are determined.
Father Aurelio talks to them under an imposing mango tree.
A few meters away from him though, these fighters speak their mind more freely.
Flanked by two other fighters wearing rice bags for masks, a militiaman warns the Muslims.
"If they don't leave, we will continue fighting and we will chase them," he tells me.
Many of these issues particularly affect young women, the survey by the Young Women's Trust found. The BBC spoke to four young women to find out what they feel is holding them back in life.
Finding a secure, well-paid job can be a struggle for young people, the report said.
Almost a third (28%) of those surveyed said they worried they didn't have enough paid hours, and more than one in five reported having been paid less than the minimum wage.
"There's no chance to put money towards the future. We have spent lots of nights sat down crunching numbers and it keeps me awake at night," said young mum Laura Davies.
The 26-year-old lives with her partner in Bournemouth, and said that together they earn the equivalent of a full-time salary but it's only enough to get by on.
Laura says there is "no opportunity for progression" in her current job, so she has taken courses to gain additional skills but feels her career is "stagnant".
"It's left me in the same position financially as I was five years ago. If I am going to succeed it's going to take a long time because there's not the support."
The Young Women's Trust found nearly half (48%) of respondents were worried about how much they were being paid, while another 38% were worried about job security.
Laura added: "In my old job they had me in a situation where because I was a young mum I was a potential liability for them. I ended up getting signed off, and then I quit. Mentally I couldn't cope with it," she said.
For Evee Eleanor, having enough self-confidence is key to her succeeding in her job hunt and not feeling overwhelmed.
The 27-year-old recently moved to Gorleston-on-Sea in Norfolk with her partner, and is currently unemployed.
Although she had a career in childcare before she moved, Evee said she was worried about "starting from scratch".
"I don't know what schools are looking for here so it sets me back a bit," she said. "I don't have any contacts around here, and so I have to jump in head first which makes me nervous."
More than half (54%) of young women said they lacked self-confidence, compared to just 39% of the young men surveyed for the report.
Evee also experiences anxiety and depression, and was bullied when she was younger - something which she says she has only been able to process recently.
Concerns about mental health were found to affect women more than men, with 38% of young women expressing this worry compared with 29% of young men.
Evee said being far away from family and support networks sometimes made things harder for her, adding: "I'm a complete stress-head. I have good days, but then some days I just want to curl up in a ball and not bother."
"I'm at that age now where I'm looking at other people and thinking, oh my god, I'm still stuck in my parents' home," said Emma Harris, 27.
"I pay my mum rent because she doesn't have the funds to pay for a deposit for me."
Emma works full-time in London as a charity fundraiser, but the cost of accommodation in the capital is still too expensive for her to move out of her mum's house in Hertfordshire.
More than 43% of respondents said they lived with their parents, a guardian or a carer, although the report found more young men (47%) than women (38%) in that situation.
"Living at home, I don't have my own space - my room is tiny because I'm in a box room, so after a stressful day at work I go to the gym and come home at 9pm. Basically, I just sleep there," said Emma.
"I'm trying to save £100 a month for a mortgage because you need at least a 10% deposit, but I would be saving for a long time. I'm thinking about getting a second job."
A million more 'to live with parents'
Even if young women manage to secure an enjoyable and stable job, more than half (53%) said they still worried about whether they were good enough to succeed.
"We are brought up not to brag about our skills and so we internalise that. Even in the job I'm in now, I still feel like I have imposter syndrome, but luckily I have a really supportive boss who convinces me otherwise," said Jenny Mullinder, 24, from London.
Jenny, a full-time youth charity worker, said young women in particular often believed they had to meet all the requirements in a job advert before applying for it - which often prevented them from pursuing career opportunities.
She added that a lot of young women thought they weren't taken seriously in the workplace because of their age - a view shared by 44% of the women surveyed.
"Young people are told that they are lazy and entitled, but a lot of people I know are trying in their career - they are just not in a place adults would see as successful," she said.
"We are measuring ourselves against these standards set by our parents or older siblings' generation and think we are supposed to own a house or car by now, so we are looking at others and comparing ourselves all the time."
The role will involve explaining cross-cultural misunderstandings in the use of the mini pictures, and compiling a monthly trends report.
Agency boss Jurga Zilinskiene said emojis were a "potential growth area" as "inconsistencies" had developed in their use.
Last year, a UK linguist said emoji was the country's fastest-growing language.
Emojis have been available on Japanese phones since the late 1990s but gained worldwide popularity after 2011, when iPhones started coming with emoji keyboards. They are now widely available on Android phones too.
They differ from emoticons by being coded little pictures rather than collections of punctuation points like :) or :'( or ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. (For emoticon newbies, the latter is a shruggie).
But like emoticons, emojis can be used to indicate tone or emotion in messages composed largely of text.
Ms Zilinskiene, head of Today Translations, needed someone to translate diaries into emojis for one of her clients, but could not find a specialist.
She says software translations can only go so far and a human translator was needed, so the agency posted an online job advert. She herself speaks Lithuanian, Russian and English and codes in the programming languages Python and C#.
With more than 30 applications so far, she is hoping to appoint somebody on a freelance basis by the start of 2017, with the potential for it to become a full-time post. Translation jobs will be paid by the word/emoji, while research into the changing trends in emoji usage will be paid at an hourly rate.
Waving hand - You might think this emoji is waving hello or goodbye. Well in China, it has a very specific meaning, along the lines of "bye, you're not my friend any more". Like a middle finger in Europe.
Poo - In Japan, the words for "poo" and "luck" sound similar, so it's tradition to send your friends a funny "poo" message before an exam or job interview. Now that the symbols have gone global, though, some people use the smiley-faced poo for its cuteness, others to indicate something rubbish.
So can emojis be considered a language? No, absolutely not, says Rob Drummond, a senior lecturer in linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University.
He says his test for a language is that you have to be able to translate a full sentence from one to another, with shared meanings - not necessarily fixed, but shared - and emoji meanings vary from person to person.
"It's an addition to language rather than a language itself," Dr Drummond says.
Red heart - French speakers use more heart emojis than any other language group, according to a study from last year, bumping even smiley faces off the top spot.
Dancing women - Originally these were Playboy bunnies, and might have been seen as strange to use in a message. But they have evolved to mean having fun with friends - and since emojis were made more diverse, there's a men's version too.
White flower - What does this even mean? You might have wondered. Unless you went to school in Japan, in which case you'll know that it's a copy of the symbol teachers stamp on exercise books when their students have done good homework. So white flower = good homework.
Emojis are more nuanced than words and, like gestures or body language, can add meaning to the text they go alongside.
Dr Drummond said he could see a space for emoji specialists, though, similar to people who go before a court to give an interpretation of what somebody might mean by a particular slang word.
Indeed, the legal world has had to take notice of emojis, as lawyers have started bringing forward the text communications sent by people accused of crime as evidence.
Tears of joy - The most commonly used emoji on the planet, this was the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year for 2015. What does it mean? That depends on your perspective. It could be straightforward, a person laughing so much they're crying. It could be self-deprecating - you're laughing at yourself and a silly thing you did. Or it could be a way of gloating at somebody else.
Aubergine/eggplant - An innocent vegetable, if sometimes tricky to cook? Ah, no. In the most salient example of how meanings can stray from their original intentions, this has come to denote a phallus. In fact, it's the only emoji you can't search for on Instagram.
Jeremy Burge, who already has a full-time job in emojis as chief emoji officer for his website, Emojipedia, said the symbols were a way of inserting tone into messages and "bringing back what we miss in text communication when we don't have body language... it's a communication aid".
He said that of the 15-16 million page views the glossary gets a month, many were from social media professionals keen not to make a faux pas when posting on behalf of their companies.
If that's you, we hope our guides peppered through this article have given you enough to get started.
Additional reporting by Angelique Lu
This year alone, workers mishandled samples of anthrax and the highly-infectious H5N1 avian flu.
In response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has closed the two labs involved.
The agency has also temporarily barred high-security labs from transporting dangerous pathogens.
There have been no reported infections from previous cases, and no-one potentially exposed to anthrax has shown signs of illness, CDC officials said.
"These events should never have happened," CDC Director Tom Frieden told reporters on Friday.
"I'm disappointed, and frankly I'm angry about it," he said, adding later he was "astonished that this could have happened here".
The incidents were listed in a report on a potential anthrax exposure in June, which occurred when researchers in a high-level biosecurity laboratory failed to follow proper procedures and did not deactivate the bacteria.
The samples were then moved to a lower-security lab in the agency's Atlanta campus.
"This is not the first time an event of this nature has occurred at CDC, nor the first time it occurred from the [bioterror response] laboratory," the report said.
The CDC only recently learned of a separate incident in May in which a sample of the avian flu was cross-contaminated with a highly pathogenic version of the virus and then shipped to an agriculture department laboratory.
The influenza lab and the bioterror response laboratory have been temporarily closed in response.
The other incidents reported by the CDC:
The revelations come just days after US officials announced long forgotten vials of smallpox left in a cardboard box had been discovered by a government scientist at a research centre near Washington.
The virus was located in six freeze-dried and sealed vials, according to the CDC.
On Friday, the CDC announced that at least two of the vials contained the live virus but that no infections had been reported as a result of the incident.
It is believed to be the first time unaccounted-for smallpox was been discovered in the US. The disease was officially declared eradicated in the 1980s.
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A Dutch ship carrying anti-Ebola materials has docked at the Liberian port of Monrovia.
More than thirty UK National Health Service volunteers have begun a week of training in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown.
Here is the latest Ebola news for Monday 24 November - in 15 seconds.
Four days of fighting left nine IS fighters, three tribesmen and five civilians dead, UK-based Syrian opposition activists say.
The jihadists' actions in the Ashara area had bred resentment locally, another activist based in Turkey said.
In neighbouring Iraq, IS fighters fought Kurdish forces at Zumar.
IS is dedicated to building an Islamist state in Syria and Iraq.
It built on its gains in Syria this summer to sweep through western and northern Iraq with support from local Sunni Muslims, overrunning the city of Mosul and threatening the capital Baghdad.
In recent weeks, it also expanded territory under its control in Syria, capturing parts of the oil-rich province of Deir Ezzor.
Formerly known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis), it has been accused of atrocities in areas under its control, carrying out mass executions of Shia Muslim prisoners and forcing out other non-Muslims such as Mosul's ancient Christian community.
Fighting erupted on Wednesday after IS detained three tribesmen, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Turkish-based activist Mustafa Osso said.
The detentions apparently broke an agreement with local people in the villages of Kishkiyeh, Abu Hamam and Granij, and tribesmen torched the IS headquarters in Ashara in retaliation, the Observatory said.
IS reportedly rushed in reinforcements from the Iraqi border town of Qaim but were forced out of the villages.
Tribesmen also captured the nearby Tanak oil field, according to the Observatory.
"There has been wide resentment recently because of Islamic State's acts," Mr Osso told AP news agency.
"This is a very important area for Islamic State because it is rich with oil and borders Iraq."
IS is one of the larger groups fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
More than 150,000 people have been killed in Syria and more than nine million have been forced to leave their homes since the uprising against Mr Assad began in March 2011.
In Iraq, jihadists attacked Kurdish forces in Zumar on Friday and fighting has continued since, with at least 14 Kurds and an unknown number of IS fighters killed.
There were conflicting reports on whether Kurdish peshmerga fighter or IS forces held the town.
"Many Islamic State vehicles are wandering the town of Zumar and I can also see the flags on top of buildings," on resident told Reuters news agency.
Control of Zumar would give the jihadists access to a small oilfield and nearby refinery, adding to four oil fields they have already seized, according to Reuters.
Kurdish forces have become the only effective opposition to IS in northern Iraq since government troops were driven out of Mosul and other areas in June.
Reports say Islamic State fighters were also involved in deadly clashes overnight with Iraqi troops in the mainly Sunni town of Jurf al-Sakhar, 50km south-west of Baghdad.
At least nine soldiers are said to have been killed.
The club, now in the Premier League, acted after the 21 were given football banning orders ranging from four to 10 years at a court hearing on Monday.
The fight happened after Burnley's Championship match against Sheffield Wednesday at Turf Moor in January 2014.
Nineteen fans were given jail terms of between five and 22 months for violent disorder at the town's Miners Club.
Those sentenced ranged from a 17-year-old boy to a man aged 54.
Furniture was broken and a window was smashed during the disorder at the club on Plumbe Street, which broke out around 18:00 GMT.
The football club's chief executive Lee Hoos said: "These people are clearly not fans and there is no place for them at Burnley Football Club."
Ch Supt Chris Bithell of Lancashire Police said: "The behaviour of all those involved in the disorder was disgraceful and completely unacceptable."
Ying Ying's pregnancy was confirmed in late September and she has since been closely monitored for signs of labour.
However, ultrasound scans conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday showed that the foetus no longer had a heartbeat.
Doctors at the Ocean Park amusement park said they are very disappointed as they have been trying for four years to get Ying Ying pregnant.
The scans "clearly showed the foetus that we had been monitoring had stopped developing and the foetal structures were no longer distinct, thus confirming it is no longer viable," said Ocean Park vet Dr Lee Foo Khong.
Earlier this year, 10-year-old Ying Ying mated naturally and was also artificially inseminated.
However, the staff at Ocean Park are unsure which method resulted in the successful pregnancy.
The 100kg female - described by the park as "inquisitive, active and vigilant" - attempted to mate naturally with two male pandas on five different occasions and one of the attempts was deemed successful.
But to improve the chances of a viable pregnancy, Ying Ying was also artificially inseminated.
Panda reproduction is a notoriously difficult process, with females only ovulating once a year.
It is also common for giant pandas to re-absorb the foetus into the womb in the late stages of pregnancy, "especially for first-time mothers due to their inexperience," said Dr. Wang Chengdong of the China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda.
The gestation period is typically five months and one or two cubs are usually born.
Ocean Park, along with Wolong specialists, will continue to closely review the data gathered during the pregnancy in an effort to learn more about giant panda miscarriages.
Brett Murray's painting by is an "abuse of freedom of artistic expression" said ANC spokesman Jackson Mthembu.
He said he had asked lawyers to get the Johannesburg gallery to remove the $14,000 (£9,000) painting, The Spear.
President Zuma, who has four wives, has sued local media companies 11 times for defamation.
The BBC's Mohammed Ali in Cape Town says some have been settled, other dropped, while most are outstanding.
The best-known case is a 2008 suit against one of the country's most high-profile artists, Zapiro, after he depicted Mr Zuma about to rape a female figure representing justice - this is due to be heard in October.
Mr Zuma was cleared of raping a family friend in 2006.
Murray, who our correspondent says is known for his political and provocative work, has not commented on the ANC statement.
Lara Koseff, spokeswoman of the Goodman Gallery, which is running Murray's Hail to the Thief II exhibition, defended the painting as "a very satirical look at contemporary South African politics... of the disillusion of democracy within the country".
"Our lawyers have written back to them saying we will not remove the painting," she told the AFP news agency
The 1.85m-high Soviet-style, red black and yellow acrylic painting has been sold.
Mr Mthembu said the ANC was committed to the freedom of the press and artistic expression but condemned the painting as "distasteful and vulgar".
He demanded that the painting be removed from the gallery, its website and all promotional materials.
Among the other exhibits is an ANC poster with the phrases For Sale and Sold on it, which Mr Mthembu also condemned as "defamatory".
Players were prevented from wearing the hijab at top levels of the game for safety reasons, and because of rules stating that religious symbols were not allowed.
Critics say the ban promotes inequality at the highest level of the world's most popular game.
A Facebook page called "Let Us Play", which supports players' rights to wear a headscarf has already generated more than 60,000 likes.
And speculation is growing that the ban could be lifted this summer if the Dutch-designed hijab is given Fifa's seal of approval.
Out on the outskirts of Utrecht, 14 breathless girls are careering up and down the pitch.
VV Hoograven are playing DVSU. The girls are aged between eight and twelve.
The visiting team is made up of tall fair-haired light-skinned girls. All the girls in the home side are Muslims of Moroccan descent.
If the hijab ban stays, some of these players will not be able to take their talents far beyond their home ground - a concern to former Jordanian women's team coach Hesterine de Reus:
"I struggled a lot to get girls involved in the game in Jordan. We have to encourage Muslim girls to start playing.
"Their participation in sport is low anyway, and I think in football we make it worse with the existence of these rules."
Hesterine de Reus was in charge of Jordan in a game against Iran in the 2012 Olympic qualifiers. But moments before kick-off, the Iranian team was disqualified for refusing to remove their headscarves.
The decision caused outrage in Iran, with President Ahmadinejad accusing Fifa of acting like dictators and colonialists.
According to Fifa, more than 29 million women and girls around the world play the game - a figure they say is "rising rapidly all the time".
But there are fears that its potential in Muslim communities is being inhibited by the ban.
Last year, a group led by Fifa's Vice President, Prince Ali Bin al-Hussein of Jordan, successfully convinced world football's rule-making body, Ifab, that the hijab was a cultural rather than a religious symbol.
This means only the safety concerns now stand between women wearing hijabs and their being allowed to compete at international level.
On the ground floor of a modern artists studio in the southern Dutch city of Eindhoven, surrounded by hijab-wearing mannequins, Dutch designer Cindy van den Bremen shows off the headscarf that Ifab is eyeing up as a possible model to overcome those last remaining concerns.
"What makes Capsters unique is the ready-made design, so you don't need knots or pins to tie it around your head. And it's made in stretchable materials so it's a very comfortable hijab," she says.
Ms Van den Bremen demonstrates how the new style works: "I put it over your head, make sure all your hair is underneath and then just fasten with the Velcro closing."
The fastening means that if an opponent grabs a hijab from behind it will easily come off, therefore minimising the risk of choking or strangulation.
But it must meet the players' standards too. VV Hoograven coach Yousra Slaoui has been trying it out: "I like it. It's safer than the old traditional design, which had lots of needles and pins that could slip off and go into your ear. I think the girls will be excited about this one."
Football is still a male-dominated sport, and for some Muslim men, the idea of their wives or daughters kicking a ball around in public is unacceptable.
But Naima Loukili, who has come to see her daughter play for VV Hoograven, says it is a social rather than a religious barrier:
"It's not something Islam says. It's just our culture. Islam supports women to go out and do sport or do whatever they want. I'm happy my daughter has the opportunity to do this."
And 10-year-old Amal Loukili is not letting any cultural considerations interfere with her ambitions. "I want to play for Barca one day or maybe even Holland," she says.
The idea of a possible amendment to international football's rulebook that would allow headscarves on the pitch has reignited a religious debate in right-wing politics too:
"I'm very happy that women in Islamic countries are allowed to play football. That's a step forward," acknowledges Geert Tomlow, a former member of the anti-immigration Dutch Freedom Party.
"But by pushing or ordering or by blackmailing your woman to wear a scarf then it's a problem, then it's a symbol of oppression."
Back in the studio, designer Cindy van den Bremen insists her hijab is designed to empower women and give them the freedom to choose.
"Most of the women and girls I spoke to were very keen to wear a hijab on the pitch, contradicting the image I had.
"We think it's a woman's choice whether they want to cover themselves and not anyone else's - including Fifa."
About 200 monocled baby cobras escaped from the farm in Nanjing in August. So far about 150 of them have been caught or killed.
The snakelets are around 20cm (7in) in length according to Liuhe district authorities, state media Xinhua said.
Snake parts are used in a variety of traditional Chinese medicines.
Monocled cobras' venom can prove fatal if not treated. However, the baby snakes' venom is less toxic than mature snakes.
A total of 1,820 monocled cobra eggs were first brought to the Chunyi livestock farm in August, of which 1,500 hatched, Xinhua said.
But the authorities only became aware of the escape when a villager from Liuhe district discovered and killed a snake he found at home in October.
The snake farm has since been shut down.
It is not uncommon to hear of snakes escaping from farms in China. In August, 23 baby cobras escaped from a breeding farm in Sichuan.
The French midfielder, who spent last season on loan at Saint-Etienne, produced a fine finish from the edge of the penalty area.
His goal took Nice three points clear of Monaco, who won 3-0 at Lorient on Friday, and Paris St-Germain, who beat Nantes 2-0 at home on Saturday.
And it condemned Saint-Etienne to a first home defeat in 10 games.
Match ends, St Etienne 0, Nice 1.
Second Half ends, St Etienne 0, Nice 1.
Younès Belhanda (Nice) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Younès Belhanda (Nice).
Kevin Malcuit (St Etienne) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Nice. Anastasios Donis replaces Alassane Pléa.
Arnaud Nordin (St Etienne) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Corner, Nice. Conceded by Stéphane Ruffier.
Attempt saved. Younès Belhanda (Nice) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Alassane Pléa.
Offside, Nice. Yoan Cardinale tries a through ball, but Younès Belhanda is caught offside.
Remi Walter (Nice) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Veretout (St Etienne).
Hand ball by Kévin Monnet-Paquet (St Etienne).
Substitution, Nice. Mathieu Bodmer replaces Valentin Eysseric.
Foul by Valentin Eysseric (Nice).
Arnaud Nordin (St Etienne) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Loic Perrin (St Etienne) left footed shot from very close range is just a bit too high following a corner.
Corner, St Etienne. Conceded by Dalbert.
Corner, Nice. Conceded by Kevin Malcuit.
Attempt saved. Alassane Pléa (Nice) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Wylan Cyprien with a through ball.
Vincent Koziello (Nice) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Bryan Dabo (St Etienne).
Substitution, St Etienne. Bryan Dabo replaces Ole Selnaes.
Substitution, St Etienne. Arnaud Nordin replaces Nolan Roux.
Substitution, Nice. Vincent Koziello replaces Jean Michael Seri.
Valentin Eysseric (Nice) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Loic Perrin (St Etienne).
Hand ball by Alassane Pléa (Nice).
Substitution, St Etienne. Kévin Monnet-Paquet replaces Cheikh M'Bengue.
Attempt missed. Wylan Cyprien (Nice) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Younès Belhanda.
Attempt saved. Alassane Pléa (Nice) header from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Valentin Eysseric with a cross.
Remi Walter (Nice) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Veretout (St Etienne).
Attempt missed. Alassane Pléa (Nice) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Alassane Pléa (Nice) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Younès Belhanda.
Attempt missed. Kevin Malcuit (St Etienne) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Nolan Roux.
Foul by Ricardo Pereira (Nice).
Loic Perrin (St Etienne) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! St Etienne 0, Nice 1. Valentin Eysseric (Nice) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Dalbert.
Offside, St Etienne. Stéphane Ruffier tries a through ball, but Alexander Søderlund is caught offside.
The two sides were close to reaching agreement to enable Theresa May to form a minority government and the talks were not in trouble, the sources added.
But they added that the London tower block fire made an announcement on Wednesday "inappropriate".
And diary commitments meant a final deal could be delayed until next week.
The DUP source told BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith the two parties were now finalising the "terms and conditions" of an agreement after Mrs May and DUP leader Arlene Foster met on Tuesday.
Downing Street sources told our correspondent talk of a delay in announcing a deal was "not coming from us."
If a deal was to be delayed it would mean the Queen's Speech, which had originally been planned for next Monday, could be delayed by at least a week.
It could also delay the start of Brexit talks.
The Conservatives are having to rely on the support of 10 DUP MPs after they fell eight seats short of winning an overall majority at the general election.
It means that Mrs May will remain as prime minister and the DUP MPs will be central to the survival of a Conservative Party administration.
The DUP have been playing their cards close to their chest, but we know the areas they're talking about because of a DUP plan drawn up in 2015 in anticipation of a hung Parliament.
Things have moved on a bit since then with Brexit, but we do know they're looking at trying to lower the cost to the Northern Ireland executive of any move on corporation tax.
They've been of the view that leaving the EU should lessen some of the stipulations in relation to state aid that were being applied by the Treasury to Northern Ireland, and that might take down the bill that the Treasury would put on the executive if corporation tax was lowered.
We know other matters, such as cutting air passenger duty and increased infrastructure spending, have been discussed, but we haven't got any sense of the exact details of the deal.
I suspect it will be top loaded with economic rather than political matters.
Some political issues, such as altering the definition of a Troubles victim or doing away with allowances for MPs who don't take up their seats, might be included.
Other legacy matters, such as protecting former soldiers or police officers from prosecution, may feature at a later stage.
The DUP will offer support for key votes, such as backing the Queen's Speech and the Budget and opposing any votes of no confidence.
The DUP campaigned for Brexit but is also conscious that 56% of people in Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU.
They are thought to be advocating a Brexit that does not disrupt the "frictionless border" with the Republic of Ireland.
They are also opposed to Conservative polices such as means-testing the winter fuel allowance and have campaigned for a higher National Living Wage and to restore the spare room subsidy.
The party is also likely to push for more investment in Northern Ireland, with emphasis on increased borrowing powers and looser budget controls rather than direct cash.
Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday that talks with the DUP had been productive and that Brexit negotiations would begin as planned next week.
"I think there is a unity of purpose among people in the United Kingdom," Mrs May said, following a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris.
The agreement with the DUP is expected to be very different from the coalition deal agreed between the Conservatives and Lib Dems in 2010, with DUP politicians not getting cabinet jobs and their support for the majority of new legislation to be determined on a vote-by-vote basis.
Labour's shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey called it a "very dangerous deal" and said Labour was "ready and waiting to form a minority government".
She dismissed accusations of hypocrisy after it emerged then Labour leader Gordon Brown had tried to do a deal with the DUP in 2010, telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "It's certainly not something that [current Labour leader] Jeremy [Corbyn] would advocate, and the Labour Party is certainly not advocating that.
"As I've said, it would create a lot of instability in terms of the peace process in Northern Ireland and it's a very worrying time.
"It just illustrates the chaos that the Conservative Party are in at the moment."
On Tuesday, ex-Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major said he was "dubious" about the idea of a deal and its potential impact on the peace process.
Sir John told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme there was a danger the government would no longer be seen as an "impartial honest broker" in restoring the power-sharing arrangements and upholding Northern Ireland institutions.
Asked about Sir John's comments, Mrs May said she was "absolutely steadfast" in her support for the 1998 Good Friday agreement - which created the Northern Ireland Assembly - and efforts to revive the power-sharing executive.
A spokeswoman said heavy fighting between Syrian government forces and IS militants around the landing zone meant it was "simply too dangerous".
Some 110,000 people are trapped in a government-held enclave in the city.
IS was reported to have cut off the enclave from a nearby military base after launching an offensive on Sunday.
Almost 120 people are reported to have been killed in the fighting.
The WFP has carried out 177 air drops over government-held Deir al-Zour since last April, dispatching a total of 3,300 tonnes of food and other aid supplies.
The cargo is usually dropped into a zone on the outskirts of the city and is picked up by WFP's partner on the ground, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC).
The last air drop was on Sunday, after which the operation was temporarily suspended "for security operational reasons", spokeswoman Bettina Luescher told reporters in Geneva.
"There is heavy fighting ongoing in and around the landing zone," she explained. "It is simply too dangerous to do this now."
The IS assault, which included waves of suicide bombers, is the most violent in the area in more than a year, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The UK-based monitoring group said on Tuesday that the fighting had left at least 116 people dead, including 21 civilians and 37 members of government forces.
The official Sana news agency said tens of militants had been killed by army units on Monday, but did not report any fatalities among government forces.
The Syrian Observatory said the government was flying reinforcements to Deir al-Zour's military base and had called on locals to take up arms.
Syrian and Russian warplanes were also carrying out air strikes on IS positions.
IS militants advanced into Deir al-Zour in 2015 and imposed a siege last year, seeking to oust government forces form the airbase and neighbouring districts along the River Euphrates.
Last month, the jihadists regained control of the ancient city of Palmyra, about 185km (115 miles) south-west of Deir al-Zour, despite heavy Russian air strikes backing up government troops.
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Pearl D'Souza, 38, also known as Pearl Ivy Thomas, was sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court.
In September, she had pleaded guilty to three charges of attempted murder.
D'Souza had tried to take her own life, and those of three others, by ripping a gas pipe from the wall of her home and starting a fire in April 2014.
When fire crews arrived, they found the gas pipe behind the cooker in the kitchen had been disconnected and the gas had been ignited with a lighter.
She was one of four people taken to hospital suffering from burns and the effects of smoke inhalation after the fire at Keats Corner in Canterbury.
D'Souza was ordered to serve four years on extended licence after release from prison at the end of her sentence.
The judge described her as "wicked and utterly selfish".
Det Insp Janine Farrell, from Kent Police, said: 'Pearl D'Souza has been convicted of three attempted murders, but who can be sure of how many other potential victims were also put at risk by her deliberate and selfish actions?
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"It was only her lack of knowledge about the levels of gas required to cause an explosion that prevented fatalities in the house and in the neighbouring vicinity."
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Vasilijy Apilats, 61, of Crewe, admitted he took the painting from Chester Cathedral but said he bought it for £135 from two men he believed were cathedral officials.
Chester Crown Court heard The Raising of Lazarus painting is estimated to be worth £2,000 and was probably made between 1870 and 1880.
Mr Apilats denies theft.
Caroline Harris, prosecuting, said the icon was taken from a chapel in the cathedral in August 2014.
It was recovered from Mr Apilats' home the following month.
Ms Harris told the court he left a cheap Christmas angel in its place "laughing in the face of those he had wronged".
Mr Apilats, who lives on Edleston Road, is originally from Latvia and spoke to the court through a Russian interpreter.
He claimed he was approached by a man in the cathedral who asked him if he wanted to buy the icon for £250.
Mr Apilats said he would only pay £135 as the icon was damaged.
A second man, said by the defendant to be a supervisor, approved the sale and Mr Apilats took it home.
He denied placing the toy in the chapel.
Ms Harris said his explanation was "elaborate, fanciful and far-fetched".
The trial continues with the jury due to visit the cathedral.
HSBC said it would automatically refund money left in cash machines since May 2005, although the process would not be immediate.
Notes are sucked back into a machine if the user fails to take the cash within 30 seconds.
This could occur, a bank spokesman said, if customers had been distracted.
The bank has paper receipts that allow it to work out whether people have missed out.
Both HSBC and RBS changed their policies in January 2011 so notes that failed to be collected were automatically refunded to an account.
Previously customers had to claim the money back when they realised they had failed to collect the cash.
Now the banks are working with the UK Payments Council, which oversees payments strategy, to install a system that automatically refunds those who lost money for as far back as records allow.
Customers who believed that they had lost out did not need to do anything, but would see their accounts credited in due course, a spokesman said, regardless of which institution they banked with.
However, there was a very small minority of cardholders who would still need to claim, he added.
The SNP overturned a majority of more than 23,000 to take Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, once held by the former prime minister.
Labour candidate Kenny Selbie failed to follow the former chancellor to victory.
Labour's Ian Murray was the only MP who managed to retain his Edinburgh South seat in the face of the SNP landslide.
Mr Murray polled 19,293 votes to beat SNP's Neil Hay by 2,637 votes.
Mr Murray said: "We need to get the passion back into Scottish Labour and start talking about the values that run through us like sticks of rock."
Mr Selbie got 17,654 votes, nearly 10,000 less than nationalist Roger Mullin who picked up 27,628.
In the capital, the SNP's Tommy Sheppard ousted Labour's Sheila Gilmore to win the Edinburgh East seat with 23,188 votes over 14,082.
The SNP's Deidre Leanne Brock pushed Labour's Mark Lazarowicz out of the Edinburgh North and Leith seat.
In Edinburgh South West, the SNP's Joanna Catherine Cherry took over from Labour's Ricky Henderson, polling 22, 168 votes against 14,033 votes.
In Edinburgh West, the Lib Dem's Mike Crockart lost his seat to the SNP's Michelle Rhonda Thompson, who polled 21,378 votes against 18,168.
In Livingston, the SNP's Hannah Mary Bardell took Labour's Graeme Morrice's seat with 32,736 votes against 15,893.
In Midlothian the SNP's Owen George Thompson beat Labour's Kenny Young with 24,453 compared with 14,594.
In East Lothian the SNP's George Kerevan secured the seat with 25,104 votes to push Labour's Fiona O'Donnell out.
The SNP's Douglas Chapman secured 28,096 votes over Labour's Thomas Docherty who got 17,744 votes to win Dunfermline and West Fife.
The SNP's Martyn Day won the Linlithgow and Falkirk and East seat with 32,055 votes against Michael Connarty who got 19,121 votes.
In Fife North East, the SNP's Stephen Patrick Gethins took the Lib Dem's seat with their candidate Tim Brett getting 14,179 votes compared with the SNP's 18,523 votes.
The SNP's Peter Grant took the Glenrothes seat with 28,459 votes from Labour's Melanie Ward who got 14,562 votes.
In Edinburgh the turnout was 73.01% from an electorate of 357,718 with 261,165 votes cast.
The 35-year-old succeeds John Hughes, who left earlier this month citing frustration at budget restraints.
Chairman Kenny Cameron said: "Richie has been a great asset, both on and off the park, since joining us in 2009.
"He particularly understands the blend of spirit, values and togetherness that makes the club what it is."
Irishman Foran, who began his career with St Patrick's Athletic and played for the Republic at under-21 level, joined Caley Thistle after leaving Southend United.
He has gone on to play for the club 209 times, scoring 45 goals, the last being in the final game of the season in a 4-0 win over Dundee.
"The influence and passion he exhibited as a player, combined with his clear determination and knowledge, will all serve him well when it comes to building on and enhancing the club's qualities," Cameron told the club website.
"It was only a matter of time before Richie stepped up into a management role and that time has come."
Foran's appointment will not come as a surprise in the Highland capital despite his lack of managerial experience.
"We believe the length of contract demonstrates commitment on both sides," said Cameron.
"The board received and reviewed a high number of applications for the vacant position and Richie quickly became our preferred candidate.
"This was cemented further during several meetings to discuss the role, his approach and view for the future.
"Our decision that he is the right man to lead the club was unanimous and we look forward to working closely with him on the next stage of what has been a remarkable journey."
Foran, who also played with Shelbourne, Home Farm, Carlisle United, Oxford United, Motherwell and Darlington, inherits a side who slipped to seventh place from third the previous season with Hughes complaining about the club's ability to attract fresh talent and compensate for injuries.
However, the new manager, who only made 10 appearances this season because of injury problems, has already earmarked new additions to his squad.
"My intention will be to preserve continuity at the club while bringing a new freshness and playing style," he said.
"Joining Caley Thistle seven years ago has proved a marvellous decision.
"Thanks to coming to the Highlands I now have a lovely wife, two lovely children and have had the most enjoyable part of my playing career.
"But I will now give up playing to fully focus on making a success of my new job. I want to play exciting, attacking football which entertains the supporters.
"I've identified areas in our play that I think I can improve and I've identified what kind of players we need to bring in to improve our team."
Swans can stay up if they win at Sunderland on Saturday and rivals Hull City lose at Crystal Palace on Sunday.
Clement said: "I just want to be in a position on Saturday evening and Sunday when they are playing each other that we have our part of the job done."
Winger Wayne Routledge could return at Sunderland after a hernia injury.
Swansea are looking to capitalise on a dramatic twist last weekend as they leapfrogged Hull, who surprisingly lost 2-0 at home to already-doomed Sunderland before the Swans beat Everton 1-0.
Even though this is the Swans' sixth season in the top flight, Clement believes survival would justify a celebration.
He said: "Go right back to the start of the season, I was not here.
"If you said Swansea are going to stay up and there's going to be massive celebrations, people may think that is not great, you don't want to hear that.
"But in the context of the situation - three managers in one year, bottom at the halfway point with only 12 points and a massive amount of goals conceded - I think, absolutely 'yes' we can celebrate if we stay in the league."
The Swans are currently one point above Hull, with a superior goal difference. Crystal Palace are not out of the relegation picture, three points above Swansea.
Clement admitted: "There are lots of different connotations. The only thing I have spoken to the players about and we are all focused on, is taking care of business on Saturday.
"We want to try and get the right result and if we do we are obviously going to put a lot of pressure on not only Hull but Crystal Palace as well."
Routledge and defender Angel Rangel returned to full training this week.
Routledge has missed the last three games with a hernia problem which required surgery. Rangel has been absent for two months with a foot problem.
"They have had a couple of days training, so medically they are fine, it is just a matter of whether I think they have enough conditioning into them and a final bit of fitness before the last two games," said Clement.
However, Swans are missing wingers Jefferson Montero and Nathan Dyer with long term injuries.
Meanwhile Clement confirmed centre back Kyle Bartley would return to the Swans this summer after his season's loan at Championship club Leeds United.
Leeds boss Garry Monk - the former Swansea City manager - has reportedly made the 25-year-old centre back a top transfer target this summer.
But Clement made it clear Bartley is in his plans for next season.
"From our point of view he is a Swansea player and I am looking forward to coming back and working with him pre-season here at Swansea," said Clement.
The six-page contract was signed in 1961 in Hamburg, where the band cut their teeth playing in nightclubs.
It led to the single My Bonnie, which was released on Polydor in Germany under the name Tony Sheridan and the Beat Boys.
It will be sold by Heritage Auctions in New York on 19 September.
John Lennon signed the document JW Lennon and Paul McCartney signed his full name James Paul McCartney.
It was also signed by George Harrison and Pete Best, the drummer who was to be replaced by Ringo Starr the following year.
The band were backing British singer Tony Sheridan at Hamburg's Top Ten Club at the time, and together they were signed by German record producer Bert Kaempfert to record a rock'n'roll version of My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean.
The papers are being sold by the estate of Uwe Blaschke, a German graphic designer and Beatles historian, who died in 2010.
The auction also includes a signed copy of the band's first UK single Love Me Do and a postcard Ringo Starr sent to his mother from Hamburg.
Karin Gibson, 62, from Hilsea, Portsmouth, was prompted to visit her doctor after her Labrador kept pawing at the affected area.
"Thankfully he's the trigger that got me to my GP so early," she said.
Cancer Research said it is thought some tumours produce molecules which can be picked up by dogs with an astounding sense of smell.
Ms Gibson, a retired science teacher, noticed her Paddy was acting differently when she returned from holiday on 14 August, and by the end of the month she decided to visit her GP.
A biopsy and mammogram took place on 4 September and less than two weeks later, it was confirmed she had a small but invasive carcinoma of the right breast.
Ms Gibson is due to have an operation on 1 October.
She said her cancer had been detected "extremely early".
"Paddy's always been a very affectionate dog but when I came back from holiday his behaviour completely changed," she explained.
"He became a 'Superglue dog'. He jumped on me, he smelled my breath, he looked into my eyes, he nudged my breast.
"I thought, this is weird, and I thought I better get checked over."
The surgical procedure involves removing the lump and surrounding tissue.
If it has spread further, she said she will have to return for a mastectomy, which would require the removal of the breast.
But she is positive thanks to plucky Paddy's early detection abilities.
"They're hoping with the lumpectomy and some radiotherapy I shall be absolutely fine," she said.
She was "absolutely gobsmacked" Paddy may have detected her cancer.
"I rescued him because he was abandoned as a puppy and he's now rescued me," she said.
Dr Kat Arney, Cancer Research UK's science information manager, described her story as "amazing".
"I'm very much a dog person… it shows a human's best friend can be extremely useful.
"We know many cancers produce molecules that are smelly, they're called 'volatile molecules'.
"We can't necessarily smell them ourselves but dogs' noses are very sensitive and there's currently a study looking at whether highly trained dogs can detect prostate cancer."
Source: Medical Detection Dogs
Jason Buchan, 35, and David Stead, 47, have been missing for a week after their boat capsized close to the village of East Wemyss.
A third man, Birrell Stewart, 30, was pronounced dead after being picked up from the water on 10 August.
Police said forensic examinations were under way after the remains were found on beaches at St Andrews.
Ch Insp Adrian Annandale said the first discovery was made by a member of the public at about 11:30 on Sunday. The second was found at East Sands at 10:00 on Monday.
He said that family liaison officers had informed the relatives of the two missing fishermen and would continue to maintain contact with them throughout the investigation.
Police have been continuing to carry out searches and specialist divers from the force's marine unit were deployed to the East Wemyss area over the weekend.
It is claimed a man suffered a back injury when he was "violently flung" during a "peaceful protest" at Bramley Parish Hall, Rotherham.
The event, on Friday, was to inform the public about proposed changes to the HS2 rail line route in the area.
HS2 said the event was closed "for a short while" due to crowd numbers.
Richard Dickinson said his shirt was ripped when he was grabbed by a security guard.
"He grabbed hold of me, pushed me against the wall into a door, scraped me across the wall and just chucked me into the people who were coming inside the building," Mr Dickinson said.
"It was totally out of order, we were protesting peacefully and this guy just suddenly lost his temper for no reason at all."
A formal complaint was made and a statement was given to police.
Robert Foulds, clerk to Bramley Parish Council, wrote to the HS2 chairman claiming some witnesses were "in tears" when Mr Dickinson was "violently flung across the lobby".
The security firm, Churchill Security Ltd, said: "Our security staff are all highly trained and as a company we would never condone any inappropriate behaviour by any of our employees."
A spokesman for the firm said the security guard's conduct had been "vindicated" by police, but South Yorkshire Police said enquiries were ongoing.
An HS2 spokesperson said: "No restrictions were in place on those participating from the peaceful march from entering the event.
"However, due to the significant number of people, the room was simply not big enough to accommodate everyone inside the venue."
New route proposals see the HS2 line passing between Rotherham and Doncaster, with plans for a station in Meadowhall scrapped in favour of a stop in Sheffield city centre.
Poland-born Krzysztof Charamsa said he wanted to challenge the Church's "backwards" attitude to homosexuality.
Msgr Charamsa, 43, said he was in a relationship and was "happy and proud" of his identity.
The Vatican called his actions "very serious and irresponsible" and stripped him of doctrinal responsibilities.
Msgr Charamsa's statement came as bishops arrived in Rome for a synod that will discuss homosexuality, among other issues.
In an interview with the Corriere Della Sera, Msgr Charamsa, said: "It's time the Church opened its eyes and realised that offering gay believers total abstinence from a life of love is inhuman.
Analysis: BBC's David Willey in Rome
There's the text and then there's the subtext. The official subject under discussion at the crucial three-week meeting of cardinals and bishops from around the world beginning at the Vatican on Sunday, chaired by Pope Francis, is how to ensure Catholic families heed Church teaching.
The ban on contraception, for example, is now honoured more in its breach than in its observance.
But the sudden revelation by a Polish Monsignore that he is gay, has a Catalan lover, and is apparently a member of a long-rumoured but never formally acknowledged "gay lobby" at the heart of the Catholic Church, risks skewing the smooth running of a long-anticipated event.
The subtext is whether the Church should relax its traditional hostility to same-sex partnerships and marriages in an age when even the Pope retorts: "Who am I to judge?"
Even though the gay Monsignore has not yet sent his letter of resignation to Pope Francis, the timing of his decision has raised a media storm that is unlikely to subside quickly.
And a book is in the offing which may reveal further details of his 12 years of hidden life inside the Holy See.
"I also know that I will have to give up the ministry," he added, but said he felt he had a duty towards sexual minorities to come out.
He has been a member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - which is tasked with defending Church doctrine - since 2003.
The Vatican said he would no longer be able to be a member of the body, while his future as a priest would be decided by a local bishop.
In a statement it said: "The decision to make such a pointed statement on the eve of the opening of the synod appears very serious and irresponsible, since it aims to subject the synod assembly to undue media pressure."
The 49-year-old had been working on the Noble Lloyd Noble installation, in the Mariner Field, approximately 90 miles (150km) east of Shetland.
The alarm was raised at about 21:20 on Tuesday after a search of the rig failed to locate him.
A Coastguard search and rescue helicopter was called out but later returned to base.
Two standby vessels and a platform supply vessel were continuing to search.
The man is believed to be from the Aberdeen area.
Police Scotland said a team of officers had flown offshore to carry out inquiries and assist on the installation.
Det Insp Norman Stevenson, who is leading the team, said: "An extensive search has been carried out which has involved a search and rescue helicopter as well as standby vessels and a platform supply vessel.
"The next of kin of the man have been informed of the ongoing inquiries and further information will be made available to the public when we have it. There are no apparent suspicious circumstances."
Noble Lloyd Noble is one of the world's largest jack-up rigs, an installation with long support legs that can be lowered to the sea floor.
In a statement, Noble Drilling said they had mobilised emergency response teams in Aberdeen and Stavanger to support the search effort.
The company said: "Statoil vessels have been involved in an extensive search of the water surrounding the rig and together we will continue to do everything we can to support the ongoing search effort.
"Our priorities are the safety of all the personnel on board, assisting in the search operation for the missing person and supporting next of kin and colleagues of the missing person.
"All operations have been stood down on the rig."
Statoil is developing the Mariner field with the first oil expected in 2018.
A boat and a helicopter were involved in the operation which took place near the Grand Pier at about 14:00 BST on Friday.
Specialist equipment was used to free the man who was cold and wet but uninjured.
Coastguard officer Ian Thomas advised the public to take great care around estuarial mud and "not to take risks".
Martin Dolan, who heads Australia's search efforts, also said the operation was continuing "in the right place" in the southern part of the ocean.
The wreckage, said to be a wing part, is to be flown to France for analysis.
The Malaysia Airlines flight - a Boeing 777 travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing - vanished in March 2014.
There were 239 passengers and crew on board the plane when it went missing.
The tenacious deep-sea hunt for MH370
Mr Dolan, who heads the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, told the BBC that he was "increasingly confident that the wreckage... is associated with a 777 aircraft".
Aviation experts who have studied photos of the debris, found on Wednesday in France's Reunion island, say it resembles a flaperon - a moving part of the wing surface - from a Boeing 777.
"There is no other recorded case of a flaperon being lost from a Boeing 777," Mr Dolan said.
"We are confident we have the quality of the search to cover that area and find the missing aircraft," he added.
Earlier, Australian officials and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said the location of the debris was consistent with drift analysis provided to investigators.
The wreckage is expected to be flown to the French city of Toulouse later on Friday. French media quote officials as saying it will be examined by experts it next week.
The BBC's Chris Bockman in Toulouse says aviation authorities have a huge hangar facility to store and study wreckage - as they did with the Air France airliner that crashed on its way from Brazil to Paris in 2009.
BBC transport correspondent Richard Westcott says the object may have a data tag with a serial number that could be directly traceable to MH370. Even if there is no tag, it should have a traceable manufacturer's stamp, he adds.
Will this solve aviation mystery?
Reaction from relatives
Missing Malaysia plane: What we know
The position became vacant after Angus Robertson lost his seat in the general election.
SNP sources say Mr Blackford, the MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber, has the backing of a number of MPs in the Westminster group.
Other names being linked with the post include Joanna Cherry, Tommy Sheppard and Stephen Gethins.
Mr Blackford's supporters say he is popular in the party and would help reconnect with rural communities.
Sources close to Joanna Cherry, the MP for Edinburgh South West, say she is also "seriously considering" running for the job.
The SNP won the general election in Scotland, despite losing 21 seats. They will start the new parliament with 35 MPs.
Mr Robertson lost his Moray seat to the Conservatives' Douglas Ross after Thursday's vote.
Meanwhile the 13 Scottish Conservative MPs are due to meet in Westminster on Monday morning.
A similar feature was spotted in 2010 on Mimas, another Saturnian moon.
A report in Icarus suggests the effect is due to high-energy electrons bombarding the sides of the moons that face their direction of orbital travel.
That compacts the surfaces to a hard, icy texture that does not heat or cool as rapidly as the unaffected surface.
Thermal images of both moons were obtained by the Cassini-Huygens mission, launched in 1997 to study the Saturn system in detail.
The temperatures seen by the spacecraft are distinctly chilly - the warmest parts of Tethys were at - 183C, but inside the "mouth" of the Pac-Man shape it was 15C cooler still.
At the time of the finding of the first Pac-Man shape on Mimas, scientists were unsure what might be the cause, theorising that differing surface textures probably played a role.
The existence of another such shape nearby has cemented the idea that fast-moving electrons are responsible.
"Finding a second Pac-Man in the Saturn system tells us that the processes creating these 'Pac-Men' are more widespread than previously thought," said Carly Howett, of the Southwest Research Institute in Texas and lead author of the study.
"The Saturn system - and even the Jupiter system - could turn out to be a veritable arcade of these characters," she said.
John Crook, an only-child, wrote the letters and cards to comfort his parents after he was captured during the 1943 Allied landings in Italy.
He was held at Stalag Luft VIII-B in Poland and in early 1945 was forced on a "death march" by his captors.
His letters are to be published by St John's College, Cambridge.
The private with the 9th Royal Fusiliers later became a professor of ancient history at the college.
Just before his first Christmas in captivity, he wrote about carol performances, a band concert, a pantomime - and decorating the barracks with paper chains.
The future professor told his parents not to worry, adding he had "no time to pine away".
A letter dated Christmas Day 1944 described the prisoners organising dances and concerts and wearing "their best Khaki slacks".
Eleanor Swire, a librarian at St John's College, said the letters were likely to mask the reality of life in the camp.
He writes about "very Xmassy weather - snow and ice", referring to the extremely cold conditions experienced by the prisoners.
"When I sat down to read his letters in a quiet corner of the library, I was moved to tears by how brave he was to stay so upbeat... in order to comfort his family," she said.
In early 1945, Professor Crook was among thousands of prisoners of war made to march west, ahead of the Soviet advance.
Many died from the bitter cold, hunger and exhaustion.
He returned to St John's, completing his classics degree in 1947, and after a career as an academic died in 2007, aged 87.
The 33-year-old went 2-0 down against Poland's Adam Stefanow, before getting on the board with a break of 61.
Selby levelled with a 136 and although Stefanow, 23, won the fifth frame, the Englishman went on to win the final three frames on Monday.
England's Judd Trump began his title defence with a 5-0 whitewashing of compatriot Jason Weston.
Home favourite Ding Junhui beat England's Sean O'Sullivan 5-3, but fellow Englishman Joe Perry suffered an early exit at the hands of Iran's Hossein Vafaei, who won 5-2.
Michael Roach, 62, pleaded guilty to two counts of rape, 17 of indecent assault and two of sexual assault at Liverpool Crown Court.
Police said Roach, of Maghull, had attacked five girls aged four to 11 between 1986 and 2011.
He was sentenced to a total of 17 years and six months.
He was also made the subject of an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
Speaking after sentencing, Det Insp Jimmy Belmar said Roach was a "determined sexual predator".
He added that Roach had only been stopped because "thankfully, in some cases, parents recognised the warning signs and called police when they realised something serious had happened".
It is believed the man, named locally as Michael Hill, a coach at Latymer Upper School, fell into the river from a coaching boat near Putney Embankment, at about 19:20 GMT on Monday.
Police said the search was ongoing with high tide and low tide being utilised.
The missing man has not been named by officers searching for him.
In a letter to members of Thames Rowing Club, Phil McGee, head of rowing at Latymer School, said it was a "tragic incident".
Mr Hill has coached at Thames Rowing Club and at Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, instructing the women's squad.
RNLI, Metropolitan Police and London Fire Brigade boats have all been involved in the search.
A spokesman for the Port of London Authority said a stretch some miles upstream and downstream was being searched, close to Putney Pier.
An object was also thrown onto the pitch during the World Cup qualifier against Qatar.
Fifa, football's governing body, previously warned the HKFA over booing.
The anthem has been shared by Hong Kong and mainland China since the former returned to Beijing's control in 1997.
But anti-Beijing feeling has increased in Hong Kong in the wake of large protests last year against central government plans to impose candidate lists for elections in the territory.
Mr Brian Leung, the Chairman of HKFA, said: "We will promote the message of 'not booing' on all our media channels and will not punish the fans who threw the object onto the pitch as we don't know who did it."
A statement by the HKFA said Fifa had warned it that "any further infringements will lead to more severe sanctions", asking fans to "refrain from such action at all future matches" to avoid additional punishment.
The association previously said that it would be "disappointed" if Fifa punished them for the booing on 8 September, which it later blamed on "a small minority of fans".
Hong Kong's next international match is against Myanmar (also known as Burma) on 7 November, followed by a home game against mainland China on 17 November - likely to be of particular concern to organisers given the tensions involved.
The row began when a Barca fan asked Al-Thani on Twitter for Malaga to beat title rivals Real Madrid on 21 May.
"With the help of Allah we'll beat them on the pitch, but the scum of Catalonia will not smell the championship after telling lies about coach Michel," wrote Al-Thani in Arabic.
Malaga boss Michel upset Barca fans by hinting he wanted Real to win La Liga.
"FC Barcelona expresses its rejection and indignation at the contents of a tweet published by the president of Malaga CF, Abdullah Al-Thani, with comments which violate the principles of fair play, ethics and legality that should govern sports competition," Barcelona said in a statement.
"For this reason, the club will report this case to the anti-violence committee of the national sports council, and will refer the matter to the competition committee of the Royal Spanish Football Federation and the La Liga integrity department."
Spanish champions Barcelona and Real Madrid are level on points at the top of La Liga.
Barca lead because of a better head-to-head record with Real, who have a game in hand over their title rivals.
While Real go to 14th-placed Malaga on the final day of the league season, Barcelona are at home to Eibar - who currently sit eighth - on 21 May.
Malaga boss Michel helped Real Madrid win La Liga six times during a 14-year playing career at the Bernabeu.
The government introduced a cap on sums paid to locum workers, but it can be breached by NHS bosses if they consider there is "significant risk" to patient safety.
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said it exposed "poor workforce planning" but said trusts had put safety first.
NHS Improvement said the cap had saved £300m.
The cap was introduced in response to a "very significant financial challenge" facing NHS providers, the health watchdog Monitor, part of NHS Improvement, said.
When the rules took effect Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said staffing agencies had been able to "rip off the NHS by charging extortionate hourly rates".
The cap, which came into force in November 2015, set a limit on hourly rates for agency doctors, nurses and other clinical and non-clinical staff.
They started at 150% on top of normal pay for junior doctors and 100% for other staff, before gradually being reduced to 55% across the board from 1 April 2016.
In the first week that the rules first took effect, beginning 23 November 2015, the clause was used 35,662 times between 228 hospital trusts.
This fell to 21,277 times in the week beginning 28 December. Since then use has risen, reaching 54,419 uses in the week beginning 4 April 2016 and 53,644 in the week beginning 11 April, the last week of figures released.
The figures released by Monitor under the Freedom of Information Act suggest that, as the limit has come down, more staff have been affected.
The cap on pay for agency and locum staff was in response to hospitals "over-spending" on temporary workers.
The chief executive of NHS England, Simon Stevens, said in 2015 that he wanted to see the £1.8bn spent on agency and contract staff the year before turned into "good, paying permanent jobs". And he accused staffing agencies of "ripping off" the NHS.
Rising use of agency workers was partly down to hospitals putting more nurses on wards in the wake of the Stafford Hospital scandal, Mr Stevens said. The official report into the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust identified a key reason for inadequate care was a lack of nurses.
However, the Royal College of Nursing says the NHS has not taken on enough student nurses to meet demand, resulting in agencies filling the vacuum and charging more to do so.
The health regulator NHS Improvement said hospitals in England were 15,000 short of the required number of nurses.
Figures obtained by the BBC in February 2016 showed there were more than 23,000 nursing vacancies in the NHS in England, Wales and Northern Ireland - about 9% of the workforce. That compares with a typical vacancy rate across all forms of work of 2.7%.
Details of each trust's use of the clause are recorded anonymously.
In the last week for which figures were available one hospital trust used the clause 1,310 times. Nursing, midwifery and health visitor staff made up 759 of those. Four other trusts also used the clause more than 1,000 times in the same week. Only 18 trusts did not use the clause at all in the week beginning 11 April.
Janet Davies, chief executive of the RCN, said: "Agency cap breaches are a barometer of the scale of the NHS's workforce problem, and it shows clearly that the problem is getting worse.
"NHS Trusts are unable to recruit nurses and are rightly prioritising patient safety over sticking to the cap.
"This is a workforce planning issue. The number of nurses being trained in the UK has been reduced, for short-term financial reasons."
A spokeswoman for NHS Improvement said the cap had saved up to £300m since October.
She added: "We know that trusts will need to override the cap where patient safety is a concern and it's important that they are able to do that. But as the new rules set in, whilst overrides did increase temporarily, they have begun to steadily decline as we expected.
"Overuse of agencies is bad for patients, bad for the NHS and unfair on other staff. These measures will help those staff currently working in agencies to come back into the NHS. Average prices paid for agency nurses have fallen by around 11% since October, so NHS nurses can be assured that their agency colleagues aren't being paid over the odds for doing the same job."
The biggest use of the clause came in a week when one of the junior doctors' strikes took place.
However, figures for other weeks when doctors were on strike in the long-running dispute over new contracts do not suggest a link as they were either less than the week before or rose in line with a general trend.
Barry Dixon ignored several sets of red lights in what a sheriff described as "an appalling piece of driving over a significant distance".
Dixon, 19, of Perth was banned from driving for 32 months and ordered to carry out 175 hours of unpaid work.
He was also ordered to re-sit his extended driving test.
Depute fiscal Craig Donald told Perth Sheriff Court the Ford Fiesta was fitted with a tracker that enables it to be traced via computers and mobile phones.
He said: "It was put into Bookers car wash where the accused is employed as a car valeter.
"One of the employees of the car owning company noticed the tracker was giving information that the vehicle was being driven erratically."
The car was traced by police and stopped, but as they got out to approach the driver, Dixon sped off.
Dixon admitted driving a stolen Ford Fiesta dangerously and at speeds in excess of 80mph on various roads in and around Perth.
He also admitted failing to obey red traffic lights, ignoring no right turn signs, failing to give way at junctions and driving without insurance.
Sheriff Lindsay Foulis told Dixon: "This nonsense had very serious consequences.
"You may have thought it was fun at the time but you were a danger to other road users by acting in this manner."
He said this was to prevent a vacuum that could be filled by dissident republican groups.
Unionists are prepared to bring down Northern Ireland's power-sharing government over claims the Provisional IRA still exists.
It follows Kevin McGuigan Sr's murder in east Belfast, earlier this month.
Mr Ahern, who was a key player in the Northern Ireland peace process, told The Irish Times "it was a time for cool heads".
"The bigger picture is the ongoing peace process," he said.
"It is always delicate. Cool nerves, think this through.
"It is terrible there are atrocities, but are those atrocities being done [by people] who might have been on the inside but are now long since on the outside?
"Unfortunately, there are always fringe players in the organisations.
"People should keep it calm. We should never get lax about the bigger picture, and we should just keep that to the forefront and not talk ourselves into crisis. There is a bigger picture; the bigger picture is the ongoing process.
"These peripheral things, which I can only assume are not sanctioned, are going to continue to be a difficulty. That is something that has to be addressed."
Earlier this week, former Irish justice minister Michael McDowell said the Irish and British governments had allowed the Provisional IRA to continue as an "unarmed and withering husk".
This was because the governments feared a dissident group would fill the void left if the PIRA disbanded.
Mr Ahern said he agreed with Mr McDowell's assessment.
"We should always remember that there [is] a small dangerous group who do not want to see the spirit or the progress of the Good Friday Agreement implemented," he said.
"Nothing should be done that creates a vacuum that allows them to expand and grow."
Mr Ahern said it was envisaged that the Provisional IRA would develop along the lines of the old IRA and they would continue holding peaceful commemorations.
They claimed treated discharge from a water treatment works degraded the quality of Llyn Padarn, Llanberis.
The group lost a judicial review, after claiming Natural Resources Wales (NRW) had failed to protect Arctic charr at the Gwynedd lake.
They appealed but it has been rejected.
After losing their initial challenge in December, Seiont, Gwyrfai and Llyfni Anglers' Society appealed the decision during a Court of Appeal hearing in London in July.
The row was sparked after the anglers sent a notification to NRW, claiming the lake was suffering "environmental damage" as a result of discharges from Llanberis Sewage and Waste Water Treatment Works.
And they challenged NRW's response to their allegations on a number of points.
NRW considered the claims of the anglers but maintained there had not been "environmental damage" to the site, the Arctic charr or any other relevant species.
Three appeal court judges, headed by Lord Justice Lindblom, dismissed the anglers' renewed challenge in a written judgment handed down on Monday.
The man threatened staff with a handgun at the Co-op store in Pelsall, West Midlands, at 06.20 BST.
He stole a large quantity of coins before struggling with the weight of the haul as he fled, West Midlands Police said.
Police declined to say how much cash was taken in the raid.
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Det Con Neil Cunnington said: "We would like to hear from anyone who was in the area of Co-op this morning and saw a man dressed in dark clothing, carrying a holdall.
"He appears to have been struggling to carry the bag as he took a large quantity of coins and we have reports of him staggering due to the weight.
"No-one was hurt during the robbery and the shop has been examined for forensic evidence."
The County Antrim-born musician, 52, has pulled out of the band's US tour while he receives further treatment for Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
He said on Facebook: "I'm saddened by the fact that my cancer has returned.
"However, I'm beyond consolation that its return will prevent me from being able to do my job for a while."
He added: "I'm still working on a schedule of treatment with my doctors, but I will see you all very soon."
The guitarist, who has also been a member of Whitesnake, Dio and Thin Lizzy, revealed in June 2013 that he was undergoing chemotherapy. Several months later, he said his cancer was in remission.
Originally from the Maze just outside Lisburn, he joined Def Leppard in 1992.
In June last year the then Scottish health secretary, Alex Neil, urged the 14 health boards to stop the procedures while a review was carried out.
Some women with the implants, which are used to ease incontinence, have suffered painful complications.
Members of the petitions committee now want a chamber debate on the matter.
They also want the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), which is carrying out an investigation into the use of mesh implants, to appear before MSPs.
In addition, the committee is keen for the new health secretary to answer its questions.
Petitions committee member, Jackson Carlow, said that while he had been "enormously encouraged" by Mr Neil's call to stop use of the implants he was "disturbed" that some health boards had not halted the procedure.
He said he was also worried that the MHRA was set to recommend that the benefits of the operation outweighed the risk.
Mr Carlow said: "They have come to that conclusion despite the fact there is evidence of under reporting and there are concerns that the MHRA is not aware of all women who have experienced problems.
"This seems to me to be potentially quite a dramatic obstacle to what many of us thought was progress."
He added that what was seen by the committee as "tremendous progress" could be "going into reverse".
The MHRA had said its research showed that while a small number of women had experienced distressing effects, the benefits of the tapes and meshes "outweighed the risks" and could help in dealing with upsetting conditions such as urinary stress incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse.
Neil Findlay, who was at the committee along with several women who have had the implants, said: "Since the cabinet secretary announced his alleged suspension of mesh we know that this is still being fitted inside the bodies of women in Scotland, but it is now called a clinical trial.
"Since then we have also witnessed multi-million pound compensation claims being paid out to several people, with thousands more sitting in the pipeline."
Mr Neil called for a review of the mesh implant procedure - which is carried out on about 1,850 women each year in Scotland - after the petitions committee heard moving evidence from members of the Scottish Mesh Survivors campaign.
On Tuesday the committee was due to hear from Adam Slater, a New Jersey trial lawyer who helped to secure a multi-million dollar compensation deal for mesh users.
However, he was unable to give evidence via video conference due to the bad weather in New York.
The committee confirmed that his appearance would be rescheduled.
Marie McGinty describes herself as an aesthetics nurse practitioner, nurse prescriber and midwife.
But according to the Nursing and Midwifery Council, there is no record of Ms McGinty being registered.
She has failed to respond to repeated requests from the BBC to comment on the claims that she is unqualified.
In 2012, Marie McGinty, 49, established Vital Cosmetics Liverpool Limited and, according to its promotional material, runs clinics throughout the North West and North Wales.
She offers "skin rejuvenation" by using anti-wrinkle injections and dermal fillers. One of the compounds she uses is Botox - a powerful drug that can only be given on prescription following an assessment by a doctor, dentist or nurse prescriber.
The BBC 5 Live Investigates programme has spoken to one woman who went to Marie McGinty for Botox injections and dermal fillers - and was left with unsightly blemishes and hard lumps around her eyes from the fillers.
The woman - who wishes to remain anonymous - said: "I could see instantly it was lumpy, then a few hours later it was almost like blisters. It progressively got worse and then it didn't improve and looked like a mess.
"It affected my work, I didn't leave my flat. I hated looking in the mirror and had to hide my hair across the face.
"It looked abnormal, my sister said I looked like a freak."
In the end, she went to see a cosmetic doctor in Harley Street - Dr Vincent Wong - to get the damage caused by the dermal fillers corrected.
He said: "The person who carried out this work may not have been trained, simply because this is a very delicate region and if not done properly may have serious consequences."
Ms McGinty gave the lady Botox injections in her front room.
Dr Wong added: "With Botox, once it is injected it cannot be removed and if it's injected into the wrong area it can cause serious damage."
Marie McGinty told a potential client she was a nurse prescriber.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has no record of Marie McGinty being registered currently or in the past.
The titles of "registered nurse" and "midwife" are protected, meaning anyone falsely claiming to be a registered nurse or midwife is breaking the law.
Only registered nurses can become nurse prescribers - and have to be on the nursing register.
The BBC does not know where Ms McGinty is sourcing the Botox from. But the 5 live Investigates programme was able to buy it from a supplier in China, with no questions asked.
When Botox is sourced through unofficial channels, there is a risk it could be counterfeit.
The BBC was able to buy the supposed Botox for around £50 including shipping.
A small vial of white powder arrived with paperwork for dermal filler.
The company in China was asked if it was actually Botox.
"Of course, it is Botox, we use (dermal filler) documents to send the goods, as customs will check Botox, thanks for your kind understanding," they said.
Anyone can legally inject fillers so campaign groups like Save Face have tried to set up their own accredited list of 300 registered doctors, dentists and nurses.
"Treatments like fillers have almost become every day beauty treatments for many people, but, in the wrong hands, they are potentially dangerous procedures," said its director Ashton Collins.
"Many people we help have been too ashamed or embarrassed to come forward and speak out when a treatment has gone wrong."
The British Association of Dermatologists wants a mandatory register of practitioners.
And a Department of Health spokesman said: "Patients should always have confidence that their care is provided by a qualified individual and we strongly advise anyone choosing non-surgical treatment to check training and experience."
Five live Investigates also found that Ms McGinty's Vital Cosmetics Liverpool Limited mobile number links her to sites where escorts advertise "personal services".
The BBC contacted Marie McGinty three times by post and email over a month. She was also telephoned a number of times on her mobiles, with no success.
She said she would provide a statement after she spoke to her solicitor.
There has been no response and she has since moved from her registered business address.
BBC 5 Live Investigates is broadcast on BBC 5 Live on Sunday 24 May at 11:00 BST.
The Blues were favourites to deliver Healy's first silverware as Blues boss last May when they faced Glenavon in the 2016 final at Windsor Park.
Linfield lost 2-0 that day but are through to this season's semi-finals where they face Dungannon Swifts.
"I was hugely disappointed after that final. I was hurting, " said Healy.
"But sometimes you have to take a few disappointments along the way.
"I had plenty as a player, I have had a few as a manager. It makes the winning feeling sweeter."
Linfield reached the semi-finals by beating Premiership champions and current leaders Crusaders 2-0 at Seaview on Saturday.
The south Belfast club have not won the Irish Cup since doing the double in 2012.
As well as ending Crusaders' double ambitions, it raised the hopes of Linfield supporters that the league title race might not be done and dusted.
Linfield, runners-up to the Crues for the last two seasons, are seven points behind Stephen Baxter's pacesetters with eight matches left.
This Saturday Crusaders are at home to lowly Carrick Rangers, with Linfield hosting third-placed Cliftonville two days later.
But Northern Ireland's record goalscorer Healy played down his team's Premiership title prospects, saying: "Crusaders are in the driving seat - it would take a hell of a collapse from them for us to reel them in in the league."
Healy got his first trophy as a manager in last month's County Antrim Shield final.
China is leading the set-up of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, a project opposed by the US.
Taiwan, which split from China in 1949, wanted to join the bank as an independent nation.
But China regards Taiwan as part of its territory and was expected to reject any move which suggested otherwise.
Taiwan's government has reportedly said it will continue to press the case for its inclusion. The bank was created in October with 21 members.
Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesman for China's State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, confirmed a recent report that Taiwan would not be a member.
He said that the bank "is open and inclusive, and welcomes Taiwan to join under an appropriate name", and added that they would be "open to suggestions from all sides".
A report by Taiwan's Central News Agency quoted a spokesman for the executive branch of Taiwan's government as saying that Taiwan should join the AIIB "under the principle fairness and equality".
Taiwan's parliamentary speaker Wang Jin-pyng also said that Taiwan will now seek to become an ordinary member of the bank, instead of a founding member.
He added that the government would not accept anything less than calling Taiwan "Chinese Taipei" - the name under which Taiwan is referred to by the International Olympic Committee.
Taiwan's government officially calls itself as the Republic of China. It goes by the name "Taipei, China" as a member of the Asian Development Bank, and is known as the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu at the World Trade Organization.
The AIIB will fund Asian energy, transport and infrastructure projects.
In October, 21 countries signed the memorandum of understanding establishing the bank. Besides China, they included India, Thailand and Singapore.
It now has more than 40 members, with South Korea, Austria and Spain's membership confirmed on Saturday.
The UK has applied to join the bank, earning a rare rebuke from the US in March which said it had "concerns" about whether the AIIB would meet governance standards and maintain environmental and social safeguards.
All three emergency services were called to a collision between a truck and motorcycle at Altarnun, Launceston, on Sunday 9 August at about 10.15pm.
The arrested truck driver was a 21-year-old man from Bodmin.
The main arterial route through the county was closed westbound at Trewint Gap for almost seven hours.
Devon and Cornwall Police said the motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
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On Saturday, table one at the Crucible Theatre was described as "the worst I have ever played on" by Ali Carter.
Organisers say they have already taken steps to try and improve conditions at snooker's most prestigious event.
"We changed the cloth and cushions on Wednesday, and we will change the cushions again on Saturday," World Snooker said in a statement.
Saturday night's planned cushion change was "scheduled before the event", it added.
The governing body also said it has allocated a set of balls to every match, rather than one set for each table, and turned the table heaters down "in order to make the cushions more consistent".
"We believe these measures, together with Saturday's cushion change, will have a positive effect," added World Snooker.
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On Friday, Welshman Mark Williams wiped the cushions down with a damp cloth in order to stop the number of uneven bounces from the cue ball.
Two-time finalist Carter, who suffered several kicks and heavy bounces off the cushions, was irate after losing 13-11 to Alan McManus in the second round.
"The conditions were horrific. There were kicks every other shot and big bounces off the cushions," said Carter. "I just wanted to smash the place up at the interval, I was that frustrated."
Michael Holt, who suffered a 13-8 defeat against two-time champion Williams, also expressed unhappiness.
"I am not going to criticise the tables but I can observe them," added Holt. "They were... interesting.
"It was about being the best guesser. You just need to watch it and see what was happening, we are not that bad."
The two-table situation remains until the semi-final stage, when it switches to one.
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Sarah Sands, 32, was found guilty of the manslaughter of Michael Pleasted, 77, after learning he had been charged with sexually assaulting young boys.
He was stabbed eight times and bled to death, the trial heard.
The Court of Appeal ruled the sentence was too lenient and increased it to seven-and-a-half years.
Sands was found guilty of his death by reason of loss of control.
Pleasted, who had previous convictions, was on bail awaiting trial when he was killed at his Canning Town flat in east London.
The original case heard the mother-of-five, who was cleared of murder, had originally befriended Pleasted and taken him food.
However, when she found out his past she armed herself with a knife and carried out a "determined and sustained attack" at his flat.
After handing herself in, Sands told a police officer the victim had touched some children "so I took care of it - I stabbed him".
She told the court she had not intended to hurt Pleasted but he "smirked" when he answered the door and told her the boys were all liars who had ruined his life.
During the trial Judge Nicholas Cooke QC said the case was "unique" as Sands had lost control rather than taken the law into her own hands and engage in "vigilante conduct".
He said: "This was a case in which the defendant promptly gave herself up to the police in a highly stressed state, never disputed responsibility for the killing as a matter of fact, did not take the opportunity to get rid of evidence and demonstrated remorse."
But Sands' sentence was referred by the Attorney General after 30 members of the public complained about its original length.
At the time he took into account the fact she was a mother, had shown remorse and had never denied the killing.
But the three judges sitting at the Court of Appeal ruled that because Sands had taken a knife with her when she went to Pleasted's flat it meant the starting point for sentencing should have been 10 years.
Mitigating factors reduced it to seven-and-a-half years.
Pleasted, who also went by the name of Robin Moult, had 24 previous convictions for sexual offences spanning three decades.
He was not on the sex offenders register as he committed his offences before it was introduced in 1997.
At the time of the attack, Pleasted was on bail awaiting trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court on two charges of sexual assault on two children aged under 13.
Officers were also investigating a further allegation he had abused a third boy.
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All lanes were reopened at about 20:45.
The A499 in Gwynedd, which had also been closed in both directions between B4413 (Llanbedrog) and A497 Yr Ala due to a crash, has reopened.
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Honda has decided to change the engine in Stoffel Vandoorne's car on the first day of the final test in Spain after finding an electrical problem.
It is the latest in a series of problems with Honda's newly redesigned engine after Honda used at least five in last week's first pre-season test.
Vandoorne ended the morning eighth fastest, 2.972 seconds off the pace.
A Honda spokeswoman said: "In the interests of maximising lap time, we sped to replace the power-unit and investigate the issue further once it is out of the car.
"The PU we are using is the same specification as the one run at the test last week."
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Honda has said it has an upgraded engine that it is planning to use for the first race of the season in Australia on 24-26 March. That latest specification is expected to run at some point this week at the Circuit de Catalunya-Barcelona.
The quickest lap of the morning was set by Williams driver Felipe Massa on the super-soft tyres, 0.174secs quicker than Daniel Ricciardo's Red Bull, using the ultra-soft tyre.
The soft tyre is calculated by Pirelli to be 0.8secs a lap slower than the super-soft.
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton was third fastest, 0.556secs behind Ricciardo and also on the soft tyre.
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel was fourth quickest, 0.671secs behind Hamilton but using the medium tyre which is said to be 1.3-1.4secs slower than the soft.
It is impossible to directly compare the lap times even taking into account the tyre off-sets because the teams do not reveal the fuel loads in the cars or the specification in which they are running, both of which can make significant differences to lap time.
The British sides meet in the opening game of Group D on Wednesday 19 July.
They will be joined in their group by Spain - beaten by England in a friendly in October - and the lowest-ranked side at the tournament, Portugal.
Top-seeds Germany - who have won the tournament six times in a row and last lost at a European Championship in 1993 - face Sweden, Russia and Italy.
The tournament begins on 16 July, with the final on 6 August.
Group A: Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway
Group B: Germany, Sweden, Russia, Italy,
Group C: France, Iceland, Austria, Switzerland
Group D: England, Scotland, Spain, Portugal
Sixteen teams will take part in Euro 2017, up from 12 in 2013, a move Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin said would add "an extra dimension".
England and Scotland meet in Utrecht. The last time the two asides played each other was at the Cyprus Cup in 2013, when they drew 4-4.
Scotland go into the tournament as one of five debutants, along with Belgium, Portugal, Austria and Switzerland.
The Scots, who have never played in a major tournament before, qualified as runners-up in their group, their one defeat in eight games coming against group winners Iceland.
"It's a tough group but one for us to relish," said Scotland manager Anna Signeul. "Our players will be very motivated."
England recorded seven wins and a draw to beat Belgium to top spot in their qualifying group.
Mark Sampson's side are ranked third at Euro 2017, behind France and Germany, the side they beat to finish third at the 2015 World Cup.
The Netherlands meet 2013 runners-up Norway in the opening match of the tournament in Utrecht, with Belgium and Denmark completing Group A.
England meet the Netherlands in a friendly on 29 November and also have a fixture with Italy scheduled for 6 April.
Negotiations began after the Tories failed to win an outright majority in the general election and needed DUP support for a minority government.
The news came as the State Opening of Parliament took place in London.
On Tuesday, the DUP expressed concern that it was being "taken for granted" in the discussions.
The Tories insisted the negotiations were proceeding as planned.
Sources told the BBC on Wednesday the party wants to see £1bn investment in the health service in Northern Ireland and a similar figure for infrastructure projects.
The DUP has also focussed on key economic measures including a reduction of corporation tax and the scrapping of air passenger duty (APD).
BBC News NI political correspondent Stephen Walker said: "Sources close to the talks process say the plans to scrap APD have "stirred much resistance within the Treasury.
"It is also understood the DUP has put forward plans for city deals for local councils in Northern Ireland, which will give local authorities greater economic powers.
"The party is also keen to see increases in defence spending, and wants to see Northern Ireland companies benefit from extra investment.
"The party has long campaigned for defence spending to be set at 2% of GDP, and increased budgets for the army, navy and air force have been raised in the discussions with Number 10."
The State Opening is one of Parliament's set-piece occasions, when the Queen outlines the government's legislative plans.
The economy, moves to create a fairer society and Brexit are expected to dominate the Queen's Speech, which will cover a two-year period instead of one.
The DUP is expected to back the Queen's Speech when MPs vote on it next week.
The talks between the DUP and the Conservatives about forming a parliamentary agreement have generally been upbeat, but on Tuesday there was a change in mood.
A DUP source complained the discussions needed "greater focus".
In a clear reference to the Brexit talks, the same source asked if Theresa May could not negotiate a deal with the DUP, "what does that mean for bigger negotiations she is involved in?"
Earlier, First Secretary of State Damian Green said that while it was "possible" the Conservatives and the DUP would not be able to agree a deal, the talks were "progressing well" and were being conducted in a "constructive spirit".
He went on to tell Radio 4's Today programme that the parties had some differences, but also "a lot in common".
"We are both unionist parties at our heart, we are both very concerned with combating terrorism, we both have similar views about delivering a good Brexit for this country and obviously we are very concerned with the Irish border issue," he said.
"All talks of this kind take a long time."
Former DUP special adviser Richard Bullick said he was surprised a deal had not yet been agreed.
"I do find it pretty extraordinary that two parties that have quite a bit in common, seem to have a broadly similar agenda, haven't managed to get a deal hammered down," he said.
"In the past one would have thought this could have been done in a matter of hours or a few days, but clearly that hasn't been possible.
"The DUP will not want to find themselves in a position the Liberal Democrats found themselves in after 2010, and will be making sure that, if and when a deal is done, it is a deal that is going to work for the DUP as well as the Conservatives."
Network Rail said the fire, near South Hampstead, north London, damaged signalling equipment.
The power supply to Euston station was temporarily cut as a result of the incident, leading to the evacuation.
Engineers hope to restore services as soon as possible but it is warned full timetables are unlikely to resume until Thursday morning.
The fire affected customers on London Midland, Virgin and Southern trains.
It also took out a stretch of the London Overground line between Euston and Harrow & Wealdstone.
Network Rail said: "An electrical fire at South Hampstead has stopped trains running in or out of London Euston this evening.
"Train customers are impacted in London and the length of the West Coast main line, including Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool."
It added: "Network Rail engineers are trying to get some trains moving this evening on the West Coast main line by using emergency generators to restore temporary power to signals - the traffic lights of the railway.
"Engineers are preparing to work through the night to install 100 metres of 11,000-volt power cables, with the aim of getting services back to normal tomorrow morning."
Customers on Virgin trains were advised not to travel south of Birmingham. It said tickets would be accepted for travelling on Thursday or passengers could get a full refund.
The BBC's transport correspondent Richard Westcott said: "If you are going anywhere near Euston tonight, frankly, I just wouldn't bother. The Tube trains are affected as well so make sure you don't travel unless you absolutely have to."
Passengers are advised to use services provided by Chiltern Railways, East Midlands Trains and Great Western Railway or check with National Rail Enquiries before travelling.
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The world number one opens play on Centre Court at 13:00 BST against Britain's James Ward.
Seven-time champion Roger Federer and French Open winner Garbine Muguruza also feature on day one.
Qualifier Marcus Willis, ranked 775, is one of eight Britons in action on Monday, with Andy Murray and Johanna Konta scheduled to start on Tuesday.
Monday's play begins on the outside courts at 11:30, with BBC coverage starting online at 10:00 and on BBC Two and 5 live sports extra at 11:30.
Djokovic arrives at the All England Club as the new French Open champion, holder of all four Grand Slam titles and on course for the first calendar-year Slam since Rod Laver in 1969.
The 29-year-old is a strong favourite to become only the fourth man in the Open era to win a hat-trick of Wimbledon titles.
"The situation this year is quite different because I'm coming in with a Roland Garros title for the first time," said Djokovic. "That gives me a lot of confidence."
Asked about facing a British player in his opening match, Djokovic said: "It's going to be the first match on the untouched grass.
"That's probably one of the most special matches that you get to experience."
Federer, 34, is the number three seed and is expected to face Djokovic in the semi-finals, although the Swiss lacks his usual number of matches after struggling with injuries all year.
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Second seed Murray appears the most likely to threaten Djokovic, having finished runner-up to the Serb at the year's first two Grand Slams in Australia and France.
Defending champion Serena Williams remains the woman to beat as she chases a seventh Wimbledon and 22nd major title, which would draw her level with Steffi Graf in the all-time list.
However, the 34-year-old American has not won a Grand Slam since last year's Wimbledon, with Muguruza beating her in France and rising to two in the world rankings.
Britain has 15 players in the singles draws this year, with seven there by right through their rankings, seven given wildcards and one coming through qualifying.
That is Willis, the 25-year-old who had not played a tournament since January and had to win six matches in pre-qualifying and qualifying to reach the main draw.
According to the ATP World Tour website, Willis' 2016 earnings amount to $64 - his performances so far in Wimbledon qualifying have seen him pocket £30,000.
Another victory over Lithuania's world number 53 Ricardas Berankis could set up a dream second-round match against Federer, as well as taking his pay packet to £50,000, more than half of his career earnings to date.
"I've always believed in myself, believed I could play really good tennis, but I can't really expect to qualify for Wimbledon," said Willis.
"I just took it one match at a time and now in the main draw I'll do the same there."
Six British men are in action on Monday, with Kyle Edmund playing France's Adrian Mannarino, Brydan Klein up against Frenchman Nicolas Mahut, Alex Ward facing Belgian David Goffin, and Dan Evans taking on German Jan-Lennard Struff.
In the women's draw, former junior champion Laura Robson plays fourth seed Angelique Kerber and Naomi Broady faces Ukraine's Elena Vesnina.
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There have been only eight championships - the last of them six years ago - without rain interruptions since 1922, and 2016 looks unlikely to add to the list.
The 130th championships will host up to 39,000 spectators on each of the 13 days, with more than 700 players in qualifying and the main draw competing for a record prize fund of £28.1m.
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Both singles champions will take home £2m, while just making the first round guarantees a player £30,000.
Spectators will consume about 28,000kg of strawberries, 7,000 litres of cream and 29,000 bottles of champagne, some of it almost certainly under the Centre Court roof.
The weather forecast suggests rain will feature during the first week of the tournament, but the roof at least guarantees tennis throughout.
"Not a complete washout, but through the first few days I'm expecting some rain," said BBC Weather's John Hammond.
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The BBC will have comprehensive coverage of Wimbledon across TV, radio, online and social media, with 153 hours scheduled across BBC One and BBC Two.
Former world number ones Lleyton Hewitt and Jim Courier, and former British number one Annabel Croft, have joined the BBC TV team, led by Sue Barker, while Radio 5 live will broadcast more than 100 hours of action.
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A concussion and stomach problems meant Mills, 29, has been out of action since her triumph in Brazil.
But this week she is competing at the Delta Lloyd Regatta in the Netherlands in the 49erFX class with Alain Sign, and was eighth after the first day.
"It was great and so nice to be back in competition," said Mills.
"That's what you live for and love. It was cool to be out racing with 20 boats around you, trying to remember how you do it."
After Rio, Mills had initially started back sailing in January and changed boats to the 49erFX class after winning 470 gold in Rio with Saskia Clark, who has retired.
But Mills suffered two setbacks after suffering concussion in January and was then forced to miss the Trofeo Princesa Sofía event in late March with stomach problems.
The helm was forced to have a gastroscopy and was told to rest for at least the next 10 days before returning to the water.
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Now Mills is back with Sign in the mixed event and completed the first day of four before the medal race on Sunday.
After this event, Mills will have to decide whether to concentrate on the 49erFX or 470 category in her bid for World Championship glory this summer and find a female crew for either event.
Mills had set her sights on switching boats for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics but is still weighing up her options for this calendar year.
She will compete in a 470 regatta with a new partner in Santander, before returning to the 49erFX with Sign in Germany.
"I am mixing it up a little bit," said Mills. "I am keeping it fun and myself motivated for this first year of the Olympics cycle.
"It's hard to say what I will do this year. I am taking it day by day, learning as much as I can.
"The 49erFX World Championships is in September while the 470 is in July.
"There is a bit of time between them but we will just see happens, we will re-evaluate this weekend and reassess the goals."
About 10,000 strikers and 5,000 police officers were involved in what became known as the "Battle of Orgreave" in June 1984.
Campaigners are urging Home Secretary Theresa May to consider their legal submission "fairly and objectively".
Seventy MPs have signed a Commons motion calling for such an inquiry.
The Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign (OTJC) said it wanted Ms May to "consider either establishing an independent panel, similar to that established in 2009 to investigate the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, or a public inquiry".
More than 120 officers and pickets were injured and 93 people were arrested following the incident at the Orgreave coking plant, near Rotherham.
In June the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) ruled South Yorkshire Police would not be investigated because the passage of time meant allegations of assault and misconduct at the plant "could not be pursued".
But the watchdog said its decision could be reviewed if further evidence emerged.
South Yorkshire Police referred itself to the IPCC after a BBC documentary in 2012 claimed officers may have colluded in writing court statements.
The force also faced claims that officers had used "excessive force" and given false evidence in court.
Speaking earlier, Barbara Jackson, secretary of the OTJC said: "We had a productive meeting with the home secretary in July and now that we have completed our legal submission we are looking forward to presenting it to her with the belief that she will look at it fairly and objectively.
"We remain committed to justice over Orgreave."
Those arrested at Orgreave were held for a variety of alleged offences, with several being put on trial for rioting.
The trial collapsed after 16 weeks when it became clear police evidence was unreliable.
The IPPC's decision followed a two-year "scoping exercise" during which thousands of documents, film and photographs were analysed.
The 19-year-old was part of the England Under-20 World Cup-winning squad in South Korea in June.
He spent last season on loan at League One Champions Sheffield United, scoring four goals in 14 appearances.
Chapman becomes Rovers' eighth summer signing and is set to go straight into the squad for the season-opening game at Southend United on Saturday.
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The US team believe the "waste removal system" is one of the fundamental reasons for sleep.
Their study, in the journal Science, showed brain cells shrink during sleep to open up the gaps between neurons and allow fluid to wash the brain clean.
They also suggest that failing to clear away some toxic proteins may play a role in brain disorders.
One big question for sleep researchers is why do animals sleep at all when it leaves them vulnerable to predators?
It has been shown to have a big role in the fixing of memories in the brain and learning, but a team at the University of Rochester Medical Centre believe that "housework" may be one of the primary reasons for sleep.
"The brain only has limited energy at its disposal and it appears that it must choose between two different functional states - awake and aware or asleep and cleaning up," said researcher Dr Maiken Nedergaard.
"You can think of it like having a house party. You can either entertain the guests or clean up the house, but you can't really do both at the same time."
Their findings build on last year's discovery of the brain's own network of plumbing pipes - known as the glymphatic system - which carry waste material out of the brain.
Scientists, who imaged the brains of mice, showed that the glymphatic system became 10-times more active when the mice were asleep.
Cells in the brain, probably the glial cells which keep nerve cells alive, shrink during sleep. This increases the size of the interstitial space, the gaps between brain tissue, allowing more fluid to be pumped in and wash the toxins away.
Dr Nedergaard said this was a "vital" function for staying alive, but did not appear to be possible while the mind was awake.
She told the BBC: "This is purely speculation, but it looks like the brain is losing a lot of energy when pumping water across the brain and that is probably incompatible with processing information."
She added that the true significance of the findings would be known only after human studies, but doing similar experiments in an MRI machine would be relatively easy.
Commenting on the research Dr Neil Stanley, an independent sleep expert, said: "This is a very interesting study that shows sleep is essential downtime to do some housekeeping to flush out neurotoxins.
"There is good data on memory and learning, the psychological reason for sleep. But this is the actual physical and chemical reason for sleep, something is happening which is important."
Dr Raphaelle Winsky-Sommerer, a lecturer in sleep at Surrey University, said: "It's not surprising, our whole physiology is changing during sleep.
"The novelty is the role of the interstitial space, but I think it's an added piece of the puzzle not the whole mechanism.
"The significance is that, yet again, it shows sleep may contribute to the restoration of brain cell function and may have protective effects."
Many conditions which lead to the loss of brain cells such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease are characterised by the build-up of damaged proteins in the brain.
The researchers suggest that problems with the brain's cleaning mechanism may contribute to such diseases, but caution more research is needed.
The charity Alzheimer's Research UK said more research would be needed to see whether damage to the brain's waste clearance system could lead to diseases like dementia, but the findings offered a "potential new avenue for investigation".
Borussia Dortmund's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Liverpool's Sadio Mane headline the list of stars taking part in the tournament, which was won by Ivory Coast in 2015.
The final takes place on 5 February and you can find the full fixture list here.
Here is our group-by-group guide to Afcon 2017:
Today's revolution for women is knowing exactly when to expect your period, according to Ida Tin, co-founder and chief executive of the reproductive health tracking app Clue.
Although Clue is not recommended as a contraceptive, the app tracks a woman's cycle, and can predict, not only fertility and menstruation, but also related symptoms such as mood swings or PMS (premenstrual syndrome).
As is the case with many good business ideas, Ms Tin's inspiration came from personal experience.
"Our reproductive health is an incredibly foundational and central part of our lives," she says.
"I was around 30 and I wasn't on the pill, because it didn't work that well for me. I was wondering why nobody had built a really good tool to manage this part of life."
She adds: "Clue is all about empowering women. It allows women to make better individual health decisions, and to improve their overall well-being."
Ms Tin, 36, knows from experience how empowering it can be, for a woman, to take things into her own hands.
Before she founded Clue in Berlin in 2012, she spent five years running a business in her native Denmark which organised motorcycle tours around the world.
Ms Tin also wrote a best-selling book about her motorcycling exploits in far flung parts of the planet.
Ms Tin runs Clue with her co-founder and partner Hans from an open plan loft office in the German capital.
Although the business is only three years old, more than two million women in over 180 countries now use Clue, which Ms Tin says is the world's fastest-growing menstrual cycle tracking app.
She says: "We don't have a typical app user. It is a group as diverse as women are on this planet.
"A lot of girls and women are using Clue because they want to know themselves and their bodies better.
"Some women are using Clue because they're trying to get pregnant, others to get reminders to take their birth control pills, or to share their data with a doctor."
The app is free - and hasn't made the company any money yet.
However, Ms Tin hopes that it will start to generate revenue within the next few years, and is continuing to explore the best ways of doing so.
She appears to have the confidence of her investors, as Clue recently raised $7m (£4.6m) of funding from venture capital firms Union Square Ventures, which is based in New York; and London's Mosaic Ventures. This brings the total Clue has secured to $10m.
The cash is being used to expand Clue's team of 22 full-time staff, develop new features for the app and increase the number of users.
Clue is the latest addition to an increasingly crowded market place. So the search is on for ways of distinguishing itself from the competition.
Right from the start Ida was determined that the app should not be "pink" or "girly".
So the design is gender neutral - and the company is at great pains to stress the scientific nature of the way the app works.
Users have to regularly enter information into a calendar. Topics range from menstruation to motivation, and from sex drive to appetite.
According to the company, the more information you put into the app the more accurate it is. And the firm works closely with doctors and reproductive health scientists to ensure that accuracy.
When it comes to the daily running of the business, Ms Tin encourages staff to work flexibly, so as to balance their work and family lives.
"Reaching the right balance between family and work is not only a personal responsibility and choice for both women and men." she says. "It's also a company's responsibility."
The needs of Ms Tin's two children are built into her busy daily schedule. She drops her five-year-old son Elliot at kindergarten each morning, before bringing her one-year-old daughter Eleanor to the office.
Ida happily describes the toddler as an "office baby".
"It's not always easy to balance a family and a company" she says, "but I'm a very stubborn person and I am just not willing to have to choose between the two.
"It has to be possible to have a family and work on something I deeply care about."
On the day that the latest tranche of money from investors hits the company's account, there's a quiet celebration in the office.
Ms Tin is clearly excited about what the money means for the future of her young company.
"I want to build a platform for women's health data," she says, "so women can get deep insights about their body."
She raises a glass of champagne in thanks to her staff, her daughter Eleanor cradled in one arm.
There's a real symbolism to the moment - a woman with big hopes for the future, balancing her twin loves - her family and her business.
The boy is believed to be Kaden Reddick from Reading. He sustained head injuries at the Oracle Shopping Centre store on Monday.
Police said the boy's death was being treated as unexplained but not suspicious.
A spokesman for Topshop said the firm's thoughts were with the family.
"We are thoroughly investigating all the events surrounding this extremely sad situation," he said.
Officers remain at the scene and the shop was closed on Tuesday.
It is believed the accident involved a display in the store.
People turned to social media to pay tribute to the 10-year-old and his family.
One Facebook user said: "Love you guys, the worlds going to miss you wee man and the amazing things you would have achieved in it."
Another said: "No words can describe or change what your going through just know we are all here for you , sending you all our love. You are all in our thoughts."
A third wrote: "That gorgeous smile. Kaden you are a big miss. Your mummy and dad need you to watch over them because they are hurt."
Police would only say that the boy was from Reading and that officers were supporting his family.
Det Supt Paul Hayles said: "We continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding this death, a scene watch is in place at the Topshop store and is likely to be in place for some time.
"Detectives are now working with the local authority and the store owners to gather all of the information on how this incident happened."
A bunch of flowers was left by a passer-by against the shop's closed shutters.
A card, which was unsigned, read: "RIP little man. To the family. Please take home if you wish x."
South Central Ambulance Service sent three ambulances and a rapid response vehicle to the scene, on what was the first day of the half-term school holiday in Berkshire.
The boy, who was found in a life-threatening condition, was taken to the Royal Berkshire Hospital but later died.
Reading Borough Council confirmed it was investigating alongside police.
The Health and Safety Executive said it was not yet involved.
A date for a post-mortem examination has not yet been set.
The Bury-born rider went into the 17.9km time trial leading by 19 seconds from BMC's Richie Porte after victory on Saturday.
But Orica-Scott rider Richie Porte took 40 seconds out of Yates in Lausanne, to clinch the overall title by 21 seconds.
Team Sky's Chris Froome, who fell out of contention on Saturday, finished 18th overall.
Australian Porte's time of 25 minutes and six seconds in the battle against the clock was good enough for second on the fifth and final stage, with LottoNL-Jumbo's Primoz Roglic winning in a time of 24:58.
Time-trialling is a major weakness for Yates, 24, as he aims to mature into a Grand Tour contender, and his time was only good enough for 12th place.
The six-day, five-stage race is regarded as an early indicator of form before the Tour de France in July.
Tour de Romandie stage five result:
1. Primoz Roglic (Svn/LottoNL) 24 minutes 58 seconds
2. Richie Porte (Aus/BMC Racing) +8secs
3. Tejay van Garderen (U.S./BMC Racing) +34secs
4. Ion Izagirre (Spa/Bahrain) Same time
5. Fabio Felline (Italy / Trek) Same time
6. Andrey Amador (Crc/Movistar) +35secs
7. Jonathan Castroviejo (Spa/Movistar) +41secs
8. Lennard Kaemna (Ger/Sunweb) +42secs
9. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) +46secs
10. Ilnur Zakarin (Rus/Katusha) Same time
11. Wilco Kelderman (Ned/Sunweb) +48secs
12. Simon Yates (GB/Orica) Same time
Final classification:
1. Richie Porte (Aus/BMC Racing) 17 hours 16 minutes
2. Simon Yates (GB/Orica) +21secs
3. Primoz Roglic (Svn/LottoNL) +26secs
4. Fabio Felline (Ita/Trek) +51secs
5. Ion Izagirre (Spa/Bahrain) + 1min 3secs
6. Tejay van Garderen (U.S./BMC Racing) + 1min 16secs
7. Wilco Kelderman (Ned/Sunweb) +1min 21secs
8. Bob Jungels (Lux/Quick-Step) + 1min 22secs
9. Jesus Herrada (Spa/Movistar) Same time
10. Emanuel Buchmann (Ger/BORA) +1min 24secs
Selected others:
18. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) +1min 55secs
Watched by police snipers, the statue was gone before dawn in a stealthy operation designed to foil protests.
The statues will be relocated to "a place where they can be put in historical context", the city said.
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said workers had faced "intense" intimidation and threats.
The last chunk of the Battle of Liberty Place obelisk was hauled away in lorries, whose registration plates were covered, by around 05:30 on Monday after four hours.
First erected in 1891, it commemorated the Crescent City White League's attempt to overthrow the post-Civil War government.
The monument's original inscription hailed "white supremacy in the South", but this was more recently replaced with another plaque recognising "Americans on both sides" who died during the war.
Mayor Landrieu called it the "most offensive" of the majority African-American city's memorials.
"The removal of these statues sends a clear and unequivocal message to the people of New Orleans and the nation: New Orleans celebrates our diversity, inclusion and tolerance," Mr Landrieu said on Monday.
Elected officials in the city voted 6-1 to remove four monuments to the Confederacy, the southern states who seceded from the US, sparking the 1861-65 American Civil War.
Activists opposed to the removals have staged vigils, and a car belonging to one worker hired by the city was set on fire.
Supporters of the monuments say they are a cultural legacy that promotes heritage rather than racism.
The decision to remove the statues came in December 2015 after a white supremacist shot dead nine black worshippers at a South Carolina church.
In a new document called 'Fifa 2.0' the organisation has outlined its key goals following widespread corruption allegations.
President Gianni Infantino said Fifa was building an organisation to "set the standards for others to follow".
Fifa also wants to take over organising the World Cup after Qatar 2022.
As it stands, host countries are in charge of running the tournament.
"Fifa is a stronger institution today than it was a year ago - and it will be even stronger a year from now," said secretary-general Fatma Samoura.
Dozens of senior officials were indicted by US prosecutors as a result of the Fifa corruption scandal in 2015, which is said to have involved racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering.
Former Fifa and Uefa presidents Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini both received eight-year bans from all football-related activities, reduced on appeal to six years, while a Swiss criminal investigation into the pair is also ongoing.
Jerome Valcke, the former Fifa secretary-general, was also given a 12-year ban from football in February, which was reduced to 10 years on appeal, for his alleged involvement in a scheme to profit from the sale of World Cup tickets.
Under its new plan Fifa says it wants to take control of ticketing arrangements and bring them in-house in time for the 2022 tournament.
Fifa's new vision is guided by four key principles - improving transparency, accountability, inclusivity and cooperation - and aims to move the body on from the crisis of recent years.
Changes will also be made to the World Cup bidding process, making it more transparent and efficient while also giving Fifa the power to bar contenders if they fail to match technical criteria.
• Increase percentage of world's population participating in football from 45% to 60% - includes people playing, coaching, refereeing or otherwise broadly experiencing football.
• Investment of more than $4bn (£3.27bn) in developing football, giving back to the game the resources derived from its showcase competitions and new, technology-driven, sources of revenue.
• Doubling the number of female players to 60 million.
Rodgers, who has won the League Cup and Premiership title in his first season in Glasgow, signed a new four-year deal on Friday.
And Forrest says the news has further boosted the feel-good factor at Celtic.
"It's been a pleasure to work with him and hopefully we can continue it for years to come," the winger said.
"We just heard on Friday about the manager's new contract and all the boys are delighted.
"He didn't tell us, we only heard as we left training. But all the boys are happy and so are the staff.
"A few of us have signed a new deal this season so for him to sign up for the same length of time, it just continues the buzz about the place right now.
"We don't want to stop now, we want to keep going. It's exciting what we can achieve under him, now that he's committed long-term.
"Since he came in, it's been perfect up until now. But he's always working on us, he doesn't want to stop. That's great for the players and the fans."
Rodgers watched his Hoops side extend their unbeaten domestic run since the start of the season to 39 games with a comfortable 3-1 home win over Kilmarnock on Saturday.
Kilmarnock's Jordan Jones had levelled after Stuart Armstrong gave Celtic the lead, but Scott Sinclair popped up with Celtic's second before Forrest nodded in the third - the first headed goal of his career.
The win took Celtic on to 90 points in the Premiership, with a final game before the split away to Ross County next Sunday before their Scottish Cup semi-final against Rangers on 23 April.
But as parliament put forward its nominations for the top job, the situation became clear: there would be no last-minute deal, no President Suu Kyi.
Those expecting a Nelson Mandela ending to this incredible story will be disappointed. But for Suu Kyi and her many supporters little has actually been lost.
This anticlimactic outcome strengthens her politically and diminishes the military in the eyes of the Burmese people.
The generals' inflexibility, in the face of a huge popular mandate, has set the tone for what looks likely to be a period of confrontation between them and the newly elected democrats.
It was in November last year that Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), swept the board in the long-awaited general election.
The NLD won nearly 80% of the contested seats and everyone, even the army, agreed that the Burmese people had not just voted for change, they had voted for Suu Kyi to lead.
Emboldened by the result, the former political prisoner reached out to her long-time adversaries. In the past four months she has held three meetings with Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing. Suu Kyi was exploring the possibility of a grand deal.
What the NLD leader needed was the army's approval for a legally dubious move. She wanted parliament to temporarily suspend the part of the constitution that bars her from becoming president.
Clause 59F famously disqualifies anyone whose spouse, children, and even spouses of children, have foreign passports. Suu Kyi's two children by Oxford academic Michael Aris are British.
Supporters of the clause say it protects the country's sovereignty, but many believe it was drafted by the military to close the door on Suu Kyi. To open that door, the Burmese army would have demanded concessions.
That could have meant giving the military the right to choose the chief ministers of several states, and securing promises that the army's many business interests would be left alone.
Most importantly, the military is almost certain to have insisted that attempts to chip away at its political power be put on the back burner.
So beneath the feel-good headline of "President Suu Kyi", the army would have consolidated its political role.
It's not clear why the grand deal didn't happen. Perhaps the army just couldn't stomach the idea, or maybe Suu Kyi refused to concede enough. For whatever reason, the talks broke down.
So what, then, will the new political landscape look like?
Suu Kyi famously said before the election that she would be "above" whoever she picks to be president.
It is clear that Htin Kyaw has been selected primarily for his loyalty. All Suu Kyi will have to do is pick up a phone to flex her presidential power by proxy. She has lost nothing there.
Unencumbered by any deal with the army, Suu Kyi will be freer to pursue her campaign platform from the 2015 election.
Her authority is unchallenged within her party and she will now remotely command both presidency and parliament. One of her priorities is likely to be a renewed bid to change the constitution to reduce the army's power.
The unelected army representatives have already sampled the new order. Suu Kyi's MPs are demanding that deals made by the army and the former government be re-examined.
In a rare moment of drama, all the men in green uniform stood up in the house in protest.
In the immediate aftermath of the election, Suu Kyi spoke of being inclusive and creating a government of national unity. That was before the army rejected her overtures.
It is expected that the government Suu Kyi leads will be a mix of NLD officials and technocrats. But will she now be in the mood to find room for those from the military party, the USDP? Quite possibly not.
The 2008 constitution will be the main limit on Suu Kyi's power. Drafted by the generals, and approved in a sham referendum, it ensures the military retains its political role.
The key security ministries (home, defence, border affairs) are appointed not by the president but by the army commander-in-chief.
A quarter of the seats in parliament are also reserved for soldiers. That is not enough for them to block legislation, but sufficient to scupper any attempts to amend their constitution.
Much has changed in Myanmar, but the Burmese army has not budged one inch from the red lines it put into the constitution.
The democratic experiment, economic reforms and the emboldened Suu Kyi remain in a controlled space that the military designed and now seem intent on preserving.
Pamela Hudson, 75, suffered injuries to her face, body and arms caused, her family believes, by a rodent at the council-run home Glen Lodge, in York.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has called for the investigation after seeing graphic pictures in the Sun newspaper.
But after its own inquiry, City of York Council said it could not determine how Mrs Hudson came by her injuries.
Mr Hunt said: "These pictures are appalling and show the suffering of a vulnerable woman who, along with her family, was stripped of her dignity and badly let down.
"Working across government, ministers are ordering an investigation which will be launched in the coming days.
"Whatever the sort of social care provider, patients have a right to expect the highest standards, and that is what we are determined to secure."
Mrs Hudson's daughter Jan Derry told the Sun she thinks the rat probably got trapped in the bed during the incident in June and attacked her mother as it tried to get free.
She said: "The thought of how many times she was bitten is awful."
Mrs Hudson was later transferred to alternative accommodation, before dying three months after the incident.
Martin Farran, director of adult social care at the council, said: "It is with regret that, despite extensive efforts by professional experts, environmental health and independent inspectors, we have been unable to determine the exact circumstances of how Mrs Hudson's injuries occurred."
The firms allow customers to pay for a household item in instalments, with high interest rates, until they own it.
Citizens Advice worries that vulnerable people are being "pushed into further financial difficulty".
BrightHouse - the biggest company - denies exploiting consumers in vulnerable circumstances.
During an investigation for the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, former Labour leader Ed Miliband called for better and clearer regulation of the rent-to-own sector.
"It seems to me that too often rent-to-own companies are taking advantage of people who feel they have nowhere else to go. The regulator needs to stop the most vulnerable people in our society, like those with learning difficulties, being taken advantage of," he said.
"Paul", who has asked us to hide his identity, has learning difficulties and mental health problems. At one stage, he was paying BrightHouse for five items - including furniture and electrical goods - using his welfare payments.
Asked how he had taken out the five items, he said: "I think I must have started paying off one... I don't know how it worked really, I don't know."
As Paul wished to remain anonymous, BrightHouse were not provided with sufficient information to comment on his individual case, but the firm has denied exploiting consumers in vulnerable circumstances and selling items to people who cannot afford them.
It said it has sufficient policies and procedures in place to prevent these practices from happening.
Craig, 38 - whose surname we have withheld - has autism and cerebral palsy.
He signed an agreement with BrightHouse for a games console, but his mother Betty Ward said he did not understand the original contract.
"He understood it was a PlayStation 4, that was about it. He'll pay, but then he's got nothing for himself for food, electric, gas, things like that.
"I kept seeing it in the house and I didn't really twig... when he said where it was from I was like, 'How many times have I said don't touch them with a bargepole?'"
She said it would have been obvious to staff that her son was vulnerable, although BrightHouse disputed this and said a member of staff judged Craig to be capable of making his own decisions and had no reason to believe he was not aware of what he was doing.
As soon as Ms Ward told the firm about Craig's situation and the console was returned, she says, BrightHouse stopped taking payments from his account.
Citizens Advice said it receives thousands of complaints every year about the sector, and has evidence suggesting affordability checks were not always being properly conducted by firms.
It said it encountered people with up to several thousand pounds' worth of debt, with six or seven items.
Its chief economist, Hugh Stickland, said it sees "people in vulnerable situations pushed into further financial difficulty - and then, of course, emotional stress and worry.
"Too often we think the [rent-to-own] firms offer them very little in terms of protection, don't do decent enough affordability checks."
The Financial Conduct Authority, which has regulated the sector since 2014, says if companies have reason to believe a customer has a learning disability they must take reasonable steps to assist them in making an informed decision, and decide whether it is appropriate to lend.
But Mr Miliband, who has campaigned against rent-to-own companies and supports credit unions, thinks this does not go far enough. He wants the firms to be regulated in a similar way to payday loan companies, and see a cap on the total amount they can charge for a product.
"I have been told customers can end up paying three times the worth of the item, or if they miss a payment or are late, the costs can spiral," he said.
The difference in an item's worth and the amount customers pay overall is due to additional costs for delivery and installation, a mandatory warranty and high interest rates.
One mid-range washing machine on BrightHouse's website costs £358. But the firm's customers must also pay £55 for delivery and installation, and £136 for a warranty. With interest rates on this product of 69.9% a year, if the payment was spread over three years - as the firm's own price model sets out - the washing machine would cost a total of £1,092.
Rent-to-own
But Kate Andrews from the Institute of Economic Affairs, a right-of-centre think tank, believes the rent-to-own companies provide a valuable service. "It is an injustice to tell people at the bottom that because they're poor they can't have things that in 2016 we would consider necessities," she said.
She believes it is fair that if rent-to-own companies make "huge profits" because they are "taking on a lot of risk - taking on people with no credit score.
"They don't always know if they're going to get their payments," she adds.
BrightHouse said in a statement: "[Mr Miliband] consistently misrepresents our business. BrightHouse serves those lower-income families who are excluded from mainstream credit. Rent-to-own is a very different proposition to other forms of retail.
"We undertake extensive affordability assessments before lending and seek to support all those customers who find themselves in difficulty."
The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays between 09:00-11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.
It was the worst mass shooting in Australia's history and for many years it has defined the town, although among locals it is a sensitive, almost taboo topic. The gunman, Martin Bryant, is one of the country's most notorious villains, but his name is rarely spoken in Port Arthur.
So people were surprised and dismayed in March this year when an actor drove a yellow Volvo around the massacre site at the behest of a major Australian television network.
"To hire a yellow Volvo with a surfboard on the roof and a have a blonde, long-haired man drive around the site so they could film it was an extraordinarily horrible thing to do," said local mayor Roseanne Heyward.
The media rehashing of Australia's Port Arthur shooting massacre in the lead-up to Thursday's 20th anniversary has been upsetting for the community, leaving many people keen for the day to be done.
Since March there has been an outpouring of reports on the massacre, boasting of never-before-seen material, first-time accounts, graphic retellings and television re-enactments.
Capping that was news this week of a graphic movie of the massacre, playing to conspiracy theories Bryant wasn't the killer, that is due to start filming this year.
Stephen Large is chief executive of the Port Arthur Historic Site, the former penal colony and world heritage-listed site where Bryant shot most of his victims.
Mr Large said the television re-enactments and rehashing of the massacre were disappointing, particularly the Volvo drive-by re-creation.
"That rocked quite a few people here and certainly upset a lot of people in the local community, and I'm sure a lot of people that were directly affected by 1996," Mr Large said, adding that any requests to film a movie at the site would be assessed on their merits.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull heads the dignitaries attending a Thursday ceremony marking 20 years since the massacre.
The two-hour ceremony, the first at the site since the 10th anniversary, will be broadcast live on two of the country's television networks.
Former prime minister John Howard, who moved swiftly and decisively to ban the possession, use and importation of semi-automatic and automatic rifles following the shootings, will also be among those at the ceremony.
Despite the reluctance of some locals to mark the tragedy, many victims' relatives were determined to hold a milestone ceremony. Some survivors will return to the site for the first time since that Sunday in 1996.
Mayor Heyward said compassion for these people made the service a necessity. "How could you refuse them?" she asked.
"But we have moved on, we'll never forget, but we have to get up every morning and get on with our lives and that is what this community has done."
Martin Bryant, now aged 48, is serving 35 consecutive life sentences.
Many people object even to the use of Bryant's name, with local media often bombarded with complaints if he is mentioned in reports.
Tasmania Times news website editor Lindsay Tuffin said Tasmanians wanted Bryant excised from memory.
"There is no doubt that they do not want to even ponder it," he said. "They just wish he never existed."
The feeling is so strong that visitors to the Port Arthur Historic Site are usually urged not to ask questions about the massacre.
"Rather than ask a guide, please read the plaque at the Memorial Garden or pick up a brochure at the Visitor Centre," an instruction reads.
Hobart Mercury editor Matt Deighton said local media approached the topic in a completely different way to mainland publications.
"It's as sensitive an issue as I've experienced in 26 years of journalism," he said.
"Our coverage will be subtle and respectful, focusing on the anniversary and how the community has tried, at varying levels of success, to move on."
Thursday's ceremony may be unsettling for those who would rather forget the senseless violence in 1996.
But Stephen Large from the Port Arthur Historic Site is hopeful that it will be a positive experience for victims and the community.
"There are some people coming who we know haven't been back to the site for 20 years so it will be particularly poignant for them and we hope it's worthwhile for them," Mr Large said.
Those thinking of doing something to help others should not be put off by the risk of being sued, ministers said.
Under the new law for England and Wales, judges will be urged to show leniency in cases that get to court.
The measure is expected to be included in the Queen's Speech on Wednesday.
The Ministry of Justice says people are often deterred from doing things to benefit others because they worry about negligence.
Health and safety concerns had been used to remove "dustpans and brushes from street pastors clearing up glass and offering support to town centre revellers", the MoJ said.
It also claimed street parties and picnics had been cancelled because of demands for "up to £5m" of public liability insurance.
Of the many people who do volunteer, research suggests that nearly half of them, 47%, are concerned about the risk of liability, it added.
It wants to force judges to give weight to three factors in cases where people do end up facing litigation:
The MoJ said the new bill would also "put the law more clearly on the side of employers" when something goes wrong at work through no fault of their own.
The law change would protect small business owners who take a "responsible approach to safety training and procedures" from the challenges of "irresponsible employees", it said.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said: "I want a society where common sense is the order of the day, and I believe this measure will help us get there."
The 22-year-old former West Ham trainee has scored 23 goals in 97 games for Colchester, but could not save them from League One relegation last term.
Posh director of football Barry Fry has confirmed that his club have verbally agreed personal terms with Moncur.
But newly-promoted Barnsley are also interested as they look to strengthen ahead of a return to the Championship.
At least three major hotel building projects are under way along that stretch of the Cuban capital, including the renovation of the Manzana de Gomez, a former shopping mall being converted into a five-star hotel.
With tourist numbers hitting record levels this year, the need for new hotels is self-evident.
However, in recent days the Hotel Manzana building project has generated some controversy.
Not for its architectural style, which remains faithful to its early 20th Century European influences, nor for its budget or timing - it is due to be completed by spring next year.
Rather for the disparity in wages between different employees on the site.
The French industrial company, Bouygues, which is building the luxury hotel in partnership with the Cuban state, brought between 100 and 200 Indian labourers to Cuba to work on the project, Reuters reported earlier this year.
Tight regulations on how much foreign companies can pay Cuban employees mean that in essence the Indian labourers are being paid about 10 times the amount - estimated at between $1,300-$1,700 (£1,000-£1,400) a month - that Cubans are earning.
"It is normal practice for us to bring in our own teams to work on construction sites around the world," a French foreman for Bouygues explained over coffee.
The foreman, who only gave his name as Franco, said he had travelled extensively with the company, particularly in the Middle East, and had almost always used teams of labourers who came into the country with the company.
But in Latin America employing such a foreign labour force is relatively rare and in Cuba it's almost unheard of.
Initially neither the presence of Indian employees or the wage differential was considered especially controversial.
Rather it was the government's explanation, which took several months to emerge, that seems to have infuriated people.
In an interview published in the state-run newspaper, Juventud Rebelde, Jose Martinez, deputy director of Cuba's construction and real estate company Almest, linked the higher wages to the Indians' productivity.
"The Indian workers' level of efficiency in construction work is three or four times greater than the national average in Cuba," he said.
"Their work always produces very high-quality results… they make the most out of their working day, which results in greater productivity."
Unsurprisingly, that was met with indignation by scores of hardworking Cuban labourers.
"If you paid us [the same] we'd build the Manzana de Gomez four times over," said Yanquiel Jardines as he ate his lunch on a building site in the Vedado district of the city.
I asked the 25-year-old state employee and his older colleagues about the Juventud Rebelde article as they smoked and drank sodas on their midday break.
By and large, they say, they don't resent the fact that the Indian workers earn higher wages. Instead, they value the stability of their state jobs over the better-paid but more "sporadic" work in the private sector.
"This is working towards my pension and I know I'm working again tomorrow," says Rolando, who's spent more than 20 years on building sites.
"But those guys in the 'brigades' [on private sector projects] don't know what will happen when the job they're working on ends. They might not work again for months."
What did anger them, however, was the suggestion that they aren't as efficient as their Indian counterparts - or any other nationality, for that matter.
For many Cubans, the issue of employment with foreign companies gets to the heart of their questions about how the rapprochement with the United States - and the subsequent boom in tourism - will benefit them.
Will foreign investors be permitted to hire Cuban workers directly instead of through the state employment agency? And will they receive wages at an "international" market rate?
The city's historian, Eusebio Leal, is the man behind the renovation of much of Old Havana.
In a recent interview with the BBC he spoke about the Hotel Manzana pay issue saying: "130 or 140 labourers that this company [Bouygues] brings in are not going to determine the reality of the internal labour market in Cuba."
Meanwhile, Almest says it is undertaking a study to create a new system of payments, one more closely linked to productivity.
That may not placate some state construction workers though; already they are earning less than their co-workers, and now their pride is dented too.
The woman, known only as Gulnaz, was released on the orders of President Hamid Karzai, who pardoned her earlier this month.
Her lawyer told the BBC that she was released without precondition, dispelling fears that she may have to marry her attacker.
The case drew international attention to the plight of many Afghan women.
Gulnaz - who was sentenced to 12 years in prison after reporting that she had been raped by her cousin's husband - recently gave birth in jail to a daughter.
Her lawyer, Kimberley Motley, told the BBC that she was healthy and happy to be released.
Ms Motley said that Gulnaz is now staying in an undisclosed location in Kabul with her child after being released overnight on Tuesday "for her own safety away from the blaze of publicity".
"She is now free to lead a normal life without the threat of further legal action," she said.
"I hope this historic case will set a legal precedent for other persecuted women in Afghanistan.
"I would like to pay tribute to President Karzai and the Afghan justice ministries for taking the measures required to win her freedom."
Ms Motley said that Gulnaz is at present "coming to terms with her future" but she is free to marry whoever she wanted in future.
Human rights groups say hundreds of women in Afghan jails are victims of rape or domestic violence.
Gulnaz earlier said she was charged with adultery after being raped in 2009. Initially she was sentenced to two years in jail, but when she appealed it became 12 years.
The most recent appeal saw her sentence reduced to three years before the presidential pardoning.
The attack on her was brought to light by her pregnancy. Her attacker was jailed for 12 years, later reduced on appeal to seven. He remains in jail.
Gulzaz's story was included in a European Union documentary on Afghan women jailed for so-called "moral crimes" but the EU blocked its release because of concerns for the safety of the women portrayed.
The EU's Ambassador and Special Representative to Afghanistan, Vygaudas Usackas, said earlier this month that her case has highlighted the plight of Afghan women, who 10 years after the overthrow of the Taliban regime often continue "to suffer in unimaginable conditions, deprived of even the most basic human rights".
Half of Afghanistan's women prisoners are inmates for "zina" or moral crimes.
Many Afghan women's rights activists say there must be an end to the culture of impunity and police must punish all those behind violence against women.
Among those which remain on the books are more than 300 dating from the colonial era, as well as rules to manage issues arising out of the Partition of India. There are more than a dozen laws imposing redundant taxes that yield little and cost a lot to collect, as well as outdated laws relating to former princely states and the nationalisation of industries and banks.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi says one of his missions is to rid India of a "maze of useless laws".
During the election campaign he promised that for every law passed, his government would repeal 10 obsolete ones. More recently, in a speech at New York's Madison Square Garden, he said he planned to get rid of one such law every day. His government has already placed a bill in parliament, recommending 36 obsolete laws be revised. A Delhi-based citizens' group has gone a step further and compiled a list of 100 laws to delete from the statue books.
Here are 10 laws, picked at random, that India could easily get rid of:
The law defines treasure specifically as "anything of any value hidden in the soil" and worth as little as 10 rupees (16 cents; 10 pence).
The finder of such treasure, according to the law, will need to inform the most senior local official of the "nature and amount or approximate value of such treasure and the place where it was found".
Also, if the finder fails to hand over the booty to the government, the "share of such treasure ... shall vest in Her Majesty". It's worth remembering that the British left India in 1947.
Walter James McDonald Redwood, a priest in the southern city of Bangalore, solemnised many local marriages during his time, mistakenly believing that he was authorised to do so.
The law was introduced to validate those marriages.
It's less clear what relevance it has these days.
The law levies a cess - a tax imposed for special administrative expenses - on salt manufacturers at the rate of 14 paise (2 cents) per 40kg on all salt made in a private or state-owned salt factory.
The proceeds - after deducting the cost of collection - are used to meet expenses of salt-making, labour welfare and research.
In 2013-14 collections from the tax amounted to $538,000 (£343,400), which was nearly half the cost of collecting it. Given that collections are so low, says the Delhi-based Centre for Civil Society, removing this act - and tax - would have little effect on the government's finances.
A High Level Salt Enquiry Committee set up in 1978 recommended that the tax should be scrapped since the "annual collection was very small" while the total cost of collecting it was more than half of the total collection. The recommendation is still pending.
Although 92% of salt in India is produced by private companies, its salt industry is controlled by what is called the Indian Salt Service, employing some 800 officers.
The law regulates possession of telegraph wires by Indians.
A person who possesses telegraph wires - with precisely defined diameters - is expected to inform authorities about the quantity in his possession. Anybody possessing more than 10lb (4kg) of such wire has to convert the excess into ingots.
The problem with this law is India sent out its last telegram in July 2013, after which telegraph services were shut.
The law says only the federal government has the "exclusive privilege of conveying by post, from one place to another", most letters.
There are a few exceptions, including one particularly bizarre one: "Letters sent by a private friend in his way, journey or travel, to be delivered by him to the person to whom they are directed, without hire, reward or other profit or advantages for receiving, carrying or delivering them".
India's thriving courier industry circumvents this law by sending "documents" rather than letters.
The 145-year-old law deals with regulating public sarais (rest houses), including duties of the manager and "removal of noxious vegetation" on the site.
The law says sarais should also provide free drinking water to passers by - reports say it is often misused instead to harass hotel owners.
The law was enforced to "prevent the dissemination of certain publications harmful to young persons".
A harmful publication is one that "tends to corrupt a young person" with pictures and stories which depict "violence or cruelty" or "incidents of a repulsive or horrible nature".
Many believe that words such as repulsive and horrible are "vague and subject to arbitrary interpretation, and consequently lead to widespread discretion and serve as an excuse for harassment".
For example, earlier this year, police in southern Kerala state raided shops selling Bob Marley T-shirts on the grounds that these encouraged youngsters to consume drugs - and shopkeepers were charged under the law.
The law defines an aircraft as "any machine which can derive support in the atmosphere from reactions of the air". So it includes "balloons, whether fixed or free, airships, kites, gliders and flying machines".
It also says only the government can make rules regarding "possession, use, operation, sale, import or export of any aircraft or class of aircraft".
By this logic, it would be illegal to fly kites and balloons without government clearance in India.
This law requires every foreigner staying in India for more than 180 days to report his/her entry, movement from one place to another and departure, to the authorities.
Introduced by the British to regulate the entry and movement of foreigners in India - particularly of Indian revolutionaries from abroad - the law also requires owners and managers of hotels and boarding houses, and aircraft or ships to report the presence of any foreigners.
Many say the law has become a tool to harass foreigners and is an impediment to India's efforts to boost tourism.
This discriminatory colonial law exempted areas populated by India's Sonthal tribespeople from general laws and regulations because they were an "uncivilised race".
The law, introduced to curb uprisings by isolating tribal populations, "violate the principles of equality under law adopted by our Constitution and give legitimacy to discrimination and ill-treatment of tribal populations in India", according to a citizens' group.
Two major official and private indexes used to gauge the country's manufacturing activity indicate a worsening contraction in the sector.
The bad news comes just after the central bank's latest stimulus measure to boost liquidity.
China's slowing growth has been dragging the global economy as Beijing hopes for a shift towards services and consumption in its domestic market.
Tuesday's government data shows that activity in China's manufacturing sector shrank for the seventh straight month in February.
Coming in below market expectations, the Purchasing Manager's Index (PMI) fell to 49.0, down from 49.4 the previous month.
The index is used as an indicator of factory activity, and any reading below the 50 mark points at a contraction in the sector.
Aside from the government data, the private Caixin-sponsored PMI, which focuses on smaller companies, came in even worse at 48.0 for February, marking the lowest reading in five months.
The disappointing figures were released only one day after the central bank had reduced the so-called reserve rate ratio for banks, which is the amount banks must hold in reserve.
In Beijing's latest attempt to tackle slowing growth, the cut is aimed at boosting liquidity, making it easier for banks to lend money.
The bank's announcement comes only days before the annual meeting of China's parliament, which hopes to push an economic shift to make the services sector and consumption a stronger driver of the economy.
While the February PMI for the service sector did come in above the 50 threshold it still declined compared to the previous month.
Analysts doubt the extent to which services and domestic consumption can prop up the world's second largest economy as the manufacturing slump is expected to affect people's spending power.
Beijing on Monday said it expects layoffs of 1.8 million workers in the coal and steel industry alone, about 15% of the workforce, to cut down overcapacity.
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The massive croc would have lived at the same time as the world's largest-known snake and may even have competed with it for food.
The remains were discovered in the Cerrejon mine of northern Colombia, one of the world's largest open-pit coal mines.
A US team has described the specimens in the journal Palaeontology.
The freshwater creature, named Acherontisuchus guajiraensis, inhabited an ancient rainforest ecosystem some 60 million years ago, during Palaeocene times.
The environment was dominated by reptiles, including giant snakes, turtles and crocodiles. This is the second crocodile relative excavated from the Cerrejon mine.
Temperatures at this time were much higher than today, and scientists say that studying the diversity of animals in this ecosystem could help them understand the impacts of a warmer climate in the future.
It lived alongside a giant snake known as Titanoboa, which is thought to have grown to about 13m (42ft) in length.
The scientists say that A. guajiraensis was specialised for eating fish, which means it probably would have competed for food with Titanoboa.
"The younger individuals were definitely not safe from Titanoboa, but the biggest of these species would have been a bit much for the [13m] 42-foot snake to handle," said lead author Alex Hastings, from the Florida Museum of Natural History.
The new species belongs to a group of crocs known as dyrosaurids, believed to be primarily ocean-dwelling, coastal reptiles.
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The croc was comparable in size with the largest examples of living crocodiles and alligators today.
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They're touring primary schools across Scotland, but are taking all props, costumes and set pieces on their bikes!
The producers of The Last Polar Bears want their play to be as enviromentally friendly as possible.
It tells the story of an old man and his dog's quest to go to the North Pole to see the polar bears before all the ice melts.
Ricky's went to meet the play's actors to find out more about the eco-friendly show.
The 31-year-old from Scotland was the judge's wildcard and one of five finalists who performed with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at St David's Hall, Cardiff.
The week-long competition featured 20 young classical singers.
They were selected from an original list of 400 entrants before auditions.
Ms Morison was presented with the Cardiff Trophy and £15,000 prize money.
The other finalists were round winners Kang Wang, 29, a tenor from Australia, Anthony Clark Evans, 32, a baritone from the USA, Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, 29, a baritone from Mongolia and Louise Alder, 30, a soprano from England.
Ms Alder was awarded the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize.
The Welsh representative in the competition was Sioned Gwen Davies, a mezzo soprano from Colwyn Bay, Conwy county.
The final's judging panel was made up of director of Welsh National Opera David Pountney, mezzo-soprano Grace Bumbry, soprano Sumi Jo, baritone Wolfgang Holzmair and conductor Anu Tali.
The claim: The EU referendum is a big risk to UK and global markets.
Reality Check verdict: There is considerable uncertainty about any predictions about what would happen to the economy, but the Bank of England's warning that leaving would be bad for it are in line with mainstream economic thinking.
In the minutes from its latest meeting, the MPC warned the pound "would fall further, perhaps sharply" if there was a Brexit.
Currencies generally get stronger or weaker based on what the markets think about how strong economies are.
A weaker pound would make imported goods more expensive in the UK, which would cause inflation, and it would make holidays in Europe more expensive.
But it would make products and services provided in the UK cheaper to customers overseas, which would be good news for exporters.
The MPC said leaving the EU would worsen the terms of trade, reduce productivity and increase the level of risk associated with the economy.
It also warned of the danger posed to the global economy, saying that the referendum campaign had dampened sentiment in traders around the world.
"The outcome of the referendum continues to be the largest immediate risk facing UK financial markets, and possibly also global financial markets," it said.
The warnings followed a robust response from Bank of England governor Mark Carney to a letter from Vote Leave campaigner Bernard Jenkin MP, who had reminded him of rules preventing publicly funded bodies making statements in the month leading up to the referendum that might influence it.
Mr Carney stressed that the warnings were part of the normal job of the MPC to provide an assessment of the state of the economy and risks facing it.
Read more: The facts behind claims in the EU debate
Omega Marketing Services was the subject of 177 complaints from the public over calls trying to sell solar panels and green energy equipment.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) took action after establishing the firm had "ignored the rules around telephone marketing".
It said the calls caused "frustration, anger and upset" to recipients.
ICO acted after calls were made to people who were registered with the telephone preference service (TPS) and who had not given their permission to receive calls.
One complainer said: "My mother would have bought the product they were selling just to stop the phone calls."
Another told the ICO: "If someone knocked on your door with such regularity, they'd get arrested for harassment."
Ken Macdonald, head of ICO regions, said: "Omega Marketing Services had no right to make these calls and, in doing so, they caused frustration, anger and upset.
"That's why we took action. The people they were calling took action too - they took the time and trouble to complain, and it makes a difference.
"It helps us identify patterns, trace hidden numbers and build up a case against rogue firms."
He added: "Ultimately, when people complain, we have a better chance of tracking down the rogue companies and stopping the nuisance."
The event, known as The Worlds and staged at Glasgow Green, was won by Northern Ireland's Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band.
The runners up were Inverary and District Pipe Band and third place went to the St Laurence O'Toole Pipe Band from the Republic of Ireland.
The competition featured 300 performances and drew 30,000 people.
It is the fourth year in a row the Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band have won the title.
Based in Lisburn, County Antrim, the band was founded almost 70 years ago.
David Scott of the Pipe Band Association of Northern Ireland said Field Marshal Montgomery's latest success was a landmark.
"This is the equivalent of Manchester United winning the Premiership title in football.
"Field Marshal Montgomery have won their fourth consecutive title and their 10th world championship title."
He added it was a "big achievement for a pipe band from Northern Ireland to take on the world".
Ian Embelton, chief executive of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association, said: "Every year we see pipers and drummers putting in thousands of hours of practise in a bid to set new standards for themselves and their bands and the people who have been here over the last two days have enjoyed some terrific competition."
Glasgow lord provost and chieftain of this year's competition, Sadie Docherty, said: "Glasgow has just played host to the best Commonwealth Games ever and now we've welcomed the world's best pipers and drummers for what has been a sensational championships.
"It's been an incredible summer marked by the people of Glasgow and their incredible warmth, humour and hospitality."
Grace Mugabe, 52, is claiming diplomatic immunity after she was accused of assaulting a model last week.
She had been due to take part in the first ladies' programme at the summit.
The authorities say she remains in South Africa and her request for immunity is under consideration.
Police want to interview Mrs Mugabe about an alleged assault at a hotel in Johannesburg.
She is accused of hitting a 20-year-old woman over the head with an extension cord.
Police expected her to turn herself in on Tuesday, but she failed to show up.
They set up a "red alert" at the country's borders to try to ensure she does not flee the country.
Police Minister Fikile Mbalula said: "We, in terms of South African police, [have] already put tabs on the borders in relation to her leaving the country, so there is no question about that.
"So tabs have been put, a red alert has been put, so she is not somebody who has been running away."
South African Airways, which is owned by the South African government, says its flight from Zimbabwe's capital to Johannesburg was unable to take off as scheduled on Saturday morning.
The airline says Zimbabwean authorities are demanding a "foreign operators permit" to allow them to operate in Zimbabwe, despite the fact the route has operated for more than 20 years without one.
The restrictions come as South Africa's government considers whether to grant diplomatic immunity to Mrs Mugabe.
The first lady's whereabouts are not known but she is believed to still be in South Africa.
Mrs Mugabe has not commented on the allegation.
Ex-deputy editor Neil Wallis and former features editor Jules Stenson face charges in Operation Pinetree, a police inquiry into the NoW features desk.
District Judge John Zani granted Mr Wallis and Mr Stenson unconditional bail at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
Mr Wallis and Mr Stenson are due to appear at the Old Bailey in London for a preliminary hearing on 8 September.
They are accused of conspiring to illegally listen to voicemails with Andy Coulson, Greg Miskiw, James Weatherup, Neville Thurlbeck, Dan Evans, Ian Edmondson, Glenn Mulcaire and others unknown between January 2003 and January 2007.
The other individuals named were charged under the Metropolitan Police's main phone hacking investigation, Operation Weeting.
Mr Wallis was previously arrested in Operation Weeting in July 2011 and was told in February last year he would face no further action due to lack of evidence.
Mr Wallis, known from his Fleet Street days as the "Wolfman", was deputy to Coulson at the News of the World. He went on to become a media consultant whose clients included a Metropolitan Police commissioner and an assistant commissioner.
On Friday, US company Solid Gold Bomb apologised for selling the T-shirt and removed it from sale, saying a listing was automatically generated in error.
Earlier on Saturday the firm had T-shirts for sale with messages including "keep calm and hit her".
An Amazon statement said later "those items are not available for sale".
The T-shirts are based on the World War II wartime propaganda slogan "keep calm and carry on".
Among the 8,425 T-shirts still offered for sale by the company on the Amazon site at 12:00 GMT on Saturday were those with the slogans "keep calm and knife her" and "keep calm and grope a lot".
By 14:00 GMT, all items listed for sale by Solid Gold Bomb were unavailable to buy with visitors unable to click on the "add to basket" button.
Solid Gold Bomb said any offensive items were "certainly in the deletion queue and will be removed as soon as the processing is complete".
The sale of the T-shirts has been criticised by former Labour deputy leader Lord Prescott, who said on Twitter: "First Amazon avoids paying UK tax. Now they're make money from domestic violence."
Times journalist and author Caitlin Moran tweeted: "Wow. Keep Calm & Hit Her T-shirts on Amazon. What a massive mellow-harsher."
In Friday's statement, Solid Gold Bomb said it had been "informed of the fact that we were selling an offensive T-shirt primarily in the UK".
It added: "This has been immediately deleted as it was and had been automatically generated using a scripted computer process running against hundreds of thousands of dictionary words."
The company said it accepted "the responsibility of the error and our doing our best to correct the issues at hand.
"We're sorry for the ill-feeling this has caused."
Conservative Devon and Cornwall PCC Alison Hernandez was responsible for election spending in Torbay, Devon.
Activists were brought in to campaign from the Conservatives' battle bus, the expenses for which were not declared locally.
Ms Hernandez has always denied any wrongdoing.
Expenses for activists brought in to campaign in Torbay were declared nationally, but critics said they should have been part of local spending returns.
For more on the Alison Hernandez expenses story, and other Devon and Cornwall news
Police watchdog the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is to send the case file to the Crown Prosecution Service, the BBC has learnt.
Detectives from West Mercia Police investigated and produced a file for the IPCC.
Andrew White, chief executive for the office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, said: "This referral does not prevent the commissioner from holding the position of PCC.
"If a charge is brought this remains the case - it would not prevent her from remaining in office.
"I am certain that some will see this as a significant stage in the investigation but in British justice an individual is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law."
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Following his latest triumph, Mourinho now averages a trophy every 34 matches as a manager.
Since taking charge of Porto in 2002, the self-proclaimed 'Special One' has swept all before him - both domestically and in European competition.
While still well behind Sir Alex Ferguson's record of 13 Premier League titles, the range of silverware in Mourinho's trophy cabinet is no less impressive.
The Chelsea boss has won the league in four different countries, lifted the European Cup with two clubs, won a Uefa Cup, an FA Cup and three League Cups, as well as securing an array of domestic cups in Portugal, Italy and Spain.
Combining his two spells in England, Mourinho's win percentage is better than any manager in Premier League history.
He has won 135 of 193 Premier League games in charge of the London club, which comes to a win percentage rate of 70%. Under Mourinho, Chelsea have lost fewer than one in 10 league games.
Chelsea's victory at Anfield last season to halt Liverpool's march to the title was just one of the eight wins Mourinho has notched up against the Merseyside club in the Premier League.
The Chelsea manager has enjoyed more success against Liverpool than any other club in the league, losing just once in 10 games.
Mourinho's record against his title rivals is what sets him apart from the opposition.
Out of 40 league games against Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City and Arsenal, Mourinho has lost just three times.
While the Portuguese manager enjoys an impressive record against sides challenging for the title, surprisingly he has not fared as well against clubs from the north east.
Newcastle United are the only team to have defeated Mourinho's Chelsea three times and just one of two sides to have taken all three points from them this season.
Middlesbrough beat the Blues twice in 2006, while Aston Villa and Tottenham are the other two teams to have taken maximum points from Mourinho on more than one occasion.
Arsene Wenger's failure to beat Mourinho has received plenty of attention recently, but Arsenal are certainly not the only Premier League side to have struggled against the Chelsea boss.
The Gunners are just one of 19 clubs that have not recorded a single victory against the Special One.
Of the 19 teams Mourinho has not lost to in the league as Chelsea boss, he has a 100% record against eight.
This includes seven wins out of seven against Portsmouth, who were in the Premier League during Mourinho's first spell in charge.
The Portuguese manager has tasted victory against every team he has played in the Premier League and lost just once against nine clubs, including the losses to Liverpool, Manchester United and Manchester City mentioned above.
Of these defeats, all but one has come away from home. The only loss Mourinho has suffered at Stamford Bridge in the league came in a 2-1 defeat by Sunderland last season.
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Jo Cox was an MP who died after being attacked on 16 June in Birstall in West Yorkshire.
Lisa Nandy, who worked with Jo in Parliament, said that she "spent her whole life sticking up for vulnerable children".
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This would see average bills fall in real terms by about £20 from £396 to £376.
However, consumers will still pay more, as the companies are allowed to add on inflation, as measured by RPI.
RPI is typically higher than CPI inflation, and is currently running at 2.3% a year.
Nevertheless the Consumer Council for Water (CCW) said it was good news for consumers.
"Most water companies and the regulator have listened to customers and delivered a deal which reflects the services they want, at a price most find acceptable," said Tony Smith, the chief executive of the CCW.
After two years of deliberations, Ofwat has now determined the levels at which all 18 water and sewerage companies can set their prices for the five-year period beginning in April 2015.
Thames has been told it will have to cut charges by 5% in real terms, United Utilities must cut by 3%, and Bristol Water - a water-only company - must cut charges by 21%.
Ofwat said the ruling will allow water companies to invest £44bn over the next five years, or £2,000 per household.
"With bills held down by 5% and service driven up over the next five years, customers will get more and pay less," said Cathryn Ross, Ofwat chief executive.
For water and sewage charges, Anglian customers will see the greatest percentage drop in yearly bills, down 10% to an average of £390 by 2019-20.
Northumbrian customers will see the smallest change in their bills, dropping 1% to £382.
The main factor behind Ofwat ordering a drop in bills has been the sustained period in low interest rates.
This has allowed water companies to borrow much more cheaply for infrastructure projects, which are among their main costs.
Companies have two months to accept Ofwat's decision, or seek a referral to the Competition and Markets Authority.
Both Thames Water and United Utilities said they would look at the ruling carefully before coming to a decision.
Patrick Curran strangled 74-year-old widow Joan Roddam at her home in Delabole in November 2003 when aged 27.
Truro Crown Court heard Curran, 38, had a sexual interest in much older women and Mrs Roddam may have been killed after she rebuffed sexual advances.
He was arrested at the time but was not charged until 2014 as a result of new forensic evidence.
Curran, of West Down Road, Delabole, wrapped the body in a blanket and tried to hide it under a wheelbarrow in a field, the court heard.
He was described in a court as a loner who had an unusual sexual interest in older women, and who lived less than a mile (1.6km) from his victim.
After his initial arrest, police found he visited pornographic websites on his computer featuring women in their 70s and older.
Several days before the murder, he had also visited a doctor complaining of a very high libido, the court heard.
Officers also discovered he had burned clothes, as well as a computer hard disk drive, in a fire in his parents' garden. However, at the time they did not believe they had enough forensic evidence to place him at the scene.
Ten years later, police began a cold case review and officers were eventually able to match fibres found in Mrs Roddam's house to his clothes.
DNA found on the blanket Curran used to wrap around Mrs Roddam's body linked him to the scene, with forensics experts saying the chances of it not being Curran's were "a billion to one", the trial heard.
Patrick Curran lived less than a mile from his victim's home and could see her bungalow from his bedroom window.
The-then 27-year-old, who had reported a raised libido to his doctor, was found by police to have pornography featuring women in their 70s and 80s on his computer.
Curran was a suspect from early on in the investigation but it took more than 10 years to finally secure a conviction.
Advances in technology played their part, with scientists confirming a tiny sample of DNA, found on the blood-stained blanket Joan Roddam's body was wrapped in, was almost certainly Curran's.
Officers also found clothing fibres belonging to Curran where the body was dumped.
During the review in 2013, further fibres from a jumper and fleece coat, found on the blanket and Mrs Roddam's dressing gown, were linked to Curran.
Police found that he had previously worn the jumper and fleece, with the clothes he wore to the murder scene.
After he killed the pensioner he built a large fire in his parents' back garden and burned his clothes and a hard drive.
Officers later found a Levi's stud at the site of the fire, with the manufacturer confirming it was only used on newer clothing models, proving he was not burning rags or rubbish, said police.
A combination of circumstantial, forensic and fibre evidence eventually led to his conviction.
Det Insp Stuart Ellis, of Devon and Cornwall Police, said the community had had to live for 11 years "with this tragedy and all its consequences".
He said: "I hope that the conviction of Patrick Curran now will, in some way, bring comfort and reassurance to all those who have been affected."
In a statement, Mrs Roddam's family said she was murdered by "somebody that she knew and trusted" and they were "pleased" at the verdict.
She "did not deserve to die in these circumstances", they added.
Curran, who was tried in his absence, is due to be sentenced later in the month.
The Smiler at Alton Towers was shut on Saturday after the guide wheels hit riders in the face and shoulder as it went up an incline.
A spokeswoman for the park said they had been working with designers to review and replace elements connected to part of the ride affected.
She said the £18m ride opened at 10:30 GMT on Thursday after safety checks.
"In line with our operational procedures, the ride was closed following the incident at the weekend and we have been working with the designers to review and replace all of the elements connected to this part of the ride," she said.
"We remain committed to ensuring that all of our rides meet the highest standards in all areas and we are sorry for any disappointment caused by The Smiler's recent unavailability."
The ride opened in May and includes a drop of 30m (98ft) and 14 loops.
Its closure follows another incident on 21 July when 48 people had to be rescued.
It closed again in August for five days due to a "technical issue".
Megan Hurley, 15, from Merseyside, was one of 22 people killed in the suicide bombing on 22 May.
The bells of St Nicholas Church, in Halewood, rang 22 times for the victims as mourners arrived, some wearing Megan's favourite colour orange.
Michael and Joanne Hurley described their daughter as "fun-loving, sincere, caring and beautiful".
Around 250 friends and family gathered at 11:45 BST at the church, where a vigil was held in memory of Megan last month.
Many wore colourful ribbons and carried bright flowers in memory of the teenager.
Mourners filed silently into the church including Megan's brother Bradley, 20, who was badly injured in the attack.
An instrumental version of Somewhere over the Rainbow was then played as those lining the streets moved closer to hear the service, broadcast via loudspeakers outside the church.
The bells rang out 22 times as the white carriage carrying Megan's coffin arrived at the church, pulled by horses with plumes of orange.
Flowers reading "Queen" and "Meg" were laid out as crowds wearing orange bows gathered in the churchyard to hear the service.
The Revd Gedge read an emotional tribute from her brother Bradley, who attended the service in a wheelchair saying he had lost his "best friend".
Carol Thomas, Megan's head of year, became emotional as she remembered how she "had lots of friends and was true to them all."
"She had a warmth about her that could not be imitated. She was proof of how fine a young person can be".
School friends huddled together in groups, supporting each other as they left the service to Ariana Grande's One Last Time.
There was a sorrowful mood as mourners left in tears before the family followed the cortege to a private ceremony.
Megan's parents said their daughter had "waited so long" to attend the Ariana Grande concert and had been given tickets as a birthday surprise.
Carole Thomas, Megan's head of year at Halewood Academy, read a eulogy, which she described as coming "from my heart".
She said Megan was "a quiet, lovely, hard working student."
As the funeral came to a close the hymn All Things Bright and Beautiful was sung.
The service concluded with the Lord's Prayer and people left the church to an instrumental version of One Last Time by Ariana Grande, as friends and family left to attend a private ceremony.
Able Seaman William McNeilly, from Belfast, alleged the Trident missile programme, based on the Clyde, was a "disaster waiting to happen".
He went into hiding abroad but handed himself in to military police after returning to the UK last month.
In a fresh online post, he said he had been given a "dishonourable discharge".
He wrote: "All of the charges against me were dropped - there's nothing that I can be charged with now.
"I believe the Home Office are still doing their investigation, but that's nothing to worry about.
"Most people know that I acted in the interest of national security. However, I was still given a dishonourable discharge from the Royal Navy. On the claim that my sole aim was to discredit their public image.
"It is shocking that some people in a military force can be more concerned about public image than public safety."
He said he regarded the Royal Navy as being the "greatest navy in history" and insisted his sole aim had been to improve safety.
The former sailor said he had received support from some colleagues, adding: "A lot them wished me luck on completing my objectives. Some of them were shocked that I didn't receive an honourable discharge or wasn't kept in the service.
"Personally, I thought honourable discharge would've been nice but I didn't really care if it was honourable discharge or not. I just respectively told them that I'd accept any punishment as long as the accusations against me are true."
The Ministry of Defence confirmed the 25-year-old, who said he had mainly been held at HMS Nelson in Portsmouth since being detained by Royal Navy Police at Edinburgh Airport, had left the service.
An MoD spokeswoman said: "We can confirm that AB McNeilly has left the Naval Service, the details of which are a matter for the individual and his employer.
"Throughout the process Able Seaman McNeilly was still being afforded the duty of care that we give all our personnel, as was his family."
Naval regulations allow for service personnel to be dismissed if their views or actions are deemed to be incompatible with service life.
AB McNeilly was an Engineering Technician Submariner who had been on patrol with HMS Victorious, one of the four nuclear-armed submarines based at the Faslane naval base on the Clyde.
His 18-page report, called The Secret Nuclear Threat, included descriptions of incidents ranging from complaints about food hygiene to failures in testing whether missiles could safely be launched or not.
He described security passes and bags going unchecked at Faslane, alarms being muted "to avoid listening" to them, and stories of fires starting in missile compartments.
AB McNeilly said he raised these and other concerns through the chain of command on multiple occasions, but that "not once did someone even attempt to make a change".
An investigation was launched into the claims, which culminated in Defence Secretary Michael Fallon saying AB McNeilly's safety claims had not been proved and were either incorrect or the result of misunderstanding.
Mr Fallon insisted that neither the "operational effectiveness" of the fleet "nor the safety of our submariners or public have been compromised".
But in a debate on the issue in the House of Commons, former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond said Mr Fallon's explanation was "an insult" to the public's intelligence.
There were angry scenes at the meeting at Gloucestershire County Cricket ground on Tuesday, with one councillor tweeting: "It's all kicking off".
Security staff had initially stopped protesters from entering, although eventually let them in.
Avon and Somerset Police said no crimes were found to have been committed.
The meeting was attended by people protesting on various issues including those opposed to a US trade deal - TTIP - and others fighting the closure of the Hawkspring drug and alcohol charity.
But some were initially blocked from getting into what was the last full meeting of the council before the mayoral elections in May.
At the meeting, Green councillor Rob Telford tweeted people were trying to "storm the room" adding: "It's all kicking off". Labour's Fabian Breckels tweeted: "Bit of a disturbance at Full Council ... TTIP protesters have been denied entry".
One man said he had been "manhandled" by security guards.
Conservative councillor Chris Windows told the BBC his car had been kicked by a man "shouting abuse" outside the meeting.
A spokesman for Avon and Somerset Police said: "We were called at 5.46pm to County Ground Lodge on Nevil Road, it was a report of a disturbance but when officers arrived there were no ongoing issues and no offences were found to have been committed."
Bristol City Council has been contacted for comment. Gloucestershire County Cricket Club said the council provided the security for the event.
She was speaking after meeting US Secretary of State John Kerry, who called on her to promote human rights.
Some 125,000 Rohingya Muslims were displaced after fighting with Myanmar's majority Buddhists erupted in 2012 in Rakhine state and spread further.
Historic elections swept Ms Suu Kyi and her party into office in November, ending half a century of military rule.
Last week, The US lifted a host of financial and trade embargoes on Myanmar, but has kept the backbone of its sanctions.
Mr Kerry said he had discussed the "very sensitive" and "divisive" Rohingya issue with Ms Suu Kyi.
"I know it arouses strong passions here," Mr Kerry said, addressing a joint news conference in the capital, Nay Pyi Taw.
"What is critical is to focus on is solving the problem... which is improving the situation on the ground, to promote development, promote respect for human rights and benefit all of those that live in Rakhine and throughout Myanmar."
There is widespread hostility towards Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, including among some within Ms Suu Kyi's own party.
Rohingya Muslims are seen as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, and are referred to by many as Bengalis.
Because of this, Myanmar denies many Rohingya citizenship and basic rights.
Last week, Ms Suu Kyi suggested to the new US ambassador in Myanmar, Scot Marciel, that he refrain from using the term '"Rohingya".
"Emotive terms" made it very difficult to find a peaceful and sensible solution to the problem, she said at the news conference with Mr Kerry.
"All that we are asking is that people should be aware of the difficulties we are facing and to give us enough space to solve all our problems," she said.
NHS spending on private mental health inpatient beds went up 42% over five years across 40 mental health authorities that responded to freedom of information requests.
Experts say there is a chronic shortage of NHS beds.
It means some patients are placed in private units far from home.
One of these patients was Karl Knights. In his first year at university, Karl had a breakdown, and was taken to a local hospital due to fears that he would take his own life.
"Basically there was a frantic search for beds across the country and they couldn't say where I would end up."
Karl was admitted to a private hospital in Brighton, a four-hour round trip from his home.
"I had no visitors the whole time I was in hospital, so it's a very isolated situation."
He said it was the threat of "recall" that made the experience far worse. That is, the threat that he would be moved to an NHS hospital when a cheaper bed became available.
"You'd meet people and they would just be gone, and the explanation would be they got recalled last night, it could happen at any time.
"You could get pulled out of bed at one in the morning."
He said this uncertainly impeded recovery.
"It goes against the whole idea of what a hospital should do, it should be a place for you to recuperate and recover, but instead its actually making your condition worse, which just isn't acceptable."
Freedom of information requests were sent to all 81 NHS mental health authorities across the UK.
From the 40 authorities able to respond in full, data shows the cost of treating patients privately went up from £71m in the 2012 financial year to a projected £101m for the 2016 financial year.
The number of NHS mental health patients treated privately rose from 1,842 in the 2012 financial year to 3,323 in the 2015 financial year, across 30 authorities able to respond.
In the mental health trust in which Karl was a patient, Kent and Medway, the pressure on beds was particularly acute.
The number of patient treated privately rose from 155 in 2012/13 to 772 in 2015/16. The cost of treating these patients privately rose from £1.6m in 2012/13 to £11.3m in 2015/16.
Currently, however, the trust says they have no patients in private inpatient units.
Demand for inpatient beds on NHS mental health wards is high.
Based n responses from 32 mental health trusts in England, the average occupancy rate of inpatient beds rose by 3.2 percentage points in the five financial years to April 2016, from 86.3% to 89.5%, excluding patients that were on leave from their ward.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists recommends that wards should ideally be no more than 85% full.
Dr Ranga Rao, of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said: "It's clear, that there are not enough acute inpatient beds or teams providing crisis care in the community."
He said relying on private beds could harm patient care.
"Clearly it's not good for the NHS to be spending more money, but as a clinician my concern is about the patient, and it's not good for their recovery."
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust has recently had to get to grips with its reliance on private beds.
In 2010, 80 of its patients were being treated in private beds, most of them out of the area. This was simply not affordable.
"We were very aware this could not continue, and we needed to make a step change" explains Dr Manaan Kar-Ray, Clinical Director for Acute Care Mental Health at the trust.
More effort was put into an intensive three day assessment period, and more was invested in supporting people in their own homes, to try and cut the number of patients needing emergency care.
"Seventy per cent of our patients go through that three day system, and come back out into the community supported by home treatment," he said.
An NHS England spokesman said it was "committed to cutting the number of people travelling long distances, so they receive the best mental health care and treatment at home or as close to home as possible".
He added: "We are investing £400m in crisis resolution home treatment teams to increase alternatives to hospital admission as part of our plans for the biggest expansion of mental health services in Europe."
Ex-Barcelona boss Guardiola has left Bayern Munich to replace Manuel Pellegrini as City manager this summer.
"I'm absolutely excited about Pep joining our team," said Al Mubarak. "I consider Pep to be one of, if not the best manager, in football today.
"We are getting a manager that epitomises passion and commitment. He is a proven winner."
Guardiola was victorious in the Champions League twice at Barcelona, including their treble-winning campaign in 2008-09.
He also won the German league title with Bayern for three successive seasons, although he failed to win the Champions League with the Bundesliga outfit.
Speaking to City's website, Al Mubarak added: "I have no doubt that he will transform our team to a new level."
City finished fourth in the Premier League in 2015-16 as they failed to reclaim the title they won under Pellegrini in 2014.
However, they won the League Cup and reached the Champions League semi-finals, losing to eventual winners Real Madrid.
Al Mubarak praised the efforts of Pellegrini but admitted this season had been a disappointment, adding: "We had high expectations."
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The ferry had left at 17:00, bound for Shetland via Orkney.
But less than two hours later it turned round and returned to the harbour, docking just before 21:30.
The incident came just hours after Caledonian MacBrayne said its ferry MV Loch Seaforth encountered a freak wave in the Minch.
CalMac said the ship's master and the vessel's equipment "ably handled" the conditions.
NorthLink confirmed that front facing windows in the Hrossey's bar area were damaged in what it described as extreme weather conditions.
Repairs were carried out overnight and the ferry set off again for Orkney at 05:16 on Wednesday.
It arrived in Kirkwall on Wednesday morning and was due to then set sail for Lerwick in Shetland in the afternoon.
Earlier on Tuesday, the MV Loch Seaforth was struck by a freak wave in the Minch during high winds and swell.
The ferry takes passengers to and from Stornoway on Lewis and Ullapool in the west Highlands.
CalMac said the wave was "unusual" and was ably handled by the ship's master and the vessel's stabiliser equipment.
The ferry company said no harm came to any passengers or crew.
The £42m MV Loch Seaforth was first introduced to CalMac's Stornoway-Ullapool route in February 2015.
David Ashworth, 74, from Canterbury, jumped on to the tracks to save 38-year-old Ella Akehurst near Chartham station in Kent last year.
Unable to push Ms Akehurst clear, it is believed Dr Ashworth positioned her so she would not be hurt.
The train passed over Ms Akehurst but killed the father-of-two.
Dr Ashworth was a family friend and "unofficial carer" for Ms Akehurst, who suffered from bipolar disorder, the inquest heard.
He had attended a doctor's appointment with her on the morning of the tragedy after she had woken up feeling tearful, the inquest heard.
Ms Akehurst told officers the pair returned to her parents' home but "the next thing I know I was running down the road" with an urge to "jump from a height".
One witness, Norman Vaughan-Cubitt, saw Ms Akehurst rushing to a footbridge where he said she jumped "without hesitation".
His wife Thelma told the inquest she saw Dr Ashworth arrive in his car as the train got closer, blaring its horn and with its brakes screeching.
Another witness, Michael Kember, described how after the impact, Ms Akehurst said: "How's David? He was trying to help me."
A post-mortem examination found Dr Ashworth died from multiple injuries.
Ms Akehurst, who did not attend the inquest at Margate Magistrates' Court, was in hospital for three months.
Recording a narrative verdict, assistant coroner James Dillon said: "Dr Ashworth had placed himself in a perilous position."
"He may have sacrificed the opportunity of getting himself out of harm's way and, as a result, was hit and killed by the train."
University of Manchester graduate Dr Ashworth - who retired from the University of Kent in 2003 - has been nominated for a posthumous civilian gallantry award from the Cabinet Office.
Police Scotland said the incident happened at Vane Farm between 08:00 on Friday and 14:00 on Saturday.
Two Beltex rams and two sheep died as a result of the attack.
The Scottish Partnership Against Rural Crime launched a campaign on Monday to raise awareness amongst dog owners about the impact of livestock worrying.
Insp Jane Donaldson, Police Scotland's rural crime co-ordinator, said: "The worrying of livestock can have devastating consequences for farm animals and has an obvious financial and emotional impact on farmers and their businesses.
"This campaign is being launched to coincide with the spring lambing period because this is when sheep are at greatest risk."
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After a scrappy opening, Paddy McNally nodded Ballymena ahead on 32 minutes.
Guy Bates struck a controversial equaliser on 52 but David Cushley's deflected effort restored Ballymena's lead before Eoin Kane made it 3-1.
Mark Stafford replied on 86 before Kirk Millar and Aaron Burns hit the woodwork in a frantic finale at Windsor Park.
The victory earned Ballymena the club's sixth County Antrim Shield triumph as Glenn Ferguson's side repeated their 2012-13 success in the competition.
Both teams lacked composure in the windy conditions early on although Linfield did carve out a couple of chances as Bates saw a close range effort blocked by Jim Ervin, before Jamie Mulgrew hit the woodwork on 18 after playing a one-two with Niall Quinn.
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However, Ballymena took the lead on 32 as McNally rose to head a Tony Kane free-kick pass Ross Glendinning.
Linfield did pick up the pace after the break but their equaliser infuriated Ballymena with Bates stabbing home from close range after referee Ian McNabb had awarded a contentious free-kick.
Ervin appeared to have made a good challenge on Andy Waterworth but the free-kick was awarded and Ballymena keeper Alan Blayney's attempted punched clearance eventually fell to Bates who made no mistake.
Ballymena looked to be losing their composure as Ervin and Allan Jenkins were booked for their protests but the Braidmen were back in front within seven minutes as Crusaders-bound Cushley's shot took a wicked deflection off Stafford to beat Glendinning.
Eoin Kane increased Ballymena's lead on 76 after poor defending by Stafford as some Linfield fans began to leave Windsor Park.
However, Ballymena's supporters were living on their nerves again in the 86th minute as Stafford headed a Mark Haughey cross past former Linfield keeper Blayney.
Inevitably, Linfield produced intense late pressure as Millar slammed a fierce shot off the underside of the crossbar and Burns then stabbed against a post in the final minute of injury-time after a glancing Stafford header.
But Ballymena held on as manager Ferguson celebrated a notable success over his former international team-mate David Healy.
Former University of Aberdeen chaplain Dr Bill Murdoch, 64, drowned in Loch Fyne, Argyll, on Monday 7 September.
A search and rescue helicopter crew from HMS Gannet in Ayrshire attended.
Dr Murdoch's body was being winched aboard when it slipped from the harness and fell into the water. Police said there were no suspicious circumstances.
A Royal Navy spokesperson said: "While all the signs were that Dr Murdoch had passed away prior to the rescue, which was confirmed by the post-mortem, our thoughts are of course with his family at this extremely difficult time.
"Search and rescue is a challenging and complex task which the Royal Navy conducts with professionalism in all conditions.
"We note Police Scotland's statement that there were no suspicious circumstances."
Dr Murdoch is understood to have left his chaplaincy post in Aberdeen in the 1990s. He is believed to have been living in Argyll at the time of his death.
It is thought he had been fishing on Loch Fyne when he drowned.
A police spokeswoman said: "Following a full investigation, there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a 64-year-old man recovered from Loch Fyne on Monday 7 September. A report has been sent to the procurator fiscal."
A University of Aberdeen spokesman said: "We are saddened to learn of the death of former University of Aberdeen Chaplain Dr Bill Murdoch, and our thoughts are with his family at this time."
Smith, 28, made his 100th appearance for Town in the final game of the season against Stevenage last weekend.
The former York and Swindon player, who played 35 times for the Hatters in League Two this season, has the option to extend that to a fourth year.
"If there is one player that epitomises Luton Town it is Jonathan Smith," boss John Still told the club website.
In January, gross mortgage borrowing from the High Street banks rose to its highest level since mid-2008.
The number of mortgages approved for house purchases was 27% higher than a year earlier, the British Bankers' Association (BBA) said.
The BBA said that investors were keen to complete before tax changes.
From the start of April, most owners in England and Wales will pay a 3% surcharge on stamp duty on purchases of buy-to-let properties and second homes.
The statistics follow similar findings by the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) which reported an eight-year high in mortgage borrowing.
However, it appears that - although mortgage lending is rising - the number of property sales that have actually been completed is yet to pick up significantly.
The number of property sales in the UK in January actually fell on a seasonally-adjusted basis compared with December, according to figures from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). There were 105,940 homes sold - a similar total to October and November.
The new stamp duty surcharge is expected to raise £1bn extra for the Treasury by 2021, but landlords have argued it will "choke off" investment in rented properties.
But Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist for Pantheon Macroeconomics, said that demand will continue to exceed supply in the property market, pushing up house prices as a result.
"Looking ahead, we expect approvals to remain on an upward trend. Consumer confidence is high, real income gains remain strong and mortgage rates are set to fall again in response to the decline in wholesale funding costs," he said.
"New buyer enquiries at estate agents have been rising quickly and point to mortgage approvals rising by a further 5% over the next three months. With the active supply of homes on the market close to record lows, house prices look set for very strong gains."
Those stark figures are included in a report from the university's student mental ill-health task group.
Between 1 January and 8 February 2016, there were 12 emergency callouts for self-harm or suicide attempts, 50% of the total.
In the previous full calendar year, there were 134 such callouts to the university, with suicide attempts or self-harm accounting for 32%.
In 2014, there were 158 ambulance call-outs, with 14% because of self-harm or suicide attempts.
This is Mental Health Awareness Week, and there has been much concern about a perceived increase in mental health problems among students.
There have been warnings of an increase in demand for counselling and claims that universities are not taking their pastoral responsibilities seriously enough.
But this is a sensitive topic, and it is unusual to get such evidence as this ambulance data.
The report, gathered for York's vice-chancellor and shared with students, says that both the "prevalence and severity" of student mental health problems is getting worse.
The report refers to figures for the University of York, but it also includes evidence from more than 50 universities.
This was gathered by the association representing university student services (AMOSSHE) and found a "noticeable increase in complex mental health crises" in 2015 compared with 2014.
And in almost 90% of universities, staff reported working on such incidents with either the police or a coroner during 2015.
The report from York says its experience reflects this national trend, with more demand for counselling and health services.
It says the fact local NHS mental health services are also overstretched makes the problem even more difficult.
And it warns of a "paucity of high-quality evidence on the mental health of students in the UK", adding: "This is particularly surprising given the size of the student population."
The report says students can suffer from a misguided sense of "perfectionism", feeling under pressure to succeed at everything and responding with feelings of "low self-esteem, depression, anxiety and hopelessness" when things go wrong.
Social media is another significant cause of problems, with students having to respond to an ever-present "virtual environment", which can include cyberbullying and victimisation.
And there are problems related to young people being away from home for the first time, relationship worries and anxiety over money.
In response, the University of York wants:
The York report cites figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for 2007 to 2011, showing student suicides peaked in 2010 at 127, with a significantly higher incidence among men than women.
Further figures held by the ONS, show 109 student suicides in 2012 and 100 deaths from suicide in 2013.
It means there were more than 30 suicides each term across the UK - but it does not suggest an increase.
And across the whole age population, those under the age of 30 have the lowest suicide rates.
But these figures do not say anything about incidents that might have been attempts at suicide.
And there seem to be repeated warnings of an increase in problems.
NUS Scotland is reporting a 47% increase in demand for counselling services between 2011-12 and 2014-15 and says universities are struggling to respond.
Oxford student Meredith Leston, who supports the Student Minds charity, says there is a "big mental health problem in universities", but too often it remains concealed and unsupported.
"Mental illness remains greatly stigmatised," she says.
"Opening up about mental difficulties is one of the hardest things a young person can do.
"Struggling mentally is considered a sign of personal weakness as opposed to the legitimate health concern it really is.
"As such, young people are more likely to continue blaming themselves for their own problems rather than opening up and seeking help for it.
"This just produces a generation suffering in silence."
Sir Anthony Seldon, vice-chancellor of Buckingham University, wants universities to be more open.
"We need much greater candour about mental health problems, and universities can lead the way," he says.
"It is much more prevalent than many would like to admit."
Sir Anthony says more effort needs to be put into prevention, promoting the importance of wellbeing, resilience and a healthier lifestyle.
York's vice-chancellor, Koen Lamberts, who has been brave enough to put this information into the public domain, says the report "highlights a growing issue, not just for universities but for society as a whole".
"Rates of mental ill-health are increasing," says Prof Lamberts.
"We wanted our staff and students to feel able to talk about what that means for the university."
Violence flared in Rakhine State after a Buddhist woman was raped and murdered by three Muslims.
A series of reprisals and revenge attacks between communities has now left about 50 people dead.
Many of the displaced have sought refuge in Bangladesh, which has now closed its border.
Human rights groups have criticised Bangladesh for the decision, saying it is a violation of international law.
The United Nation's World Food Programme says it has provided emergency food supplies to more than 66,000 people - around two-thirds of those displaced - in the past week.
Poor roads and bridges make reaching many communities difficult, the organisation says.
Two Muslim men convicted of raping and killing the Buddhist woman last month were sentenced to death on Monday.
A third man who died in jail was given a posthumous conviction.
Following the woman's murder in May, a bus carrying Muslims was attacked and 10 people were killed, prompting more unrest in several towns and villages in Rakhine.
Rakhine state is named after the ethnic Rakhine Buddhist majority, but also has a sizeable Muslim population, including the Rohingyas.
The Rohingyas are a Muslim group and are stateless, as Burma considers them to be illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
The BBC's Jonah Fisher, in Thailand, says there are still reports of sporadic violence but some sort of calm appears to have returned to Rakhine State.
But, our correspondent says, that has not stopped people trying to flee - both internally and across the border to Bangladesh.
Many of those trying to cross to Bangladesh both by land and sea have been turned back, he says.
Bangladesh already hosts several hundred thousand refugees from Burma and says it cannot take any more.
The female bird, named Tieta, was rescued from a wildlife animal fair in Rio de Janeiro.
It is not clear whether she lost the upper part of her beak after being mistreated by animal smugglers or in a fight with a bigger toucan she was locked up with inside a small box.
The project was co-ordinated by wildlife management group Instituto Vida Livre and involved three Brazilian universities.
The prosthetic is made of plastic, covered with nail polish and sealed with a special polymer made from the castor oil plant.
Taciana Sherlock from the Brazilian wildlife control agency Ibama said the toucan was rescued in March, malnourished and missing its beak.
Black-beaked toucans like Tieta, which are native to Rio and not endangered, can cost up to $5,000 (£3,180) when sold legally, according to Ms Sherlock.
She says that before the surgery Tieta was using the lower part of the beak to throw food into the air and trying to grab it.
She only succeeded once in every three attempts.
Tieta was fitted with the prosthesis on 27 July.
"It took her three days to realise she had it again," says Instituto Vida Livre Director Roched Seba.
"We were feeding her fruit and she was ignoring the new beak. But when we gave her live animals, like maggots and cockroaches, she ate normally immediately," he explains.
"I believe she had that kind of food when she was free, before losing the beak. So it activated a core memory," he adds.
It took researchers three months to design the beak but it took only two hours for the printer to print it. - the beak weighs approximately 4g and it is 4cm (1.6in) long.
Tieta herself only weighs 300g.
Designer Gustavo Cleinman from Rio de Janeiro's Federal University says the biggest challenge was to create a light and resilient prosthesis.
He used the beak of a dead animal as a model and adapted it to resemble Tieta's original beak more closely.
The team was breaking new ground with this project.
Although another group of researchers was creating a prosthetic beak for another injured toucan in Sao Paulo, the two teams were unaware of each other's work.
In Costa Rica, a charity has raised $10,000 for a prosthesis for a toucan which also lost the upper part of its beak, but the surgery has yet to be performed.
Tieta's surgery only took 40 minutes to perform but was not without risks, veterinarian Thiago Muniz says.
He explains that the prosthesis will allow her to eat independently and also help her access glands on her body that keep her feathers waterproof.
With the help of the prosthesis, Tieta will also be able to feed any chicks she might have in the future.
But Ms Sherlock says that unfortunately it will not allow her to be released into the wild.
"She wouldn't be able to live an independent life, even in captivity," she says.
Wildlife control agency Ibama wants to send her to an educational zoo to create awareness about animal trafficking, but they have not yet settled on one.
What is certain is that wherever she is sent she will be joined there by another toucan, which was also rescued from animal traffickers and sent to Ibama.
The male bird also has a problem with his beak.
The researchers hope Tieta and the male toucan will eventually mate. Their chicks would be released into the wild, Ibama says.
Ms Wood called for "real independence" for Wales after beating rivals Elin Jones and Lord Elis-Thomas.
Ms Wood, who is currently learning to speak Welsh, promised to be an "open, forward looking, positive and constructive" leader.
She inherits the leadership of the third-largest party in the Welsh assembly behind the Labour government and Conservative opposition.
Speaking after the result was announced in Cardiff on Thursday, she paid tribute to her fellow candidates for a campaign that was "positive, respectful, constructive, and in parts a good laugh".
"And that's how we do politics in this party and that is how I intend to lead," she said.
She also gave a special thanks to her young supporters, many of whom joined the party for the first time during the campaign, she said.
Her predecessor Ieuan Wyn Jones, who Ms Wood thanked in her acceptance speech, announced he would be standing down last year after disappointing election results that saw Plaid lose seats in the assembly.
She said: "We may be a small party and a small country but we can stand tall if we stand together and if we stand up for our principles.
"Real independence means collectively lifting our people out of poverty leaving no-one behind, building a future based on hope not on fear."
She added: "Together we can build a Wales that is fair, a new Wales that will flourish and a new Wales that will one day be free."
Aged 40, she is the ninth leader in Plaid Cymru's 87-year history, the first Welsh-learner in the role and the first woman. Her election means Plaid now has a female leader, chief executive, president and chair.
Her supporters hailed a decisive victory.
In the first round of voting, she won 2,879 votes to Ms Jones's 1,884 and Lord Elis-Thomas's 1,278.
As no candidate had more than half the votes, Lord Elis-Thomas was eliminated and the second-preference votes of his supporters were redistributed, giving Ms Wood 3,326 votes and Ms Jones 2,494.
Plaid MP Jonathan Edwards, Ms Wood's campaign manager, said she would lead "a far more aggressive strategy in taking on the Labour Party".
"I was extremely happy to see that it was a very strong result for Leanne - nearly winning on the first ballot and I think the strength of the result gives her a very strong mandate for the months ahead," he said.
Speaking before the result was declared, Mr Jones said: "It's our job now, all of us in this party, to unite behind the successful candidates so they can face the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead."
Fellow party leaders have sent messages of congratulations to Ms Wood, including First Minister Carwyn Jones.
Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams said that despite their differences on a range of issues, she hoped the two parties "can work constructively together in order to hold the Welsh government to account and grasp the opportunity to strengthen devolution through the Silk Commission established by the UK government".
The Conservatives' assembly leader, Andrew RT Davies, said he "looked forward" to working with Ms Wood in holding "lethargic Labour ministers to account".
"She succeeds Ieuan Wyn Jones, who led his party with distinction and played a pivotal role in the development of the National Assembly. I wish Ieuan well in his future endeavours," he added.
The nature reserve at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) at Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, which he helped found, will also be developed.
Sir Peter, who died in 1989, built his home near the Severn Estuary in the 1950s so he could observe wildlife.
The WWT has been given a £4.4m Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant towards the £6m scheme.
The BBC's first ever natural history programme was presented by Sir Peter live from the lounge in the house in 1953.
Other new attractions will include an aviary and theatre, more observation hides, access to WWT's conservation duckery and the original cottage on the site will be turned into a multimedia centre.
Sir David Attenborough, who was inspired by Sir Peter's pioneering TV career, said he was the "patron saint of conservation".
"Long before words like biodiversity were coined, Peter looked out from that huge window in his house at Slimbridge and realised our lives are so linked with our natural world that we have to learn to love it and look after it.
"I think it's wonderful that absolutely anyone will be able to sit in that same window in future years and feel just as inspired."
Sir Peter, whose father was the Antarctic explorer Capt Robert Falcon Scott, helped to found the WWT as well as the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
Much of the house remains as it was when Sir Peter died, and the public will be able to see items such as his original binoculars and his sketches of the panda logo he designed for WWF and the swan logo for WWT.
WWT needs to raise a further £1.6m towards the full cost of the project and work on it is due to start in late 2017.
•The only child of Antarctic explorer Captain Scott who famously instructed his wife to "make the boy interested in natural history"
•Named after Peter Pan - his godfather was author JM Barrie
•A famous broadcaster, he commentated on the Queen's coronation, presented the first BBC nature television programme and the first BBC wildlife documentary filmed in colour in 1963
•Was an accomplished artist. His best-known painting Taking to Wing was printed 350,000 times as a picture or on Christmas cards and table mats
•He was British gliding champion, won a bronze Olympic medal for sailing and was a national championship standard ice skater
•As an inventor, he invented the trapeze that racing crews use to hang from a sailing boat, the rocket net which catches birds, and he helped design the camouflage used by British World War II warships
•The first person to be knighted for services to conservation, in 1973
Fresh from getting an OBE in the New Year Honours, Coleman will join about 1,500 other runners for Nos Galan.
The race is held in Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taff, every 31 December.
Coleman, 46, called the race a "fantastic tradition" and said he was "very excited" and looking forward to a "great night".
He told BBC Wales he was glad not to have to complete the whole 3.1 mile (5km) race, adding: "We'd be there all night."
Nos Galan, founded in 1958, celebrates the life of Welsh runner Guto Nyth Bran, who died in 1737, aged 37.
Coleman will lay a wreath at the runner's grave in Llanwonno graveyard.
The mystery runner is meant to represent the spirit of Guto Nyth Bran and previous participants include rugby player Shane Williams, sprinter Linford Christie and cyclist Nicole Cooke.
"The tradition's fantastic, a huge history and I'm in great company with the people who've done this before me," said the Wales boss.
Traditionally, the race ended at midnight, but this was later changed to accommodate families wanting to watch and take part, so it now finishes at about 21:30 GMT.
There is a children's race, an elite race and a 3.1-mile (5km) adult fun run.
Chairwoman of the Nos Galan Committee, Ann Crimmings, said: "The appearance of such a sporting icon as Chris Coleman will no doubt boost the popularity of our event even further as he has decided to bring such a memorable year for himself and the Wales team to a close on the streets of Mountain Ash."
"I knew immediately when I fell that there was something wrong with my arm so I got my guide Gary [Smith] to prise my engagement ring off my finger in case the medics had to cut it off. That was my priority!" the visually-impaired skier tells BBC Sport.
Recovering from a dislocated elbow and three broken ribs is a painful experience for Gallagher, who got engaged on Christmas Day, but with a year to go to the start of the Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, she is determined to recover and have the chance to add to her medal tally.
The 31-year-old Northern Irishwoman created history in Sochi in 2014 when she won Britain's first-ever Winter Paralympic gold medal along with then-guide Charlotte Evans in the Super-G event.
But she hopes the tumble in Tarvisio will not derail her bid to compete in a third Games.
"I came over a jump, didn't land well and couldn't recover from that and as a result I spun into the netting and hit some rocks," she explained.
"My GPS said I going fast - about 84 or 85 km per hour (approx 52mph).
"You tend to fall a lot in ski racing when you are pushing yourself to the limit but usually you are in control of your skis. This was a real accident."
Gallagher's injuries meant she missed all of the World Championships where her GB team-mates and rivals Millie Knight and Menna Fitzpatrick figured among the medals, and is sitting out the World Cup finals in Pyeongchang, which start on 12 March.
Gallagher and Smith, an RAF communications technician, linked up together last year and while there is frustration they have missed out on the chance to improve their partnership on the slopes, Smith has travelled out to Pyeongchang with the rest of the GB team on a fact-finding mission.
"We were working so well together," she says. "He is the one with the eyes in our partnership and it's great he can still work on our campaign.
"Charlotte and Gary have similar qualities but different personalities.
"Both are great skiers, care about what we are doing, work hard and put in 100% commitment.
"I lost a lot of confidence after Sochi with changes in guide and not really knowing what I was up to. Now it is about Gary and I working together and me coming back with confidence after this injury.
"Charlotte and I had to work for a long time on understanding each other and building trust and confidence and that is what Gary and I are working on now to make us into a winning team.
"It is about understanding each other off-snow to make those perfect decisions when we are on snow."
The Great Britain team is likely to feature between 15 and 20 athletes, including the guides to Gallagher, Knight and Fitzpatrick.
GB has already qualified a wheelchair curling team for the Games, thanks to Scotland's performances over the course of the cycle.
Scotland accrues points on behalf of GB and although the team were relegated to the B Division in 2015 they were promoted back to the A Division last season.
The team are currently in action in the World Championships in Korea, which is a test event ahead of next year.
Four of the current Scotland squad won bronze in Sochi - Aileen Neilson, Angie Malone, Gregor Ewan and Robert McPherson and will be hoping to be selected again.
Snowboarding made its debut in Sochi and with more categories being competed for this time, world championship medallists Ben Moore and Owen Pick will hope to figure.
There is also a possibility of representation in cross-country skiing and biathlon for the first time since 1998 and British Paralympic Association chief Tim Hollingsworth says he is excited about the team's prospects after the success of Sochi.
The hope is they can beat the previous-best medal total of 10 from Innsbruck in 1984.
"We won six medals in Sochi, so the target is there to beat," he says.
"It is looking very exciting from a GB perspective. We are seeing growth in the opportunities for winter sport and we can hopefully see a broader spectrum of sport represented.
"We already had athletes in place in snowboard and we have good relationships with partner organisations like Help for Heroes in trying to identify athletes for cross-country and biathlon and also for the bobsleigh which will come in for the 2022 Games.
"Sporting bodies are building up their Paralympic programme and want to make the most of the opportunities."
The Games, which will be the first Winter Games to be held in South Korea, are set to attract up to 670 athletes from 45 nations - an increase on the 541 athletes who competed in Sochi four years ago.
There will be 80 medal events across six sports - alpine skiing, biathlon, cross country skiing, ice hockey (formerly sledge hockey), snowboard and wheelchair curling.
While preparations for the Games are going well, the International Paralympic Committee say they are concerned about awareness levels.
"The performances of Para athletes help to change the way people think about people with an impairment," said IPC president Sir Philip Craven, who met with the country's acting president Hwang Kyo-ahn to discuss preparations.
"The Games are a once-in-a-generation opportunity to further societal inclusion. However, with awareness levels still low, the transformational impact this event can have on South Korea may be reduced if progress is not made over the next 12 months."
At present, Russia remain suspended by the IPC and should they remain banned, it will have a massive impact on the medal table after the Russians won 80 medals, including 30 golds, in 2014.
Watch Path to Pyeongchang - Paralympics on the BBC News Channel at 20:30 GMT on Friday 10 March and afterwards via the BBC iPlayer
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The software giant posted a $3.1bn (£2.4bn) profit for the three months to June.
That was far better than the $3.2bn loss for the same period last year when Microsoft booked hefty charges on writing down the value of mobile phone assets it bought from Nokia.
Shares rose 4% in after-hours trading in New York.
Investors had not been expecting significant company-wide profit growth, but were looking for gains from the cloud computing division called Azure.
Revenue for the unit rose 7% to $6.7bn, while overall adjusted revenue rose $420m to $22.6bn.
Chief executive Satya Nadella has focused on the building Microsoft's expertise in cloud-based services amid slowing PC sales.
"The Microsoft Cloud is seeing significant customer momentum and we're well positioned to reach new opportunities," he said.
Microsoft has been competing with Amazon, Google and others for control in the cloud service and storage space.
Mr Nadella was behind its biggest takeover last month when it acquire LinkedIn for $26.2bn. Investors want to know Microsoft's plans for the networking site.
The purchase will give Microsoft access to the details of 433 million LinkedIn users, which Microsoft could combine with its Office 365 cloud service to offer its business clients more insight into their customers.
Microsoft's hardware business continued to take a hit during the quarter.
Revenue from the devices unit fell 35%, driven most by a 70% fall in mobile sales.
Microsoft took a $7bn hit last year when it wrote down the value of its Nokia mobile phone division, which it bought in 2014.
Earlier this month Microsoft said it would miss its deadline to get Windows 10 on to one billion mobile devices by next year. It blamed cuts to that division for the delay.
The tablet and hybrid laptop business managed to grow by 9%.
Natural Resources Minister Alun Davies said it would look at December and January's flooding incidents and cover all coastal authorities in Wales.
The first phase this month will look at the direct impact of the floods.
The second part will look at what lessons can be learnt and the flood risk management in the affected areas.
Mr Davies ordered the review on 5 December following some of the some of the worst weather conditions Wales has seen in over 20 years.
There was severe flooding along the coast and several train lines remain closed due to damage.
Hundreds of residents on Aberystwyth's seafront were evacuated while the A487 in Newgale is still closed after tons of pebbles were washed ashore.
Mr Davies said the storms had severely tested Wales' coastal defences, but things could have been much worse.
He praised the response of emergency services who he said had "undoubtedly saved lives".
Flood defence improvements in areas including Newport, Borth, and Colwyn Bay, had prevented or lessened flooding, Mr Davies added.
"We are now looking at how we prioritise future investment in flood defences so we can not only protect homes and businesses but also maximise opportunities for economic regeneration and growth in the long term," he said.
"We know that our changing climate means that extreme weather events such as this are not going to go away. It is impossible to prevent flooding but we are working hard to build resilience around our coasts in Wales."
The Welsh government is working with local authorities and Natural Resources Wales (NRW) to see how they can help in the aftermath of the floods.
Mr Davies said they were in talks with the UK government about an application to the EU Emergency Solidarity Fund, originally set up to help those affected by the 2002 floods in Eastern Europe.
Councils will be able to apply for grant funding for emergency works to restore damaged defences, he said.
Several roads in Pembrokeshire were damaged during the storms, including the road along Amroth seafront, which was partially wash away.
Darren Thomas, head of highways for Pembrokeshire council, said they had applied for emergency funding, but were pressing ahead with repairs in the meantime.
"Clearly the sooner we get any sort of financial support the better. We are not hanging back in terms of our response to the conditions, we will execute the repairs at Amroth as quickly as we can," he said.
"If any additional finance comes in, that's going to help us enormously."
Emyr Roberts, chief executive of Natural Resources Wales, said staff had already completed emergency work on many sea defences, but warned some repairs would take much longer.
"We will then look at what lessons can be learned from these storms and what can be done to improve the situation for the people who live and work along the Welsh coastline," he said.
Over the term of the current administration, the Welsh government is investing more than £240m in flood and coastal defences.
David Ward, Liberal Democrat MP for Bradford East, said some of his constituents had been quoted over £20,000 for basic car insurance.
Mr Ward is to hold a summit in Bradford on Tuesday to examine the problem.
Mr Ward said: "In this part of Bradford, it's a more serious issue than elsewhere. It can't go on."
An online petition set up by Mr Ward which calls for more affordable insurance, tougher policing of uninsured drivers and tighter regulation of claims companies has so far attracted more than 560 supporters.
Mr Ward said: "There isn't one cause and there isn't going to be one solution, but the cost of each claim is going up and up."
Bradford woman Leah Greaves, 20, who has just passed her driving test, said she was finding it difficult to get an affordable quote for her Vauxhall Corsa and was being offered quotes of £7,000 to £8,000.
Ms Greaves said the Gocompare website had even come up with a quote of £53,000.
However, in a statement, the firm said: "Gocompare do not display prices above £12,000 on their website as they feel that showing such high premiums would not be helpful to customers.
"It is possible that an insurance company could provide a quote in this region but it would not be displayed at Gocompare.com."
Members of the Bradford Hackney Carriage Owners and Drivers Association said they supported Mr Ward's campaign and would be attending the MP's summit.
Association member Shabir Munir said some drivers had found it "impossible" to continue running a cab and had handed back their licences.
He said: "The first thing the insurers say is that Bradford is blacklisted.
"They claim to have raised insurance by 20% to 30% when, in fact, it's more than 100%."
Malcolm Tarling, from the Association of British Insurers, said high premiums were an issue throughout the country, not just in Bradford.
However, Mr Tarling said the insurance industry was changing.
"If we can regulate, as we're trying to, legal costs and continue to cut fraud and reduce the number of uninsured drivers then premiums will start to fall."
Pegasus dominated their game against Pembroke Wanderers but had to settle for a 1-1 draw.
Jill Ringwood gave Pembroke an early lead but Michelle Harvey equalised.
Ulster Elks, Belfast Harlequins and Ards were all beaten as Hermes-Monkstown remained two points clear at the top.
Ringwood scored after six minutes for Pembroke and it took until the 47th minute for Harvey to find the back of the net to earn a draw from her side's 12th penalty corner.
That goal earned a draw but it is a result that leaves the Belfast side in sixth place in the table.
The point for Pembroke moved them ahead of Belfast Harlequins and Ulster Elks in the three-team battle to avoid relegation.
The Elks lost 1-0 at Cork Harlequins with Michelle Barry getting the only goal of the game and they remain bottom on goal difference from Harlequins who were beaten 6-0 by Railway Union at Deramore.
The scoreline was flattering to the visitors and had Harlequins converted a couple of good first half chances the result might have been different.
Former Irish international Kate Dillon opened the scoring in the first quarter and two goals in the second quarter from Anna May Whelan and a penalty stroke from Orla Fox made it a mountain to climb for Harlequins.
Dillon, with her second, Zara Delaney and Kate Orr scored in the second half.
At the top of the table Hermes-Monkstown maintained their two point lead over UCD after a 4-0 home win over Ards.
Internationals Anna O'Flanagan, with another domestic hat-trick, and Chloe Watkins with a penalty stroke were the scorers.
An Orla Patton goal was enough for UCD to beat Loreto 1-0.
Saturday's results mean that the Ulster sides fill four of the bottom five places in the league.
Yet at a time when readers and advertisers are turning increasingly to the internet, where news is often free, does a newspaper, which charges £2.50 per paper edition, still have a promising future?
For more than a century already the FT has been learning to roll with the times.
When the Financial Times was founded through the merger of two other papers in 1888 it aimed to be the friend of "the honest financier" and "the respectable broker". It was initially a four page journal targeting city clientele.
Its owners decided to turn it pink either as a stroke of marketing genius to make it stand out from its rivals or because unbleached paper was cheaper, depending on which historian you believe.
Early on, a boom in South African gold mining shares helped it establish its financial niche with readers and advertisers.
In 1957 the paper was taken over by then oil-to-media company, Pearson, which brought with it additional capital. The stock market boom of the fifties and early sixties helped boost circulation and establish it as one of the UK's national quality papers.
William Rees-Mogg and Nigel Lawson joined the paper and to coin Harold Macmillan's phrase Britain and the Financial Times "had never had it so good".
As the FT expanded its coverage to include the arts and public affairs, Britain's other papers began to catch on to the advantages of publishing sections on business and finance and competition got stiffer.
The paper's most difficult period came in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The UK's economy was stagnating and the print unions were making newspaper publishing tough.
Yet according to John Lloyd, the paper's industrial editor at the time Arthur Scargill, leader of the striking British miners' union, used to read the FT in the morning before he turned to the communist Morning Star "to get the facts".
The Financial Times has always had ambition to be a truly international newspaper, at one point publishing five international editions in continental Europe, the US, Asia and the Middle East.
In 2000 the FT even started publishing a German language edition, Financial Times Deutschland, but it never managed to make a profit and Pearson sold the FT's 50% stake to its German partner in 2008.
And now chief executive John Ridding says they're now back to producing what's essentially a single, global product.
"There's a little bit of what the editor refers to as lipstick and make-up on the front page but fundamentally the same stories appear in all of our editions."
Nowadays the newspaper forms the core of the FT Group which in 2013 made a profit of £55m, the last year its accounts were published separately.
Last year, for the first time, the newspaper was profitable before advertising, that is simply on the cover price.
"The issue we all face is the issue of habit. It used to be that the FT or another paper would turn up on your doorstep," says chief executive John Ridding.
"With digital delivery that has all been disrupted. The challenge we face is how do you recreate that sense of habit."
The FT has been one of the more successful paper publishers to help readers make the shift to a digital habit.
Its total circulation has risen to 737,000 with digital representing 70% of that.
People may not always be physically picking up the pink'un but the access to specialist information and expert analysis is enough to persuade them to part with the £5.35 a week subscription fee.
Lt Mike Madden said he and officers who arrived later saw dead bodies and had to pass injured people as they tried to "engage the shooters".
Officials say a husband and wife shot dead 14 people and wounded 21 in the city of San Bernardino on Wednesday.
Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, were killed in a shootout.
Bomb equipment, weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition were later found in the attackers' home.
The authorities have still not found a motive for the attack.
"It was unspeakable, the carnage that we were seeing," Lt Madden told a news conference.
"The number of people who were injured and unfortunately already dead and the pure panic on the face of those individuals that were still in need and needing to be safe."
He said he and other police officers led about 50 people out of the centre's conference room.
"Then we went further into the building and that was a difficult choice to have to make as well, passing people that we knew were injured and in need of assistance," Lt Madden said.
"But our goal at that time had to be trying to locate the shooters and deal with them."
Police said between 75-80 people were at the centre when the shooting began.
The names of the victims have now been released by San Bernardino's coroner.
The youngest victim was 26 and the oldest was 60.
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Police said the attack indicated there had been "some degree of planning".
Local police chief Jarrod Burguan said it appeared that the duo was prepared to carry out another attack.
"There was obviously a mission here. We know that. We do not know why. We don't know if this was the intended target or if there was something that triggered him to do this immediately," said David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI's Los Angeles office.
In the shootout with police hours after the attack, Farook and Malik fired 76 rounds of ammunition at the officers and the officers fired 380 rounds back.
Two police officers were injured during the pursuit.
It marks the deadliest mass shooting in the US since 26 people were killed at a school in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012.
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The 26-year-old France forward was speaking on French TV show Quotidien.
"I think I will decide [on my future] in the next two weeks," he said.
Asked if United would be his new club he replied: "Possible, possible." Asked to give the chances on a scale of one to 10, Griezmann added "six".
The presenter replied: "It's the first time you've said that." And Griezmann replied "it's the first time."
Griezmann, who has won 41 caps for France since making his debut in 2014, scored 26 goals this season as Atletico finished third in La Liga.
He was named the third best player in the world behind Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi in the Ballon d'Or awards in January.
There is a 100 million euro (£86m) release clause in Griezmann's contract.
United have the opportunity to qualify for the Champions League by winning the Europa League on Wednesday against Ajax in Stockholm.
She remained in the post for nearly three years, until the Constitutional Court forced her to step down in early May 2014 after finding her guilty of abusing her power.
Weeks later, the military seized power and suspended the constitution, saying it was necessary to restore order after months of entrenched protests against Ms Yingluck's government.
Then things got worse. On 23 January, the military-picked legislative assembly voted to impeach Ms Yingluck for dereliction of duty over a controversial subsidy scheme which paid farmers above market rates for rice.
This means she is banned from politics for five years. She is also facing a criminal charge over the scheme - which could result in a jail term if found guilty.
Yingluck Shinawatra, a former businesswoman born in 1967, was following as prime minister in the footsteps of her more famous brother, Thaksin Shinawatra.
She led Pheu Thai to a landslide victory in the July 2011 general election, a year after violent protests on the streets of Bangkok.
Before the poll, Ms Yingluck, who has two degrees in politics, had never run for office or held a government post.
She had until then pursued a corporate career, formerly as managing director of AIS, the telecommunications firm her brother founded, and managing director of SC Asset Company, a family firm involved in property.
Critics were quick to point out her political inexperience, saying her main qualification appeared to be the fact that she was the youngest sister of Mr Thaksin, the billionaire who was ousted as prime minister by the military in 2006 and jailed in absentia for corruption.
They suggested her primary role was to marshal the Thaksin faithful - the mainly poor rural voters who kept him in power - and then serve as his proxy as he governed from overseas exile.
Ms Yingluck performed well on the campaign trail - people seemed to warm to her. And the Thaksin faithful backed her party in 2011 polls.
Speaking to the BBC after her election win, Ms Yingluck said she planned to work hard. People would trust her, she said, as long as the government preserved the rule of law and treated people fairly.
"As long as we solve problems, I hope Thai people will give me a chance to prove myself and show my sincerity."
Three months later, she faced her first challenge as parts of Thailand were hit by severe flooding.
More than 500 people died in the north of the country and a fifth of the capital ended up under water, forcing her government to announce a 100bn baht ($4bn: £2.5bn) recovery plan amid accusations it had been unprepared.
In early 2012, her government approved a compensation fund for victims of recent political unrest - allocating 2bn baht ($63m, £40.8m) to families of the deceased, as well as those who were hurt or "unfairly detained".
Ms Yingluck was also seen to establish cordial ties with two key institutions, the royal palace and the military.
But a rice subsidy policy, whereby her government bought rice from farmers at above market rates to boost rural incomes, hit Thailand's rice exports hard. Her opponents said the programme was rife with corruption and many farmers were left out of pocket.
It was, however, a political amnesty bill that provided the trigger for protests which foreshadowed Ms Yingluck's demise.
Her government proposed legislation allowing amnesty for those convicted of political violence that took place after the coup that ousted her brother, including the mass street protests that paralysed Bangkok in 2010.
It proved unpopular with some of her traditional supporters, who argued it would allow those responsible for the deaths of civilian protesters in 2010 to go free.
But it sparked opposition fury, amid fears the ruling party would use it to allow Thaksin Shinawatra back into Thailand without having to serve his jail term.
And the firm conviction among opposition supporters that Ms Yingluck's government was controlled by her brother caused some to erupt onto the streets in protest.
Ms Yingluck appealed for calm - and allowed the amnesty bill to fail in the Senate. But that did not appease the protesters, who demanded that her government be replaced with an unelected "people's council".
The government's decision to call a snap election for 2 February also failed to quell anger. The ruling party was expected to win the election and the opposition boycotted the polls, which were then declared unconstitutional.
Fresh elections were announced but the opposition called for them to be delayed and a referendum on reforms to be held.
Then the courts stepped in and removed Ms Yingluck over the transfer of her national security chief. Weeks later, the military ousted what was left of her government, leaving Thailand once again under military rule.
Mr Mujuru, 62, was one of Zimbabwe's most senior politicians and married to Vice-President Joice Mujuru.
Analysts say his death is likely to intensify turmoil in President Robert Mugabe's party over the question of who will succeed the 87-year-old leader.
Under his nom de guerre, Rex Nhongo, he was the director of Mr Mugabe's forces during the 1970s' war of independence.
State Security Minister Sydney Sekeramayi said Gen Mujuru died in a fire at his farmhouse in Beatrice, about 80km (50 miles) south of the capital, Harare, in the early hours of Tuesday.
"We came here early in the morning after we were told what had happened. I still thought he might have been badly burnt, it was difficult to reconcile that he actually died - burnt beyond recognition," Mr Sekeramayi told state-run ZBC television.
"Rex Nhongo, Gen Solomon Mujuru, was just a charred body - one of Zimbabwe's greatest sons," the minister said, struggling to hold back his emotion.
Pathologists and police are investigating the cause of the fire at the 3,500-acre farm that had been seized from a white farmer in 2001.
A close relative told the BBC the family had no idea what caused the fire which eventually engulfed the farmhouse.
It began when the general was alone. Guards noticed plumes of smoke and called the maid, the relative said.
They tried to get into the house but the flames were so fierce they could not enter, they said.
When the fire service arrived the general's body was found close to the front door apparently overcome by the fumes, the relative said.
Obituary: Zimbabwe's 'king-maker'
The BBC's Brian Hungwe in Harare says Gen Mujuru was a senior politburo member in the Zanu-PF party and regarded as a moderate.
He was a strategist and rumoured power broker in divisive Zanu-PF succession politics, he says.
His death will create a void and leave his wife - one of the country's two vice-presidents - exposed, analysts say.
There has been fierce rivalry between the Mujurus and Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa for control of the party.
During the war against Rhodesian rule in the 1970s, Gen Mujuru led the armed struggle together with the late Josiah Tongogora.
Knox Chitiyo, of the London-based think-tank Royal United Services Institute, knew Gen Mujuru personally and said he was someone "who couldn't be pushed around".
"He was very, very respected particularly among the military in Zimbabwe and among the liberation war veterans. His liberation war credentials were pretty impeccable," Mr Chitiyo told the BBC.
He said Gen Mujuru had also proved his mettle after independence during the early 1980s.
"He had to handle a lot of internal politics within the party, a lot of politics within the military and for him to be able to handle that and retain his capacity as head of the military showed that he was a tough guy," Mr Chitiyo added.
The circumstances of the death would raise a number of questions, he said.
"There's definitely going to be a lot of speculation about this, for two reasons: One is [that] his predecessor died in a car crash and also because of what's going on right now in Zimbabwean politics - the issues around the succession, the possible elections, possibly next year."
Our reporter says it was Gen Mujuru who implored the freedom fighters in Mozambique during the conflict to accept Mr Mugabe as the leader of the Zanla rebel movement forces after his release from detention in 1974.
At independence in 1980 he took over the command of the army, before retiring and going into business 10 years later.
Our reporter says as the leading commander of the liberation war against colonial rule, he is expected to be buried at the national shrine, Heroes Acre, some time this week.
Extensive coverage of every game at the tournament will be provided across television, radio and online.
The 2015 competition was also shown on the BBC, when the England team reached the semi-finals.
"We're delighted the BBC will bring the biggest tournament in women's football to the widest possible audience," said director of BBC Sport Barbara Slater.
"Women's football has grown significantly over the last few years and we are proud of the contribution we have made.
"France 2019 promises to be another fantastic showcase for the sport."
Fifa secretary-general Fatma Samoura said: "The seventh edition of the Fifa Women's World Cup in 2015 reached record-breaking numbers of TV viewers and social media clicks, underlining global interest in the world's biggest single-sport event for women.
"As excitement grows around the eighth edition of the competition, we are delighted to work with the BBC to broadcast the ultimate event in women's football to even greater audiences in the UK via the BBC's TV, radio and digital platforms."
Nottingham-born Woodburn, 17, received a first squad call up for the World Cup qualifier on Friday, 24 March.
Wales boss Chris Coleman has rejected suggestions that Woodburn being eligible for England was a factor in the player's call-up.
"I don't know why Chris is denying it," said former Wales striker Saunders.
"You can't buy or sell players and we're only a small country.
"If someone is eligible for us and there's a bit of potential there then he's (Coleman) done the right thing.
"He's Welsh and he's playing for us. It's good news for the squad."
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Woodburn is eligible for Wales through his maternal grandfather and has already played at under-16, under-18 and under-19 level.
The forward has made seven appearances for Liverpool this season and become the youngest scorer in the club's history with a goal against Leeds United in the EFL Cup in November.
"He's got a good attitude and nothing fazes him. Top players have that sort of attitude about them," former Liverpool striker Saunders told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"He doesn't look like a rabbit in headlights when he plays for Liverpool. He's a talented player and scores goals."
Wales are third in Group D, four points behind Martin O'Neill's Republic of Ireland, who are top and Coleman said Woodburn's inclusion is not a spur of the moment decision.
"He's been in our system for five years, so we know all about him," Coleman said. "He's done well this season. We are looking forward to having him on board"
"If we want to put him on for tactical reasons, it would be for that, but not because we are worried about anyone else looking at him."
In an internal letter to bishops, Cardinal Peter Turkson says people should be "encouraged" to exercise their "ecological citizenship".
The letter says that climate negotiators meeting in Paris need to hear the voice of "God's people".
Activists say the call is evidence of a step-change in the Church's approach to climate change.
Major demonstrations across the world have been planned to mark the start of the global climate conference, known as COP21.
In Paris, planned big rallies have been cancelled in the wake of the 13 November attacks which killed 130 people.
Nearly 1,000 people thought to represent a security risk have been barred from entering the country, said Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.
A handful of other activists have been placed under house arrest under emergency powers introduced following the attacks.
But elsewhere protesters have taken to the streets to demand action.
Over the next two weeks, delegates meeting here are hoping to strike a new, far-reaching deal on climate change.
In his letter to around 5,000 Catholic bishops around the world, the cardinal makes it clear that relying on political leaders to achieve environmental justice is not enough.
He states that more than one million people around the world are likely to take part in climate marches on 29 November.
The marchers will be exercising "global ecological citizenship", he says, and he suggests to the bishops that they "are warmly invited to offer your support in prayer, word and action".
The letter gives contact details for the bishops on how to find out about marches in their diocese.
"If you could please encourage the faithful and many others to exercise their 'ecological citizenship', this would surely help to reinforce the humble and peaceable spirit of Laudato si', and it would spiritually express communion with the universal church," the letter reads.
Cardinal Peter Turkson is president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace but is seen as the Pope's point man on climate change.
A sometimes controversial figure within the Church, he was touted as a potential replacement after Pope Benedict's retirement.
Under Pope Francis he has emerged as a leading advocate for the environment and helped write the first draft of the Pope's landmark encyclical, Laudato Si'.
The Pope has expressed his worries that the negotiating process here in Paris may fail to deliver a global agreement. He said it would be "catastrophic" if global leaders let special interest groups derail the deal.
Speaking in Nairobi earlier this week, the Pope said the world faced a stark choice to either "improve or destroy the environment".
Environmental campaigners are in little doubt that the letter to Catholic bishops is in keeping with the Pope's progressive stand on climate change.
"In the letter he is not only asking people to go to the streets, he is asking them to pray as well," said Oscar Soria from Avaaz, who are organising the global marches.
"I think it is a continuation of the Pope's narrative right now, from the encyclical, to his speech at the United Nations, then to Nairobi and then the climate march.
"It's clear sign that the Vatican is stepping up its climate battle in a way never seen before."
In Paris, an installation of "marching shoes" will be built with contributions from thousands of people. The Pope has agreed that a pair of shoes bearing his name will be part of the display.
Cardinal Turkson is expected to attend COP21 as part of the official Holy See delegation.
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After her dismissal, Asma Bougnaoui took her case to the French courts and it was eventually referred to the ECJ.
She was "professionally competent" as a design engineer and sacked solely for refusing to remove her headscarf, its advocate general has advised.
A final ruling will be made by judges, who usually follow legal advice.
Muslims in France have frequently challenged moves by the state and other bodies to regulate religious clothing.
This case reached one of France's highest courts, the court of cassation, which requested an opinion from the European Court of Justice - whose verdict is binding on member states.
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Before Ms Bougnaoui was employed by IT consultancy company Micropole in 2008, she was told in interviews she might not be able to wear the hijab, which covers the head but not the face, at all times.
She provided services to clients on their own premises. But after one such visit, a client complained that her headscarf had "embarrassed" its employees. Micropole asked Ms Bougnaoui to remove her headscarf on her next visit, but she refused and was dismissed on 22 June 2009.
In her view, ECJ advocate general Eleanor Sharpston said there was "nothing to suggest that Ms Bougnaoui was unable to perform her duties as a design engineer because she wore an Islamic headscarf". In fact, the company itself had made express reference to her professional competence.
Ms Sharpston rejected the idea that banning workers from wearing religious attire when they came into contact with clients could be necessary "for the protection of individual rights and freedoms necessary for the functioning of a democratic society".
In conclusion she said Ms Bougnaoui's dismissal constituted "direct discrimination" and that company policies imposing an entirely neutral dress code could only be justified "if it pursues a legitimate aim and is proportionate".
The ruling is not binding on the court but advisory. Judges will deliver the final, binding verdict at a later date.
The blaze in the block of flats in Shepherd's Bush Green on 19 August caused damage across five floors.
The tumble dryer had been recalled by its maker and was due to be inspected.
London Fire Brigade wants manufacturer Whirlpool to ask people to stop using faulty machines but the firm said they should just not be left unattended.
The fire started in the kitchen of a seventh-floor flat in Shepherds Court.
The occupants were at home when smoke started pouring out of the Indesit tumble dryer and they alerted fire crews.
People in the flat and four other flats affected by the fire have been rehoused.
London Fire Commissioner Ron Dobson said: "If my kitchen had one of the recalled goods in it, I would unplug it straight away until it has been checked and repaired.
"The flat's occupants had a terrifying ordeal. The kitchen quickly became smoke logged and thankfully they noticed the smoke and quickly left the flat and called the brigade. This decision could have saved lives."
The fire brigade said it wanted Whirlpool to change its advice as "a matter of urgency".
"We want this change because we attend nearly one fire a day involving white goods," it said in a statement.
The brigade said it was dangerous if people went out and left machines unattended when there was a danger of fire but also that if they were home and a fire broke out, lives would be at risk.
A statement from Whirlpool said its own investigation was continuing and the company had contacted 3.6 million consumers who own an Indesit, Hotpoint or Creda tumble dryer manufactured between April 2004 and September 2015. It said engineers had resolved 750,000 cases.
It added: "Consumers can continue to use their affected dryer whilst waiting for the modification.
"However, we require that consumers do not leave their dryers unattended during operation as an extra precaution."
Gabriele Angella - a summer signing from Udinese - opened the scoring when he scrambled in from close range.
Bournemouth levelled when Ryan Fraser crossed for Lewis Grabban to convert, before Angella headed his second and Deeney scored via a deflection.
Lewis McGugan slotted in and Deeney smashed in from 20 yards before completing his treble with a penalty.
Troy Deeney is the first Watford player to score a hat-trick at Vicarage Road since Kevin Phillips on 1 March 1997
Deeney missed the start of last season but returned to score 20 goals and help Gianfranco Zola's side to the play-off final.
He was decisive again as the Hornets proved too strong for Bournemouth - who were the better side for large periods of the first half.
Sloppy defending allowed Angella to hook Watford ahead but the visitors' spirited response was rewarded when the lively Fraser burst into the penalty area and squared for Grabban to slide home his third of the season.
Watford were much improved after the interval though as Angella again escaped his marker to meet Almen Abdi's free-kick with a powerful header, before Deeney ran on to a neat through-pass to fire across Ryan Allsop and in with the aid of a deflection.
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McGugan added the fourth with a neat finish from an angle for his first goal since joining from Nottingham Forest in the summer, before Deeney's spectacular second.
The striker took the ball on his chest and shrugged off two challenges to score from the edge of the area.
Deeney then completed the scoring in stoppage time when he steered home from the spot after Diego Fabbrini was tripped.
Watford manager Gianfranco Zola:
"Bournemouth probably didn't deserve to lose 6-1 because especially in the first half they played well and they played in the right way.
"In the second half my team really put a good performance in and it was just what they needed because otherwise it was going to be difficult.
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"We changed gears because in the first half we were playing under rhythm and we pushed a little bit higher up the pitch and that made it more difficult for them."
Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe:
"If we're guilty of anything it was still chasing the game at 3-1.
"We felt we could still try and get back into it but they were ruthless in exposing that and we were a little bit naive towards the end where we kept giving the ball back to Watford and you can't do that against a good team.
"I always knew it was going to be a huge step up for our squad and for everyone at the club.
"If you look at our history we've hardly played in the Championship and history is always a good gauge and this is a big step up."
Full Time The referee ends the match.
Goal! - Troy Deeney - Watford 6 - 1 Bournemouth Penalty scored by Troy Deeney. Watford 6-1 Bournemouth.
Penalty awarded for an unfair challenge on Diego Fabbrini by Ryan Fraser.
Elliott Ward makes a clearance.
Corner taken by Santos Iriney from the left by-line.
Elliott Ward makes a clearance.
Ikechi Anya produces a cross.
Goal! - Troy Deeney - Watford 5 - 1 Bournemouth Troy Deeney scores with a right foot finish. Watford 5-1 Bournemouth.
Free kick taken by Daniel Pudil.
Foul by Simon Francis on Daniel Pudil, free kick awarded.
Steve Cook takes the free kick.
Booking
Marco Cassetti is cautioned by the ref for unsporting behaviour.
Marco Cassetti challenges Harry Arter unfairly and gives away a free kick.
Lloyd Doyley restarts play with the free kick.
Foul by Brett Pitman on Lloyd Doyley, free kick awarded.
Corner taken by Andrew Surman from the left by-line.
Marco Cassetti takes a shot. Ryan Allsop catches the ball.
Lewis Grabban restarts play with the free kick.
Gabriele Angella concedes a free kick for a foul on Lewis Grabban.
Substitution Lewis McGugan goes off and Cristian Battocchio comes on.
Shot by Harry Arter missed to the right of the target.
Substitution Eunan O'Kane joins the action as a substitute, replacing Marc Pugh.
Substitution Fernando Forestieri leaves the field to be replaced by Diego Fabbrini.
Clearance made by Daniel Pudil.
Assist on the goal came from Almen Abdi.
Goal! - Lewis McGugan - Watford 4 - 1 Bournemouth Lewis McGugan slots the ball right footed into the goal. Watford 4-1 Bournemouth.
Assist by Almen Abdi.
Goal! - Lewis McGugan - Watford 4 - 1 Bournemouth Lewis McGugan scores with their right foot. Watford 4-1 Bournemouth.
Lewis Grabban manages to make a clearance.
Corner taken by Almen Abdi.
Substitution (Watford) makes a substitution, with Daniel Pudil coming on for Marco Faraoni.
Centre by Ikechi Anya.
Lewis McGugan takes a shot. Ryan Allsop catches the ball.
Substitution Brett Pitman joins the action as a substitute, replacing Shaun MacDonald.
Ikechi Anya crosses the ball.
Clearance by Gabriele Angella.
Troy Deeney takes the chance to get an effort at goal.
Clearance by Gabriele Angella.
Goal! - Troy Deeney - Watford 3 - 1 Bournemouth Troy Deeney scores with a right foot finish. Watford 3-1 Bournemouth.
Substitution Charlie Daniels leaves the field to be replaced by Ian Harte.
Assist on the goal came from Almen Abdi. Almen Abdi crosses the ball.
Goal! - Gabriele Angella - Watford 2 - 1 Bournemouth Gabriele Angella heads the ball into the goal. Watford 2-1 Bournemouth.
Free kick taken by Almen Abdi.
Santos Iriney fouled by Simon Francis, the ref awards a free kick.
Steve Cook takes the free kick.
Santos Iriney concedes a free kick for a foul on Harry Arter.
Booking for Marco Faraoni for unsporting behaviour.
Booking
Free kick awarded for a foul by Marco Faraoni on Harry Arter.
Simon Francis makes a clearance.
Lewis McGugan takes a shot. Ryan Allsop catches the ball.
The referee starts the second half.
Half Time The half-time whistle blows.
Almen Abdi shoots direct from the free kick.
Handball by Harry Arter.
Troy Deeney has an effort at goal.
Shot by Marco Faraoni. Ryan Allsop catches the ball.
Free kick taken by Marco Cassetti.
Lewis Grabban challenges Marco Cassetti unfairly and gives away a free kick.
Shot by Elliott Ward.
Ikechi Anya manages to make a clearance.
The ball is swung over by Simon Francis.
Marco Faraoni manages to make a clearance.
Ryan Fraser crosses the ball.
Simon Francis takes the free kick.
Marco Faraoni receives a yellow card.
Clearance by Lloyd Doyley.
Corner taken by Marc Pugh from the left by-line.
Lloyd Doyley makes a clearance.
Assist by Ryan Fraser.
Goal! - Lewis Grabban - Watford 1 - 1 Bournemouth Lewis Grabban scores with a right foot finish. Watford 1-1 Bournemouth.
Ryan Fraser produces a cross.
Free kick taken by Elliott Ward.
Unfair challenge on Harry Arter by Lewis McGugan results in a free kick.
Ryan Fraser takes the chance to get an effort at goal. Manuel Almunia catches the ball.
Simon Francis restarts play with the free kick.
Lewis McGugan concedes a free kick for a foul on Ryan Fraser.
Harry Arter has an effort at goal.
Clearance made by Gabriele Angella.
Lewis McGugan takes a shot and goes harmlessly over the bar.
The ball is crossed by Charlie Daniels.
Corner taken by Charlie Daniels.
Clearance made by Gabriele Angella.
Corner taken by Charlie Daniels from the right by-line.
Lewis Grabban takes the chance to get an effort at goal.
The ball is swung over by Ikechi Anya.
Goal! - Gabriele Angella - Watford 1 - 0 Bournemouth Gabriele Angella scores with a left foot finish. Watford 1-0 Bournemouth.
Shot by Lewis Grabban went wide of the right-hand post.
Simon Francis takes the free kick.
Foul by Marco Cassetti on Ryan Fraser, free kick awarded.
Clearance by Simon Francis.
Fernando Forestieri delivers the ball.
Shot by Marc Pugh went over the bar.
Free kick taken by Ryan Allsop.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Charlie Daniels by Fernando Forestieri.
Free kick taken by Marco Cassetti.
Harry Arter receives a yellow card for unsporting behaviour.
Booking
Harry Arter gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Ikechi Anya.
Shot on goal comes in from Lewis McGugan from the free kick. Ryan Allsop safely holds on.
Lewis McGugan takes the free kick.
Shaun MacDonald challenges Fernando Forestieri unfairly and gives away a free kick.
The referee gets the match started.
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Residents of the Japanese capital were taken by surprise, as the temperatures around this time of the year usually range from 10C to 17C.
It is the first time fallen snow has been seen on the ground in Tokyo in November since records started to be taken in 1875.
The snow, caused by an unusual cold front over the city, caused slight delays on public transport
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) also warned of possible icy roads, snow on electric wires and trees, and the collapse of plastic greenhouses, according to the Japan Times.
He also said the US should focus on defeating so-called Islamic State (IS) rather than removing Syria's president.
Mrs Clinton has proposed a no-fly zone over Syria. The top US military chief has said that could spell conflict with Russian jets in the region.
The Clinton campaign accused Mr Trump of "playing to Americans' fears".
Mr Trump also attacked Republicans for not uniting behind his candidacy.
"If we had party unity, we couldn't lose this election to Hillary Clinton," he told Reuters news agency at Trump National Doral golf resort in Miami, Florida.
The Republican standard-bearer struck an apocalyptic tone when criticising his Democratic rival's plan to control Syrian air space.
"You're going to end up in World War Three over Syria if we listen to Hillary Clinton," Mr Trump said.
"You're not fighting Syria any more, you're fighting Syria, Russia and Iran, all right?
"Russia is a nuclear country, but a country where the nukes work as opposed to other countries that talk."
Mr Trump suggested there should be a refocus away from the long-held US position of trying to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, saying: "What we should do is focus on IS. We should not be focusing on Syria."
He also suggested Mrs Clinton would be unable to talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin after her sharp criticism of him.
Mr Trump questioned "how she is going to go back and negotiate with this man who she has made to be so evil" if she is elected president on 8 November.
The Clinton campaign dismissed the criticism, saying both Republican and Democratic national security experts have denounced Mr Trump as unfit to be commander-in-chief.
"Once again, he is parroting Putin's talking points and playing to Americans' fears, all while refusing to lay out any plans of his own for defeating ISIS or alleviating humanitarian suffering in Syria," Clinton spokesman Jesse Lehrich said in a statement.
Mr Trump's warning of confrontation with Russia echoes concerns raised last month at a congressional hearing by the highest-ranking military officer in the US armed forces.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Marine Gen Joseph Dunford told lawmakers a "no-fly zone" in Syria could spell war with Russia.
"Right now, senator, for us to control all of the airspace in Syria it would require us to go to war, against Syria and Russia," Gen Dunford told the Senate Arms Services Committee.
"That's a pretty fundamental decision that certainly I'm not going to make."
At the final presidential debate in Nevada on 20 October, Mrs Clinton outlined her support for the measure.
"A no-fly zone can save lives and hasten the end of the conflict," she said on stage.
But in a 2013 speech to Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs, Mrs Clinton said establishing a no-fly zone would "kill a lot of Syrians", according to a transcript disclosed by Wikileaks.
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The civilian death toll would result from the US needing to take out Syrian air defences, which are located in populous areas.
Her policy is not only a disagreement with President Barack Obama, but would be a significant escalation of US involvement in the Syrian conflict.
Mr Trump's comments come two weeks before election day and as his campaign grapples with a backlash over a string of accusers who have come forward with allegations of sexual assault.
The New York businessman, who is trailing Mrs Clinton in national polls, has railed against media and suggested members of the press were colluding to rig the election against him.
"The people are very angry with the leadership of this party, because this is an election that we will win 100% if we had support from the top," he said. "I think we're going to win it anyway."
Mr Bolland will be succeeded by Steve Rowe, executive director of general merchandise.
Third-quarter sales of general merchandise were down by 5.8% for the 13 weeks to 26 December.
But M&S said it had an "excellent quarter" for food, with record sales in the Christmas week.
Investors reacted positively, with Marks and Spencer shares rising more than 1% in morning trading.
There was no pressure on Mr Bolland to leave from shareholders or the board, Marks and Spencer chairman Robert Swannell said on a conference call with reporters. Mr Bolland is retiring after six years in the role.
"There has been absolutely no pressure at all on Marc [to leave]," Mr Swannell said, adding that succession planning had been "rigorous".
Planning Mr Bolland's succession had not been done "quickly on the back of an envelope", but instead had been a process that had gone on "for years", Mr Swannell added.
He declined to discuss whether Marks and Spencer had considered external candidates, but said the firm had used "external benchmarking" during a "thorough, rigorous process" to select candidates.
Mr Bolland had informed the board in the summer of 2015 of his intention to leave in mid-2016, he said.
Mr Rowe will receive a salary of £810,000 from 2 April 2016 as part of his chief executive remuneration package, the firm said.
He has been employed by the firm for more than 25 years, and has had roles including director of retail and e-commerce and positions in general merchandise.
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Marc Bolland's departure comes as Marks and Spencer reported dire Christmas trading figures. Sales of general merchandise, which includes clothes, were 5.8% lower than last year - a result the company blamed on unseasonably warm weather and poor stock availability.
Marc Bolland has been at the company since 2010, after four years at grocer Morrisons, and while the food business has thrived, he has struggled to revive the clothing business despite investing hundreds of millions of pounds on revamps.
In October last year, Mr Bolland told investors the turnaround plan was working and he gave no impression then of leaving before the job was done. Today's figures illustrate that it's not.
The company insisted the decision to step down was Marc Bolland's own and that he informed the board at the end of last year that he wanted to retire in April. He will be succeeded by Steve Rowe, currently executive director of general merchandise, having previously been in charge of the retailer's food business for almost three years. He has been with the company 25 years, and a board member since 2012, so will know first hand what a difficult job he is taking on.
Marks and Spencer's third quarter general merchandise sales, which include clothing, were "disappointing", the firm said.
The 5.8% drop in sales was put down to "unseasonal conditions and availability". Retailers such as Next also blamed unseasonably warm weather in December for disappointing sales.
However, food sales for Marks and Spencer were up 0.4% in the third quarter, and the retailer said it had record sales in the Christmas week, up 17%.
Online sales rose more than 20% in the quarter, it added.
Marks and Spencer has had recurrent problems in general merchandise for a number of years. For example, in the six months to 26 September 2015, sales fell 1.2%.
Richard Hunter, head of equities at Hargreaves Lansdown stockbrokers, said that the change at the top could lead to some uncertainty.
"There will be some inevitable uncertainty after any change at the helm, although the new chief executive - although an M&S lifer - has been in charge of general merchandise (GM) for only a relatively short period," Mr Hunter said.
"The wider issue could be that despite attempts to revitalise GM for some considerable time, little of note has materialised, and it could well be that Marc Bolland has decided that a fresh pair of eyes are required."
The 22-year-old cousin of former world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury was set to face WBO champion Parker in Auckland, New Zealand, on 6 May, in his first world title fight.
A statement from Team Fury and Hennessy Sports said Fury had been advised to "rest for three to four weeks".
Parker's promoters, Duco Events, said work had started to find a replacement.
The Fury statement continued: "Understandably, Hughie is devastated by the injury which has temporarily halted his dream of fighting for the world heavyweight title - but the fight will be rescheduled and a new date will be announced shortly."
Antoinette Corbally, 48, has been named locally as one of two people shot dead in the gun attack at a house at Balbutcher Drive, Ballymun.
It is believed the attack was gang related but not connected to the ongoing Hutch-Kinahan feud.
Gardaí (Irish police) are seeking two men over the shooting.
Nicola Tallant, investigations editor from the Sunday World, told Good Morning Ulster that Derek Devoy, the brother of Ms Corbally, was the target of the attack but he escaped.
She said the shooting appeared to be related to a "drug turf war" and that Mr Devoy is a "well-known Dublin criminal".
She said that two men pulled up to the house and one opened fire "indiscriminately" at the house, which had children inside.
She added that Mr Devoy was holding a toddler at the time of the attack and that he "threw the child and ran out the back door".
Another man and woman were treated for less serious injuries in hospital following the shooting.
Irish police recovered a gun at the scene of the shooting. A silver Opel Zafria was found partially burnt out on Balbutcher Drive and Gardaí also recovered a second car they believe was involved in the attack in Santry.
Irish Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan said he condemned the shooting and that high-visibility policing, including armed checkpoints, would continue across the city.
Captain David Seath, 31, collapsed after suffering a heart attack near the 23-mile mark, close to Southwark Bridge.
The Afghanistan veteran's friends and family met on the course at midnight at the place where he collapsed.
About £200,000 has been donated to Help For Heroes in his memory.
He received immediate medical attention and was taken to St Thomas' Hospital but died later.
Capt Seath, from Cowdenbeath, Fife, commanded a specialist team while serving as a fire support team commander for 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery, based in Plymouth.
He completed two master's degrees at the University of Aberdeen before attending the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, the elite officer training centre, in 2009.
Capt Seath's mother, Libby, said: "David has achieved more in 31 years than most people do in 70. He lived his life on the edge and to the full."
He accepts that he will be the target of some criticism, having grown up a Rangers fan and being the subject of three transfer offers from Ibrox.
They were all rejected by Hibs, though, and Allan said it was an "easy decision" to join Celtic.
"I wanted to progress my career and this was the right move for me," said the 23-year-old midfielder.
Allan handed in a transfer request after Rangers' initial offers were rejected this summer and he was widely expected to move to Ibrox even if it meant running down the final 12 months of his contract at Easter Road.
Celtic officially made their move for the player on Thursday, though, and Allan was certain it was the right choice to make for his career.
"When I heard from my agent that Celtic were interested, in football terms it was an easy decision to step up a league and European football - and to develop as a player," he said.
"I was just concentrating on my game and, if something came up, I'd need to make a decision. Luckily for me, it was Celtic and that was the decision I made.
"I just made it on football terms, I wasn't really bothered what came with it.
"I know I'll get a lot of stick off some people, but it's about playing football and developing and this is the right place for me."
When asked if the recent focus on being a boyhood Rangers fan had been exaggerated, Allan said "yes". He also added that he would continue to live in Glasgow.
"My job is a football player," said the midfielder who started his career with Dundee United and joined Hibs last summer after a spell with West Bromwich Albion.
"You need to look out for your best interests and that's what I've done in coming to Celtic.
"My family support me in any decision I make and that's what I'd expect from them."
Allan was also asked if Rangers made a late attempt to talk him out of moving to Celtic. "Not that I know of," he replied.
The midfielder is also hopeful of being involved in the squad for Celtic's Champions League play-off first leg against Malmo at Celtic Park on Wednesday.
"There's been talk, but I just need to train hard and see what happens," said Allan, who had loan spells with Portsmouth, Milton Keynes Dons and Birmingham City.
"It's going to be a challenge to get into the team, but that's something I'm looking forward to and I have faith in my own ability to do that.
"I'm much older now, I've got a lot of experience I took from down south and I won't let the chance pass me by again."
Involved in politics since his teenage years, Mr Nolin, a lawyer by training, was appointed to the Senate in 1993 and became Speaker late last year.
Mr Nolin had spoken publicly about the rare form of cancer that he was diagnosed with five years ago, the CBC reports.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he was "deeply saddened" by the news.
Mr Nolin was remembered by the Canadian prime minister as an "affable and cultured man" who "never lost track of the higher interests of his fellow citizens".
Senator Claude Carignan, a fellow conservative and the leader of the government in the senate, said: "He will be remembered by each and every one of his Senate colleagues for his integrity, knowledge, wisdom and determination."
Mr Nolin is survived by his wife, Camille, and three children, Mr Carignan's statement said.
The hosts twice went in front through James Vaughan and Tom Pope, only for each goal to be cancelled out by a Chris Maguire free-kick.
Greg Leigh's own goal on 70 minutes then extended Bury's club-record losing run to 12 league games, sending them into the League One relegation zone.
The Shakers dropped keeper Ben Williams for Paul Rachubka and the debutant's fifth-minute free-kick drifted over the Oxford defence for Vaughan to volley over Simon Eastwood.
The U's levelled eight minutes later, Maguire hitting a free-kick from the edge of the box into the bottom corner.
They were then firmly on top, with Maguire twice testing Rachubka before the veteran keeper parried a Robert Hall shot.
Maguire also sliced wide from eight yards and moments later Pope scored at the second attempt from Scott Burgess' 39th-minute cross.
This time Oxford took just four minutes to equalise, Maguire curling in a 20-yard free-kick.
The visitors had the better of a hard-fought second half as Kane Hemmings hit a post before left-back Leigh turned Marvin Johnson's low cross into his own net.
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Match ends, Bury 2, Oxford United 3.
Second Half ends, Bury 2, Oxford United 3.
Foul by Antony Kay (Bury).
Philip Edwards (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Oxford United. Ryan Taylor replaces Kane Hemmings.
Attempt missed. Chris Maguire (Oxford United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Foul by Tom Soares (Bury).
Alexander MacDonald (Oxford United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Antony Kay (Bury) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tyler Roberts (Oxford United).
Attempt missed. Chris Maguire (Oxford United) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt missed. Scott Burgess (Bury) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Corner, Bury. Conceded by Cheyenne Dunkley.
Antony Kay (Bury) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Antony Kay (Bury).
Alexander MacDonald (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Tom Soares (Bury) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Alexander MacDonald (Oxford United).
Alexander MacDonald (Oxford United) is shown the yellow card.
Tom Pope (Bury) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Tom Pope (Bury).
Chris Maguire (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Oxford United. Tyler Roberts replaces Robert Hall.
Corner, Bury. Conceded by Cheyenne Dunkley.
Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Hallam Hope.
Attempt blocked. Chris Maguire (Oxford United) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked.
Substitution, Bury. Hallam Hope replaces James Vaughan.
Attempt missed. Kane Hemmings (Oxford United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Foul by Kelvin Etuhu (Bury).
Robert Hall (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Own Goal by Greg Leigh, Bury. Bury 2, Oxford United 3.
Scott Burgess (Bury) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alexander MacDonald (Oxford United).
Attempt saved. Antony Kay (Bury) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Bury. Conceded by Marvin Johnson.
Corner, Bury. Conceded by Marvin Johnson.
Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Kelvin Etuhu.
Attempt blocked. Alexander MacDonald (Oxford United) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked.
George Miller (Bury) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Marvin Johnson (Oxford United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Hamilton lost control at Turn 11 and slid into the barriers on his fourth lap. He limped back to the pits but could not run again, ending up fifth.
Rosberg was 0.595secs quicker than Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo in second.
Ferrari were struggling, with Sebastian Vettel 0.327secs back, 0.322secs ahead of Red Bull's Max Verstappen.
Vettel's team-mate Kimi Raikkonen was sixth fastest, more than 1.6secs off the pace.
Raikkonen was less than 0.3secs quicker than the McLarens of Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button - separated by only 0.059secs in seventh and eighth places.
And Ferrari lacked race pace, too, with Raikkonen doing a long run on heavy fuel at the same time as Rosberg and lapping on average about a second slower.
Mercedes were just as dominant on the race runs, Rosberg well over half a second on average quicker than the next quickest man, Verstappen.
Hamilton's mistake - he lost the rear on entry to one of the most demanding corners on a difficult track - will have cost him track time and experience of the car on full tanks, but that is unlikely to be too much of a hindrance on a track he knows well and is one of his favourites.
He was 0.237secs quicker than Rosberg in the first session and heads into the weekend a point adrift of his team-mate in the championship.
Hamilton has set himself the target of going into the summer break after next weekend's German Grand Prix with a points lead, something he has not had yet so far in 2016 after a difficult start to the season that saw him 43 points behind Rosberg after the first four races.
Renault's Jolyon Palmer was 19th fastest, 0.181secs and two places behind team-mate Kevin Magnussen.
Lewis Hamilton, P5: "They have those new white kerbs, I just put my rear wheel just over the white line and just touched it and they are very slippery. I don't know why they have put them there, it was perfectly fine before.
"Nico had really good runs, so I can study that. Pace was feeling quite good. It is just about getting in the swing of things, if you miss a session that's what you miss."
Nico Rosberg, P1: "An impressive day for us, performance-wise. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean we'll be in quite such a strong position tomorrow - but for now it's very positive.
"I'm feeling great out there and the car is very quick, so a good start to the weekend overall. Obviously, it's a great feeling to start the day like that with the contract being sorted. That was always going to be a positive boost."
Hungarian Grand Prix practice results
Hungarian Grand Prix coverage details
2 February 2017 Last updated at 06:42 GMT
Campaigners are calling for an end to the use of shark nets at beaches. They are used to stop sharks getting close to people but they are killing dolphins and turtles too.
More have been installed after a number of recent shark attacks on the east coast - but some nets have been cut deliberately by those who don't like them.
Watch Ricky's report to find out more.
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Gwede Mantashe made the comments after deputy Finance Minister Mcebesi Jonas alleged the Gupta family had offered him a government promotion.
During a rowdy parliamentary session, Mr Zuma denied the family had influenced cabinet appointments.
The opposition called on him resign.
Mr Mantashe is the third most powerful person in the governing African National Congress (ANC), and his remarks suggest Mr Zuma may be losing the confidence of influential members of the party as well, correspondents say.
Mr Zuma's presidency has been marred by allegations of corruption, cronyism and incompetence, amid a worsening economic situation.
The crisis deepened on Wednesday, when Mr Jonas said that a member of the Gupta family had made "a mockery of our hard-earned democracy" by offering to promote him to the minister's job last year.
The family also denied the allegation.
In an interview with Bloomberg, Mr Mantashe, the ANC secretary-general, said: "We need to deal with this; it will degenerate into a mafia state if this goes on."
He told the BBC that Mr Zuma was not "untouchable", but denied that the party planned to oust him.
The ANC would, however, deal with the "corporate capture" of government, Mr Mantashe said.
Questioned by the opposition in parliament about Mr Jonas' allegation, Mr Zuma said: "I'm in charge of the government. There is no minister who was ever appointed by the Guptas."
The speaker ordered opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane to leave the chamber for breaching parliamentary rules, prompting the party's MPs to walk out in solidarity with him.
Earlier, Mr Maimane said power had shifted from the government to the Guptas.
"You and your family are getting richer while South Africans are getting poorer," he told Mr Zuma.
The party said in a statement that Mr Zuma's position was becoming "increasingly untenable", and he should resign or be sacked by the governing party.
The left-wing Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party boycotted the parliamentary session, saying it did not recognise Mr Zuma as leader of South Africa.
Analysis: Milton Nkosi, BBC News, Johannesburg
President Zuma's simple denial of his toxic relationship with the Gupta family seemed to sum up the view held by many here, that he is not fully engaged in running the country.
"Deny, deny, deny" is the same strategy the 73-year-old employed when he came under fire over the use of government money to upgrade his private home in the rural area of Nkandla - until he was forced to make a U-turn when the opposition took him to South Africa's highest court.
The court is yet to make a ruling on whether he breached his oath of office by failing to repay the money, despite an anti-corruption watchdog finding that he had "unduly benefited" from the renovations.
In parliament, Mr Zuma seemed detached from the crisis gripping South Africa.
Nor did the speaker, a senior member of the governing party, inspire confidence in South Africa's 22-year-old democracy when she threw out opposition leader Mmusi Maimane, as he challenged the president.
The opposition has long accused Mr Zuma of letting the Guptas wield excessive influence.
The Guptas, who arrived in South Africa from India in 1993, have huge interests in computers, air travel, energy, and technology.
They said Mr Jonas' statement was political point-scoring.
In 2013, there was an outcry after a private jet carrying guests to the wedding of a Gupta family member was allowed to land at a South African military air force base in Pretoria.
The opposition has said that links between President Zuma and the Guptas were so close that they have been nicknamed the "Zuptas".
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South Africa risks turning into a "mafia state", a senior governing party official has warned, as pressure grows on President Jacob Zuma over his links with a wealthy family.
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Malorie Bantala, 21, was 32-weeks pregnant when she was assaulted by two people in Peckham on 15 June.
A 16-year-old boy was arrested earlier on suspicion of conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm and child destruction.
Kevin Wilson, 20, and a 17-year-old boy have already appeared at the Old Bailey accused of child destruction.
Mr Wilson, believed to the baby's father, is also charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent and the 17-year-old grievous bodily harm.
The 16-year-old was later released on bail.
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A third person has been arrested over an attack on a pregnant woman in south London after which she lost her baby.
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She had been unwell and stopped eating earlier this month.
A vet at the elephant camp in Karnataka state that cared for her put her age at "between 85 and 90". Elephants normally survive to about 70.
Records show the oldest elephant ever to have lived in captivity was called Lin Wang. He died in Taipei zoo in 2003 at an estimated age of 86.
India has another elephant living in the state of Kerala who is thought to be a similar age.
Indira was brought to Karnataka's Sakrebailu camp, a rehabilitation and training centre for ailing and captive elephants, nearly 50 years ago.
Her diet which included "a lot of greens" may have been the secret to her long life.
But she stopped eating in early January and became weak, camp veterinarian Dr Vinay told BBC Hindi. Indira died on Monday due to an "acute inflammation of the peritoneum" and was buried after a post-mortem.
"She must have been between 85 to 90 years. Normally, around the age of 60-65 years, an elephant loses its molars," Dr Vinay said.
"Indira was on a soft food diet for almost two decades. About 15 years ago, she lost sight in one eye and about a month ago, she developed a cataract in the other eye."
Indira was caught in Kakkanakote forest in 1968 and was used to help capture and tame wild elephants. Dr Vinay described her as "highly disciplined and very docile".
As well as greens, she was fed a diet of "paddy stock, raw rice, jaggery [cane sugar] and salt".
Forest officials say her diet may have helped her live such a long life.
"It is certainly a subject matter for study. A longer life is entirely dependent on the feed elephants are given, particularly after the age of 60 years," senior forest official Dr UV Singh told BBC Hindi.
"Any elephant on a controlled and balanced diet with all the required ingredients is known to live long."
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One of the world's oldest elephants, Indira, has died in her eighties in southern India, forest officials say.
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The facility, which was put up for sale last year by New Zealand firm Infratil, has incurred annual losses of £2m.
It is understood a deal was concluded late on Friday. It is expected the airport will continue to operate as normal and there will be no job losses.
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the deal would help protect the airport and the jobs it supported.
She told BBC Scotland that work would now begin for "turning Prestwick around and making it a viable enterprise".
She said: "It's a good decision and I'm glad we've reached this outcome, because it allows us to protect not just the asset of Prestwick Airport but the jobs that directly and indirectly depend on it."
Ms Sturgeon said the full terms of the agreement with Infratil and the Scottish government's business plan for the Ayrshire facility would be made public at a later date.
She added: "This is not a decision we have taken lightly.
"We would have preferred to see a private company buy Prestwick Airport but the strategic and economic importance of Prestwick Airport is such that we weren't prepared to see Prestwick close."
The deputy first minister said the government would run the airport on "a commercial basis" and do everything it could to return it to profit as soon as possible.
She said the long-term goal was to return it to private ownership but said, realistically, it may take "some time" to have the airport running profitably.
"First and foremost we need to make sure that the airport is operating on the right basis," she said.
"We've made clear our intention to have a separate company to run the airport for us."
The deal was welcomed by the leader of South Ayrshire Council, Cllr Bill McIntosh.
He said: "The airport is vital to the local and national economy and this excellent news will be a huge relief for the 1,400 people employed there - and for those companies directly involved with the freight, training, maintenance and repair operations at the site, supporting an additional 3,200 jobs.
"The transfer of ownership, just before Christmas, could not have come at a better time for the staff and families whose future looked less than certain a few weeks ago."
However, the viability of the Prestwick deal has been questioned by the leader of Glasgow city council.
Councillor Gordon Matheson said: "While I've said that I support efforts to save jobs at Prestwick, I'm still unclear how the Scottish Government can build a sound business case for Prestwick as a passenger airport without skewing the market at Glasgow's expense.
"Given Prestwick's significant annual loss under its previous owners and the fact that no private investors considered it a viable acquisition, it is difficult to see how the Government can make it a success as a passenger airport within State Aid rules."
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A spokesman said talks between the British Medical Association and NHS Employers had been "constructive".
However, the two sides "are not able to prevent the industrial action planned".
The strike begins at 08:00 GMT across England and could affect thousands of NHS patients as junior doctors will only provide emergency care.
Earlier this week the BMA announced three spells of strike action across England, after negotiations with the government ended with no resolution.
Issues being disputed by the BMA and NHS include weekend pay.
The strike details announced are:
Acas has confirmed that talks between the BMA and NHS bosses will continue next week.
The latest round of negotiations focused on the offer made by the government in November, which would see an 11% rise in basic pay.
This would be offset by plans to cut the number of weekend hours junior doctors can claim extra 'unsocial hours' pay for.
Current rules mean that working between 7pm and 7am Monday to Friday, or any hours worked during Saturday and Sunday, attracts a premium rate of pay.
This would change with the new government proposals.
Junior doctors would receive time and a half for any hours worked between 10pm and 7am, with time and a third being paid for any hours worked between 7pm and 10pm on Saturdays or Sundays.
On-call availability allowances - ranging from 2-6% of basic pay, would also be paid to junior doctors, with additional payment for work resulting from being on call.
The government said the changes are need to create more seven-day services, but the BMA warned that they could lead to doctors being over-worked because safeguards to keep a lid on excessive hours are being weakened.
A series of protests were held across the country and 98% of BMA members who took part in the ballot backed strike action.
The missing RAF serviceman vanished while on a night out with friends on 24 September in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Volunteers combed areas near Barton Mills and Mildenhall, where the 23-year-old's mobile phone signal was last tracked.
His brother, Makeyan Mckeague, joined the search led by Suffolk Lowland Search and Rescue (SULSAR).
He said: "I live from day-to-day focussing on what needs to be done. Today it's the search.
"This focus on work and family support is getting me through the dark days."
The mystery of missing Corrie Mckeague
Mr Mckeague, from Dumfermline in Fife, was last seen walking into a bin loading bay known as the "horseshoe" at 03:25 GMT.
His mobile phone was tracked moving 12 miles (19km) away to Barton Mills after he was last seen.
It followed the same route as a bin lorry, which had made a collection in the area the morning the airman, based at RAF Honington, disappeared.
The vehicle was searched but nothing found. A landfill near Milton is set to be searched by Suffolk Police.
His mother, Nicola Urquhart, said: "He was not seen coming out of that street on foot. Two vehicles left between 01:00 and 06:00 on the morning he disappeared.
"It's logical that by misadventure or some other reason he's ended up in a bin lorry.
"The police are going to search the landfill site once it is made safe for the officers taking part.
"I don't know how long that is going to take."
Andy King, SULSAR chairman, said: "We have presumed Corrie has suffered some harm. We have searched the areas which are accessible by vehicle.
"But if other information is received we are willing to widen the search," he said.
The Sale Sharks player was arrested after a collision between his Mercedes and a Toyota in the Chelsea area of London at about 05:00 BST on 1 June.
The 28-year-old was given a breath test and taken to a police station before being released on bail.
Scotland Yard confirmed he was charged on Thursday and will appear at West London Magistrates' Court on 10 December.
There were no reports of any injuries following the crash involving Mr Cipriani's black Mercedes C63 and a silver Toyota Prius.
The player, from West Wimbledon, joined Aviva Premiership side Sale Sharks as a fly-half in 2012, four years after his England debut.
However, he was left out of the squad for this year's World Cup tournament amid a reported disagreement with attack coach Mike Catt.
The American, 23, became the youngest man to card a sub-60 round with an opening 59 in Honolulu.
He followed it up with 64 on Friday to move to 17 under par - five shots clear of Gary Woodland at the halfway point.
England's Justin Rose is among those in a tie for third on 10 under par.
Thomas, who last week won the Tournament of Champions, also in Hawaii, had six birdies and eagled the last for the second day in a row.
He told the PGA Tour's official website: "It's cool, any time you can get your name in the record books is awesome.
"I had no idea until I finished, until I signed and [someone in the scoring tent] said '123', and I was like 'man, I'd love that a couple more times in my career'."
Olympic champion Rose made seven birdies and one bogey to move to 10 under alongside American pair Hudson Swafford and Zach Johnson.
Scotland's Russell Knox is among a group of players on nine under, with world number five Jordan Spieth a further shot back.
Britt Assombalonga put Forest ahead and injured himself in the process after pouncing on a poor Dan Burn backpass.
Michael Jacobs equalised and Forest's Matty Cash hit the post before Oliver Burke restored the Reds' lead.
Wigan's Adam Bogdan saved an Apostolos Vellios penalty, and Will Grigg scored for the Latics either side of Burke's second before Lam's shot won it.
Twice it had seemed that Northern Ireland international Grigg, who scored 29 goals for club and country last season, had done enough to ensure the Latics would take a point from the City Ground, first heading home from close range before making it 3-3 after 86 minutes with a half-volley.
Philippe Montanier's Forest, who won their season opener against Burton with an equally dramatic 4-3 result, have now conceded 11 goals from five games in all competitions this season.
Both sides punished each other in an error-riddled contest which almost started with Grigg capitalising on a defensive mix-up before Assombalonga took advantage in similar circumstances moments later.
Burke's first was the pick of the goals, chesting down a ball from Chris Cohen on the edge of the area before coolly finishing with his right foot.
Substitute Vellios, who had earlier produced a volley on the turn to test Bogdan, then had his penalty easily dealt with by the goalkeeper after Craig Morgan fouled Cohen.
That allowed Wigan to hit back in a frenzied finish which was ultimately decided by Lam in injury time.
Nottingham Forest head coach Philippe Montanier: "We left it too open for Wigan to come back three times. I can accept that happening once. But to repeat it again and again, we will give ourselves more problems in the future if we do that.
"We do have the players here to change things. It is a mental issue. Our defenders take a lot of risk and when we attack we need a better balance defensively."
"I enjoy the spirit of the team and we showed our character to win. But there needs to be a balance. We have to learn quickly, because I cannot accept this."
Wigan manager Gary Caldwell: "We played well again but ultimately we did not get anything again.
"I was not very impressed to be honest. We needed to take our opportunities. We needed to defend better than we did."
Match ends, Nottingham Forest 4, Wigan Athletic 3.
Second Half ends, Nottingham Forest 4, Wigan Athletic 3.
Stephen Henderson (Nottingham Forest) is shown the yellow card.
Hand ball by Max Power (Wigan Athletic).
Attempt missed. Max Power (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Dan Burn.
Goal! Nottingham Forest 4, Wigan Athletic 3. Thomas Lam (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Hildeberto Pereira.
William Grigg (Wigan Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt blocked. Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Max Power.
Attempt blocked. Oliver Burke (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Apostolos Vellios (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Hildeberto Pereira.
Goal! Nottingham Forest 3, Wigan Athletic 3. William Grigg (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from very close range to the high centre of the goal.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Matt Mills replaces Pajtim Kasami.
Eric Lichaj (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Craig Davies (Wigan Athletic).
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Craig Davies replaces Alex Gilbey.
Attempt blocked. Pajtim Kasami (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Oliver Burke.
Attempt saved. Ben Osborn (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Apostolos Vellios.
Goal! Nottingham Forest 3, Wigan Athletic 2. Oliver Burke (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Matthew Cash with a through ball.
Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Craig Morgan.
Craig Morgan (Wigan Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Matthew Cash (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Craig Morgan (Wigan Athletic).
Attempt missed. Max Power (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Luke Burke.
Attempt missed. Luke Burke (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Attempt saved. Ben Osborn (Nottingham Forest) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Michael Mancienne.
Thomas Lam (Nottingham Forest) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Thomas Lam (Nottingham Forest).
Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Matthew Cash (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Eric Lichaj.
Pajtim Kasami (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic).
Attempt missed. Oliver Burke (Nottingham Forest) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Thomas Lam.
Goal! Nottingham Forest 2, Wigan Athletic 2. William Grigg (Wigan Athletic) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Luke Garbutt with a cross.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Nick Powell replaces Shaun MacDonald.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Luke Burke replaces Yanic Wildschut.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Stephen Warnock.
Attempt blocked. Matthew Cash (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Hildeberto Pereira with a cross.
Penalty saved! Apostolos Vellios (Nottingham Forest) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.
The concrete Northam Bridge, which carries the A3024 road as a dual carriageway, needed waterproof coating.
The £1.2m works started in January and were expected to be completed in May, but the bridge has now reopened.
Jacqui Rayment, from Southampton City Council, said delays caused by the works were "absolutely necessary".
She added: "I'm sure drivers will welcome the news that we have been able to fully reopen Northam Bridge ahead of schedule.
"The bridge is a critical element of Southampton's transport and road network, which is why it was so important that this work went ahead when it did to protect the structure and ensure its future.
"Southampton and the wider regional economy is dependent on these key routes and we have avoided extensive future problems through these timely interventions."
On the first morning of the roadworks, some motorists faced delays of up to an hour as lane closures were put in place.
It's reopening was greeted with a sigh of relief on Twitter, with Mads tweeting: "Northam Bridge being reopened is a dream."
The 25-year-old from Glengormley, on the outskirts of Belfast, has a mild form of cerebral palsy.
The T38 800m champion stayed on the shoulder of Australia's Brad Scott before making a move with 600m to go.
"That race was controlled and timed to perfection," the three-time Paralympic champion told BBC Sport.
"After the 800m I spoke to my dad and coach Paddy to see what way I would race it because I knew I wasn't fit enough to go from the gun like I usually do, or even at 800m to go.
"So we thought we would try to break Brad's spirits a bit by giving him a bit of confidence and then crash it down again.
"When he was in front he was in control, but as soon as I passed him he couldn't budge and then when I put my foot down I got away from him and that was the plan. That is two finals and two perfect performances.
"Previously I had gone into big races over-thinking things but at these championships, although I was struggling mentally in the 800m, in this race I had beaten everyone in the field, so I knew I could do it. It is nice to go out and perform and show the crowd I am comfortable and enjoying myself."
McKillop's winning time was four minutes 16.20 seconds - well outside his world record of 3:59.54 - but the medals come at the end of what has been an injury-hit season and he will be hoping for a smoother build-up to next year's Rio Paralympics.
"Going into 2016, it is going to be an exciting time and I want to show I am still on top," he added. "Crowds here have been small but hopefully when it comes to Rio, hopefully there will be a carnival atmosphere around it. Brazil have got the buzz off London and hopefully we can go there and get the respect we deserve as elite athletes."
The only Briton in a final on Friday was high jumper Jonathan Broom-Edwards, who ended with silver in the T44 event behind Poland's world and Paralympic champion Maciej Lepiato.
Both men cleared 2.05m and then passed on 2.08 but Broom-Edwards, 27, missed all three attempts at 2.11 while Lepiato cleared it and then set a new world record of 2.18.
"It just didn't happen today and I'm a little disappointed considering the shape I'm in and all the hard work that's gone into the build-up into this competition," Broom-Edwards said afterwards.
"My warm-up was great - I was relaxed and not being able to pass at 2.11m messed me up a little bit, but there's no real excuses.
"I got too tense and that's something I need to work on. It doesn't justify how I jumped today, but I know what I need to do. I've just got to relax at the higher bars and do what I do in training and the warm-up."
Harley Medical Group and Transform said European regulators' failures over breast implants manufactured by French company Poly Implant Prothese had caused financial and operating issues.
The UK's regulator had acted appropriately, but lessons should be learned, the Department of Health said.
The PIP implants had been filled with industrial silicon.
Spot checks in 2010 revealed the silicon had not been medical-grade.
Last December the French government announced it was advising all PIP patients to have their implants removed as a precaution and UK clinics were deluged with calls from worried women.
The Harley Medical Group in London had used nearly 14,000 PIP implants and initially offered free replacements, but it is now charging patients £2,500 because of spiralling costs.
Managing director Pierre Guillot told BBC Radio 4's The Report programme: "We have a duty of care to our patients and to date we have performed over 1,000 replacement surgeries, in the majority of cases at no cost to the patient."
However, Mr Guillot said the PIP implant scandal had taken his company from a "reasonable profit" to one that has made a loss for two consecutive years.
"We have operating and financial capacity issues," he added.
"We cannot finance the failures of the European regulatory system to have spotted a faulty implant for 12 consecutive years.
"You have to remember that these implants were CE marked. The CE marking means that the implants are not only safe but that the medical devices are efficacious."
Organisations across Europe award the mandatory CE marks to products in the European Economic Area (EEA).
Once a product has a CE mark in one EEA country, it can be exported to all the others - individual countries do not then make their own additional checks.
So, after a CE mark was awarded to PIP implants in Germany, the UK regulator along with others in Europe accepted them as safe to use - when in fact they had rupture rates twice to six times as high as others on the market.
The EU is looking at tightening up the system of CE marks and enhancing co-operation between the different regulatory bodies in Europe.
Earlier this year, the final report into the PIP breast implants scandal concluded the gel material they contained did not pose a long-term threat to health.
The British government has now ordered a review of the cosmetic surgery industry, led by NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh.
He will examine whether there needs to be more regulation, how complaints are dealt with, and whether better clinical governance is needed.
But a report carried out by Lord Howe in May this year said there was no evidence the UK regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), had acted inappropriately or could have uncovered the fraud earlier.
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The cosmetic surgery clinic Transform carried out some 5,000 PIP implant operations. Chief operating officer Pat Dunion told the BBC she would like the government to consider a compulsory register to record the details of all patients having breast implant operations.
"I'd be delighted if the MHRA would levy some sort of tax on implant manufacturers, and use that funding to come into facilities like Transform's, and other hospitals that provide cosmetic surgery, and take sample implants and check that they conform to the standards that they say they conform to," she said.
"I would welcome the government to start doing this now."
Sir Bruce is also considering a fund - like that offered by travel industry association Abta - that would pay out to patients in the event of anything going wrong.
Ms Dunion said: "It's a wonderful principle, but it would be difficult to see how such a scheme could be administered fairly - however, there might be different ways to do it.
"For example the government may levy some sort of charge on implant manufacturers and keep that fund set aside for some occurrence in the future."
Sir Bruce is expected to report back with the findings of his review in March 2013.
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He spoke of abandoned factories, rampant crime and a failed education system, pledging that his presidency would bring about change.
"This American carnage stops right here and stops right now," President Trump said on the steps of the Capitol.
Thousands of Trump supporters travelled across the country to witness the occasion from the National Mall.
The moment marks the end of an improbable journey for the property tycoon after a campaign marked by controversy.
Shortly after the ceremony Mr Trump was seen signing his first official actions as the 45th president.
He sent his Cabinet nominations to the Senate as well as a signed a proclamation for a national day of patriotism, according to Press Secretary Sean Spicer.
He also signed his first executive order as president, ordering federal agencies to ease the regulatory burdens associated with Barack Obama's health care laws, known as Obamacare, as the US Congress determines how to repeal and replace them.
He also signed into law a waiver allowing retired Marine General James Mattis, his pick for defence secretary, to serve in the post.
The Senate has voted overwhelmingly to approve retired Marine general John Kelly as Mr Trump's secretary of Homeland Security.
The change of hands was reflected on the White House website, which was scrubbed of Mr Obama's policies and replaced with Mr Trump's new agenda.
The Trump administration has only listed six issues on the website: energy, foreign policy, jobs and growth, military, law enforcement and trade deals.
Critics pointed out the revamped site made no mention of civil rights, LGBT rights, healthcare or climate change.
Mr Trump briefly spoke at a Capitol luncheon to thank his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, urging them to rise to applause.
In his inaugural address, he promised to be the voice of the "forgotten people", ignored by Washington politicians.
Today, he said, was "the day the people became rulers of this nation again".
"I will fight for you with every breath left in my body and I will never ever let you down," said President Trump after Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath.
"America will start winning again, winning like never before.
"We will bring back our jobs, bring back our borders, bring back our wealth and we will bring back our dreams."
If Donald Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention was billed as "midnight in America" - a pessimistic view of the current conditions in the US - then his message on inauguration day was that it's always darkest before the dawn.
In an address that was tonally consistent with candidate Trump's campaign rhetoric, the president railed against a Washington elite that flourished while the American people suffered.
Early reports were that Mr Trump would offer a non-ideological appeal for national unity - and there were motions in that direction at times toward the end of his speech. This address, however, was very much aimed at his supporters - uniting the people with pitchforks against an out-of-touch establishment.
American voters - at least ones in enough states to form an Electoral College majority - have taken a chance on Mr Trump. His presidency will be a remarkable experiment for American democracy, as it's clear after this speech that Mr Trump intends to govern as he campaigned.
The new president has set the stage. He has four years to make his supporters proud and prove all the doubters wrong.
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President Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence waved goodbye as the Bidens and Obamas left the Capitol.
The Obamas held hands as they boarded a military helicopter that took them to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
Mr Obama delivered remarks to staff and supporters before he and his wife flew to Palm Springs, California, for a holiday.
He told a crowd they "proved the power of hope" and that "this isn't a period, it's a comma in the continuing story of building America".
The transfer of power prompted congratulatory messages for Mr Trump from dignitaries around the world including Pope Francis.
He said he was praying Mr Trump's decisions would be guided by the "rich spiritual and ethical values" that have shaped America's history.
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson also offered well wishes, and Canadian Prime Minister said he looked forward to restoring "prosperity to the middle class on both sides of the border".
Former presidents and first ladies, including George W Bush and his wife Laura as well as Jimmy Carter, were in attendance.
The only absences were 92-year-old George Bush Senior, who is in hospital being treated for respiratory problems, and his wife Barbara.
But more than 50 House Democrats had refused to attend the ceremony in protest.
Mr Trump takes power at a time when the country appears to be deeply divided. He enters the presidency with historically low approval ratings.
He has vowed to roll back many of his predecessor's policies, including repealing Mr Obama's signature health care law and building a wall along the US-Mexico border.
Police arrested 217 people protesting against the inauguration and six officers suffered minor injuries, according to the Washington DC Police Department.
Many were apprehended for "vandalism and destruction of property", said spokesman Lieutenant Sean Conboy.
Earlier, about 150 protesters dressed in black marched through Washington, smashing windows and rolling rubbish bins into the street to form blockades.
The Women's March on Washington on Saturday - for racial and gender equality, and other issues perceived to be under threat from Mr Trump's administration - is expected to draw about 200,000 people.
On the White House petition page, two new requests appeared for the new president.
One petition demanded Mr Trump divest his financial interest or put them in a blind trust and another called for him to release his taxes.
Shaun Wane's Warriors claimed their spot as winners of the 2016 Super League Grand Final, and will face their NRL-winning counterparts.
Wolves' place was reward for League Leaders' Shield success, although their corresponding minor premiers Melbourne Storm decided not to take part.
The games take place on 18-19 February.
"We are excited to welcome the Cronulla Sharks to the DW Stadium in February," Wigan coach Shaun Wane said.
"They are a quality side who have shown that when under pressure they can come up with their very best rugby league."
Mark Foster, general manager of Super League added: "We have worked hard with the NRL to produce a series that will not only excite fans but one that also allows all clubs in the NRL to have a full pre-season."
Brisbane, coached by England boss Wayne Bennett, were involved in the World Club Series in 2015 and 2016, while Cronulla ended a 43-year wait for a premiership on 2 October.
"To have the chance to play over in the UK, for a World Club Championship, is a great opportunity and one that our club is really looking forward to," Sharks coach Shane Flanagan said.
"Then add to that the challenge of playing Wigan, one of the strongest and most famous clubs in the Super League and it will definitely be an outstanding experience."
Melbourne's absence is based on their decision to have a domestic-based pre-season in preparation for the 2017 season, and the participation of several first-grade players in the 2016 Four Nations.
"Having treasured past visits to the UK in 2008, 2010 and 2013, we thoroughly value the concept of the World Club Challenge," chief executive Dave Donaghy said.
"However, a regular NRL season is already incredibly taxing and, as a non-Sydney team, our players travel more than most."
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The PHA would not confirm whether it was the H1N1 strain formerly known as swine flu.
The PHA's website also states that seven people are being treated in intensive care units for the flu virus.
As in previous years, H1N1 is one of the strains circulating, but is covered by a free vaccination programme.
The Mercedes ace was asked by reporters if the sport was fundamentally broken, lacking direction or in rude health.
The 31-year-old Briton, world champion three times, said: "Probably the first two you suggested. I don't want to say too much but I agree with those."
McLaren-Honda driver Fernando Alonso added that indecision over qualifying regulations for 2016 was "sad".
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Hamilton also questioned the new 'halo' safety system that was trialled on Thursday's penultimate day of winter testing in Barcelona.
The system is designed to protect drivers from impact and debris, but Hamilton used social media to call it "the worst F1 modification in history".
In the earlier news conference, he added he was "dying" to be able to drive a car from 30 years ago, which he said he finds much more appealing.
He also sees no need to change qualifying, a reference to attempts by F1's bosses to introduce a new elimination-style system for this year.
Hamilton said: "It was fine, it was OK. Why confuse people even more? Even we don't understand what is going on."
F1 bosses agreed last week to introduce a qualifying system that would see the slowest car eliminated at 90-second intervals through three stages of qualifying.
But the following day, F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, who was keen on the new format, said he had been told there was not sufficient time to amend the sport's timing system before the season starts in Australia on 18 March.
The teams, who were asked to analyse the new proposal to check it had no flaws, have proposed a revised system that retains the elimination format for the first two parts of qualifying but reverts to a straight fight between eight drivers for the top places on the grid.
This idea will be discussed at the FIA World Council on Friday.
Senior figures have also questioned why the timing software and television graphics cannot be amended in time, with one senior figure telling BBC Sport that the explanation given was "pathetic".
Bosses have also had to extend a deadline to finalise new rules for 2017 aimed at making the cars faster and more dramatic-looking.
Alonso said the lack of clarity did not portray F1 in a good light.
"I am sad for the sport," said the two-time champion. "If I were a sportsman from another sport, I will look at Formula 1 a little bit surprised about that."
The 34-year-old Spaniard added there were "too many changes" and complained that "the complexity of the rules for the spectator is quite high".
He said: "All my friends here in Spain want to switch on the television and watch battles, big cars, big tyres, big noise and enjoy the race like they do with other sports. We want simplicity in the rules."
The clock was turned back at Caerlaverock Castle near Dumfries on Saturday for a jousting competition.
A host of colourful historic characters battled it out to be crowned the King's Champion at the Historic Environment Scotland site.
Tigers striker Mohamed Diame got on the end of Andrew Robertson's through-ball for the only goal of the game and his sixth of the season.
Daryl Murphy went closest for the hosts with a first-half half-volley against the post while Jake Livermore also struck the woodwork for the visitors.
Ipswich have now failed to beat Hull in their past eight league meetings.
Defeat also saw the Tractor Boys' run of 16 consecutive wins on a Tuesday night, stretching back to April 2013, come to an end.
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Hull boss Steve Bruce made nine changes to the side which held Arsenal to a goalless draw in the FA Cup fifth round on Saturday.
One of those changes, Robert Snodgrass, forced Bartosz Bialkowski to tip his early free-kick over the crossbar.
Ipswich grew in to the first half and Murphy hit the post from Ben Pringle's free-kick and Christophe Berra had a header on target deflected wide.
But, moments after the break, Mick McCarthy's side failed to keep a clean sheet for a ninth successive game as Diame broke the deadlock.
Robertson's surging run from left-back culminated in a fine pass for Diame to dink it over the on-rushing Bialkowski.
Ipswich manager Mick McCarthy:
"We were beaten by a better team on the night. We actually could have taken the lead in the first half but that is the fine margins of the Championship.
"The talk in the dressing room at half-time was not to concede an early goal but that is what we did - although it was a fantastic goal.
"They could have scored more but the Championship is so bonkers that we almost notched in the last few minutes."
Hull manager Steve Bruce:
"It was a case of job done. We were up against a really committed team in the first half, which mirrored their manager in terms of effort and endeavour.
"But we had that bit of class in the second half and we could have actually put the game to bed but we didn't take our opportunities.
"When you are top of the league, you know teams are going to have a go at you and you have to earn the right to play. Mo Diame was man of the match for me, it was a wonderful goal."
Match ends, Ipswich Town 0, Hull City 1.
Second Half ends, Ipswich Town 0, Hull City 1.
Attempt missed. Tommy Smith (Ipswich Town) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Freddie Sears with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Ipswich Town. Conceded by Allan McGregor.
Attempt missed. Freddie Sears (Ipswich Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Luke Varney with a headed pass.
Attempt missed. Tom Huddlestone (Hull City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Tommy Smith (Ipswich Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Chuba Akpom (Hull City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Tommy Smith (Ipswich Town).
Substitution, Hull City. Tom Huddlestone replaces David Meyler.
Attempt missed. Daryl Murphy (Ipswich Town) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Luke Chambers with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Robert Snodgrass (Hull City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by David Meyler.
Substitution, Hull City. Nick Powell replaces Mohamed Diamé.
Foul by Robert Snodgrass (Hull City).
Jonas Knudsen (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Brett Pitman (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Foul by David Meyler (Hull City).
Kevin Bru (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Luke Varney replaces Ben Pringle.
Chuba Akpom (Hull City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jonathan Douglas (Ipswich Town).
Hand ball by Chuba Akpom (Hull City).
Substitution, Hull City. Chuba Akpom replaces Abel Hernández.
Mohamed Diamé (Hull City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ben Pringle (Ipswich Town).
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Kevin Bru replaces Luke Hyam.
Attempt missed. Sam Clucas (Hull City) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Robert Snodgrass with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Hull City. Conceded by Bartosz Bialkowski.
Foul by Abel Hernández (Hull City).
Christophe Berra (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Hull City. Conceded by Jonas Knudsen.
Andrew Robertson (Hull City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Luke Hyam (Ipswich Town).
Jake Livermore (Hull City) hits the left post with a left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box.
Attempt saved. Sam Clucas (Hull City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jake Livermore.
Attempt blocked. David Meyler (Hull City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mohamed Diamé.
Attempt missed. Mohamed Diamé (Hull City) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Robert Snodgrass.
Goal! Ipswich Town 0, Hull City 1. Mohamed Diamé (Hull City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Andrew Robertson with a through ball.
Attempt saved. David Meyler (Hull City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Sam Clucas.
Attempt blocked. Abel Hernández (Hull City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Robert Snodgrass.
The Night Manager author's most famous character, who features in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, will return in September.
A Legacy of Spies tells the story of Smiley's colleague Peter Guillam, whose Cold War past catches up with him.
Publishers Viking Books said it was "as ingenious and thrilling" as the previous Smiley books.
It blends past and present as Guillam is called back to London from his retirement in Brittany.
Explaining the plot - and the involvement of Smiley - Viking Books said: "Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George Smiley and Peter Guillam himself, are to be scrutinised under disturbing criteria by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications."
The spy is also featured in books including Smiley's People and Le Carre's first novel Call for the Dead, and his exploits have been portrayed on the big and small screen.
Alec Guinness played him in two television adaptations in 1979 and 1980, while more recently, Gary Oldman took on the role in a film version of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in 2011.
But it is the BBC adaptation of le Carre's 1993 work The Night Manager - which doesn't feature the famous spy - that has been the author's most prominent recently, winning three of its stars Golden Globes earlier this year.
The same team behind the show, starring Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Colman, are to make a new version of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, which will appear on BBC One next year.
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The 45-year-old will continue to be assisted by Andy Dawson, 37.
The duo were placed in temporary charge of the Iron in January following the sacking of Mark Robins and have led the side to four wins in five games.
"We've seen what they've done over the period they've been in charge and we have been impressed," chairman Peter Swann told the club website.
"They've worked very hard and the players are responding to them and we thought it was really important we kept that intact and it gives us a chance to still reach the play-offs.
"We've seen a natural course of events, with Nick leading the way with plenty of support from Andy and I think as a duo they work very well together."
The pair were placed in charge of the League One side after a 5-0 defeat by struggling Blackpool.
Saturday's 2-1 defeat by Fleetwood followed four successive victories, leaving them 13th in the table, but only eight points outside the play-off places.
The Glanford Park side face Oldham Athletic on Saturday.
The bank has opted to provide the facility rather than support Google's Android Pay service.
Barclays allows payments of up to £100 via compatible terminals. Android Pay does not have this limit if merchants agree to accept larger sums.
In both cases, payments over £30 require the use of a Pin code.
Barclays says its app also allows customers to carry on spending if they lose one of their physical cards.
That is because if a card is cancelled, Barclays can immediately upload the details of its replacement to the app, as soon as it is issued.
However, this is also possible via Android Pay, whose customers are told they need to wait up to 48 hours for a new account number to be created and the updated details sent to the app.
However, one analyst said that Android Pay had another factor in its favour: a growing number of apps allow people to use the tool as a way to make payments without having to type in card details.
This is also possible via Apple Pay, but not Barclays' service.
"Swiping your phone in a store doesn't often offer that much benefit to the user compared with just using a contactless card," said Jack Kent from the IHS Technology consultancy.
"But what we think will be a big driver to adopting Android Pay or Apple Pay is the in-app purchases, in which people can have their shipping and billing information pre-loaded to help speed up transactions.
"That offers a very clear benefit to users that they can't get via Barclays' tool."
Barclays supports Apple Pay rather than offering a similar proprietary service on iPhones because Apple does not allow third-party apps to make use of its iPhones' near-field communication (NFC) chips.
Microsoft also launched a new version of its Wallet app this week that allows Windows 10-powered handsets to make contactless payments. However, it is currently limited to US-based phone owners.
Pigeons are often seen as dirty and an urban nuisance, but they are just the latest in a long line of animals that have been found to have abilities to help humans.
Despite having a brain no bigger than the tip of your index finger, pigeons have an impressive visual memory.
Recently it was shown that they could be trained to be as accurate as humans at detecting breast cancer in images.
Here are three more of our feathered and furry friends who could have a big impact in medicine.
Rats are often associated with spreading disease rather than preventing it, but this long-tailed rodent is a highly sensitive detector that can save lives.
Inside a rodent's nose are up to 1,000 different types of olfactory receptors, whereas humans only have a feeble 100 to 200 types. This gives rodents, such as rats, the ability to sniff out subtle scents.
As a result, African-pouched rats - commonly described as "kitten-sized rodents" - are being put to work in Mozambique to detect tuberculosis.
Their abilities are being studied at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, where trained rats can detect a specific scent produced by TB bacteria in human mucus samples.
When the rats detect the scent, they stop and rub their legs to indicate a sample is infected.
Traditionally, lab technicians prepare slides and examine each sample using microscopy. A hundred samples would take them more than two days, but for a rat it takes less than 20 minutes.
This rat detection method is affordable and doesn't rely on specialist equipment, which is often lacking in countries where TB is prevalent.
It is also more accurate - the rats are able to find more TB infections and, therefore, save more lives.
Dogs have long been considered a human's best friend - but over the years they've really proved how skilful they can be.
Recently, there has also been a focus on dogs that seem to have the extraordinary ability to detect when people with epilepsy are about to have a seizure - even when the person has no idea themselves.
Sally Burton's epilepsy began as a child and affected every aspect of her life from a young age.
"I could never be left alone," she says. "I had to be home taught and making friends or meeting new people was difficult. I often felt very lonely."
Thirteen years ago she got her first seizure alert dog, Star.
"Having a seizure alert dog instantly made my life liveable," Sally explains.
"One of the first things I did when I first had Star was to make myself a cup of tea, something I had not been able to do in 30 years because of the risks of having a seizure when holding boiling water. I then went into town on my own - again a life-time first."
It is still not known how dogs can sense a seizure. It has been suggested that minute changes in a person's gestures or posturing could alert the dog, but people have also thought that a scent or auditory cue might also be involved.
After Star passed away, Sally teamed up with her second dog Robbie. Like Star, he was trained by a British charity, Support Dogs.
The charity has shown they are able to train dogs that are able to provide signals, such as persistently nudging someone's leg, between 15 and 45 minutes before their owner had a seizure.
Although there is still little other published evidence to back up their effectiveness, the anecdotal evidence for seizure dogs like Robbie is strong.
"When I am out it is reassuring to know that Robbie will give me a 100% reliable 50-minute warning prior to every oncoming seizure I have - so plenty of time to get somewhere safe," Sally says.
Drool, dribble, or spit. Whatever you call it, saliva can be thought of as disgusting. But many animals lick their wounds, applying liberal amounts of the stuff to try and prevent infection.
Saliva across the animal kingdom can have antimicrobial properties - including saliva from the humble cow.
Studies have shown that there are proteins in a cow's bodily fluids, including its saliva and milk, that have bug-fighting properties.
Salvia also contains proteins - called mucins - that can work to prevent further bacteria entering the wound.
Experts don't recommend letting an animal lick your wounds as they could introduce other bacteria, but if you don't fancy that then, luckily, your own spit also contains antibacterial properties.
The selection was rushed through after the party's original candidate stood down last week.
Wera Hobhouse was selected by members during a lunchtime meeting at Bath City Football Club,
The seat is currently held by the Conservative MP Ben Howlett but was previously a Lib Dem stronghold, held by Don Foster for 23 years.
The original prospective parliamentary candidate, Jay Risbridger, picked last autumn, stood down last week due to family and work commitments.
Paul Strasburger, from the Lib Dems's campaign in Bath, said: "It's important to the party nationally because it's a very winnable seat, and therefore it's a central part of our desire to stop a Tory landslide."
Ms Hobhouse, stood for the Lib Dems in North East Somerset at the last general election in 2015, but the seat was won by Tory Jacob Rees-Mogg.
However, anyone who lets slip they might be in the running to be the Duchess's private secretary will not end up sitting behind an antique desk at Kensington Palace.
The successful candidate will be discreet, self-effacing and efficient. A sense of humour and a sense of the absurd will be very necessary personal qualities.
An ability to collect flowers from members of the public and to provide fashion advice won't be written into the job description.
In public, they'll be a hovering presence and they'll call the duchess Your Royal Highness and Ma'am (to rhyme with jam); whether they call her Catherine in private depends on how well their relationship develops.
The new private secretary will be appointed at a critical time. With the Queen a month away from her 91st birthday, the Cambridges will take on more royal duties.
In the coming years the duchess' diet of engagements will grow and will be managed by her newest member of staff.
This senior royal official will be an adviser, a confidante and, at the end of the day, a servant.
They'll have a privileged position inside the House of Windsor bubble and, if they're wise, they won't overstay their welcome.
When they do leave, like Rebecca Deacon before them, they'll know they'll have played a part in shaping, as things stand, the life of a future Queen Consort.
Visitors to the Postal Museum can ride on a section of the 6.5 mile (10.5km) network, from 28 July.
The track, which was established in 1927, took mail between Whitechapel and Paddington before it shut in 2003.
Two new trains, based on the originals, will carry up to 32 passengers on a 0.6 mile (1km) section of the line.
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While it was operational, between four and 12 million items were carried through the tunnels 70ft (21m) below street level each year.
The museum, in Mount Pleasant, will also feature exhibitions of historical objects from the postal service as well as a children's area.
Adult tickets will cost £16 including an optional £1.50 voluntary donation.
Adrian Steel, the museum's director, said it would allow visitors "to discover our stories through interactive digital and physical displays."
At least 50 US police forces are believed to be equipped with radars that can send signals through walls.
The use of the radar device, known as Range-R, was made public in a Denver court late last year.
It was used by police entering a house to arrest a man who had violated the terms of his parole.
In court documents relating to the case, lawyers defending Steven Denson questioned whether officers entered his home lawfully.
One of the questions asked was "how the Fourth Amendment interacts with the government's use of radar technology to peer inside a suspect's home".
Although the judges upheld the search and Denson's conviction, they wrote that they had "little doubt that the radar device deployed here will soon generate many questions for this court".
The Range-R sends out radio waves that can detect the slightest movements, including breathing, from as much as 50ft away.
Originally developed to assist US forces fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, the radar motion detectors have proved popular with law enforcement agencies.
USA Today, which first reported the case, said that agencies including the FBI and the US Marshals Service, had been using radars since 2012. The Marshals Service had spent at least $180,00 (£118,000) on them, it said.
But none of the agencies has made any public disclosure about how or when the devices would be used.
In 2001, the Supreme Court ruled that police cannot use thermal cameras without a warrant, specifically noting that the rule would also apply to radar-based systems that were then being developed.
"The idea that government can send signals through the wall of your house to figure out what's inside is problematic," Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist for the American Civil Liberties Union told USA Today.
"Technologies that allow the police to look inside of a home are among the intrusive tools that police have."
Mother-of-one Kerry Power, 36, was killed by David Wilder, 44, in Plymouth, Devon, in 2013.
Shortly before her death she dialled 999, but did not speak and so the call was not passed on to the police.
Devon and Cornwall Police said it was sorry "for any failures".
The so-called "silent solution" system is designed to deal with 999 calls that are either hoaxes or made accidentally.
However, the investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) found Miss Power may have been advised by a police officer that if she were to make an emergency call from her mobile phone - but did not speak - emergency assistance could still be despatched.
Miss Power first called police on 28 November 2013 with concerns about damage to her car.
Eight days later she complained that Wilder was stalking her, and she was visited by police the following day.
A week later, on 14 December 2013, Wilder broke into her home and strangled her.
Her 10-year-old son, who was sleeping upstairs, found her body.
Wilder admitted murder and was jailed for life.
The IPCC has now made national recommendations to ensure there is better accountability for the system and that its effectiveness is reviewed.
Deputy Chief Constable Alan Todd, the National Police Chiefs' Council's lead for national contact management, said: "Our steering group has reviewed the system and concluded that it is effective at enabling people who are unable to speak to contact the police while filtering out the huge volumes of accidental 999 calls made every day.
But he said the investigation into the handling of the Kerry Power murder "demonstrates the tragic consequences of people not knowing how the system works".
The investigation also concluded that at the time of Miss Power's murder, police had not fully implemented guidance on dealing with allegations of stalking.
IPCC associate commissioner Tom Milsom said: "Our investigation found that opportunities to identify the risk that David Wilder posed to her were not fully recognised by Devon and Cornwall Police."
Sharon Taylor, assistant chief constable of Devon and Cornwall Police, said: "We are sorry for any failures on our part at that time.
"As for the national 'silent solution' system, the force has a policy that gives staff clear guidance about how the system works and how to deal with a silent 999 call."
The IPCC also considered that the performance of two call handlers, a sergeant, an inspector and a detective superintendent may have fallen short of the standard expected. They will be dealt with by way of performance procedures.
The IPCC said a PCSO and two police officers had a case to answer for misconduct. One has since retired and will face no further action and the others are to be dealt with by way of performance procedures.
A 40-year-old man from Harlow suffered head injuries and is in a critical condition at Addenbrooke's Hospital.
A 43-year-old man, also from Harlow, was taken to the Princess Alexandra Hospital with suspected fractures to his hands and bruising to his stomach.
Police were called to The Stow in Harlow at about 23:35 BST on Saturday after reports of an assault.
Det Insp Al Pitcher said it was a brutal attack outside take-away shops in the town centre and the four 15-year-old boys arrested were from the local area.
Police have issued an appeal for witnesses and information about the attack.
The current deal expires at midnight Pacific Standard Time (08:00 BST). Formal talks to reach a new deal have been going on since 13 March.
Officially the two sides are not commenting on negotiations, but reports suggest a compromise is in the works.
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) wants higher pay per episode and royalties for reruns.
The writers' union, which represents about 9,000 people, says its members have been squeezed, as studios commission shows with fewer episodes, but lock up writers with exclusive contracts.
The union also says writers are not sharing enough of the profits made from online streaming, which keeps shows and movies alive for years after first airing.
The union estimates the average salary for TV writer-producers fell 23% in the last two years.
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It says its requests would add about $156m in costs for the major production companies, which include firms such as 21st Century Fox and Time Warner.
"The undeniable truth is that these costs are very affordable for these profitable companies," it said in a post on its website.
About 96% of more than 6,000 WGA members voted to strike last week. Some took to social media to express solidarity, changing pictures on Twitter to spotlight their support.
A strike would first affect topical shows, such as Saturday Night Live, which have enjoyed higher ratings since the election of Donald Trump as President, who has proved an popular target for news satire.
The impact would be felt more slowly elsewhere.
But analysts said the threat posed by online services, such as Amazon and Netflix, puts pressure on major broadcasters and cable companies to avoid a work stoppage.
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents conglomerates such as Comcast Corp, Walt Disney Co and CBS Corp, said last week it is "committed to reaching a deal ... that keeps the industry working."
Stephen Burke, a Comcast executive, told investors last week he was "optimistic" that the issues would be resolved.
"Strikes aren't good for anybody," he said. "The people on both sides of the table tend to lose and I'm hopeful that we're going to get it done."
The last WGA strike - a 100-day stoppage in 2007-2008 - cost the Californian economy an estimated $2.1 billion in lost output, according to a Milken Institute review.
TV viewership dropped 21% in the first week, according to Nielsen figures.
Online television was in its infancy at the time. Today, Amazon and Netflix are major competitors for eyeballs and have a deep reserve of programs to buffer them from viewer demands for new content.
Those companies are not exempt from union demands.
But they would be likely to emerge as big winners in any prolonged strike, which could lead to "lasting changes in viewership patterns", Barclays Capital analyst Kannan Venkateshwar wrote in a research note.
Theodore Sarandos, the chief content officer at Netflix, told investors last month that the firm was "keeping an eye" on the situation and some productions could be held up by a strike.
"Our fingers are crossed that, that won't happen," he said.
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Alexander Duncan, 59, was found in a flat in Primrose Street on Sunday.
Police Scotland is appealing for witnesses who may have seen anything "unusual or suspicious".
Det Insp Martin MacLean, of Police Scotland, said: " I am keen to speak to anyone who was in the Primrose Street area from Thursday 16th April onwards or who knew Alexander Duncan."
Mr Frank, 71, said his decision to retire was partly based on redistricting plans in Massachusetts.
A prominent liberal, he was the co-author of the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation passed in 2010.
He was elected to represent Massachusetts in 1980 and became one of the first openly gay US politicians.
In the Monday news conference, Mr Frank said that Massachusetts' redistricting in 2012 was part of the reason for his retirement.
The state is to lose one representative in the House of Representatives. Mr Frank said that his new district would include many people he has never represented before.
"I know my own capacity and energy levels and it would have been a mistake... I could not have put the requisite effort in," he said.
Mr Frank has been a key Democratic member of the House for many years, including as chair and as the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee.
As chair, Mr Frank helped pass the 2010 Dodd-Frank bill, which contained the strongest restrictions on banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression, and helped create the 2008 bailout legislation.
In 1987 Mr Frank publicly acknowledged he was gay, becoming one of the first US politicians to do so.
A few years later he was reprimanded by Congress for using his congressional status on behalf of a male prostitute he had employed as a personal assistant, including seeking the dismissal of 33 parking tickets.
He also strongly opposed the Iraq war, consistently voting against authorisation and funding bills in Congress.
Mr Frank is known for his outspoken liberal beliefs, and has attracted headlines for his speeches on the floor of the House and even when meeting constituents.
At a town hall meeting in 2009, a woman asked Mr Frank how he could continue to "support a Nazi policy", referring to Mr Obama's healthcare reform plans. She held a picture of the president with a Hitler-like moustache.
Mr Frank replied: "It is a tribute to the first amendment [of the US Constitution] that this kind of vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated.
"Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table," he added. "I have no interest in it."
Mr Frank joins 16 Democrats and six Republicans who will not seek new terms in the House of Representatives in 2012.
Because of changes to congressional district boundaries, Massachusetts will lose one seat in the House of Representatives in the next election. However, the plans do not affect Mr Frank's district.
The government was twice defeated in the House of Lords over a £30 a week cut to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) for certain claimants.
But it is set to go ahead after peers deferred to the elected Commons.
Ministers claimed "financial privilege" to assert the Commons' right to have the final say on budgetary measures.
Ministers argue the changes will encourage people to get into work, but this is strongly disputed by opponents.
The cuts in weekly support from £103 to £73, contained in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill, will apply to new ESA claimants in the work-related activity group, bringing the rate into line with Jobseeker's Allowance.
It will affect people who are deemed unable to work at the moment but capable of making some effort to find employment, including attending work-focused interviews and taking part in training.
Ministers argue that too few people in the category are moving into work and that while the lower benefit rate would save £55m in the first year, £60m would be spent on supporting claimants to take steps towards finding work.
Work and Pensions minister Lord Freud acknowledged peers were only withdrawing their opposition with "great reluctance" after the Commons asserted financial privilege - its right to overrule any Lords proposal that has cost implications.
He insisted that the Lords had "discharged their duty" by scrutinising the bill to remove "unintended consequences" and sending back concerns for the Commons to reconsider.
But Paralympic gold medallist Baroness Grey-Thompson said she was disappointed such a "dreadful and punitive" part of the bill - which has been opposed by more than 30 charities - was going ahead.
"It may be seen as a victory in terms of voting numbers in the Commons but we can't forget there are many disabled people who will lose out," the crossbench peer said.
And Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, the co-chair of Parliament's All Party Disability Group, said she could not believe "the niceties of parliamentary protocol" had been allowed "to trump the lives of disabled people".
The peer, who was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy when she was a baby and has become one of the UK's leading disability rights campaigners, said there was little evidence to back up the government's claims and "environmental and attitudinal discrimination" was the main obstacle holding disabled people back in the workplace.
Disability rights campaigners Scope said the changes would have a "harmful impact" on half a million people.
Surtees, 81, who won seven world motorbike championships before becoming F1 World Champion with Ferrari in 1964, has bought Buckmore Park in Kent.
Modern-day F1 champions Hamilton and Button honed their skills on the Chatham circuit.
Surtees and Buckmore Park announced the sale on their websites.
John Surtees Ltd, based in Edenbridge on the Kent/Surrey border, has bought the business and assets of Buckmore Park, but the circuit's former owner Bill Sisley is to stay on as a consultant.
Surtees, who lives in Lingfied, also runs the Henry Surtees Foundation, set up in memory of his 18-year-old racing driver son who died in a crash during a Formula Two race at Brands Hatch.
Henry, who began driving as a child at Buckmore Park, was a pupil at Worth School, West Sussex, when he died.
A series of fundraising events has been held at the kart circuit in his name.
Water Direct said race organisers had made an order but the contract stated payment had to be made before delivery.
In a statement it said that despite sending reminders to organisers no payment was received.
Race organisers said the claim conflicted with their information and an investigation was still under way.
The event, on Sunday morning, was called off after organisers said they were "let down" by Water Direct because it had failed to deliver supplies.
Despite the cancellation many of the 4,100 entrants who had gathered at the race's starting line still ran it.
Water Direct, which has supplied water for the event for the last two years, confirmed organisers had placed an order on the 21 March but it refuted suggestions it had "let them down".
In a statement, it said: "After amending their requirements a number of times they did indeed place an order on 21 March accepting our offer, the terms of which, as always, clearly state that full payment is required in advance of delivery.
"It is that payment that confirms the contract and triggers our process of scheduling the assets for delivery.
"In the absence of that payment, despite our reminding them of the need to pay, the scheduling did not occur."
The company added as a gesture of goodwill it has offered to provide water services free of charge for next year's event.
Organisers have launched an investigation into the circumstances which led to the cancellation of the event.
Jonathan Norbury, 35, from Swansea, denies having sex with three girls under the age of 16.
He was cleared in court in January 2015 of alleged offences with two of the girls, who he did not teach.
The Education Workforce Council (EWC) hearing to decide if the allegations are true was adjourned on Monday.
The panel failed to reach a decision within the allocated period of time.
The hearing in Cardiff was previously told Mr Norbury was sacked from Casllwchwr Primary School, in Loughor, for gross misconduct after the trial in 2015.
Yet he was given an £8,000 payout and a glowing reference from Swansea Council.
Mr Norbury accepts he had sexual relationships with the girls but he maintains none were below the legal age of 16 when he was with them.
If the EWC panel decides the allegations are true, he faces a range of sanctions, including being banned from teaching.
The violence on the southern island left three members of the security forces dead, officials say.
Mindanao is home to a number of Muslim rebel groups seeking more autonomy.
Mr Duterte made the announcement during a visit to Russia, which he was forced to cut short.
Martial law allows the use of the military to enforce law and the detention of people without charge for long periods.
During his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Mr Duterte also said the Philippines needed more modern weapons to fight IS militants and other militant groups.
The violence in Marawi, a city of about 200,000 people in Mindanao, erupted on Tuesday as the army searched for the leader of a militant group that had pledged allegiance to IS, the military said.
Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana identified the militants as members of the Maute group. They had occupied a hospital and a jail, and burnt down buildings including a church, he added.
Marawi is about 800km (500 miles) south of the capital Manila.
The Philippine constitution says a president can only declare martial law for 60 days to stop an invasion or a rebellion.
Parliament can revoke the measure within 48 hours while the Supreme Court can review its legality.
The document, which was almost thrown away, was tucked in the corner of a box donated to the Julia's House children's hospice shop in Creekmoor, Poole.
It marks the appointment of William Jacob as an Ensign in the Honourable Artillery Company in 1860.
After being authenticated by signature experts and the Honourable Artillery Archive, the letter was sold online.
The 16in by 12in (41cm by 30cm) document is dated 25 September 1860 and is counter-signed by Sidney Herbert - then Secretary of State for War.
Graham Crabb, who is responsible for selling the charity's more unusual donated items, said: "I was in the sorting area searching for a biscuit and one of the volunteers was waving about the document in one hand and a Jammy Dodger in the other."
He said it was not known where the donation came from.
The letter raised £395 for the charity.
The former Manchester United star, 42, and ex-team-mate Ryan Giggs, 43, asked Manchester City Council to delay making a decision on whether to allow plans including two skyscrapers in the city.
They will now revise their ideas which were described by Historic England as a threat to "erase" the area's history.
However, Mr Neville insisted he believed in the "scale" of the plans.
The St Michael's development, near Manchester Town Hall, includes a 200-bed five-star hotel, 153 apartments, 135,000 sq ft of offices and a synagogue.
Retail and leisure space, including two sky bars/restaurants, is planned for the 31-storey Number One St Michael's skyscraper and a 21-storey office tower would be housed in Number Two St Michael's.
However, the Sir Ralph Abercromby pub - said to be the inspiration for the pub in the BBC's Life On Mars programme - and Bootle Street's former police station would have to be bulldozed, drawing the ire of local conservationists.
Speaking at a property conference in the French city of Cannes, Mr Neville said: "From our point of view there is no doubt that some of the suggestions, made to us during the consultation process, we need to listen to.
"We need to refine certain aspects of it and make changes to certain aspects.
"We still fundamentally believe in [the] scale [of the project], we still fundamentally believe in the buildings being tall in that zone.
"That is the absolute belief we have."
The former footballers say the scheme will create 1,500 jobs and Mr Neville stressed he wanted the development to be "perfect".
A council spokesman confirmed the footballers' representatives had requested their planning application be put on hold.
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On Saturday, Corby Town defender Jason Lee started the party early, drinking some of a fan's pint while celebrating Ben Milnes' only goal in a 1-0 win over Mickleover Sports.
"After the goal was scored we all went off to celebrate with Ben, but a fan had spilled his pint, and another fan had thrown his pint up in the air," Lee told BBC Sport.
"Everyone was celebrating, everyone was drenched, but I didn't want the spilled pint to go to waste so I just thought I'd have a cheeky sip.
"I got busted, caught out by the photographer. Everyone within the five-metre radius thought it was funny. I thought I was just going to get a kick out of making those guys laugh, and now it's gone viral."
The victory took them out of the Northern Premier League drop zone, but the contents of the plastic cup took Lee by surprise.
"I thought it was going to be a lager, took a big swig, to find out it was a cider. I thought 'I can't stop here' so carried on," the centre-back added.
"But with about 10 or 15 minutes to go I got severe heartburn. Although it tasted nice and refreshing at the time, I just wouldn't recommend it for elite athletes."
Lee works for a building contractor and said those at work think he is now "some kind of famous person" after the picture was shared widely on social media.
"Hopefully for the rest of the season I hope I don't score another goal because I don't know how I could top that as a celebration," he said.
Jenny Palmer was giving evidence to the Northern Ireland Assembly's Social Development Committee.
It is holding an inquiry into allegations in a BBC Spotlight programme of political interference in the Housing Executive.
She said the advisor Stephen Brimstone told her to "do what the party wants".
In 2013, Mrs Palmer told BBC Spotlight that Mr Brimstone, a special advisor in the Department of Social Development, telephoned her to ask her to vote against a proposal to terminate a contract with the maintenance firm Red Sky.
Mrs Palmer told the committee that Mr Brimstone had said: "You do what the party wants, or there's no point in you being on the board of the Housing Executive."
Mrs Palmer said: "If that's not bullying, I don't know what is."
DUP committee member Gregory Campbell put it to Mrs Palmer that the phone call would have been "pointless" because the board's decision was unanimous.
Mrs Palmer said she was one of only two unionist councillors on the 10-person board.
She referred to claims that the Housing Executive was "acting in a sectarian manner" in ending the contract with Red Sky.
She said: "The only conclusion I can come to is the fact that I would have been used as a pawn in the game of politics, to say the sectarian card was alive at the Northern Ireland Housing Executive."
DUP MLA Sammy Wilson claimed Mrs Palmer's evidence was "contradictory".
He referred to previous evidence she had given, and said: "Were you telling the truth the last time, or telling the truth now?"
Mrs Palmer said that when Mr Wilson had questioned her for 35 minutes in a previous hearing, it was "tantamount to bullying".
Mr Wilson said she had not claimed this when he had been carrying out the previous questioning.
Mrs Palmer said that she had been "perturbed" at the "near allegation" in previous hearings that she was a liar.
She told the committee: "I determined I would be using all the evidence I had so that everyone would know I would be telling the truth."
The councillor spoke about a meeting with party members, including leader Peter Robinson, Lagan Valley MP Jeffrey Donaldson and Mr Brimstone.
She said that Mr Robinson had asked her what he needed to do "to put this right".
According to Mrs Palmer, she told him she wanted a public apology and Mr Robinson and Mr Brimstone agreed.
"Everyone in the room agreed that, we all gave each other big hugs and we went out the door," she said.
"Five drafts later we're still fighting over that apology."
At one point, the hearing was adjourned for a few minutes after Mrs Palmer broke down.
Mr Brimstone had been due to appear before the committee on Thursday also, but earlier this week the committee was notified that he was not available.
Sinn Féin MLA Alex Maskey, who chairs the committee, said "no explanation whatsoever" had been given.
Traditional Unionist Voice MLA Jim Allister said he thought the lack of an explanation "showed contempt".
Mr Brimstone is now expected to give evidence next week.
Shell is aiming to sell $30bn of assets by 2018 as it seeks to pay off debt following its takeover of BG Group.
The deal represents about half of Shell's 2016 North Sea output.
Chrysaor will become the largest independent operator in the North Sea after the deal's completion.
On completion of the North Sea deal, about 400 staff will transfer to Chrysaor, "subject to a detailed scoping exercise and staff consultation", Shell said.
"This transaction shows the clear momentum behind Shell's... divestment programme," the company said.
Shell's interests in Buzzard, Beryl, Bressay, Elgin-Franklin, J-Block, the Greater Armada cluster, Everest, Lomond and Erskine - plus a 10% stake in Schiehallion - will be sold as part of the deal.
The firm said it expected to "record an accounting gain" on the sale, which includes Shell and former BG assets.
Shell's chief financial officer Simon Henry said the deal "builds on recent upstream divestments in the Gulf of Mexico and Canada."
He added that the firm wanted to "simplify our portfolio following the acquisition of BG".
In April 2015, Shell agreed to buy the oil and gas exploration firm in a deal that valued the business at £47bn. The final deal value was £36.4bn.
Shell cut thousands of jobs after the BG deal, and announced more than 10,000 job cuts globally.
Also on Tuesday, Shell said it would sell its stake in Thailand's Bongkot gas field to the Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company for $900m.
The unions organising the action represent customer service and network technicians.
Verizon called the strike "regrettable" and said it had brought in 10,000 non-union workers.
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke at a protest in New York in praise of the workers.
He said they were "standing up to this powerful special interest".
The workers are members of the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
CWA representative Bob Master said the new workers would not be able to make up the workload left by those out on strike.
"There's no way that these 10,000 people ... can make up for 40,000 people who have decades of experience [in highly technical jobs]," he said.
The union workers have been without a contract since August and negotiations have stuck on Verizon's plan to cut healthcare and pension benefits over a three-year period.
"It's regrettable that union leaders have called a strike, a move that hurts all of our employees," Marc Reed, Verizon's chief administrative officer, said in a statement.
During the last contract talks in 2011 workers also went out on strike. A deal was eventually reached through mediation.
Verizon said it has asked the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to step in this time around. Mr Master called that move a "diversionary tactic".
The strike could effect Verizon's television, phone and Fios Internet businesses, is not expected to impact Verizon wireless, which made up 29% of the company's 2015 revenue.
South African Solomons, 66, took over from Michael Bradley at Murrayfield in 2013 and led the side to the 2015 European Rugby Challenge Cup final.
But their Pro12 campaigns have been disappointing - two eighth-place finishes followed by ninth last season.
Solomons believes he is leaving the club "in a better place" than when he arrived and wished Hodge well.
"I have greatly enjoyed working with the players and coaches and feel I have helped to put the club on a much stronger footing over the past three years," Solomons added.
Former Scotland and Edinburgh fly-half Hodge, 42, has been attack coach under Solomons since last November and previously held the same role with the national team.
His fellow assistants, forwards coach Stevie Scott and defence coach Peter Wilkins, will remain in their current roles.
Edinburgh's players identified a top-four finish in the Pro12 as a 'minimum criteria' this season, but they are already 10 points adrift of fourth place after three defeats in their opening four matches.
Scottish Rugby chief executive Mark Dodson said: "Alan came in as head coach at a difficult time in Edinburgh Rugby's history and helped to stabilise and strengthen the club.
"He achieved some notable successes including leading the first Scottish team to a European final of the Challenge Cup in 2015 and back-to-back 1872 Scottish Cup victories over Glasgow Warriors.
"Duncan brings his recent coaching experience from the Scotland national team as well as his long playing career with Edinburgh into the role and he will receive our full support to keep moving the club forward.
"I would like to take this opportunity to thank Alan for his significant contribution to the Edinburgh club and I wish him well for the future."
Analysis - Tom English, BBC Scotland
Alan Solomons was a lawyer by trade and adept at arguing his point in the face of consistent failure. He became a bit of an excuse-making machine, borne out of frustration at his inability to move Edinburgh forward. He ran the gamut of excuses - from a lack of conditioning among his players, to difficulties integrating so many foreign players, to injuries, to the weather, to officials making bad calls.
The case for the defence had grown tired long before his departure.
True, Edinburgh made a European Challenge Cup final on his watch but given the budget he had and the vast number of players recruited, mostly from the southern hemisphere, it was a desperately poor return.
Everybody waited for progress, but there wasn't any. Solomons was hugely committed to his job - and vastly experienced - but his team played dull, one-dimensional stuff. It was one forward-dominated grunt-athon after another. Little ambition, little joy.
They never made the top seven of the Pro12, never mind the top four. The SRU renewed his contract midway through last season when Edinburgh were sitting fifth in the Pro12. There was no need to do it. Edinburgh ended up finishing ninth.
He should have gone at that point but his employers allowed him to carry on. That was inexplicable. The SRU deserve a lot of criticism for that.
London, Reading and Aldershot had the highest wages, according to the report.
It suggested the north-south divide is "wide as ever" and that salaries across the UK have fallen by £1,300 a year.
The lack of affordable housing is putting pressure on workers in the South-East of England, it warned.
In its annual report, Centre for Cities, highlights the link between low wages and the need to top up people's incomes with welfare benefits.
It looked at the UK's 63 largest cities and found that there was a difference of £253 in average weekly incomes from the highest to the lowest paid.
But the amount claimed in benefits was roughly the same across the cities covered by the report.
Hull had the lowest weekly wage at £376, Blackburn was second at £404 and Blackpool was a little higher at £414.
The leader of Hull City Council Stephen Brady said: "We understand the need to address and boost skills within knowledge intensive, digital and professional industries."
He said the city was seeing high levels of investment from the offshore wind industry and that being named UK City of Culture 2017 would help create new jobs in the region.
The cities with the highest salaries were London at £629, Reading at £591, and Aldershot at £571. They also saw the fastest jobs growth.
But in the areas where salaries were near the top of the scale, the high cost of housing meant many were still having to claim benefits.
The report says the lack of affordable homes means the government's plans to reduce the welfare bill would be difficult to deliver.
Only one in four places was delivering a "high wage, low welfare" economy, the report said.
Alexandra Jones, chief executive of Centre for Cities said: "One of the most pressing issues is the need to tackle skills gaps and improve school attainment. As well as investment in infrastructure the top priority should be on addressing housing shortages."
On a more positive note the report shows that 14 UK cities have hit the target for "high-wage, low-welfare" economies. It calls on the government to give local councils more power to invest in employment programmes, which if successful, would reduce their need for benefits.
It marks the last such journey for the three-engine plane, which first went into service in 1971.
The flight, which departed Dhaka at about 03:00 GMT on Thursday, landed at Birmingham Airport at 17:55 GMT.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines - the last commercial carrier to use DC-10s - said it was retiring the aircraft and replacing it with newer planes.
The aircraft - carrying 35 passengers who had bought special tickets for the trip - stopped to refuel in Kuwait at about 09:45 GMT before embarking on the final leg of its journey to Birmingham.
Plane enthusiast Gordon Stretch, who travelled from Solihull to be on the flight, said the journey had been "absolutely wonderful".
"There was a great atmosphere on board, the crew were fully in the spirit," he said.
"It was a very very long day but great fun."
Biman will run a series of one-hour pleasure flights for enthusiasts from Birmingham airport over the weekend, with the last trip scheduled for 15:00 GMT on Monday.
An airline spokesman said: "It's a fitting end for an aircraft that has served Biman loyally and well over many years."
DC-10s have been used as passenger planes for over 40 years, and continue to be employed for cargo and military use.
They have been involved in several high-profile air crashes and were temporarily grounded by the US Federal Aviation Authority in 1979.
But enthusiasts - who lovingly describe the DC-10 as a "workhorse" - say it was one of the planes that paved the way for mass long-haul travel.
The Labour MP said it was a "huge amount" and the party would not commit to doing it "unless we can afford to".
The Conservatives said it was a "shambolic" proposal, which Labour had no idea how to fund and would lead to higher taxes.
Labour has pledged to scrap university tuition fees if it wins power.
But leader Jeremy Corbyn went further in an interview with the NME during the election campaign, suggesting existing debts could be wiped.
He told the music magazine: "There is a block of those that currently have a massive debt, and I'm looking at ways that we could reduce that, ameliorate that, lengthen the period of paying it off, or some other means of reducing that debt burden.
"I don't see why those that had the historical misfortune to be at university during the £9,000 period should be burdened excessively compared to those that went before or those that come after. I will deal with it."
The Greens were the only party at the general election to include a commitment to wipe all student debt in their manifesto.
Quizzed by the BBC's Andrew Marr on how much it would cost, Ms Rayner said: "It is a huge amount, it is £100bn, which they estimate at the moment, which will increase.
"It's a huge amount of money but we also know a third of that is never repaid."
Ms Rayner said Mr Corbyn had said it was an "ambition", but she added "we will not announce that we're doing it unless we can afford to do that".
She added: "I like a challenge, Andrew, but we've got to start dealing with this debt crisis that we're foisting on our young people. It's not acceptable.
"They are leaving university with £57,000 worth of debt, it's completely unsustainable and we've got to start tackling that."
Last month, the Student Loan Company said that outstanding debt on student loans had increased by 16.6% to £100.5bn at the end of March.
Only about a third of the students who have taken out £9,000-a-year loans are expected to pay them back fully, meaning the government will have to pick up part of the bill.
Lord Adonis, who came up with the student fees policy as Tony Blair's policy director, has called for them to be scrapped or vastly reduced, saying in an article for the Guardian that he had never meant to create a "Frankenstein's monster of £50,000-plus debts for graduates on modest salaries".
He blamed "greedy" university vice-chancellors, who successfully lobbied the coalition government to increase the £3,000 cap on fees to £9,000.
Conservative First Secretary of State Damian Green, who is effectively Theresa May's second-in-command, has called for a "national conversation" on tuition fees, to consider whether they should be paid out of taxes.
Angela Rayner has previously called on the government to reverse the abolition of student maintenance grants to help the most disadvantaged students.
She also wants to reduce the interest rate that students have to pay on their loans, which has gone up to 6.1%.
Asked by Andrew Marr if fewer working class youngsters were getting into university education as a result of tuition fees, she said: "I don't believe that that's the case actually, but I do believe that many working class and part-time and older mature students are actually leaving university."
Conservative MP Luke Hall said Ms Rayner's comments contradicted Mr Corbyn's claim that fewer people from disadvantaged backgrounds were going to university.
He said: "The truth is that the number of people going to university from disadvantaged backgrounds has never been higher.
"Now Labour are making shambolic promises to spend £100bn extra, without any idea of how to fund it, that could only be paid for through higher taxes on families.
"This government is committed to making sure that everybody has the chance to go to university no matter their background, so that we can build a country that works for everyone."
The Bank of England governor reiterated comments made in February that the drop in prices was temporary and largely caused by the sharp fall in oil prices.
Mr Carney said he expected inflation to fall to around zero and stay there for much of the rest of the year.
UK inflation fell to 0.3% in January, marking its lowest rate on record.
"The thing that would be extremely foolish would be to try to lean against this oil price fall today [and] try to provide extra stimulus to try to get inflation up at this point in time.
"The impact of that extra stimulus ...would happen well after the oil price fall had moved through the economy and we would just add unnecessary volatility to inflation. That would be foolish," Mr Carney told the House of Lords economic affairs committee.
But he said the Bank was "vigilant to the possibility" that a period of low prices, such as in energy and food, could start to change consumer expectations hitting spending and wage growth.
Mr Carney's words chimed with a speech by Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member Ian McCafferty who said the decline in oil prices was likely to dampen inflation for a long time.
But Mr McCafferty, who had consistently voted for higher interest rates before voting to keep them at their current 0.5% low, also warned that long-term low inflation could push down wage growth.
"It is therefore not a risk that we can dismiss," Mr McCafferty said in a speech at Durham University in the north-east of England.
The price of oil has halved since June, with Brent crude currently trading at $56.42.
With high levels of oil output from the US and no sign of a sustained economic recovery in Europe, most experts believe prices will remain low for the foreseeable future.
However, the low cost of crude may also make investment in some new wells uneconomical - which means prices could rise in the longer term.
But Saudi Arabia's King Salman, who acceded to the throne in January after the death of his brother King Abdullah, said earlier that low oil prices would not halt progress in his country.
King Salman said the kingdom would continue oil and gas exploration despite the fall in crude prices.
Saudi Arabia is the world's largest oil exporter.
England, ranked second in the world, were strong favourites and led 2-0 in the first quarter courtesy of goals from Giselle Ansley and Alex Danson.
Susannah Townsend then finished off Hannah Martin's run before Gurjit Kaur pulled one back from a penalty corner.
Martin netted one of her own late on as England progressed to face USA in the semi-final on Thursday.
Germany defeated hosts South Africa 1-0 in their quarter-final and will now face Argentina who beat Ireland 2-1. USA beat Japan 1-0 in their last-eight match.
England, Germany, Argentina and USA have now qualified for the World League Finals in New Zealand in November.
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Ansley put England ahead from the penalty spot before Danson reacted quickest as the umpire played advantage to hammer in from close range.
India hit the post late in the second quarter and piled on the pressure before half-time but could not find the target from their penalty corners.
They were left to rue their mistakes when England grabbed a third goal - their best of the match - as Martin dribbled to the by-line and found Townsend.
India finally scored through Kaur's low flick into the bottom-right corner but Martin wrapped up an easy victory for England.
England head coach Danny Kerry missed his side's past two fixtures as he is unwell and it has been confirmed that he will not attend the squad's remaining matches.
England starting XI: Maddie Hinch (GK), Giselle Ansley, Laura Unsworth, Hollie Webb, Anna Toman, Sarah Haycroft, Emily Defroand, Susannah Townsend, Nicola White, Alex Danson (C), Sophie Bray
Subs (used): Shona McCallin, Zoe Shipperley, Grace Balsdon, Hannah Martin, Jo Hunter
Subs (not used): Amy Tennant
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Police said the 20-year-old pedestrian was trapped underneath one of the taxis in Ormskirk Road in Wigan at about 00:45 BST.
She was freed by emergency service crews but died in hospital a few hours later, a spokesman for the Greater Manchester force said.
Police believe the woman was in the road after "an altercation" with a man when she was struck.
A 20-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of assault and remains in police custody for questioning.
Det Insp Paul Rollinson said: "We are trying to establish the circumstances leading up to the incident and are appealing for anyone who witnessed the collision or has any information about what happened before, to call us with any information."
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The Northern Irishman quit Pittodrie to join South Korean side Gwangju FC, with Jonny Hayes, Ryan Jack and Ash Taylor also departing this summer.
But McGinn reckons manager Derek McInnes will keep the club moving in the right direction.
"I look at the Aberdeen side and I know they can keep moving forward and go from strength to strength," he said.
"Hopefully they can make the group stages of the Europa League, which would be unbelievable."
McGinn, 29, spent five years at Pittodrie and helped the Dons to second-place finishes in the Premiership in the past three seasons. He scored more than 60 goals for the club and helped them secure the League Cup in the 2013-14 campaign.
That form made him a Northern Ireland regular and at Euro 2016 McGinn scored against Ukraine in the nation's first ever win at a European Championships.
"It wasn't an easy decision to leave as I had five unbelievably great years at Aberdeen, winning a trophy, playing in Europe and even just playing week-in, week-out and getting my career sort of back on track," he told BBC Scotland.
"That also helped me on the international stage as well so I've nothing but thanks to the managers I played under. I can't thank them enough and the fans were second to none."
Moving to Korea marks a massive change for McGinn as he looks to adapt to a new culture and, for the immediate future at least, gets used to playing for a side at the opposite end of the table from where the Dons have been challenging.
Gwangju are bottom of the K-League Classic but Sunday's 3-2 win over FC Seoul took them level on 16 points with second-bottom Daegu.
"The first week has been really enjoyable," McGinn added. "The Korean lads are very fit, but I know if I keep my head down and work hard I'm more than capable of getting to that level.
"If you look at the league, the games are always close. The group is tight knit and get on very well, so with a bit of luck and a few goals it can all change.
"I'll be there to watch the match against FC Seoul, and every game will be big between now and the end of the season given our position in the table."
Scottish coach Martin Rennie knows just how different life will be for McGinn in South Korea, having managed Seoul E-Land from 2014-16.
And he reckons the forward will be in for a shock at what he sees on the pitch.
"The Korean teams regularly win the Asian Champions League and what I found was that all the players had high levels of technique, professionalism, fitness and the teams play well together," Rennie told BBC Scotland.
"I think he'll be quite surprised by the standard of the play. The Korean teams, and the Japanese teams, are really high standard.
"I've travelled all over the world and coached in different parts of the world, but there's nowhere like Korea, there's no way you can be prepared for it.
"It'll be a great challenge and one, if he puts himself fully into it, then he'll grow a lot as a person and improve as a footballer, but it's not going to be easy."
The pair, who took over from Ian Davies in the summer, have agreed to stay at the Mennaye until May 2019.
Both had long playing careers with the club and were assistants to Davies before taking over after cost cuts forced him to leave.
The Pirates have also brought in former England forward and Nottingham coach Martin Haag on a part-time basis.
Paver and Cattle have led the Pirates to fifth place in the Championship this season, one point off the play-off places.
"We've been very fortunate to have a chance to come straight out of playing and coach at Championship level," Cattle told BBC Sport.
"I think we've made a made a decent fist of it this year, there's been a lot of off-pitch matters that gave us that opportunity, but we're chuffed that the board have given us the chance."
The pair were teammates for over a decade and Cattle says the friendship they built up in that time makes it easy to organise their roles in joint-charge.
"If you don't agree with something you can be open and honest and if you don't have that relationship you might have to tiptoe around a topic," he added.
"Working with him is pretty easy, we're two different characters and in terms of our coaching approach, we know how each other works and know when to step away, and we have a good relationship off the pitch as well."
There was a time when images of the stars setting off from a training ground on a jog were as much as we saw but the influence of social media means it has now never been easier to copy what the professionals do.
Their methods are dynamic, scientific and targeted.
So with the help of Jamie Kennedy - a personal trainer to Liverpool's Danny Ings, Tottenham's Kieran Trippier and Southampton's Jay Rodriguez - BBC Sport shows you what top players do so you can sharpen up before the new season. Be careful, but give it a go...
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What is he working? Hamstrings, glutes, quads, joint stability.
Kennedy says: "From a sitting position to an explosive jump, this movement can help develop the power and fast-twitch fibres players need to operate at a high level. This is one of my favourite exercises to use with the players. It is fantastic for isolating power from leg muscles.
"If you wanted to use this method you could start by simply trying to stand from a sitting position on the floor using just your legs. Progress it to use just one leg to take you from the floor to a stood position."
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What is he working? Dynamic balance, lower-limb power, lateral power.
Kennedy says: "Posture control, balance and flexibility are essential in ensuring efficient movement during the game and Ings works on those in the opening two exercises here. Later, in leaping sideways he builds strength in his legs to aid the lateral functions football requires and he finishes with a core strength exercise to shape powerful movements."
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What is he working? Leg strength, overall power, running economy.
Kennedy says: "Using another person to pull him back as resistance calls on Gerrard to develop strength, notably in his legs but also in driving his upper body forward to ensure all of his body is helping him put power into his sprint effectively. Fast-twitch fibres are activated."
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What is she working? Core strength, explosive power.
"Aluko's leap onto a high box is designed to make her leg and core muscles contract quickly, helping to develop fast-twitch fibres used for power that she will need when performing that key sprint or explosive movement in a game situation.
"Jump work is fantastic. Start by just using a small step and build it gradually."
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What is he working? Foot speed, range of leg muscles, core strength, stability.
Kennedy says: "Deeney uses a foam roller here to perfect the short, sharp side-to-side movements he may use to forge a yard of space through rapid lateral movement before performing three ballistic jumps.
"The jump action works across three areas - his, hip, knee and ankle joints simultaneously. This is known as multi-joint facilitation and is a key factor as in football, strength and power are always used across a variety of muscles and joints."
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What is he working? Leg strength, balance.
"This range of repetitions will help the athlete develop strength and power within his lower body. Deeney mixes them up with dynamic split squats which fatigue his legs before each jump, thus building strength endurance."
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What is he working? Leg strength, shoulders, endurance, stability, sideways movements.
Kennedy says: "Johnson uses a weight but does not isolate just one muscle group as his full-body range of movement in lifting from the floor to over his head works muscles from his calf up to his shoulder, allowing him to develop upper body strength and a physical presence on the pitch.
"Reverse lunges work the glutes, quads and hamstrings, reducing the risk of injury. His repeated movement patterns sideways between kettle bells and up against a step create muscular endurance called upon during a match."
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What is he working? Agility, injury rehabilitation, joint strength.
Kennedy says: "After a terrible cruciate knee-ligament injury last season, Bojan has to be sure his body can handle the countless challenges football presents. From fast feet in the ladder to backward and sideways movement through the agility sticks, his knee is asked to take the shock of several ranges of motion here. But, crucially as he recovers from injury, he knows where the obstacles are - thus ensuring safety."
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What is he working? Lateral movement at speed, concentration in receiving instruction.
Kennedy says: "A player may need to move sideways quickly to change direction or to man-mark at a set piece. Here Bojan is told which tennis ball (numbered one to four) to collect and move. In listening for instruction this helps his body react to his mind but in a controlled environment, as this is a progression from the above exercise in some ways."
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What is he working? Injury prevention, glutes, calf muscles, running technique.
Kennedy says: "In recent years, hamstring, knee and ankle issues have hampered Carroll, so building strength, resistance and stability in his legs is key. Here, his hip thrusts from a bench develop his glutes activation to ensure they are strong enough to absorb impact during games. His second exercise works his calf, which will in turn create better stability in the ankle and help when trying to perform powerful sprints.
"The sprint on the spot encourages upright position, a strong knee lift and good posture. Another way to do this is to put your hands against a wall and simply sprint on the spot, keeping your knees high."
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Sixteen-time world champion Taylor, in superb form throughout the weekend, beat the Dutchman 11-5 in the final after Saturday's 10-4 group-stage win.
The 56-year-old from Stoke-on-Trent sealed the title and £100,000 winner's cheque with a 114 finish on double 17.
"I'm over the moon, just to get to the final," said the world number four.
"I was worried about the final with my energy levels. I was dropping down a bit, but I seemed to click at the right time."
In the semi-finals, Taylor, who only lost 19 legs in winning all five matches, ousted James Wade, while Van Gerwen beat Gary Anderson.
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Taylor missed double 12 for a nine-dart finish in his final group game against Robert Thornton earlier on Sunday.
He also landed seven perfect darts in the final before slipping below the treble 19 as Van Gerwen had no answer to his heavy scoring and clinical finishing.
"I think Michael van Gerwen is brilliant," Taylor added.
"He's won everything there is but he's played too much and that showed during the final. He's played probably 12 days out of 14 and it's difficult."
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Van Gerwen won three Players Championship events in the week leading up to the Champions League, which was screened live on BBC Sport.
"Phil Taylor was the better player this weekend and fair play to him," the 27-year-old said. "I let myself down this weekend. I'm disappointed with myself and I need to have a moment of rest.
"It's been a while since Phil won a big tournament, but I'll get him back. That's the way it goes and you can't win them all the time."
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Phil Taylor 11-3 James Wade
Michael van Gerwen 11-5 Gary Anderson
James Wade 10-5 Michael Smith
Gary Anderson 10-5 Adrian Lewis
Phil Taylor 10-2 Robert Thornton
Michael van Gerwen 10-5 Peter Wright
McIlroy, 21, carded a two-under-par 70 to move to 12 under, four clear of 2009 Masters champion Angel Cabrera, Charl Schwartzel, KJ Choi and Jason Day.
England's Luke Donald (69) is on seven under with Australia's Adam Scott (67).
Tiger Woods (74) finished five under, while defending champion Phil Mickelson (71) moved to three under.
England's Ross Fisher (71), left-handed American Bubba Watson (67), 51-year-old Fred Couples (72), the 1992 champion and Australian 2006 US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy (73) are also at five under.
I'm pleased with the way I played. I just made nothing
McIlroy, who will be 22 next month, would become the second youngest Masters champion after Woods won at 21 years, three months and 14 days when he captured the first of his four Green Jackets and first of 14 major titles in 1997.
"It's a great position to be in," said McIlroy."I stayed patient. I'm really happy with the way I stuck to my gameplan and it paid off in the end. I feel comfortable with my game, with the way I've prepared and all of a sudden I finally feel comfortable on this golf course."
McIlroy edged to 11 under with a birdie on the short fourth but handed it back immediately at the tough par-four fifth as playing partner Day took over the lead with a birdie. Day dropped two quick shots to slip back but when McIlroy bogeyed the 10th he found himself in a three-way lead with Day and Choi.
The South Korean quickly dropped two shots though and Day bogeyed the long 13th as McIlroy made a birdie to re-establish a two-shot lead.
Both birdied the par-five 15th, and when Day bogeyed the par-three 16th McIlroy had a three-shot lead over the Australian and clubhouse leaders Cabrera and Schwartzel. McIlroy advanced to 12 under with a 33ft putt on 17 and parred the 18th to put him in sight of a first major title on only his third visit to Augusta. The average for a Masters winner is six trips to Augusta before a first win.
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Masters debutant Day, 23, a winner on the PGA Tour last year, is bidding for his first major title and the chance to become the first Australian to win at Augusta, after Greg Norman finished second three times (1986, 1987, 1996).
Choi, 40, placed third in 2004 and fourth last year and is also bidding for his first major, while Cabrera beat Kenny Perry in a play-off for his second major title two years ago.
"Obviously I'm playing my 12th Masters, I've won here before, it's very special," said the 41-year-old Cabrera.
"You've got to see how it evolves, how everybody is playing, how the weather is, and depending on that, then you start making decisions on what kind of strategy you're going to use."
World number four Donald, who was third in 2005, said: "It's put me in a good position, I've still got a great chance, which is always the goal at Majors to be in contention and have a chance."
Woods struggled to get going and missed a golden chance to make up ground when he found the 15th in two. But a three-putt par kept him at six under and a scrappy finish, saving par well on 17 and bogeying 18, dropped him back into the pack.
"I'm pleased with the way I played. I just made nothing," said Woods. "I also had a couple of three-putts out there so not very good. I'm going to have to put together a good front nine and see what happens."
Scottish debutant Martin Laird ended in a group on four under after a second 69, while England's Lee Westwood, last year's runner-up, carded a two-over 74 to slip to three under, with countryman Ian Poulter (71) two under and Justin Rose (also 71) one under.
"I really don't think I can give you my thoughts," Westwood told reporters afterwards. "I'd turn into Wayne Rooney if I attempted to do that."
Spain's Sergio Garcia enjoyed something of a resurgence from his recent slump and climbed to six under with three birdies on the front nine but he bogeyed the 10th and 12th either side of a double bogey on 11, while two more dropped shots on the 14th and 18th saw him finish on one under.
"Well, a disappointing day," he said. "I tried hard, but I don't know, just my head kind of went out on nine and I just couldn't recover. But it's been the same all week. It's a work in progress and we need to get better at it.
"There's been some good positive things and unfortunately today it's been a really bad nine and there's nothing you can do about that."
PC Andrew Hamilton was dismissed by Lincolnshire Police for gross misconduct on Wednesday.
He was convicted of two counts of theft at Nottingham Magistrates' Court in August.
Hamilton took the kayak and a set of paddles from Nottingham Kayak Club.
He kept the proceeds from the sale, despite knowing, or believing, he was not entitled to do so, a disciplinary hearing heard.
Officials said there was no place for dishonesty in the force.
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In June, the officer was described by national coaches as the "standout performer" of the Great Britain team, which competed at the ICF Wildwater Canoeing World Championships in Bosnia.
He finished seventh in both the Men's C1 sprint and classic team events, and 22nd in the Men's C1 classic.
Last year, Hamilton was awarded a special commendation for bravery for his role in saving a motorist who passed out at the wheel at 60mph (96.5km/h).
He was dismissed when a disciplinary hearing found his actions amounted to gross misconduct.
Nottingham magistrates fined Hamilton £245 for each theft, and ordered him to pay £290 compensation and court costs of £85.
We'll be back for week seven on Sunday 23 October at 19.30 BST on 5 live sports extra, with the scores as they go in from the early games, and then full commentary of San Diego at Atlanta.
However, that doesn't stop me looking forward to the match-ups and the stories to watch out for this Sunday.
Let's start in New England - but not with the Patriots. All you need to know about them is in my previous columns.
But their opponents on Sunday, the Cincinnati Bengals, are a play-off calibre team that are swimming in dangerous waters. If they're not careful and don't right a few wrongs, they could miss out on January football.
The main thing to address is their rushing attack. Last season they averaged 112.8 yards a game. So far they average 83.8, which is 26th in the league. No wonder quarterback Andy Dalton is second in passing yards.
In 2014 and 2015 the Bengals' offensive co-ordinator was Hue Jackson, who is now the head coach in Cleveland.
The Browns' running game - even though they are 0-5 - has gone from 22nd in the league to fifth. That has to be more than coincidence.
The Bengals have two quality backs in Gio Bernard and Jeremy Hill and somehow they have to ease the load on Dalton and the passing game.
With Pittsburgh and Baltimore ahead of them in the AFC North, head coach Marvin Lewis has to lift his team. Trouble is, that's next to impossible in Tom Brady's first match at Gillette Stadium, post 'Deflate-gate' suspension.
As written in my post on Tuesday, my desire to see Colin Kaepernick start for San Francisco has been granted.
Don't expect miracles as his supporting cast is poor, and they face a tough trip to a defensively strong Buffalo Bills side that have won their last three games, but at least we will find out where he is at in his career.
The AFC South could close up intriguingly this weekend. Houston are on the slide after tough losses on the road to New England and Minnesota, and take on divisional rivals Indianapolis in Texas.
The Titans will fancy moving to 3-3 at home to the Browns, while Jacksonville are at the 1-4 Bears. It may be the worst division in the NFL, but it's also the most open.
The Atlanta Falcons, armed with the most high-powered offense in the NFL, overcame the fearsome Denver defence on the road last Sunday.
They have to do the same in Seattle on Sunday. Yet Denver had to break in rookie quarterback Paxton Lynch in that first match-up. Seattle have Russell Wilson. Tasty.
Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliot face their toughest assignment in their fledgling Dallas Cowboy careers when they travel to Lambeau Field to take on Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers. Again, that will be a fun watch.
Time for a quick prediction. Miami won't score more than 10 points at home against Pittsburgh. The Steelers won't score fewer than 30. The Dolphins are the most dysfunctional franchise in the league. It's hard to watch given their proud history.
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"I believe it is the international community's first priority to be able to end this conflict," he told the BBC.
Mr Guterres said the world now faced a dangerous moment, with even countries far from warzones threatened by acts of terrorism.
He called the drive to end armed conflict "a battle for values".
In his first interview since his unanimous election, Mr Guterres told the BBC's Lyse Doucet world leaders had a "vital shared interest" in ending Syria's war, and the global strife that is linked to it.
He added that Syrians were victims not just of their own problems, but of all the contradictions of today's world.
Asked if he feared worse bloodshed in Syria, he replied: "I hope not. I sincerely hope not because we have seen such a terrible level of suffering. To think that this will even get worse... I believe it is the international community's first priority to be able to end this conflict."
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Mr Guterres will become the world's top diplomat on 1 January, when Ban Ki-moon's second five-year term ends.
Trained as an engineer, he entered politics in 1976 in Portugal's first democratic election after the "Carnation Revolution" that ended five decades of dictatorship.
His nomination came despite a concerted effort to appoint the UN's first female secretary general. Of the 13 candidates, seven were women, among them Unesco director-general Irina Bokova from Bulgaria, and Helen Clark, 66, a former prime minister of New Zealand and current head of the UN development programme.
But the rail firm said it was not prepared to talk unless the RMT was willing to discuss an eight-point plan, rejected last Friday.
Southern has cancelled 946 services each day since action began on Monday.
It has called the strike "pointless, needless and senseless".
The RMT is fighting plans by Southern owner Govia Thameslink (GTR) to turn conductors into "on-board supervisors" from 21 August, with drivers taking over responsibility for opening and closing carriage doors.
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RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "The company [GTR] knows that prescriptive pre-conditions would not allow genuine talks to take place.
"In an effort to break the deadlock and get the talks process moving, RMT is prepared to suspend strike action set for Thursday and Friday if Southern agree to urgent talks without pre-conditions. The ball is now in their court."
But a Southern spokesman said: "We have made the RMT a fair and comprehensive eight-point offer and we'll meet them any time, any place, anywhere to talk about our offer on our network to settle this dispute.
"This strike has to stop and has to stop now."
Shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald urged Transport Secretary Chris Grayling to persuade GTR to accept the RMT's offer.
"All he needs to do is pick up the phone to GTR and rail services can be restored in time for tomorrow's rush hour," he said.
"The long-suffering passengers will not understand why a government minister would do anything other than encourage all parties to embrace this opportunity."
Mr Grayling said on Tuesday that there was "absolutely no excuse" for the strikes, which he said were designed to stop essential improvements of passengers' journeys.
Conservative MPs in two of the areas worst hit by the strike appealed to the government, GTR and RMT to end their constituents' suffering.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd, who represents Hastings and Rye, which has no trains during the strike, said she had told GTR boss Charles Horton passengers had "suffered enormous disruption for far too long".
She said: "I hope the union will consider that it has been given a better deal than many of its passengers enjoy, many of whom are struggling to get to their places of employment."
Huw Merriman, MP for Bexhill and Battle, which has been similarly hit, has urged rail minister Paul Maynard to "bring his influence to the table" to resolve the outstanding issues.
Passengers are expected to join a protest march from London's Victoria station to the Department for Transport in central London on Wednesday evening.
The Campaign for Better Transport and the Association of British Commuters will present a 6ft-tall letter to Mr Maynard calling on him to attend a "passenger assembly" to answer questions and arrange better compensation for customers affected by the dispute.
Summer Dean, from Brighton, spokeswoman for the recently formed association, told BBC Sussex: "I would like to see some respect. Passengers are being held to ransom in this dispute and it's about time government stepped in."
Before the latest strike, Southern cut 341 services a day from its weekday timetable to improve reliability.
But Ms Dean said travellers were still "spending hours getting home, missing out on seeing family and friends and putting children to bed" and there was no date for the regular timetable to resume.
34.8%
Southern Mainline and Coast trains at terminus at least 5 minutes late
12.6%
Total trains late for England and Wales
12% Govia Thameslink Railway services cancelled or significantly late
4.4% Total England and Wales trains cancelled or significantly late
A rail users group in east Surrey has accused Southern of a "criminal, epic fail" by running eight trains an hour through Redhill each evening during the strike without any stopping.
The Reigate, Redhill and District Rail Users' Association said passengers were "forced to travel to Gatwick Airport then catch taxis, costing £15 to £20, back to Redhill".
Southern said routing a train to call at Redhill would take "enough extra time to cause a detrimental knock-on effect to the whole timetable" but said it would now "review what might be able to be done".
Gary McDaid, 37, of Glenowen Park in Londonderry, was originally charged with conspiracy to cause an explosion and having explosives in 2013.
He had been on a motorbike travelling behind a van, that was discovered to contain four mortar bombs.
However, he later admitted a charge of helping to smuggle cigarettes.
He has been ordered to pay £300.
He was arrested alongside his co-accused, Seamus McLaughlin, of Eastway Gardens, on 3 March 2013 on Letterkenny Road in Derry.
The court accepted that McDaid believed his co-accused was moving cigarettes "as opposed to anything more sinister".
A defence barrister for McDaid said his belief was based on his knowledge of McLaughlin as someone who would be involved in smuggling, and that he was to "get a few pounds for acting as an outrider".
McLaughlin was jailed for 12 years last November for having four improvised mortars and an improvised explosive incendiary device with intent to endanger life.
On Tuesday, the judge told Antrim Crown Court McDaid's case had ended in an "entirely novel and somewhat bizarre" way, as no cigarettes were found in the van.
He said the situation had gone from "the sublime to the ridiculous".
McDaid's defence barrister said his client had "emphatically stated" that if he had believed for one moment that there were explosives in the van, he would never have had anything to do with them.
The National Farmers Union (NFU) has written to every MP, saying the plan to share £3.5bn of farm grants would disadvantage British farmers.
The NFU also warns MPs that going ahead with the move would risk rural votes.
The government said the money would help to build on the "success" of its environmental and rural growth schemes.
Wildlife groups have used newspaper advertisements to urge the government to keep its countryside commitments.
They also say votes are at stake as every household pays £400 a year to subsidise farmers - and people expect their money will be used to protect the environment, not just to shore up farmers’ budgets.
In the summer, the EU set the framework for how the money should be spent with its scheme to "green" the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
The greening plans were heavily diluted under pressure from farmers, but large landowners will in future need to do more to collect subsidies by leaving existing grassland unploughed, diversifying their crops and setting aside some land for wildlife.
What is being decided is exactly how the farm subsidy pot for in England and Wales should be divided between conflicting interests. The decision is tough because the overall size of the pot has shrunk as Europe's leaders attempted to shrink the £50bn CAP.
The decision on the share-out is imminent.
In England and Wales ministers have indicated a wish to shift the maximum allowable - 15% - away from direct payments to farmers - which is mostly for owning farmland. The money will go towards protecting wildlife and stimulating the rural economy.
The NFU letter to MPs says this is unfair to farmers in England and Wales because farmers elsewhere are being better protected. In Scotland the government has decided to shift 9.5% of subsidies away from direct payments.
The NFU also complains that the government appears ready to transfer this amount without having decided the purpose of the transfer.
President Peter Kendall says in the letter to MPs: "Farmers remain at a complete loss to understand what the government intends to use this money on, and how it can be used effectively for the benefit of their businesses.
"The threat of disproportionate reductions in their payments vis a vis their immediate competitors is making them angry and frustrated with this government."
Wildlife groups who take the opposite view believe Prime Minister David Cameron will be discussing the issue over the weekend.
The RSPB, which has registered huge losses in farmland birds through intensive subsidised farming, has taken a full-page advertisement in the Times warning: "This weekend the prime minister could cut the life from the English countryside."
Green groups say public money spent on subsidising farmers should go on public good like thriving wildlife and well-managed water catchment areas to retain water for use and to prevent flooding.
A Defra spokesperson said: "Our environmental and rural growth schemes have delivered real benefits to the natural environment and rural economy.
"We want to build on these schemes' success by channelling into them some of the money from the budget for farmers' direct payments.
"We have sought views on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy in England and will make an announcement shortly."
The final division will be complicated, with firms supporting rural development also hoping to benefit from the 15% transfer of funds.
In Scotland the government is consulting on plans to shift 9.5% of subsidies away from direct payments to farmers - a payment which is mostly for owning farmland. The money will go towards protecting wildlife and stimulating the rural economy
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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).
Planning permission for the Wentworth Street car park was granted by Ryedale District Council in 2012.
The Fitzwilliam Estate (Malton) won a judicial review against the decision in 2015 which quashed the planning consent.
The council's leader, Linda Cowling, said the authority would now consider what to do with the site.
She said market conditions and changes in the way authorities are funded meant the time was right to drop the scheme.
"Any future plans will be consulted upon, seeking views of our residents and businesses and will include working with other towns and landowners in Ryedale," she added.
The Fitzwilliam Estate had gone to court because it believed its own plans to redevelop the town's former livestock market would have been damaged by the council's proposals.
Mrs Cowling's recommendation to terminate the lease with developer GMI Holbeck Land (Malton) Ltd will be considered by the council on 14 January.
She became Kenya's first high-profile athlete to fail a test when she tested positive for the performance-enhancing drug EPO in 2014.
Jeptoo, 33, says she may have been prescribed banned substances at a local hospital after a road accident.
The ruling means she forfeits her 2014 Boston and Chicago Marathon titles.
She is now banned until 30 October 2018 and has also been fined 15,000 Swiss francs (£12,396) as a contribution to the IAAF's legal fees and expenses.
Kenya has been in the spotlight for the past two years after a German television programme claimed many athletes from the east African nation are doping.
Jeptoo, one of most successful runners in Kenyan history, was due to be crowned World Marathon Major Champion for 2014 but the ceremony was called off soon after news of her failed test.
In cities like Sheffield and Hull almost a third of workers can expect higher wages, the living standards think-tank says.
But it fears that could see "one wage towns" where employers cope with higher salaries for their most junior staff by failing to put up pay for more experienced workers.
The Office for Budget Responsibility has said the policy could cost 60,000 jobs.
Paul Harrison, managing director of Sheffield coach firm Central Travel, told the Today programme: "I believe long term we'll probably have to lay people off unless we can put up prices with schools and colleges."
The minimum wage for over-25s will be raised to around £9 by 2020. The Treasury describes this as a National Living Wage.
The Resolution Foundation was mentioned by the Chancellor George Osborne when he announced the higher wage in the summer budget.
It wants city regions that are to be given extra powers - like Manchester and Sheffield - to help businesses with planning and skills shortages.
Share of workers affected by 2020
Hull - 31%
Sheffield - 28%
London - 14%
Oxford - 13%
The Foundation's head Torsten Bell said many firms didn't know how to respond, and local politicians needed to take action.
He said: "They should be focusing on raising awareness in local businesses in their area, particularly in those businesses most affected."
A government spokeswoman said: "The independent Office for Budget Responsibility expects the National Living Wage to cost business just 1% of corporate profits. This will be offset by cutting corporation tax to 18% and reducing national insurance contributions for smaller firms."
Several large employers including Sainsbury's and Lidl have pledged to put up pay before the new rules come in.
He spoke to Michael O'Connor, who laid on top of his girlfriend to protect her from gunmen at the Bataclan music venue in November 2015.
The award for outstanding broadcast interviews is named after the late BBC Radio 4 broadcaster and presenter.
Nolan won in 2014 for an interview with a controversial Belfast pastor.
Judges said Nolan's interview with Mr O'Connor had been "a compelling listen" that drew the listener into "a world of almost unimaginable fear and bravery".
Following the announcement, the broadcaster said: "I cannot tell you how much this award means to me.
"I have vivid memories of listening to Nick Clarke and being in awe of his effortless command of broadcasting. I want to tell Nick's family… I am deeply humbled to be associated with this award."
Other BBC presenters shortlisted for this year's award included:
The 26-year-old, whose sole England cap came in a World Cup warm-up against France in August, has not played since suffering the injury in a pre-season match against Wasps in October.
"We were hoping he'd recover from his injury," Saints coach Jim Mallinder told BBC Radio Northampton.
He also said Courtney Lawes and Alex Corbisiero could return in a few weeks.
Russell Sherwood, 69, left his home in Cilfrew, Neath Port Talbot in a silver Ford Focus at about 06:15 GMT.
He was headed to an address in Ewenny, Vale of Glamorgan but never arrived.
Officers believe Mr Sherwood reached Stormy Down and have been searching the area all day, assisted by the coastguard helicopter.
They will continue the investigation throughout the night.
Insp Andy Walbeoff said: "Some roads in Stormy Down were affected by flooding.
"Obviously we are concerned for his welfare - he has not going missing before and would always ensure a family member is aware if he is going to be late, but they have not heard anything."
Adele won big, with four prizes including best British female artist and best album.
Here's the full list of winners and nominees:
Platini resigned in May after failing to overturn a ban imposed for ethics breaches over payments he received from former Fifa president Sepp Blatter.
He will be succeeded by Dutch football boss Michael van Praag, acting Uefa president Angel Maria Villar or Slovenian FA boss Aleksander Ceferin.
The election will be on 14 September.
Platini, 60, and former Fifa counterpart Blatter, 80, were last year found guilty over a "disloyal payment" of 2m Swiss Franc (£1.3m), with Platini banned from all football activity for four years.
Meanwhile, Evelina Christillin of the Italian Football Federation and Laura McAllister, of the Football Association of Wales, have officially submitted their candidacies for the position of Uefa's additional female member on the Fifa Council.
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Cars fitted with cameras have begun taking pictures around London and will start mapping major cities on the continent next month.
The service is already available in 56 US towns and cities.
Microsoft has been keen to avoid the privacy concerns that dogged Google's service but said that it does plan to gather wi-fi data.
Initially, Streetside will be on a smaller scale than Streetview, according to the company's director of search, Dave Coplin.
"We're not setting out to record every street. We believe it is most valuable in urban centres where people want to find services," he told BBC News.
Microsoft's ultimate aim was to combine Streetside with location-based services, Mr Coplin explained.
To do that, it needed to collect wi-fi data, such as the unique number that identifies the location of a hotspot, the signal strength and the type of wireless signal being used. That information would be used to help locate users.
Google ran into trouble with privacy groups while creating Streetview after it emerged the company intercepted and stored private information from some hotspots.
Google apologised for the "mistake" which it blamed on rogue coding.
The incident led to investigations around the globe, causing the search giant to make radical changes to its privacy policies.
By contrast Microsoft said that it would collect the "bare minimum" of data.
It has already started taking street level photographs, however the wi-fi scanning portion of the process is currently on hold until the company refines its strategy.
"We took the decision to postpone wi-fi data collection. We'd like to do it the right way," said Dave Coplin.
Another issue which dogged Google in its roll-out of StreetView was whether to allow users to opt out.
Some residents complained that they could only ask for their property to be removed from the service after pictures went live.
In Germany, authorities were reported to be considering legal action against Google.
In the end, they secured the right of householders to opt out of Streetview, having their homes and businesses pixelated before the service went live.
250,000 Germans decided to do this.
As a result, the country introduced a code of practice, meaning all similar services, including Streetside, will have to abide by the same rule.
But Microsoft will not be offering the opt-out to people in other countries.
"It came up in our discussions with privacy bodies but the opt-out service was not something high on their list of priorities," said Mr Coplin.
Microsoft said it had consulted with data protection authorities and privacy bodies such as Privacy International throughout the development of Streetside.
"Privacy is imbued in everything we do," said Mr Coplin.
It will notify the public about the service ahead of pictures being taken, using advertisements that will include a helpline number and website where people can get more information.
When Streetside goes live on Microsoft's mobile platforms, including its Windows phones, it will combine with so-called blockview technology which allows images to be flattened out and overlaid with metadata.
That information will be used to offer contextual advertising and other localised information, said Mr Coplin.
"When the majority of people have a smartphone and mobile broadband is completely stable, services such as Foursquare, Groupon and other local services will all come together, offering local services and localised advertisements," he said.
Unlike Google, Microsoft does not have ambitions to map every street in the world.
It should mean the service avoids some of the most bizarre events captured by StreetView.
Those included a naked man climbing into the boot of his car in Germany and images of dead bodies on a street in Rio de Janeiro, which Google was forced to remove shortly after the service went live in South America.
Robert Mugabe said that Evan Mawarire was not a true preacher and accused him of being sponsored by foreign countries bent on destabilising Zimbabwe.
The pastor backed a stay-at-home strike earlier this month, one of the largest anti-government protests in years.
He was arrested last week, but released when a court threw out the charges.
His lawyers successfully argued that the charge of subversion, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 year, had been added at the last minute, denying him a fair trial.
Mr Mawarire was first charged with inciting public violence despite the fact that he has called on Zimbabweans to take a peaceful stand against unemployment and corruption and avoided directly criticising the president.
The BBC's Brian Hungwe in the capital, Harare, says Mr Mugabe was in his usual no-nonsense mood when he attacked his new-found nemesis.
In his first comments about the #ThisFlag movement that began several months ago, he said that if people like Mr Mawarire did not like living in Zimbabwe, they should go to "the countries of those who are sponsoring them".
"A man of religion will speak the biblical truth. 1 Corinthians what does it say? Love one another," the president said during his address to thousands of mourners at the funeral of Charles Utete, the country's first black cabinet secretary.
"So beware these men of cloth, not all of them are true preachers of the Bible."
To reiterate his point, the 92-year-old president said he was not sure which God such charlatans served.
"I don't know whether they are serving God... we spell God double G.O.D, they spell God in reverse," he said to cheers from the crowd.
The pastor is currently in South Africa, but has denied reports that he fled to seek asylum, the Associated Press news agency reports.
Mr Mawarire has struck a chord with many Zimbabweans through his campaign, organised via Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp, our reporter says.
Its success is not surprising given the mood of despair and anger over alleged government corruption, the chronic shortage of money and the heavy police presence on streets, he says.
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Got one? Good. Congratulations. Chances are that by plucking that number out of the ether you have done a better job than Google of predicting the percentage increase in the number of flu-like illnesses that will strike Americans over the next few weeks.
That's right. You, armed only with your puny brain, can outdo a multi-billion dollar corporation that employs some of the smartest people in the world.
This example might seem trivial, but many think it matters because of the status of Google Flu Trends (GFT), once seen as the shining example of the power of so-called big data.
The data it uses to make predictions about how many will be sneezing and wheezing a week or so ahead is drawn from search terms, blog entries and messages shared via social media - so-called unstructured data.
This is very different to the structured and slow stream of information gathered from forms filled in at surgeries and hospitals that, before the rise of big data, were how predictions were made.
And the problem is, GFT turned out not to be terribly accurate.
In a run of 108 weeks, GFT wrongly predicted the number of flu cases 100 times, revealed a recent study.
Sometimes its estimate was double the number of actual flu cases recorded by US doctors. Hence the reason anyone can do better by plucking a number out of thin air.
Yet this unstructured data humans put online is exactly the type of stuff that companies want to analyse when they kick off their own big data projects.
Many corporations are keen to use those garbled knots of human sentiment to monitor how their brands are faring online, and to tweak their operations accordingly when they spot commercial opportunities or potential PR disasters.
Before now, those giant data sets had been hard to unpick. GFT seemed to suggest that with the right tools it could unlock all kinds of useful predictions.
Not only that, but those predictions could be uncovered quickly and cheaply.
Why did GFT go so wrong and what implications does this have for other big data projects?
"There's no such thing as clean and stable data," said statistician Kaiser Fung who has written extensively about the pitfalls that can dog big data projects.
What he means by "clean and stable" is that it is a mistake to think that the data Google gathered for GFT today is the same as it gathered last week, last month or last year.
Google regularly tweaks the algorithms it uses to index online life and, as a result, may be sampling very different things month to month, adding a degree of instability - spots of dirt as it were - to that dataset.
The same is true of any big data set gathered by anyone, he said.
All will be tainted in some way as they will miss out something simply because of the quirks of the underlying code used to parse and index web pages, social media messages and blog posts.
That will be particularly true if companies buy in their data from different sources and then treat it as all one corpus.
"I have never come across a complete data set," he said. "Often times the only reason why people believe their data is clean is because they have never looked at it."
Companies in possession of a huge corpus of data can assume that all the information they need is in it. Sadly, he said, this "N=all" assumption is wrong.
"It is much better to assume that the data has holes and flaws than it is to assume it is complete."
Any company starting a big data project would do better to look at the data they have gathered and clean it up before any analysis starts.
There are other good reasons for scrutinising that mass of information about customers, says Patrick James, a partner in consultancy Ernst and Young's consumer practice.
"There's a customer backlash about to happen," he says. "It's against the big part of big data."
More and more people are getting less and less happy about simply surrendering information and getting nothing in return, he maintains.
Increasingly, consumers and customers will attempt to hold back their data, limit what they share online or simply give the wrong answers when they sign up for a service or are quizzed about their life and habits, he believes.
The tens of thousands of people who filled in a form to make Google expunge their data from its index was evidence of that growing desire to disappear, says Mr James.
If this trend grows, it could mean data sets get skewed and become less useful for those big projects.
These early days of big data might prove to be its golden age.
"Data has never been cheaper than it has been today and it's only going to get more expensive," says Mr James.
So, if data is not the key to a good project, what is?
"Too many big data projects are started by the IT departments in companies that want to play with new technologies like Hadoop," says Dr Laurie Miles, head of analytics at big data specialist, SAS.
"That's led to scepticism, because in the history of IT projects a lot of them have been failures."
Instead of the technology coming first, anyone embarking on a big data project needs to know why they are doing it before they sign off on any expenditure by the IT folks, he argues.
"A big data project is not going to deliver any benefit unless you focus on a specific problem."
That focus can stop a project running away with itself and ensure it produces results that impinge on a real business issue, he says.
Spotting fraudulent credit card use requires a very different approach to analysing the performance of elite rowers - SAS is helping with both.
"We analyse credit card data at the point of sale, and you need that quickly," says Dr Miles. "With British Rowing we have a couple of weeks to to give them answers."
Knowing the response can help define the technology needed to underpin that big data project.
"Often you do not need to spin up a massive IT infrastructure to make this work," he says. "That's just as well, as real time results are really expensive."
About 300 events will be held across the city over the next 18 days.
The festival's artistic director Donald Shaw said he was deliberately highlighting the number of strong female artists in this year's line-up.
The 23rd annual Celtic Connections kicks off with 26-year-old singer-songwriter Laura Marling, accompanied by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Mr Shaw told BBC Scotland he had always been "fascinated" by the Brit award-winning songwriter.
"I think she is the closest we have to a modern-day Joni Mitchell," he says.
"Although she is perceived as being in the mainstream, I see her very much as being a folk star in terms of her song-writing style and much in keeping with what we do."
The opening night concert will feature Marling performing live with string arrangements from an orchestra for the first time.
It will also feature other female artists including Karine Polwart, Cara Dillon and Aziza Brahim, a singer from the Sahara who grew up in refugee camps in Algeria.
She was discovered there and has grown up to be one of the great world music artists.
Mr Shaw, who has been in charge of the festival for over a decade, said: "We have a lot of strong female artists and there is a bit of a theme of empowerment of women through music, particularly with some of the world music stars such as Aziza Brahim.
"The time seemed right to raise the role of women in music.
"There was a lot of negativity last year around some of the bigger festivals and the number of women they featured."
Other female artists in the festival line-up include Olivia Newton John, Evelyn Glennie, and Martha Wainwright, along with reigning Scottish Album of the Year winner Anna Meredith.
Two of Brazil's finest female performers - Roberta Sá and Baby do Brasil - are to play together as part of the festival's special link with the South American country this year.
Mr Shaw said: "I have never programmed through gender in any way.
"I think the festival would be worse off if it did not have a strong female presence. Gender does have a different dimension in the way it produces music."
The health ministry said 281 were now known to have died in the attack, which targeted a shopping complex in the mainly Shia Muslim Karrada district.
The previous death toll, announced by the ministry on Tuesday, was 250.
The jihadist group Islamic State (IS) has said it was behind the bombing, the deadliest in the country since the 2003 US-led invasion.
IS militants overran large parts of northern and western Iraq two years ago, but government forces have since regained much of the territory.
In response to the battlefield setbacks, including the recent loss of the western city of Falluja, the militants have stepped up their attacks on civilians.
In Sunday's bombing, an explosives-laden lorry blew up outside a crowded, three-storey shopping centre where people had been enjoying a night out after breaking their daily fast for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
On Thursday, the health ministry raised the death toll from the attack after more of those registered as missing were identified as dead, spokesman Ahmed al-Rudaini told the Reuters news agency.
Hospital and police officials told the Associated Press that the death toll might rise as human remains were still being recovered from the blast site.
More than 200 people were wounded in the attack, 23 of whom are still in hospital.
The bombing has sparked widespread anger among Iraqis, some of whom have accused the government of failing to protect them.
When Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi visited the bombing site, people threw stones and shoes at his convoy and called him a "thief".
On Tuesday, Interior Minister Mohammed al-Ghabban offered his resignation to Mr Abadi, conceding that the bomber had managed to pass through several security checkpoints on its way from the eastern province of Diyala to central Baghdad.
Mr Ghabban blamed a lack of communication between the multiple forces in charge of security, and called for the interior ministry to be given overall responsibility.
Mr Abadi accepted the minister's resignation on Wednesday, an official in his office told the AFP news agency, although there was no official announcement.
The Sun quotes anonymous sources, one of whom claims to have witnessed a "bust-up" between the Queen and pro-EU former Deputy PM Nick Clegg in 2011.
It says the Queen told Mr Clegg the EU was "heading in the wrong direction".
Buckingham Palace said it would not comment on "spurious" claims, and Mr Clegg called the story "nonsense".
Under the headline "Queen backs Brexit", the Sun says the Queen's exchange with Mr Clegg at a lunch in 2011 left "no room for doubt about her passionate feelings over Europe".
It says her "reprimand" of the Mr Clegg "went on for some time and stunned other guests".
The paper says the Queen also revealed her feelings about Europe during a separate conversation with MPs at Buckingham Palace "a few years ago".
It claims the Queen told them: "I don't understand Europe" - words an unnamed parliamentary source says she spoke with "venom and emotion".
By Peter Hunt, BBC royal correspondent
A "Queen backs Brexit" headline will provoke both irritation in palace circles and a weary acceptance that it was probably inevitable that the royals would be dragged into this divisive debate.
This is an attempt to shine a light on what is rarely illuminated - the Queen's private thoughts on political matters.
Officials are keen to stress she's neither for Leave nor Remain; but on the fence, neutral and impartial - a space, they say, she's occupied for 63 years.
Their challenge is that the Queen did enter the political fray recently. It was an intervention that garnered only muted criticism. Historians may pass a different judgement.
During the 2014 Scottish referendum, the monarch was judged to have backed Scotland remaining within the UK when she told a well-wisher: "I hope people will think very carefully about the future."
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Buckingham Palace said: "The Queen remains politically neutral, as she has for 63 years.
"We would never comment on spurious, anonymously sourced claims.
"The referendum will be a matter for the British people."
And Mr Clegg tweeted: "As I told the journalist this is nonsense. I've no recollection of this happening & its not the sort of thing I would forget."
But Tom Newton Dunn, the Sun's political editor, writes that the paper would not have reported the Queen's remarks "had they not come from two different and impeccably placed sources".
He says the Queen must remain "above the fray" of political issues, but adds: "If she has a view on Brexit, don't voters have a right to know what it is?"
Last month a spokesman for Prince William denied the prince had been making a comment on the European debate when he described Britain as an "outward-looking nation".
Newspapers including the Guardian and the Daily Mail interpreted his comments as support for Britain staying in the EU.
And in the build-up to Scotland's 2014 referendum on independence, Buckingham Palace denied suggestions that the Queen would wish to influence the result, following reports that she was concerned about the prospect of Scottish independence.
Shortly before the vote she was heard saying she hoped people would "think very carefully about the future".
After the Scottish people voted to reject independence, PM David Cameron was recorded saying the Queen "purred" on hearing the result.
The prehistoric bird, which was found recently in China, may have puffed up its feathers like a peacock.
The bird's feathers are "remarkably preserved", including the chemical that gave them sparkle.
The animal belongs to a group of early birds known as enantiornithines, which lived during the Age of the Dinosaurs.
All known specimens come from rocks in Liaoning, China, which have yielded numerous fossils of feathered dinosaurs, primitive birds and pterosaurs.
"Many enantiornithine birds possessed ornate feathers," said lead researcher Dr Jennifer Peteya of the University of Akron, Ohio, US.
"This new specimen shows that some enantiornithines also had iridescent feathers and unlike most modern birds, these flashy ornaments developed before the animal was fully grown."
Scientists have limited knowledge of the plumage of birds from the time of the dinosaurs.
Melanosomes can be seen in the fossil - microscopic structures that give rise to a broad range of colours in modern birds.
They also produce iridescent effects, according to the way they reflect light.
This is the first time evidence for iridescence has been found in enantiornithines, said Dr Stig Walsh, senior curator of vertebrate palaeobiology at National Museums Scotland.
The colouration is used by birds today mostly for sexual selection.
"Although this particular individual was a very young adult, its tail feathers were already long and formed a kind of streamer," said Dr Walsh, who is not connected with the research.
"Again, this kind of extravagant feather array, like the tail feathers of peacocks, is usually used for mate attraction.
"It seems this bird was an adolescent out on its first attempt to 'pull', so to speak."
The research is published in the journal Palaeontology.
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More than 500 years later, coronary artery disease is one of the most common causes of death in the western world.
The Italian painter, architect and engineer was clearly a curious and gifted individual who was way ahead of his time, but what fired his interest in the workings of the human body?
"He had a great mind, and he was willing to really look and see," says Mr Francis Wells, a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, who has spent years studying Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings, which form part of the Royal Collection in Windsor.
Leonardo's investigations of the human form were a lifelong interest.
His diagrams and sketches of the skull, skeleton, muscles and major organs fill countless notebooks while his theories on how they function fill many more pages.
But it was the heart that appeared to particularly fire his interest, from 1507 onwards, when he had reached his 50s.
In those drawings, he used his knowledge of fluids, weights, levers and engineering to try to understand how the heart functions.
He also looked closely at the actions of the heart valves and the flow of blood through them.
Mr Wells' book, 'The Heart of Leonardo', explores the artist's drawings and writings on the organ, and he says his insights are "quite astonishing".
"The more we look, the more right we realise he was," he adds.
Many of Leonardo's conclusions, such as the description of how the arterial valves close and open - letting blood flow around the heart - holds true today, but is not widely known.
"Even cardiologists get this wrong now," Mr Wells says.
"Only with the use of MRI technology has knowledge of this subject been revisited."
Many of Leonardo's drawings were based on studies of hearts from ox and pigs. It was only later in life that he had access to human organs, and these dissections had to be carried out quickly in winter before the body began to degrade.
Contemporary dissections of the heart show he was correct on many aspects of its functioning.
For example, he showed that the heart is a muscle and that it does not warm the blood.
He found that the heart had four chambers and it connected the pulse in the wrist with the contraction of the left ventricle.
He worked out that currents in the blood flow, created in the main aorta artery, help heart valves to close.
And he suggested that arteries create a health risk if they fur up over a lifetime.
Mr Wells also believes that Leonardo realised that the blood was in a circulation system and may have influenced William Harvey's discovery in 1616 that blood was pumped around the body by the heart.
Yet none of Leonardo's theories or drawing were ever published during his lifetime.
In fact, his notes were not rediscovered until the late 18th century - more than 250 years after his death.
Mr Wells explains: "It wasn't his job. Scientific stuff was his hobby."
Being an artist, architect and engineer was the day job and, as a result, his discoveries stayed hidden.
With hindsight they may have had the potential to revolutionise surgery.
In the 16th century, for example, there was no treatment for cardiac disease, or many other diseases, and surgeons occupied a low status in society.
If people survived surgery, it was more by luck than judgement.
Heart surgery has of course transformed in the past century, but Leonardo's insights could have made a huge difference if they had been made public earlier.
Even now, however, there is common consensus that we have barely scratched the surface of what we know about the heart.
According to Mr Wells, Leonardo's legacy is that we should follow the Renaissance Man's example and continue to challenge, question and enquire rather than listen to accepted wisdom.
Leonardo da Vinci was born in Tuscany, Italy, in 1452 - the illegitimate son of a farmer's daughter.
He is known as one of the greatest artists who ever lived. His most famous works of art are The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa.
But there was much more to Leonardo than his paintings.
Despite little formal education, he kept extensive notebooks filled with his scientific theories, inventions, drawings and designs.
Leonardo wrote backwards, from right to left; his writing can be read normally if viewed in a mirror.
More than 4,000 pages have been found, but many are thought to have been lost.
The Lads of Wales To War exhibition at the Pierhead also features a replica of the Mametz dragon.
Community centre Craft of Hearts, based in Tonypandy, Rhondda Cynon Taff, made the display and said the poppies were "a symbol of remembrance" and "hope".
Another 350 poppies are being sent to Mametz to be laid on the graves of soldiers from the Rhondda who died.
The 38th Welsh Division launched an assault on Mametz Wood in northern France from 7 July 1916.
They suffered more than 400 casualties on the first day alone, but finally forced the Germans to retreat after four days.
The exhibition in Cardiff runs until Saturday.
Barry, 22, was not given a new contract by the relegated Robins and has joined the Spireites, who were also relegated to League Two, on a two-year deal.
The former Brighton academy graduate is the nephew of Everton midfielder Gareth Barry.
"This club deserves to be in League One. It's an exciting time for me and I'm looking forward to a new chapter in my career," he told the club website.
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They were among dozens of journalists and aid workers being held hostage in Iraq and Syria.
Some are believed to be being held by IS and other militant groups, while others may be in the custody of Syrian regime forces.
Here are some of those whose details have been made public.
Austin Tice, 34, is an American journalist who has reported for the McClatchy group.
His family say he was taken captive near the Syrian capital Damascus on 14 August 2012.
Mr Tice, who had served in the US Marine Corps, entered Syria in May that year.
Friends say he quickly fell in love with Syrian culture and food.
He was born and raised in Texas, and won the 2012 George Polk Award for War Reporting.
No group has yet taken responsibility for his capture, and his whereabouts are not yet known.
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Ishak Moctar is a reporter for Sky News Arabia and a Mauritanian national.
He was captured along with his colleague Samir Kassab and Syrian driver in October 2013.
The driver was later released but nothing has been heard from Mr Moctar or Mr Kassab since.
Abu Dhabi-based Sky Arabia has appealed for information that would lead to their safe return.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for their capture.
Samir Kassab, a 29-year old Lebanese national, is a cameraman for Sky News Arabia.
He was abducted along with his colleague Ishak Moctar in October 2013 while they were working near Aleppo, Syria.
His family had tried to dissuade him from working in the country, asking him: "Is there nothing else except Syria?"
Three workers from the International Committee of the Red Cross remain unaccounted for after they were captured in northern Syria on 13 October 2013.
Four of their colleagues were also taken in the attack on their convoy but freed the next day.
The convoy was intercepted by unidentified armed gunmen near the town of Saraqeb in Idlib province.
The nationalities of those captured have not been released, and it is not yet known who carried out the attack.
Red Cross workers kidnapped in Syria
The Guardian reported on 20 August that four more foreigners had been taken hostage near Aleppo.
They included two Italian women, a Dane and a Japanese national, the paper said.
He's not talking about the apps or operating systems that make them so invaluable to us - he's more concerned about the material they're made from.
So he's created what he's calling "the world's first ethical smartphone".
A bold claim - so I went to see Bas at the company's headquarters in Amsterdam.
Recycled lamp-shades dangle from exposed beams, hammocks swing invitingly alongside giant flourishing pot plants; the desks have emptied as the employees congregate in the dining area for a communal lunch.
"We didn't start as a company," Bas tells me. "We started as a campaign. And the campaign question was how can we give visibility to the situation in eastern Congo."
He's talking about the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - home to minerals and metals essential to the manufacture of mobile phones.
More than six countries and several militias have fought wars on the country's soil since 1998. Looters and rebels have battled over DRC's enormous mineral wealth - and used the spoils to fund their campaigns.
Millions have died in the turmoil, with the east of the country particularly badly affected.
"So what we said was, with my background as a designer, why don't we make a device, make a phone," he says.
The idea was to prove to customers and to multinational corporations, that it is possible to create phones that are ethical and sustainable.
Bas and his colleagues launched Fairphone in 2013, running a crowdfunding campaign that was so successful it took even them by surprise.
They pre-sold 25,000 handsets before a single device rolled off the production line: people were buying into a concept.
"I was crying to my wife in bed, like how am I going to do this?" he says.
"I'd never made a phone before and all these thousands of people had put their faith in me, I was afraid I would let them down."
He needn't have worried. His company has now sold more than 82,000 phones.
The company's main focus is to make sure that it sources its materials from non-conflict mines.
Bas says he sent his employees to the DRC to see if they could source "conflict-free" minerals that would support local economies rather than the militias.
He didn't want to be like other companies and avoid troubled regions altogether.
One of the big problems dealing with the DRC is the small-scale informal mining common in the country.
"People are just digging this stuff out of the ground and selling it to intermediary buying organisations," says Bady Balde from the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative pressure group.
There are some 1.8 million people carrying out small scale mining in the DRC, he estimates.
"It's the informality and lack of structure that's the problem. The middle men buying the minerals have two choices.
"They can either declare it and pay taxes or they can smuggle it out. Sometimes they have to pay bribes to rebels to get it out."
All of this adds to the difficulty of tracing the origins of the elements going into mobiles.
Even Fairphone admits it has only managed to completely phase out two of the four conflict minerals used in phones.
But despite these difficulties the company is aiming to sell more phones than ever.
It hopes to ship 140,000 devices next year - though that still makes it a tiny player in the global market. For instance, Apple sold 13 million iPhone 6s in its first weekend alone.
The newest version of the phone costs €525 (£380) but isn't as sleek as the new Apple iPhone and nor does it have as many specs as the latest Samsung Galaxy S. But Fairphone hopes it has a real design advantage - its modular design.
This means you can take it apart and fix it yourself. The proud CEO delights in dropping his phone onto the office floor to prove the point
"We tested it by making it fall from a Dutch person's ear height," he quips - and shows us how he can put it back together in minutes.
Bas describes himself as a hippy with a business plan.
"The mechanism we use to change things is a commercial model. By being part of the economic system and a market mechanism we are able to actually put idealist values into the core of what moves the world."
He's not deterred by the company's tiny market share.
"We're not in it to become the biggest phone company in the world. But by doing what we do, we show that there's a market, we grow the demand.
"And if the demand grows, the market will follow. That's the way the world works."
Bas shares an anecdote about a visit from a representative from one of the world's most successful brands.
"She came into my office and slammed the Fairphone down on my desk, 'I've been trying to convince my company to do this for years, and now you just turn up and make it'."
They are unlikely to stop with the phone
Recent videos taken at the Bandung Zoo by the activists show the bears looking skeletal and begging for food.
It is the latest accusation against the controversial attraction - it was previously criticised for mistreating an elephant which later died.
But a zoo official has denied the claims, saying that the bears are sufficiently fed and are healthy.
Indonesia's zoos are notorious for their inadequate conditions, with most scoring poorly against government-set standards.
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The push to close down the Bandung Zoo is led by Scorpion Wildlife Trade Monitoring Group, which has been monitoring the sun bears since last year.
It has staged protests calling for the zoo's closure, and is also running an online petition.
Their videos, taken since mid-2016, show the bears pacing around in a concrete enclosure and standing up on their legs apparently begging visitors for food, who throw them junk food.
One clip also shows a bear defecating and immediately eating its own faeces.
"The enclosure is dirty, the water is polluted and unclean, and the floor has no grass. There are no live trees in the enclosure," Scorpion's programme director Gunung Gea told the BBC.
He said that activists had been periodically visiting the bears to feed them fruit, which is part of their natural diet.
"The fact that you can see their ribs, that is certainly not normal. They are underfed," said Gabriella Fredriksson from the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Ms Fredriksson, who is co-chair of the sun bear expert committee, told the BBC that a sun bear eating faeces may be exhibiting "extreme boredom".
"Sun bears are very active animals. If they are stuck in a concrete pit with nothing to do, no stimulation for climbing and digging, it's soul destroying to say the least," she said.
The concrete floors would also damage their soft feet, while the lack of shade may cause cataracts in sun bears which are used to living in dimmer environments.
Mr Gea said that the other animals in the zoo also appeared to be in poor condition. Other videos taken by the group show deer with skin conditions, and chained-up elephants.
Reviews on travel rating website Tripadvisor of the zoo have been universally critical, with many saying the animals appeared neglected and in distress.
"A horrible place, hell on Earth for all these poor animals. Rusty cages, dirty place and really neglected animals," wrote one reviewer.
But Bandung Zoo spokesman Sudaryo dismissed the issue as an "old case". He told BBC Indonesian that they feed the bears regularly and also conduct regular health checks.
"We provide enough food... People say they are thin, but does (that) mean they are not healthy and they are not eating? It's not," he said.
He added that the bears were begging "because there are people who throw food at them", and that the zoo has told visitors to stop this practice.
The zoo last made the news in May 2016 after activists highlighted the plight of Yani, an elephant that died from an unknown disease. The zoo was said to have failed to give adequate medical care.
Bandung's mayor, Ridwan Kamil, told reporters last year that he had no power to shut down the zoo as it was privately run.
A Jakarta Globe report in 2015 said that out of the 58 registered zoos in Indonesia, only four were found to be "decent and appropriate".
The controversy over Bandung Zoo follows that of the zoo in Surabaya, dubbed by some the "zoo of death" after several animal deaths in recent years.
All three judges scored Pacquiao winner by 116-110 on Saturday in the match between the pair in Las Vegas.
Pacquiao, 37, knocked down American Bradley, 32, in the seventh and ninth rounds in the third welterweight meeting between the two.
"I've made a commitment to my family that I'm going to retire after this," said Pacquiao.
Pacquiao, who bounced back from a split-decision defeat by Bradley in 2012 with a decisive win two years later, looked the more menacing fighter after a cagey opening round.
Bradley landed occasionally but Pacquiao caught the American on the chin in the second round and stretched his lead further with a knockdown in the seventh.
A second knockdown followed in the ninth, despite a Bradley left-hook wobbling the Filipino a round earlier, as Pacquiao coasted home in the 66th fight of a career in which he has won world titles at six weights.
"Maybe I enjoy being a retired man, serving the people, helping the people," added Pacquiao, who said before the fight he wishes to concentrate on a political career in the Philippines.
Brampton, who had spoken of her struggle with depression, began her career at Vogue before launching Elle.
The circumstances of her death are unclear but it is thought she walked into the sea at St Leonards in East Sussex on Tuesday afternoon.
Police said a woman was pulled ashore at Galley Hill, Bexhill. They said there were no suspicious circumstances.
Brampton studied fashion at Central Saint Martin's College of Art & Design before starting at Vogue. She became fashion editor at The Observer and was then headhunted to launch women's lifestyle magazine Elle in the UK at the age of 30 in the 1980s.
She later had a weekly agony aunt column in the Sunday Times Style magazine from 2006 until 2014.
In 2008 she gave a personal account of her efforts to overcome depression in her book "Shoot the Damn Dog".
Elle magazine's current editor-in-chief Lorraine Candy described Brampton as a "kickass boss" who "nurtured new talent with the same enthusiasm as she nurtured her family and friends".
Writing on the magazine's website, she said: "The magazine she created in 1985 was unlike anything else on the newsstands at the time.
"It was a breath of fresh air, mixing high street with high end, having a brave and sometimes contrary opinion, questioning the norm and championing new thinkers.
"She made it colourful and joyous, which was exactly how she imagined the Elle reader and how she appeared herself to everyone who worked with her."
Gill Sinclair, from the website Victoria Health, paid tribute to her "beautiful friend Sally" who "walked into the sea yesterday afternoon and didn't come back" in an email sent to subscribers.
She wrote: "Sally's battle with depression is well documented; she shared her darkness in order to give light and she fought fiercely to try and obliterate the stigma of mental health and together we must uphold her mission."
Sally was an uncompromising agony aunt - her tough love sometimes uncomfortable to read, but at the same time absolutely thrilling. What made it so powerful was the position of authority and wisdom it came from. Sally was quick to share her own experiences, draw on her own hard fought battles and use the aching traumas of her own life story to help heal others.
Her big lesson to readers was that you cannot change other people - you can only change your reaction to them. That puts all the power back in your hands. So whether it is an abusive mother, a lover suffering from addiction or a difficult teen, she gave us the ability to overcome our pain.
She always was, and will remain, an absolute inspiration. And for me personally, a treasured mentor. Thank you Sally.
Tiffanie Darke, editor of the Sunday Times Style magazine from 2002-2014
Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore tweeted: "An editor every writer wanted to please because she wanted the best and wrote the best herself. Very sad."
Author Jojo Moyes tweeted: "Immensely sad about Sally Brampton, kind, talented & great editor."
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Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel gave the drone - used for crop inspections and costing €50,000 ($53,000) - to Dmitry Medvedev early this month.
Spain prohibits the export of sensitive technologies to certain countries. The drone's export licence had a clause requiring Spanish permission to do so.
Israel said the gift had been approved by "relevant professional officials".
The export licence for the drone lists Israel's Volcani Centre as its final user.
It was made by Spanish company Alpha Unmanned Systems.
Spanish media reports said it had US-made cameras, installed by Israel after it was acquired from Spain.
Russia is under European Union sanctions, stemming from its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
Rowett will be running the 26.2-mile course on 24 April, less than 24 hours after play-off hopefuls Blues' Championship fixture at Huddersfield.
He will be running with Becky Doyle, wife of ex-Blues keeper Colin Doyle.
They will raise money for the Liam's Smiles charity, set up by Mrs Doyle.
She founded the charity to support other families who see their children go through the same life-threatening condition as her son Liam, now five, who was only weeks old when he contracted meningitis.
Doyle is no longer at the club, having left to play for Blackpool last summer, but the former Blues goalkeeper's son's progress is sufficient incentive for Rowett to keep on running.
"When you see children suffering from these illnesses, you realise there are a lot more important things in life than just football," Rowett told BBC WM. "I've got four kids, they're all healthy, and God help it stays that way.
"This is something I've wanted to do for a while. When you're in a public position where people listen to you, sometimes you have to use that for the benefit of something.
"I know there are a lot of good charities out there, but we could make a real difference. It's a cause that we're close to. If we had 20,000 there for a game at St Andrew's and 16,000 of them are Blues fans, if every fan gave a quid, then you're talking about £16,000 just from one game."
Rowett's only problem is to keep his training programme as well timed as his side's promotion bid, which had been progressing nicely with a six-match unbeaten league run until Saturday's 2-1 home defeat by Sheffield Wednesday.
That was Blues' first defeat since losing on Boxing Day, also against the Owls, dropping his side back to eighth in the table.
"I have to make sure I don't take my eye off what we're doing here. But I've got up to 16 miles now," said Rowett, 41.
"I did the Leicester one four years ago and I'm a little bit ahead of that, but I did my 16-mile run on Sunday and it was hard going. I got to 12 and crumbled for some reason.
"But I remember coming in one day and saying how sore my knee was and Becky telling me a few more stories and I just thought I'd better shut up, stop moaning and get on with it."
As a former Derby County player, highly-rated Rowett was quickly linked with the managerial vacancy created by Paul Clement's surprise sacking by the Rams on Monday.
He has already been the subject of media speculation following similar vacancies this season at two other Championship sides, Fulham and Charlton Athletic.
"To see Gary Rowett's name linked with the Derby vacancy is absolutely inevitable," said BBC WM's Richard Wilford.
"He played there for several seasons, he lives near the city and his son is a big-time Rams fan. He will also have impressed the Derby hierarchy with the manner of Blues' 3-0 triumph there last month.
"However, Rowett may well feel obliged to see out the season at St Andrew's, not least given his squad's continuing flirtation with the play-off places, and given his pledge to stay on after considering the Fulham job."
Frank Lampard's first-half penalty set the platform for Chelsea's successful defence of the 1-0 lead they established in Lisbon's Stadium of Light.
And though Chelsea had to survive nervous moments in the last five minutes after Javi Garcia's header put Benfica one goal away from winning the tie, a spectacular strike from substitute Raul Meireles in the dying seconds cut short the comeback.
Chelsea's win sets up a repeat of the controversial 2009 semi-final when only Andres Iniesta's stoppage time strike at Stamford Bridge rescued Barcelona and prevented an all-Premier League meeting with Manchester United in Rome.
The Blues' performance here was hardly of the calibre to strike fear into the hearts of the holders and tournament favourites - indeed, for long spells, the fare was decidedly ordinary - but for caretaker manager Roberto di Matteo and his players it was mission accomplished.
Their opponents created chances throughout but simply lacked the cutting edge to capitalise - a task made even more difficult by the first-half dismissal of captain Maxi Pereira after he received a second yellow card for a crude challenge on Jon Obi Mikel.
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But while Chelsea may not have touched the heights, their rejuvenation under caretaker Di Matteo continues as they now contemplate another semi-final to go with their FA Cup date with Tottenham at Wembley.
It is a brutal reality, however, that they will have to display infinitely greater quality than this to trouble Pep Guardiola's Catalan superstars as they battle for a place in next month's final in Munich.
The visitors opened with ambition as they chased down the deficit from the first leg in Lisbon, with the gifted Pablo Aimar prominent.
The early momentum was halted, however, by the concession of a needless penalty after 21 minutes when Garcia barged Ashley Cole to the ground. Keeper Artur touched Lampard's penalty but it carried too much power.
Chelsea will need to be armed with something more potent than a grievance if they are to find a way past a Barcelona side that look vastly superior to the one in Di Matteo's charge
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Benfica needed a swift response and almost got it through the dangerous Oscar Cardozo but his shot from the edge of the area was swept off the line by home captain John Terry.
Passages of the first half had been niggly, with referee Damir Skomina producing his yellow card at regular intervals. And it was red for visiting captain Pereira five minutes before the interval when, having been booked for protesting about the penalty, he received a second yellow for an ugly lunge at Mikel.
Even then, it took a fine save from Petr Cech to prevent Benfica drawing level moments after the restart, the Blues keeper showing great agility to claw away Cardozo's effort.
The game became increasingly stretched as Benfica's need for a goal became more urgent and seconds after Yannick Djalo's shot was deflected narrowly off target at one end, keeper Artur was forced to block at Kalou's feet at the other.
The visitors' threat finally brought a goal, courtesy of Garcia's glancing header in the 85th minute, but just as the prospect of a dramatic turnaround materialised, so it promptly disappeared. Meireles - taunted by the visiting fans for his connection to rivals Porto - settled the tie.
He broke away as Chelsea cleared a Benfica free-kick, keeping his composure to flash a finish past Artur to confirm another meeting with old Champions League adversaries Barcelona.
Full Time The referee signals the end of the game.
Pablo Aimar takes a shot. Comfortable save by Petr Cech.
Assist by Mikel.
Goal! - Raul Meireles - Chelsea 2 - 1 Benfica Raul Meireles grabs a goal from just outside the penalty area to the top right corner of the goal. Chelsea 2 (3)-(1) 1 Benfica.
Nemanja Matic crosses the ball, save made by Petr Cech. Didier Drogba concedes a free kick for a foul on Francisco Javi Garcia. Free kick crossed right-footed by Pablo Aimar, clearance made by Mikel.
Joan Capdevila sends in a cross, Gary Cahill makes a clearance.
Joan Capdevila delivers the ball, David Luiz manages to make a clearance.
The ball is crossed by Machado Rodrigo Moreno, Ashley Cole manages to make a clearance.
Substitution Didier Drogba replaces Fernando Torres.
Miguel Nelson Oliveira produces a right-footed shot from the edge of the area and misses to the left of the target.
Raul Meireles has an effort at goal from the edge of the box that misses to the right of the target.
Assist on the goal came from Pablo Aimar.
Goal! - Francisco Javi Garcia - Chelsea 1 - 1 Benfica Francisco Javi Garcia finds the back of the net with a headed goal from inside the six-yard box. Chelsea 1 (2)-(1) 1 Benfica.
Miguel Nelson Oliveira fouled by David Luiz, the ref awards a free kick. Pablo Aimar restarts play with the free kick. The ball is sent over by Axel Witsel, Yanick Djalo takes a shot. Save made by Petr Cech. Inswinging corner taken right-footed by Pablo Aimar,
Yanick Djalo concedes a free kick for a foul on Ashley Cole. Free kick taken by David Luiz. The assistant referee signals for offside against Fernando Torres. Indirect free kick taken by Guilherme Artur Moraes.
Raul Meireles takes a shot. Axel Witsel gets a block in.
Pablo Aimar has an effort direct from the free kick, save made by Petr Cech.
Substitution Raul Meireles on for Juan Mata.
Booking The referee cautions Mikel for unsporting behaviour.
Mikel gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Machado Rodrigo Moreno.
Miguel Nelson Oliveira takes a shot from long range which goes wide of the right-hand upright.
Pablo Aimar concedes a free kick for a foul on Ramires. Petr Cech takes the direct free kick.
Ashley Cole crosses the ball, Salomon Kalou produces a right-footed shot from the edge of the box and misses to the right of the target. Miguel Nelson Oliveira takes a shot. Save by Petr Cech.
A cross is delivered by Joan Capdevila, Header from deep inside the area by Yanick Djalo goes harmlessly over the crossbar.
Substitution Machado Rodrigo Moreno is brought on as a substitute for Zanaki Bruno Cesar.
The ball is swung over by Miguel Nelson Oliveira, comfortable save by Petr Cech.
Shot by Juan Mata from deep inside the penalty area misses to the right of the target.
Nemanja Matic challenges Frank Lampard unfairly and gives away a free kick. Mikel takes the direct free kick.
Ramires delivers the ball, Headed effort from inside the area by Fernando Torres misses to the right of the target.
The ball is swung over by Miguel Nelson Oliveira, Francisco Javi Garcia takes a shot. Save by Petr Cech. Salomon Kalou takes a shot. Guilherme Artur Moraes makes a save.
A cross is delivered by Yanick Djalo, clearance by Branislav Ivanovic. Yanick Djalo takes a shot. Gary Cahill gets a block in. Corner taken short by Zanaki Bruno Cesar.
Joan Capdevila produces a left-footed shot from long range that goes harmlessly over the bar.
Joan Capdevila sends in a cross, David Luiz manages to make a clearance.
Substitution Nicolas Gaitan leaves the field to be replaced by Yanick Djalo.
Centre by Fernando Torres, clearance made by Conceicao Emerson. Frank Lampard takes a shot and missed to the right of the goal.
The ball is delivered by Salomon Kalou.
Substitution Gary Cahill replaces John Terry.
Unfair challenge on Frank Lampard by Nemanja Matic results in a free kick. Mikel takes the direct free kick.
Substitution Miguel Nelson Oliveira replaces Oscar Cardozo.
Juan Mata takes a shot. Guilherme Artur Moraes makes a save. Fernando Torres produces a right-footed shot from deep inside the penalty area which goes wide of the left-hand post.
The ball is crossed by Branislav Ivanovic.
Juan Mata crosses the ball, Salomon Kalou has a headed effort at goal from deep inside the area missing to the left of the target.
Fernando Torres takes a shot. Conceicao Emerson gets a block in. Juan Mata takes the outswinging corner, Conceicao Emerson makes a clearance.
Oscar Cardozo has an effort at goal from a long way out that misses to the right of the goal.
Fernando Torres concedes a free kick for a foul on Francisco Javi Garcia. Guilherme Artur Moraes restarts play with the free kick.
Branislav Ivanovic produces a cross, Salomon Kalou takes a shot. Clearance by Juan Mata.
Shot from just outside the box by Pablo Aimar misses to the left of the target.
Oscar Cardozo takes a shot. Save by Petr Cech. Corner taken by Nicolas Gaitan played to the near post, David Luiz manages to make a clearance.
Salomon Kalou takes a shot. Axel Witsel gets a block in. Outswinging corner taken right-footed by Frank Lampard from the right by-line, John Terry has a headed effort at goal from deep inside the area missing to the left of the target.
Nicolas Gaitan crosses the ball, clearance made by John Terry.
The second half kicks off.
Half Time The referee calls an end to the first half.
Foul by Salomon Kalou on Pablo Aimar, free kick awarded. Free kick crossed right-footed by Pablo Aimar, clearance by John Terry.
Zanaki Bruno Cesar fouled by Juan Mata, the ref awards a free kick. Free kick taken by Axel Witsel.
The offside flag is raised against Fernando Torres. Guilherme Artur Moraes takes the free kick.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Juan Mata by Axel Witsel. The free kick is swung in left-footed by Juan Mata, Axel Witsel manages to make a clearance.
Zanaki Bruno Cesar takes the direct free kick.
Booking Ramires goes into the referee's book.
Ramires gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Zanaki Bruno Cesar.
The ball is crossed by Ramires. Salomon Kalou delivers the ball, save by Guilherme Artur Moraes.
The assistant referee flags for offside against Juan Mata. Free kick taken by Guilherme Artur Moraes.
Frank Lampard takes the free kick.
Dismissal Red card for Victorio Maxi Pereira.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Victorio Maxi Pereira on Mikel.
Pablo Aimar produces a strike on goal direct from the free kick. Nicolas Gaitan crosses the ball, save made by Petr Cech.
Booking Branislav Ivanovic goes into the referee's book for unsporting behaviour.
Branislav Ivanovic challenges Nicolas Gaitan unfairly and gives away a free kick.
A cross is delivered by Nicolas Gaitan, clearance by Ramires. Corner taken right-footed by Zanaki Bruno Cesar, Salomon Kalou makes a clearance.
Foul by Fernando Torres on Victorio Maxi Pereira, free kick awarded. Axel Witsel takes the free kick.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Juan Mata by Zanaki Bruno Cesar. Free kick taken by Mikel.
Juan Mata challenges Nicolas Gaitan unfairly and gives away a free kick. Free kick crossed by Pablo Aimar, Frank Lampard manages to make a clearance.
The ball is swung over by Ashley Cole.
Pablo Aimar takes a shot. Save by Petr Cech.
Foul by Mikel on Nicolas Gaitan, free kick awarded. Nemanja Matic takes the direct free kick.
Mikel concedes a free kick for a foul on Pablo Aimar. The ball is sent over by Zanaki Bruno Cesar, Oscar Cardozo takes a shot. Clearance by John Terry. The assistant referee signals for offside against Oscar Cardozo. Indirect free kick taken by Petr Cech.
Frank Lampard gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Zanaki Bruno Cesar. Direct free kick taken by Guilherme Artur Moraes.
Booking The referee shows Pablo Aimar a yellow card.
A cross is delivered by Mikel, save by Guilherme Artur Moraes.
Outswinging corner taken by Juan Mata from the left by-line.
Nemanja Matic challenges Ramires unfairly and gives away a free kick. Frank Lampard takes the direct free kick.
Ashley Cole provided the assist for the goal.
Assist on the goal came from Ashley Cole.
Effort by Oscar Cardozo from a long way out goes over the crossbar. A cross is delivered by Fernando Torres, clearance made by Victorio Maxi Pereira.
Booking Victorio Maxi Pereira goes into the referee's book.
Goal! - Frank Lampard - Chelsea 1 - 0 Benfica Penalty taken right-footed by Frank Lampard and scored. Chelsea 1 (2)-(0) 0 Benfica.
Booking Zanaki Bruno Cesar receives a caution.
Francisco Javi Garcia concedes a Penalty for a foul on Ashley Cole.
Direct free kick taken by David Luiz.
Booking Oscar Cardozo receives a yellow card.
Foul by Oscar Cardozo on David Luiz, free kick awarded.
Nicolas Gaitan sends in a cross, Mikel makes a clearance.
Free kick awarded for a foul by John Terry on Pablo Aimar. Pablo Aimar restarts play with the free kick.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Nicolas Gaitan by Ramires. Direct free kick taken by Conceicao Emerson.
Pablo Aimar takes a shot from inside the box clearing the bar.
The assistant referee flags for offside against Juan Mata. Indirect free kick taken by Guilherme Artur Moraes.
Zanaki Bruno Cesar takes a shot. David Luiz gets a block in.
Corner from the left by-line taken by Juan Mata, David Luiz takes a shot. Blocked by Joan Capdevila.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Conceicao Emerson on Fernando Torres. Branislav Ivanovic takes the free kick.
The assistant referee signals for offside against Juan Mata. Free kick taken by Guilherme Artur Moraes.
Pablo Aimar takes a shot. John Terry gets a block in. Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Nemanja Matic by Mikel. Direct free kick taken by Nemanja Matic.
Victorio Maxi Pereira delivers the ball.
Nicolas Gaitan produces a cross, blocked by Branislav Ivanovic. Corner taken by Pablo Aimar from the left by-line to the near post, clearance made by Frank Lampard.
Centre by Nicolas Gaitan.
The ball is crossed by Nicolas Gaitan.
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The emergency services had been called to the property on Hutchison Road at about 10:25.
Ambulance personnel attended with police officers and the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
Detectives said the death is being treated as suspicious. They are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.
Det Ch Insp Alwyn Bell said: "Our thoughts are with the young woman's family at this incredibly difficult time and officers continue to offer them support.
"The investigation into the full circumstances surrounding her death continues, however we're not currently looking for anyone else in connection with this.
"Anyone with information who has not yet spoken to officers is urged to contact us."
The entrepreneurs behind the Social Bite sandwich shops in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen have teamed up with beer company BrewDog.
Brewgooder's Clean Water Lager will be launched with a campaign to fund production of the first 200,000 cans on Tuesday.
It will also be available on tap in BrewDog's UK bars.
It aims to supply clean drinking water to one million people in the first five years due to tie-ins with Oxfam, WaterAid and MercyCorps.
All profits will go to the Brewgooder Foundation, whose trustees are made up of Alan Mahon and Josh Littlejohn - the team behind the not-for-profit sandwich shop Social Bite - and BrewDog founders James Watt and Martin Dickie, supported by the Hunter Foundation.
Mr Mahon said: "We're offering beer drinkers the chance to help others by doing what they love most - drinking good beer. Using beer to drive such an ambitious social change has never been tried before.
"Today we are beginning a journey to provide one million people with clean drinking water and with our #DrinkBeerGiveWater crowdfund campaign, we are asking the public to help us on our mission."
Mr Littlejohn said: "We wanted to build on the success of Social Bite and develop other models of using business to tackle social challenges.
"There is a lovely symmetry of drinking good beer and giving clean water.
"We are excited about teaming up with a business of BrewDog's scale to make a significant impact - with the ultimate ambition to make a dent in a global water crisis that means 650 million people have no access to clean drinking water and 1,400 children die each day from water-borne diseases."
At Social Bite cafes customers are able to buy a drink or a meal for a homeless person to be given free of charge at a later date.
Last year Social Bite offered a prize of dinner with George Clooney in Edinburgh.
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On Tuesday, Mr Peake will head off on his six-month mission on-board the station.
He is set to launch aboard a Russian rocket with fellow crew members Tim Kopra and Yuri Malenchenko.
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But when a team of journalists declared that the tiny Mediterranean island was a "pirate base for tax avoidance", it sent ripples of concern across the EU.
Malta currently holds the presidency of the European Union, so the allegations are all the more sensitive. And they come at the tail end of a bitter election campaign that has seen the island's Labour government fending off serious claims of corruption, ahead of a vote on 3 June.
Malta operates a tax system where companies pay the lowest tax on profits in the EU.
While local businesses must pay 35% on profits, international corporations profit from a corporation tax rate of as little as 5%, thanks to a complex system where shareholders can receive a tax refund of up to six-sevenths of their tax paid in Malta. The average rate in the EU is around 22%.
Several EU countries say such a system damages their budgets and reveals a weakness in the EU, which allows the 28 member states sovereign rights over their taxation.
According to a report commissioned by Green MEPs in the European Parliament, Malta helped multinationals avoid paying €14bn (£12bn;$15.6bn) in taxes between 2012 and 2015, which would have gone to other EU countries.
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The EU wants to stop companies setting up "letter-box subsidiaries" in countries solely to qualify for a softer tax regime. That is a situation the Maltese company registry is all too familiar with. The fight against tax avoidance is one of the European Commission's main priorities - its president, Jean-Claude Juncker, recently had to explain his own conduct as prime minister of Luxembourg.
On May 19, a network of journalists released their findings after digging into more than 150,000 documents.
Describing them as the "Malta Files", the group said they showed how international companies were taking advantage of the Maltese tax system. They also claimed Malta had become a target for firms linked to the Italian mafia and Russian loan sharks.
It came just two weeks after Norbert Walter-Borjans, the finance minister in Germany's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, singled out Malta as "the Panama of Europe".
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It is a highly sensitive subject for Malta's leadership, as just over a year ago one of the revelations from the huge leak of documents known as the Panama Papers was that the Maltese prime minister's chief of staff and a prominent minister held secret companies in Panama.
Malta says it is under siege, insisting big countries are anxious to bite off a good chunk of revenue made by the EU's smallest state.
The tax system has been jealously guarded by different Maltese governments, with successive prime ministers arguing there is nothing secretive about Malta's registry of companies and that controlling tax policy is the only tool left for small EU countries to remain competitive.
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After the "Malta Files" were divulged, Finance Minister Edward Scicluna told reporters: "Do not underestimate the attempts to bully a small country."
Mr Scicluna has striven to explain that the Maltese authorities share company and banking information whenever asked to do so by foreign jurisdictions.
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat added: "Our register is more transparent than Germany's or Luxembourg's. Our competitive edge is like giving a manufacturing company land on the cheap to encourage it to set up a factory in our country."
Ex-Finance Minister Tonio Fenech told the BBC it all boils down to tax competition.
"It's not Malta's problem that it has an attractive tax jurisdiction. It's the problem of other EU states that don't. Why should I increase my tax rates to please Germany or France? A lot of countries should look at the way their tax system has killed off business and led to unemployment."
Mr Fenech served for nine years as finance minister and oversaw the tax system when Malta joined the EU in 2004. He said the island had nothing to hide. Its corporate tax system was sanctioned by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and is in line with the EU's freedom of establishment.
Mr Fenech insisted there was no fool-proof system anywhere to weed out questionable companies: "There's VAT evasion, money laundering all over Europe. What I can assure you is we have a lot of stringent rules."
Malta's economic success has been overshadowed by corruption scandals that go to the core of the Labour government elected in 2013.
The government has been under siege since the Panama Papers revealed details of secret companies in Panama.
Those revelations have cast doubt on its ability to push through anti-money laundering legislation.
Simon Busuttil, leader of the centre-right Nationalist Party, said the corruption that gripped the Muscat government was the main reason Malta was being subjected to closer scrutiny.
The so-called Individual Investor Programme scheme, which enabled Malta to raise millions by selling its passports to rich foreigners, is at the centre of an inquiry, after Mr Busuttil claimed he had evidence to prove the prime minister's chief of staff was receiving kickbacks off the scheme.
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The European Parliament's "Pana" Committee, probing the Panama Papers, has summoned both Mr Muscat and his chief of staff for a hearing in June.
Vice-chairperson Ana Gomes said: "All these scandals relating to Panama are harming Malta's image and the EU's. We're very concerned about the systems, or the apparent lack of them, to prevent the island from being used for activities of money laundering and proceeds of crime."
Though Joseph Muscat and Simon Busuttil are worlds apart over the Panama Papers, they have both pledged to fight to convince the EU there is nothing illegal or immoral with Malta's tax system if they win office in elections on 3 June.
The report dismissed claims the Newsnight probe was dropped to protect tribute shows to the late TV presenter.
Newsnight's editor and deputy are being replaced after another inquiry criticised a report which led to Lord McAlpine facing false claims of abuse.
The BBC's head of news is returning to her job, but her deputy is to resign.
The Pollard Review was set up by the BBC to see if there were management failings over the investigation, dropped by Newsnight in December 2011.
The report, prepared by former head of Sky News Nick Pollard, said: "The decision to drop the original investigation was flawed and the way it was taken was wrong but I believe it was done in good faith.
"It was not done to protect the Savile tribute programmes or for any improper reason."
It only emerged in October that the six-week investigation had been dropped by BBC TV's flagship current affairs programme, just before ITV aired its own programme on the allegations.
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So no cover-up but it's still a bleak read for the BBC. "Chaos and confusion" is the damning verdict on BBC management.
"When clear leadership was required, it was not provided," states Nick Pollard. So there are very serious question to be asked.
But there are also fascinating details to be culled from the 10,000 emails on the topic.
I was startled reading passages on warnings in 2011 about "the truth" of Jimmy Savile from someone who had worked with him and how he felt "queasy" about the planned tributes programmes, and also a separate email warning about the late presenter's "dark side".
In an email to staff, BBC acting director general Tim Davie said he was "pleased to say that the review found no evidence of any improper pressure" over dropping the programme.
But he accepted that the "report exposed clear failings in some of our systems, the way we work together and make decisions".
Responding to a question from Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman about why no-one had been sacked over the scandal, he said: "Success for me is not necessarily how many people I dismiss. It's about making a fair and proper judgement on the facts in front of me and making sure the BBC is in a position to rebuild trust."
Mr Davie defended the £2m spent on the Pollard Review, saying: "It was right to spend that money because we had an allegation that was very fundamental to trust in the BBC."
He said in future the corporation needed to be "better connected" and information should be shared better.
But he said he was not in favour of adding more layers of management. "It's not about that, it's about clarity, simplicity of structure and actually just clear accountability," he told Newsnight.
BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten said the corporation accepted the report in its "entirety".
"I think that the issues of culture and leadership of the management problems that have been identified in that terrific, searingly honest report of Nick Pollard's are ones that have to be addressed," he said.
BBC home editor Mark Easton said Mr Pollard had been confident the BBC could restore the trust of its audiences, but it would have to be earned.
He said it was also interesting that the BBC Trust had said the problem was cultural, rather than being about structure or compliance.
Culture Secretary Maria Miller said the report raised "serious questions around editorial and management issues at the BBC" and urged the Trust, the corporation's governing body, to "help tackle these".
"I also remind the Trust how vital it is to publish all relevant evidence, as soon as possible, in order to re-build public trust and confidence in the BBC," she said.
The Pollard Review involved the examination of 10,000 emails and detailed interviews with 19 individuals.
Liz Dux, solicitor for 40 alleged victims of abuse by Savile - who are now seeking compensation from his estate - said the shelving of the report meant their suffering had been prolonged by a year.
"Twelve months is an awful long time. It could have led to absolutely disastrous consequences for the victims, because if Savile's estate had been distributed in that twelve months they would have been left with absolutely no access to justice at all," she said.
Mr Davie apologised on Newsnight for the fact that information gathered by the programme was not handed to police for 10 months.
"We absolutely regret that that information wasn't passed on to the police," he said.
Liz McKean, one of the journalists who worked on the Savile story, said the decision to drop it was "a breach of our duty to the women who trusted us to reveal that Jimmy Savile was a paedophile".
She added: "Many found it difficult to share their experiences as vulnerable girls."
Following the report's publication, the BBC announced a series of staff changes:
Another review led by Dame Janet Smith, looking at the culture and practices of the BBC during the years in which Savile worked there, is expected next year.
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Sadiq Khan's plans include £3,500 each for up to 70,000 polluting van and minibus drivers to buy cleaner vehicles in the voluntary scheme.
He also wants a £2,000 credit scheme to help low-income families scrap up to 130,000 cars and £1,000 to help scrap the oldest taxis.
The government said it would be updating its air quality plans soon.
The total cost of the scheme would be £515m.
It is estimated it would achieve a 40% reduction in London road transport nitrogen oxide emissions.
Tackling air pollution is one of Mr Khan's top priorities since he became mayor last May.
The city was put on "high alert" for pollution last month under a new monitoring system.
A spokesman for the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said the industry was investing "billions" to reduce emissions and the latest diesel cars were the "cleanest in history".
But the mayor wants to make it difficult for diesel cars to be driven through the city.
His plans include charging polluting cars an extra £10 for entering the congestion zone. He also wants to bring forward the introduction of the Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) and expand it up to the North and South Circular Road.
Mr Khan said: "The toxic state of our air leaves us with no choice but to rid our city of the most polluting diesel vehicles.
"It is shocking that nearly half of new car sales in the UK are still diesel vehicles and the national system of vehicle excise duty still incentivises motorists to buy these polluting cars."
The government said it was "firmly committed" to improving the UK's air quality.
"That's why we have committed more than £2bn since 2011 to increase the uptake of ultra-low emissions vehicles, support greener transport schemes and set out how we will improve air quality through a new programme of Clean Air Zones.
"In addition, in the Autumn Statement, we announced a further £290m to support electric vehicles, low emission buses and taxis, and alternative fuels."
Steve McNamara, general secretary of the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association (LTDA), said he welcomed the mayor's efforts to secure additional funding to help "drivers meet the cost associated with decommissioning the oldest, most polluting vehicles".
Friends of the Earth air pollution campaigner Jenny Bates welcomed the initiative, but said money should not just be earmarked for buying new vehicles, but should also fund car club membership, rail season tickets and bicycles.
In 2010, a year-long scrappage fund, which was introduced by the government to help the recession-hit motor industry cope with falling sales, came to an end.
Stone went from five shots ahead to two behind after six bogeys in seven holes but recovered with four birdies to post a one-under-par 71 to win on 14 under.
The 22-year-old becomes the youngest winner of the event since 1997.
Stone won by two shots from fellow South African Christiaan Bezuidenhout (67), with England's Daniel Brooks (72) a shot further back in third.
He broke down in tears after his victory and told Sky Sports: "I don't have the vocab to describe how I feel right now.
"That round was the most up-and-down round that I've ever had in my life.
"Walking up to the 18th made me think about how the last few years have been up and down and up and down and just to pull it through at the end there, I can't describe it."
Branden Grace and former major winner Retief Goosen ended in a four-way tie for fourth.
Thomas Ford, who was 15 months old, was on a walk with his father and a sister when he picked a blackberry off a bush.
The boy, who had eaten them before, choked and was taken to hospital, where he died three days later.
His mother Serena Ford, from Stalham, Norfolk, said her family had been going through a "living nightmare" since it happened on 27 September.
"It's like you're in a bubble," she told the BBC. "Everyone else is just getting on with their lives, but we're stuck thinking 'are we going to wake up from it?'"
Mrs Ford, who also has two young daughters, said: "Having the girls has been great support and we've been supporting each other, but now I want to make people aware and if something good can come from this then it can only be a good thing."
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She said her husband Robert was walking their family dogs with Thomas and five-year-old Olivia when they stopped to pick some blackberries.
The 31-year-old nurse, who first told her story to the Eastern Daily Press, said they would often pick them and that Thomas had eaten them in the past without any problems.
This time, however, he began to choke.
Thomas's father could not see anything in his son's mouth.
When Olivia called her mother, she immediately dashed down the road to join them.
By the time she arrived, though, her son was already unconscious.
They tried CPR until the air ambulance arrived, but staff at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital were unable to save him.
"I didn't think you could choke on a blackberry, as soft as it is," Mrs Ford said. "But there is a potential risk in everything.
"I don't want people to be paranoid, I want children to be children and explore, but parents need to be more mindful of things they wouldn't necessarily think are harmful."
A team at Northwestern University, Chicago, played sounds while people slept to trigger and enforce memories of an exercise earlier in the day.
The trial on 40 people, published in the journal Science, showed the changes lasted at least a week.
Experts said the findings had potential in many situations, but also raised ethical questions.
Sexual and racial prejudice are common but may often be unintentional, says the Northwestern team.
They cite studies in computer games when people chose to shoot black characters more often than white ones or men being favoured over women despite having identical job applications.
People's prejudices were assessed with a series of publicly available tests at the start of the study.
They were then given "counter-bias training". During the session, pictures of faces were paired with words that were the opposite of widely-held stereotypes.
So female faces were paired with words like "maths" or black faces with positive words like "sunshine".
Distinctive sounds were played during the counter-bias training and were played again at low volume during a 90-minute afternoon nap.
The result was a reduction in sexual and racial bias scores, which persisted for at least a week.
So could this really make someone less sexist or racist?
Prof Ken Paller, the director of the cognitive neuroscience programme at Northwestern University, told the BBC News website: "We didn't have people interact with or make decisions about other people, so that sort of experiment is needed to know the full effects of the methods we used.
"But we suggest that modifying unconscious social bias is likely to influence the extent to which decisions are influenced by racist or sexist attitudes."
He argues the technique may have potential in tackling addiction or unhealthy eating.
In a commentary, Gordon Feld and Jan Born from the University of Tubingen praised the study saying: "This is the first to demonstrate that this method can be used to break long-lived, highly pervasive response habits deeply rooted in memory."
But they cautioned that sleep was a vulnerable state in which people did not have "wilful consciousness".
They added: "However, Aldous Huxley's description of a dystopian 'brave new world' where young children are conditioned to certain values during sleep reminds us that this research also needs to be guided by ethical considerations."
Prof Paller said there were similarities to subliminal advertising and that there was an ethical discussion to be had.
However, he continued: "More importantly, perhaps, is the question of whether people in positions of authority in society, such as judges and police officers, and perhaps people who make hiring decisions, should have their unconscious bias evaluated and perhaps trained to some standard."
Brown left Scottish Premiership side Aberdeen in May after playing 42 times over two seasons.
The 31-year-old previously spent nearly a decade at Cheltenham Town, where he made 287 appearances.
Centre-back De Havilland, 21, was released by Sheffield Wednesday in June after failing to make a first-team appearance at the Championship club.
De Havilland, who can also play at right-back, has previous loan experience with Histon and Cambridge City and has been on trial at the Chairboys alongside Brown.
Wycombe manager Gareth Ainsworth said: "Taking the lads on trial has given us the opportunity to have a good look at them and I've been really impressed with what I've seen.
"They came highly recommended and they've produced a very high standard in training and in matches so far."
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The Westbury White Horse in Wiltshire, described as a "bit of a grey mare" is being restored in time for the Queen's 90th birthday celebrations.
Up to 20 volunteers have spent the weekend power cleaning the horse, which is carved into a very steep slope.
The English Heritage monument was steam cleaned in 2012.
The cleaning project was organised by the Westbury Rotary Club. Once clean, the hillfigure is due to be given a new coat of white paint.
Under the supervision of an expert climber, two volunteers at a time are lowered down the face of the horse to blast dirt and algae off its surface.
Organiser Steve Carrington said weather conditions over the weekend had been ideal "to get the white horse white again".
"The last thing we want is really bright sunlight because it's really hard on the eyes - it's a bit like snow blindness - so actually slightly overcast with a bit of wind is ideal," he said.
"It was looking a bit like a grey mare and the town council was very keen the white horse was white, as it should be, in time for the Queen's Birthday."
Westbury's horse is said to be the oldest in Wiltshire. It was restored in 1778, but many believe it is far older than that.
It is thought to have been originally carved in 878 AD to commemorate King Alfred's victory over the Danes at the Battle of Ethandune.
In a statement, the club said Moore was in breach of his contract.
The 61-year-old was suspended by the League One club and replaced by assistant John McMahon on 17 February after the FA began an investigation.
On Tuesday, it was confirmed by the FA that he had admitted a misconduct charge regarding multiple breaches of rules relating to betting on games.
"Tranmere Rovers will not tolerate any action that damages the integrity of this football club. Any staff members found to be guilty of misconduct will face severe action," Mick Horton, football operations director and club secretary, told the club website.
Moore became manager of Tranmere for a second time in March 2012 following spells at Oldham, Southport and Rotherham.
His breach relates to Rule E8(b) of the FA's regulations.
This states that any participant in football "shall not bet, either directly or indirectly, or instruct, permit, cause or enable any person to bet on the result, progress or conduct of a match or competition in which the participant is participating, or has participated in that season; or in which the participant has any influence, either direct or indirect".
Moore has requested a personal hearing.
He leaves with Rovers 19th in the table but only outside the relegation zone on goal difference.
Sending customers more cases than they had ordered would allow Diageo to report higher sales than were placed.
Diageo said it was "working to respond fully to the SEC's requests for information in this matter".
Shares in Diageo closed down 2.1% at £18.66 following the news.
The US market accounts for nearly $18bn of Diageo's annual sales.
But sales in the region have been falling since 2011.
Diageo - which makes drinks including Smirnoff vodka, Guinness and Johnnie Walker whiskey - saw its share price surge last month on reports of a possible £50bn takeover bid from the Brazilian billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann and his private equity partners.
In the second half of last year the world's biggest distiller of Scotch whisky reported a sharp fall in sales in some of its key markets.
Diageo said profits fell by 18% to £1.7bn, while overall sales were down 1%.
Trading conditions in parts of Europe and Russia, described as "tough" at the start of the year by the company, are thought to remain difficult.
The 27-year-old will also be joined by world points race champion Jon Dibben in the line-up for the three-day race.
It is the third time the event has been run and this year's edition will start on 28 April in Bridlington.
The 194.5km final stage of the 2017 race will begin in Bradford before coming to its conclusion in Fox Valley, Sheffield on Sunday, 30 April.
The 25-year-old finished second with 84 points, 14 behind race winner Thomas Scully of New Zealand, with another Kiwi, Aaron Gate, taking bronze.
Kennaugh, the reigning British road race champion, adds Commonwealth silver to the Olympic gold he won in the team pursuit at London 2012.
The Isle of Man won two bronze medals at the 2010 Games in Delhi.
One of them came in the same event from Mark Christian, who qualified for Saturday's final but, along with fellow Manx rider Joe Kelly, was disqualified for collusion.
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Their last gold was won in the scratch race by Mark Cavendish in Melbourne in 2006.
"It's pretty special," said Kennaugh. "It's very different to the Olympics because on a global scale they are massive, but the Commonwealth Games is probably a bigger deal to the Isle of Man.
"To do it for the Isle of Man is incredible. It probably means more to some of the staff than it does to me because they are so passionately Manxmen. I'm happy to do it for them just to see the smiles on their faces."
Kennaugh did not race in the individual pursuit on Friday as it was felt his season on the roads with Team Sky would be better suited to the endurance events on the track.
He will also ride in the scratch race with either Christian or Joe Kelly on Sunday.
Those convicted would also have to attend classes to learn about the conditions faced by prostitutes.
It has taken more than two years to pass the controversial legislation because of differences between the two houses of parliament over the issue.
Some sex workers protested against the law during the final debate.
The demonstrators outside parliament in Paris, numbering about 60, carried banners and placards one of which read: "Don't liberate me, I'll take care of myself".
Members of the Strass sex workers' union say the law will affect the livelihoods of France's sex workers, estimated to number between 30,000 and 40,000.
Sweden was the first country to criminalise those who pay for sex rather than the prostitutes, introducing the law in 1999. Other countries have since adopted the so-called "Nordic model": Norway in 2008, Iceland in 2009, and Northern Ireland in 2014. Earlier this year, the European parliament approved a resolution calling for the law to be adopted throughout the continent.
But many advocacy groups warn the model makes sex work more dangerous.
Catherine Stephens, an activist with the UK-based International Union of Sex Workers, and a sex worker herself, says criminalisation makes those in the industry "much more likely to have to accept clients who are obscuring their identity, which benefits people who want to perpetrate violence".
Ms Stephens told the BBC that criminalising those who wish to purchase sex makes them less likely to report concerns about a sex worker's wellbeing.
"We have had cases where clients have helped people escape from situations of coercion ... Criminalising the client actively works against that, discouraging them from coming forward. We need to create a situation in which it is easy to report harm, violence and coercion. Blanket criminalisation of premises, brothels, or clients absolutely works against that."
Amnesty International says that laws against buying sex "mean that sex workers have to take more risks to protect buyers from detection by the police". The charity says sex workers have reported being asked to visit customers' homes to help them avoid police, instead of meeting them in safer environments.
Supporters of the law argue that it increases safety. Anne-Cecile Mailfert, the president of the Women's Foundation in France, which provides support to women's rights organisations, says sex workers are better able to seek police protection if they need it.
She told the BBC: "We are giving to the prostituted person a new tool to defend themselves and protect themselves. If they don't want to do that then actually they just don't have to call the police. But if anything happens, if the client is violent, if anything wrong happens, then now they have the law on their side."
The legislation will also make it easier for foreign prostitutes to get a temporary residence permit in France if they agree to find jobs outside prostitution, says Socialist MP Maud Olivier, who sponsored the legislation.
He told the Associated Press: "The most important aspect of this law is to accompany prostitutes and give them identity papers, because we know that 85% of prostitutes here are victims of trafficking."
The law was passed in the final vote on the bill in the lower house of parliament by 64 to 12 with 11 abstentions. It supersedes legislation from 2003 that penalised sex workers for soliciting.
Prostitution itself is not a crime in France, but pimping, human trafficking, brothels and and buying sex from a minor are all already against the law.
The tweet, which appeared on the feed of Nick Harrington, who sits on Warwick District Council, contained offensive and racist language towards the Irish.
His account has since been deleted, but a screen grab of the tweet has been widely re-circulated, the Coventry Telegraph said.
The BBC has attempted to get a comment from Mr Harrington.
Insp Russell Barker, of Warwickshire Police, confirmed police were investigating and treating it as a suspected hate crime.
"It is an ongoing investigation at the moment. Until we complete the investigation we cannot comment further," he said.
Mr Harrington represents the Stoneleigh & Cubbington ward.
Council leader Andrew Mobbs said he was "horrified" by the tweet and had suspended Mr Harrington from the Conservatives on Warwick District Council for six months.
"I can confirm that I have this morning suspended Councillor Harrington from the Conservative group for a period of six months and there will also be an investigation," he said.
"This behaviour is completely unacceptable. I have tried to speak to him but I have had to notify him by email.
"This councillor plays no part in the views, policies or thrust of our group," Mr Mobbs added.
He said a formal investigation would now take place through the council's standards procedure.
Sandie Bowen, 53, was murdered by Michael Bowen in 1997 - he never revealed where he hid her body.
Her remains were discovered at Wentwood Reservoir, near Newport, on 2 February.
After talks with the Crown Prosecution Service, Gwent Police said no further action would be taken against Bowen, who was jailed for life in 1998 but was recently released on licence.
Mrs Bowen, originally from Folkestone, Kent, was living in Llandogo, Monmouthshire, when she was killed.
There's a distinct lack of faith in Britain's Brexit promises. David Cameron pledged he would trigger Article 50 immediately should he lose his referendum.
There's also a distinct lack of EU patience.
Europe's leaders have a host of other crises which need their attention such as migration - see Hungary - and eurozone woes.
For now, though, the ball remains firmly in Theresa May's court.
She dictates the start date of Brexit negotiations. She needs to tell EU leaders what type of Brexit she wants.
But after that, Brussels believes it has the upper hand.
The clock starts ticking as soon as the prime minister triggers Article 50 - officially leaving Britain with just two years to get the deal it wants.
If Mrs May does start formal Brexit talks early next year, the biggest EU players, France and Germany, will be distracted by their own elections back home.
But that shouldn't affect negotiations too much at the start.
The focus then will be on untangling the UK from everything EU, rather than fixing in stone future trade relations.
Lewis Ball, 26, has not been seen since he left the Thekla on Bristol's Floating Harbour at 03:20 GMT last Sunday.
Police have now traced three people who left the nightclub at the same time as Lewis.
Avon and Somerset Police said they may have "information which could be vital to our search".
Det Insp Adam Stacey said: "Our efforts to find Lewis continue unabated and while we now have new lines of enquiry to progress we're still keen to talk to anyone who has information who has not yet contacted us.
"If you have any information, no matter how insignificant you think it might be, please call us as it could prove to be vital."
Drivers have also been asked to check their dashcam footage if they were in the area at the time.
Lewis is described as white, 5ft 9ins tall and of slim build. When he went missing he was wearing a black jumper, black skinny jeans and brown ankle boots.
The airport group, which operates 11 airports across Scotland, dealt with 1,437,625 passengers in 2015/16, up by more than 6,000 on the previous year.
Inverness was the busiest site but growth was also reported at Tiree, Barra and Dundee.
However, figures for the first quarter of 2016 are down, Hial has said.
A decline in business from the energy sector at Wick John O'Groats and Sumburgh airports and the loss of Flybe's Inverness to London City service were factors.
Hial said numbers of passengers were expected to rise again with new flights operating to and from Inverness Airport.
Managing director Inglis Lyon said: "This has been a good year for Hial's airports.
"Our smaller island airports performed extremely well, as did Inverness and Dundee, both of which will see expansion in the coming months as a result of new routes."
He added: "We have worked hard to improve connectivity across our group, with new aircraft serving the communities of Barra, Tiree and Campbeltown and new air services due to launch at Inverness and Dundee.
"As a result of our strengthening route network, regional Scotland is now better connected than ever before."
The group will also examine whether the way they are elected should change, and whether to reduce the voting age to 16.
The panel also includes Sir Paul Silk, who previously led inquiries into the scope of the assembly's powers.
Prof McAllister said they would prepare "robust, evidence-based recommendations".
Presiding Officer Elin Jones said she was "delighted" to announce "such an expert and highly qualified panel".
"The devolution of powers to the Assembly and a move to a reserved powers model signals a new constitutional basis for the Assembly, with important new responsibilities," she added.
"The Assembly finally has autonomy over its own affairs to help make this institution a stronger, more accessible, inclusive and forward-looking legislature that delivers effectively for the people of Wales."
Prof McAllister said: "The capacity of the Assembly to carry out its vital functions holding the Welsh Government to account, making laws for Wales, agreeing Welsh taxes, and representing the people of Wales has long been a subject for debate.
"The Panel and I look forward to exploring the evidence, and preparing robust, evidence-based recommendations for the Llywydd [Presiding Officer] and the [Assembly] Commission to consider."
The panel members are:
A political reference group made up of people nominated by the assembly parties will also be set up to be a "sounding board" for the panel and to help "ensure its work culminates in workable recommendations".
The panel is due to publish its recommendations by autumn 2017 to allow any changes to be made in time for the 2021 assembly election, subject to political support.
There have been longstanding calls from some political parties for an increase in the current total of 60 members to deal with the assembly's workload, in light of new powers over taxation and other issues as a result of the passing of the latest Wales Bill.
However Rachel Banner, who led the 2011 referendum campaign against increased law-making powers for the assembly, has said any increase in AMs should be put to a public vote.
In November, a report by the Wales Governance Centre and Electoral Reform Society (ERS) said there would need to be changes to the electoral system if the number of AMs was to be increased.
Dr Owain ap Gareth, campaigns and research officer for ERS Cymru said the setting up of the panel was "a vital step forward for Welsh democracy and paves the way for a stronger Senedd".
However, he spoke of "a need to bring the public along too in these discussions and engage with voters themselves on these key issues".
New Cambusdoon in Ayr will host the four-day Intercontinental Cup match from 9-12 August.
And the Grange in Edinburgh will be the venue for the two World Cricket League one-day fixtures on 14 and 16 August.
Grant Bradburn has named his squad, with Preston Mommsen captaining the Scots and uncapped Chris Sole selected.
"This series presents a great opportunity to exert home advantage," Bradburn told Cricket Scotland.
"Although this season has been very lean in terms of international fixtures, our squad have enjoyed the opportunity to train consistently and play a full part in the domestic programme with their club and regional teams.
"Our depth has been tested for this series with three players - Matt Machan, Matthew Cross and Gavin Main - still returning from injury and not considered ready for the four-day I-Cup fixture, while Brad Wheal is also unavailable.
"Despite some unavailability we have selected a strong and balanced side which sees a number of players rewarded for consistent performances this season."
Intercontinental Cup: Preston Mommsen (Capt), Kyle Coetzer (Vice Captain), Richie Berrington, Josh Davey, Con de Lange, Alasdair Evans, Michael Leask, Calum MacLeod, David Murphy (w/k), Safyaan Sharif, Chris Sole, Craig Wallace, Mark Watt.
World Cricket League: Preston Mommsen (Capt), Kyle Coetzer (Vice Captain), Richie Berrington, Matthew Cross (w/k), Josh Davey, Con de Lange, Alasdair Evans, Michael Leask, Calum MacLeod, Safyaan Sharif, Chris Sole, Craig Wallace, Mark Watt.
The videos feature warnings of the harm done by viewing such images.
The Lucy Faithfull Foundation (LFF) said it was aimed to deter would-be offenders and encourage them to seek therapy before being arrested.
Viewing or sharing an image of someone under the age of 18 carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years.
The NCA's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command estimates there are more than 50,000 people in the UK who share and download obscene images of children.
Keith Bristow, the head of the National Crime Agency, previously admitted the scale of the problem meant it was not possible for all offenders to be brought to justice.
The new campaign has been set up by Stop it Now! UK & Ireland - a child sexual abuse prevention campaign run by the LFF charity, which seeks to reduce the risk of children being sexually abused.
Donald Findlater, director of research and development for the LFF, said recent research indicated as many as 10% of those who look at child abuse images may go on to abuse a child.
He said: "The sooner we stop people viewing indecent images of children online, the fewer children will be abused."
One of those who viewed such images - who the BBC is calling Dave - was sentenced this year for possession of indecent images.
He said he had been "addicted" to adult pornography for years before he started looking for material including children.
"Through various pop-ups and so on, there would be school girl type images, and so on, and gradually more and more degrees which eventually led through to underage images".
"I do recall after very initially seeing any images that I was totally disgusted with myself for having done that - but at the same time I went back."
He was arrested last year, convicted, given a community sentence and placed on the sex offenders' register.
He also agreed to undergo therapy.
"I always suspected that one day there would be a knock at the door and when it came I was very petrified, but certainly as time has gone on there has been a huge sense of relief."
"I'm not a monster. I am just an ordinary person that you might just pass in the street."
The videos have been put together with help from the police and include comments from offenders - voiced by actors - who describe what a conviction did to their lives.
The videos also explain that the viewing of the images is not a victimless crime and highlight the harm done to children involved, as well as the consequences for the lives of people who access the images.
One shows officers knocking on the door of a man's home before his wife and child watch him being taken away in handcuffs.
Help is then offered through a confidential helpline run by the LFF, which can also organise group or individual therapy.
The videos are going to be rolled out across social media and through carefully placed online advertising.
There have been similar initiatives in Holland and Germany which have targeted men who admit to being sexually attracted to children.
Research published by the NSPCC in July this year revealed offenders are being convicted at the rate of two per day for possession of obscene images.
A study of 100 court cases found police had seized 4.5 million images of child sexual abuse.
Campaigners fear some of those those who look at the images may move on to abuse.
Dave who was convicted of possessing indecent images says he now feels, "a great sense of shame, guilt, remorse for my bad behaviours that I had".
His advice for other men and women in his position is simple.
"Get help before, before you're arrested, there is a path, there are a lot of very good people out there to help you, pick up the phone and start talking to someone".
"The best thing to do is to start to talk".
An NSPCC spokesman said it welcomed the efforts made to stop people viewing abuse images, but added: "But we mustn't forget there are thousands of young victims and similar efforts should be made to ensure they are identified, rescued and given protection and support."
Peace envoy Mr Waite was kidnapped in Lebanon in January 1987 as he negotiated the release of western hostages.
After his release five years later he flew into RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire, where the bells of the nearby parish church were rung to mark his arrival.
During his latest visit, he met the bell-ringers who had welcomed him home.
Mr Waite was held captive, mostly in solitary confinement, chained and often blindfolded, for 1,763 days before his release on 18 November 1991.
Now aged 77, he returned to the former RAF base where his plane landed, and where he stayed for several weeks as he began to get his life back to normal.
During the return visit in which the bells were rung for him again, he thanked some of the original bell-ringers at the neighbouring St Michael and All Angels church.
"One night my wife and I heard the bells ringing, and I said, 'Oh, the bell ringers must be practising', and she turned to me and said, 'They're ringing the bells for you'.
"I thought it was lovely thing to do. Twenty five years on it gives me an opportunity to say thanks for people who cared," he said.
"I experienced a real welcome. It was so nice and generous to welcome us in that way.
"You don't have to say a great deal or do a great deal - little symbolic gestures mean so much at times of distress."
Mr Waite, who was envoy to Robert Runcie, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, also wrote a personal message in the church visitors book, 25 years after he wrote an entry on his first visit to the church.
A quarter of a century on from his release, Terry Waite's memories of what happened on that rainy and blustery day, when he flew into RAF Lyneham, have not faded.
"It was raining so we went into the great hangar and there I gave my address, and then went to meet my family," he said.
"It was an emotional occasion, but it also had an amusing side to it.
"When the plane landed Robert Runcie, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was late because he'd been held up by traffic.
"On the plane they collected all the paper cups and serviettes in the haste to make the plane tidy and presentable and shoved them in the front toilet, so when Robert ran up the steps late, and said "I must use the loo", he opened the door and was immediately showered with paper cups and serviettes.
"It was not a dignified entry for the Archbishop of Canterbury.
"It's the amusing things that stick in your mind."
You can listen to an exclusive interview with Terry Waite as he returns to Lyneham, on Marie Lennon's programme on BBC Wiltshire on Wednesday 19 October from 09:00 BST.
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They meet in the last round-robin match at 20:00 GMT, with the winner facing Roger Federer in the semi-finals.
A victory would also guarantee Murray the year-end world number two ranking for the first time.
World number one Novak Djokovic will play 14-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal in Saturday's other semi-final.
Murray will travel to Belgium next week for Great Britain's first Davis Cup final since 1978, but he has yet to reach the London final in five previous attempts at the O2 Arena.
The Scot, 28, has the chance to reach his third semi-final but must recover from a poor performance against Nadal on Wednesday.
"Obviously I lost comfortably to Rafa and I could play him in a couple days' time and it could be a different story," said Murray.
"I'm trying to win every match that I play. I hope that's how all of the players view it."
Wawrinka lost to Nadal in his opening match but saw off David Ferrer on Wednesday.
The 30-year-old Swiss trails 8-6 in career meetings with Murray but they have not played since 2013, since when Wawrinka has won Grand Slam titles in Australia and earlier this year in France.
"We used to have some big battles in the past, some tough matches, three sets, four sets," Wawrinka said.
"It's going to be interesting how I'm going to play Friday, if I'm going to bring the positive game that I started to play on Wednesday, and also how he's going to be.
"He's having an amazing year, number two in the world and so dangerous indoors, especially at home. So we'll see."
Prince William visited a Tokyo studio where a popular costume drama is filmed - dressing as a samurai who unified the country in the 16th century.
However, he stopped short of wearing a samurai wig, saying his brother Prince Harry would "never let me forget it".
He is on a week-long visit to Japan and China to promote UK relations.
The duke dressed in the costume of samurai warlord, Toyotomi Hideyoshi - who features in the Japanese historical drama Taiga - during the visit to Japan's public broadcaster NHK.
He wore a glittering helmet, a red and gold tunic and carried a replica samurai sword.
As staff put the helmet on his head, Prince William joked: "I feel there should be a sword in my hand as well."
Once dressed, he looked into a mirror and asked: "How do I look?" before adding: "I feel ready for action."
Before dressing up, he watched three geisha actresses dance, while another played a three-stringed instrument, called a shamisen.
Mao Inoue, the female star of Hana Moyu, who plays a character called Humi Sugi in the popular television programme, presented the duke with a bouquet of flowers and a hand-made wooden toy for Prince George.
The duke began his four-day visit to Japan - his first visit to the country - on Thursday by taking part in a traditional tea ceremony in the capital Tokyo.
The last time a senior member of Britain's royal family visited Japan was in 2008, when the duke's father, Prince Charles, came with his wife Camilla.
The energy minister told the Daily Telegraph: "I've already said to Theresa how very sorry I am for any hurt I have caused."
The row began after Mrs Leadsom told the Times being a mum meant she had "a very real stake" in Britain's future.
Mrs Leadsom later sent Mrs May a text of apology, the BBC understands.
Aides to Mrs May say the home secretary was "grateful" for the message and texted her thanks.
They say Mrs May always believed Mrs Leadsom had not meant to cause any offence.
In the Times, Mrs Leadsom had discussed her bid to become the next leader of the Conservative Party, and therefore the UK's next prime minister.
She said Mrs May, the home secretary and Mrs Leadsom's rival, who has no children - "possibly has nieces, nephews, lots of people.
"But I have children who are going to have children who will directly be part of what happens next".
Mrs Leadsom told the Daily Telegraph motherhood should not play a part in the Conservative leadership campaign and added that she deeply regretted "that anyone has got the impression that I think otherwise".
She went on to say the Times article "said completely the opposite of what I said and believe" and that the criticism she faced since left her feeling "under attack, under enormous pressure - it has been shattering".
"I was pressed to say how my children had formed my views. I didn't want it to be used as an issue," she said.
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Among those who had criticised Mrs Leadsom over her original comments were business minister Anna Soubry, who said her comments meant she was "not PM material", while Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson said there was a "gulf in class" between the two candidates.
Senior MP Sir Alan Duncan said Mrs Leadsom's remarks were "vile".
However, Mrs Leadsom's key supporter Iain Duncan Smith, the former Tory leader, has said she is facing a "black-ops" campaign by MPs who want to "denigrate her reputation".
He told ITV's Good Morning Britain on Monday: "I was talking about the wider operation here, which is during the course of the last week we have seen the most remarkable and unprecedented attempts to cast Andrea Leadsom in the most ridiculous ways."
He also said Mrs Leadsom was "angry" over the coverage of her motherhood comments and that her apology to Mrs May was "heartfelt".
Wales' former first minister died on Thursday, aged 77. He was elected as an MP in 1987 and became an AM when the assembly was created in 1999.
Many have paid tribute to his wit and charm, with former first minister Alun Michael describing him as "the absolute master of the one-liner".
Here are some of his best quotes.
In 1998, he appeared on BBC's Newsnight and when asked by Jeremy Paxman if he wanted to be first minister, Mr Morgan replied: "Do one-legged ducks swim in a circle?" It prompted a bemused Paxman to ask: "Is that Welsh for yes?"
On finally getting the job of first minister in February 2000, he said: "I'm going to uncork the Welsh champagne bottle and let it fizz."
During an assembly debate on police reform, he commented: "The only thing which isn't up for grabs is no change and I think it's fair to say it's all to play for, except for no change."
In 2003, Mr Morgan took Conservative AM Jonathan Morgan to task after he criticised the quality of assembly debates, saying: "It's like a child shooting both its parents and then complaining about the food in the orphanage."
The Queen may not have been amused the following year, when he arrived late for her visit to Builth Wells in Powys. He defended himself saying: "I wasn't late, the Queen was early."
Mr Morgan also had choice words about opponents and different ruling regimes.
On the Conservatives, he quipped: "The Tories' relationship with Wales is based on trust and understanding. We don't trust them and they don't understand us."
And on the difference between his administration and that of his predecessor Alun Michael, he said: "We had developed a reputation for political shenanigans and being incapable of running our own affairs, and that's how it appeared to people.
"Drama is fine but if drama implies that the Welsh couldn't run a whelk stall, then that's a problem."
Mr Morgan once said an MP in New Labour stood for "Material for Promotion, Mandelson Poodle and Millbank Pagee," while his version of Welsh for spin doctor was "a practitioner of gyratory medicine".
Paying tribute to Tony Blair after the prime minister announced his departure, Mr Morgan said: "It's very strange for me to be standing here today talking about a person who shafted me on one occasion but on the other hand, compared to what has happened with Iraq, I think that's pretty small beer to be honest with you.
"Life is far too short to be bearing grudges of that sort."
Following a heart scare in 2007, Mr Morgan said he would like to spend his last day in the company of dolphins, whose staple diet of oily fish he adopted.
"Because their interest is mackerel and my interest is mackerel... I want to be able to communicate with the dolphin to say, 'well I have changed my diet to something much more like yours now'."
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Labour-run Derbyshire County Council said it will keep 22 of the centres open, but will save more than £4.5m through the cuts.
The equivalent of about 100 full-time posts will be lost.
A report on the closures said the main aim is to keep centres open "where there is the most need".
Councillor Jim Coyle said: "It is purely financial, we just don't have the money to keep them open.
"Unfortunately it is a very sad day."
The centres offer a range of services including health, parenting and family support, early education and childcare.
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The report said the services "can be delivered effectively without the extent of the current network of children's centre buildings".
"By removing building related costs, such as utility charges, cleaning and leasing, the budget can be directed to the families who are most in need."
Some of the locations that will close are in Crich, Belper, Dronfield, Bakewell, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Sandiacre, Chesterfield Town Centre, Ripley and Clay Cross.
Among the centres that will stay open are those in Bolsover and Matlock and Long Eaton.
More than 1,260 people gave their thoughts on the council's plans to close the children's centres.
Many who responded to the county's consultation said they would have to travel further to access services.
Derbyshire Community Health Services said it would "detrimentally affect the health and wellbeing of both current and future generations of children and young people across Derbyshire
Save Belper Children's Centre group said it was worried that "many vulnerable families will be left without support".
The US Open champion shot two eagles and five birdies to move to 14 under with fellow American Robert Castro, who posted a second successive 65.
England's Paul Casey, who went round in 66, is three shots adrift in third.
Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy and American Jordan Spieth are tied for 19th on four under after rounds of 72.
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Arafa Nassib is accused of conspiring with her 18-year-old son Adil Kasim and another man, Yusuf Abdullah, to commit fraud against Scottish Widows.
Ms Nassib is said to have attempted to fake her own death in Zanzibar.
All three appeared at Birmingham Magistrates' Court and were bailed to appear at the city's crown court on 31 May.
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Police arrested Ms Nassib in February when she returned to the UK.
It followed an inquiry into claims the 48-year-old had died off the coast of mainland Tanzania.
The alleged fraud was carried out between March and December last year.
Ms Nassib, 48, Mr Kasim, and Mr Abdullah, 24, all of Lower Rushall Street, Walsall, did not enter pleas.
India suffered a 95-run defeat in Sydney to end their defence of the title they won on home soil in 2011.
Dhoni quit as Test captain in December but says he will decide on his ODI future after the 2016 World Twenty20.
"I'm 33, I'm still running, still fit. Next year, T20 World Cup, will be time to decide about 2019," said Dhoni.
As well as answering questions about his own future, Dhoni was also asked about the future of coach Duncan Fletcher, whose three-year contract ends after the World Cup.
"That is between the BCCI and Duncan," replied Dhoni. "I don't know what will happen.
"Duncan's technical knowledge of the game is excellent. I really enjoy his company. He took over at a time when senior players had left and he had to groom the juniors. It was a tough job."
Dhoni scored 65 from 65 balls as India failed to achieve what would have been a record run-chase for this World Cup of 329, of which Steve Smith scored 102 for Australia.
Shikar Dhawan (45) and Ajinkya Rahane (44) also contributed but India were unable to keep up with the run-rate and were eventually dismissed for 233 in the 47th over.
However, despite the disappointing defeat, Dhoni feels his side can be proud of their achievements after coming into the tournament on the back of a disappointing tour of Australia, with no competitive wins to their name.
"Overall, I'm quite happy," added Dhoni, whose side had won 11 successive World Cup games ahead of Monday's semi-final, including seven matches in Australia and New Zealand.
"Where we were at the start of the tournament, a lot of people didn't think we'd get this far.
"At the same time, when you come to the knockout stages you have to lift your game.
"There were too many (runs) to chase. If you lose quite a few wickets and you're supposed to chase over six runs an over... our lower order, I don't think they can contribute as much in these conditions.
"Overall, it's good exposure for them. Maybe next time, in other conditions, they'll know how to bat and do better."
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The Basel-based organisation - usually dubbed the "central banks' central bank" - urged policy makers to begin to normalise rates.
"The risk of normalising too late and too gradually should not be underestimated," the BIS said.
Markets have rallied since January.
The FTSE all-world share index is up 5% so far this year, while the Vix, a measure of implied US market volatility known as the "fear index" , is at a seven-year low.
"Overall, it is hard to avoid the sense of a puzzling disconnect between the markets' buoyancy and underlying economic developments globally," the BIS said in its annual report.
It said that low interest rates had helped increase demand for higher risk investments on stock markets as well as in property and corporate bonds markets.
The BIS doesn't set policy but serves as a forum for central bankers to exchange views on relevant topics from the global economy to financial markets.
While global growth has improved, the BIS said it was still below its pre-crisis levels.
"Growth has disappointed even as financial markets have roared: The transmission chain seems to be badly impaired," the BIS said.
It said policy makers should take advantage of the current upturn in the global economy to reduce the emphasis on monetary stimulus.
And it warned that taking too long to do this could have potentially damaging consequences, by encouraging investors to take too much risk.
"Over time, policies lose their effectiveness and may end up fostering the very conditions they seek to prevent," it said.
"The predominant risk is that central banks will find themselves behind the curve, exiting too late or too slowly," it added.
The BIS was founded in 1930 and is the world's oldest international financial institution.
Its 60-strong membership includes the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the US Federal Reserve, the People's Bank of China and the Bank of Japan.
Police said the men forced their way into the house in Ashley Road, Poole, at about 21:15 GMT on Friday.
Officers said the family's children were also threatened in what they said was a "very frightening ordeal". No-one was hurt.
The robbers are thought to be white, in their early-20s and were said to speak with a "local accent".
Dorset Police urged anyone who is offered "Asian jewellery" in "unusual circumstances" to contact the police.
The 19-year-old was assaulted by three men, one of whom reportedly had a gun, in the Creggan area of the city at about 04:00 BST.
They attacked him as he walked between Glenowen Park and Forrest Park.
Police said the gun was not used during the assault, but the victim sustaining cuts and bruises to his face and body when he was hit with the bar.
Detectives at Strand Road police station have appealed for information.
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He's holding a mundane-looking plastic bag. But this isn't just any old piece of future landfill. This bag has literally been plucked from the air we breathe.
Normal plastic is made from oil, but this is made from AirCarbon - carbon drawn from methane from cattle farms (cows having, shall we say, a gassy disposition), common landfill or anywhere really that produces the gas.
It is grabbed before it enters the atmosphere, so not only does this avoid the use of fossil fuels, it actually removes greenhouse gases from the environment.
It's made by a Californian company called Newlight that Dell is working with.
"It reacts with this bio-catalyst, and that starts a reaction to separate carbon and the oxygen in that gas stream, and then goes through a fermentation process to further derive the material," says Mr Campbell.
"And from that we can go make various types of plastics."
The process has been certified as carbon negative by Trucost and NSF Sustainability, and actually costs less to produce than oil-based plastics, says Mr Campbell.
It's one of the sustainable packaging materials - including bamboo, wheat grass and even sponges grown from mushroom spores - the computer giant is now using in its supply chain, all introduced on Mr Campbell's watch.
"I think this really shows what happens when sustainability is done right, you can make things that are better for the environment and cost less," he says.
"Because that's really what's going to propel these technologies forward."
Making packaging greener is an increasing preoccupation for big business around the world. Although Dell is not alone in this, the company has actively tried to innovate and get involved in the development of these new technologies, in partnership with small start-ups with good ideas.
The initiatives have won both Mr Campbell and Dell a slew of awards, and he is now a regular on the conference circuit.
Mr Campbell stepped into his role in Dell's packaging department in 2006 - and has been instrumental in implementing the company's '3 Cs' - cube (reduce packing size), content (what it's made of), and curb (meaning to limit something that is not wanted).
"When we started to listen to customers, and social media played a big role in this, we were getting beat up about some boxes that were too big," he says.
"I am just glad my mother never read all that stuff. Because as you know social media can be, shall we say, direct and crude in its opinions.
"What people wanted us to do was to care as much about something as they did."
Drawing on his background in farming, the first material Mr Campbell decided to try was bamboo.
"I drew from that agricultural experience to say, 'Hey, what ideas could we creatively borrow or steal and apply to packaging?' Bamboo came to mind.
"Not only because of its rate of growth, but because of the mechanical properties, tensile strength equivalent to that of steel, and we felt that would be a good way to protect our hi-tech products."
It wasn't just a question of working out how to turn raw bamboo into cardboard boxes though. Other considerations cropped up, such as: can you recycle it? (It actually improves recycled paper streams thanks to its long fibres and strength.)
And then there are the pandas.
"I didn't want to be known as the guy who was ripping bamboos from the mouths of baby pandas, and end up on the BBC!" says Mr Campbell.
As result, all Dell bamboo is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council and sourced far away from panda habitats.
It proved to be very successful, so much so that even two years ago, about 70% of Dell notebooks were shipped in the material.
Then prices started to rise.
"[We were a] victim of our own success I think. By popularising bamboo, others really start to take a look at it."
Polystyrene is non-biodegradable and rarely recycled, a figure of hate in environmental circles, making finding an alternative something of a priority.
The material they're now starting to use is pretty much the polar opposite. The packing sponges are "grown" using mushroom spores, leaving large white blocks that feel unnervingly like mushroom skin. And in a way it is - it's actually the mycelium, the root system.
"The question was, what if you could eat your packaging," says Mr Campbell.
Old substrate is collected from mushroom farms - at the moment for free - and used to form the shape of the sponge.
"[The structure] is placed on a mould, and then it's injected with mushroom spawn, so that's like mushroom seed. The spawn utilises remaining carbohydrates and sugars in the plant material to grow."
Not only is it completely biodegradable and compostable - it appears to be even more durable and flexible than the man-made alternative, and is also flame retardant.
"We tested the entire supply chain, in terms of does the product arrive there safe? And that's the number one consideration, because if it arrives in a damaged condition it's just like the least sustainable solution," says Mr Campbell.
"We were actually surprised when we looked at the cellular structure under a microscope, you are looking at a root structure and these roots have little tendrils and they are interlocking, it's kind of like Velcro and it's flexing and absorbing the energy in ways that your foam can't.
"Sometimes Mother Nature has a few tricks up her sleeve, right?"
Dell is working with a small start-up called Ecovative to produce the packaging, and has been involved from the start in developing the product, and trialling it with a Fortune 500 company.
The technology is being used by companies such as furniture chain Crate and Barrel, but Dell remains the only technology customer, according to Mr Campbell.
"We've realised the benefit of what small entrepreneurial companies can do," he says.
"It means my team don't have to be ergonomists or chemists or experts in all these different things, we really just have to go out and find some of the people in the areas that we're looking for.
"It's okay to go ask for help."
Mr Campbell's team holds regular innovation days, where ideas are bounced around, and start-ups and suppliers are given an opportunity to showcase themselves.
Another company the multinational has partnered with is YFYJupiter, creating packaging using wheatgrass, an agricultural by-product.
"In countries like China they burn this material, so they are contributing to particulate matter in the atmosphere, it contributes to smog," says Mr Campbell.
"So farmers in rural areas in China now are getting paid for something that they didn't before, so it's increasing incomes, [it helps] keep people in rural areas, and having grown up in a rural area myself I really understand that."
But is there really enough wheatgrass produced each year to keep Dell in cardboard? Apparently so, according to Mr Campbell.
He says research indicates that there's enough waste straw material in China to potentially produce enough paper to satisfy global demand. And again, the wheatgrass cardboard is cheaper to produce.
As with the other packaging, the process has involved following through the entire supply chain and being involved in the development of the packaging, as well as gauging the opinion of the Chinese authorities on the environmental benefits.
"I think people intrinsically know that if it costs more, it is probably not really sustainable, and you're probably not doing a good job with the technology, so when it costs less, it's something that can stick," says Mr Campbell.
"When I speak at conferences, I often ask people: who thinks sustainability costs more? And several years ago most of them [would] raise their hand.
"Now it's more like 50-50. So we are making progress and I would say it's due to technologies like [these] coming online."
The Sudanese national was arrested a few kilometres from the British entrance of the 50.5 km (31-mile) tunnel on Tuesday.
A spokesman for Eurotunnel said the person "almost succeeded in walking through the tunnel".
The train operator held an "unplanned" inspection on the same day, which led to four-hour delays.
A 40-year-old man, of no fixed address, has been charged with causing an obstruction to an engine or carriage using the railway and was due to appear at Medway Magistrates' Court on Thursday.
The incident came on the same night that migrants made about 600 attempts to enter the Channel Tunnel.
About 180 people were caught inside the site, with 20 arrested.
However, intrusions were down to about 400 a night on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to Eurotunnel.
It said additional efforts to secure the French terminal were almost complete and attempted intrusions by migrants were now being brought under control.
There have been thousands of attempts to access the terminal at Coquelles in recent weeks, with nine people killed trying to get into the tunnel since June.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said 100 more guards would be deployed in the Eurotunnel terminal following a meeting of the government's emergency Cobra committee on Monday.
He also announced a "much improved level of co-operation and collaboration with Eurotunnel" and a UK Border Force and French police presence in the Eurotunnel control room at Coquelles.
It is estimated there are some 3,000 migrants in the Calais area and many are continuing their attempts to reach the UK by crossing the Channel.
Some try to stow away on lorries headed for the Eurotunnel, or climb or cut security fences to try to hide on Eurotunnel shuttles.
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Wales never recovered after conceding a try within 40 seconds, and were trailing by 30 points at the interval.
It was in stark contrast to the pool match between the teams which the Baby Blacks won with a late penalty.
Wales will now play for seventh place with New Zealand facing either Australia or Scotland for fifth spot.
Wales Under-20: Joe Gage (Ospreys); Tom Williams (Ospreys), Joe Thomas (Ospreys), Billy McBryde (Scarlets), Jared Rosser (Newport Gwent Dragons); Dan Jones (Scarlets), Reuben Morgan-Williams (Ospreys); Corey Domachowski (Cardiff Blues), Liam Belcher (Cardiff Blues), Dillon Lewis (Cardiff Blues), Shane Lewis-Hughes (Cardiff Blues), Seb Davies (Cardiff Blues), Tom Phillips (capt, Scarlets), Josh Macleod (Scarlets) Harrison Keddie (Newport Gwent Dragons).
Replacements: Dafydd Hughes (Scarlets), Rhys Fawcett (Scarlets), Leon Brown (Newport Gwent Dragons), Morgan Sieniawski (Cardiff Blues), Shaun Evans (Scarlets), Declan Smith (Scarlets) Jarrod Evans (Cardiff Blues), Kieran Williams (Ospreys).
Replacements: 16. Asafo Aumua, Sean Stodart, Alex Fidow, Isaia Walker-Leawere, Marino Mikaele-Tu'u, Jonathan Taumateine, TJ Va'a, Malo Tuitama.
New Zealand Under-20: Shaun Stevenson, Caleb Makene, Patelesio Tomkinson, Jordie Barrett, Jonah Lowe; Stephen Perofeta, Sam Nock; Sean Paranihi, Leni Apisai (capt), Sosefo Kautai, Quinten Strange, Hamish Dalzell, Luke Jacobson, Mitchell Jacobson, Hapakuki Moala Liava'a.
Replacements: 16. Asafo Aumua, Sean Stodart, Alex Fidow, Isaia Walker-Leawere, Marino Mikaele-Tu'u, Jonathan Taumateine, TJ Va'a, Malo Tuitama.
Planning permission was granted to Island Gas Limited (iGas) to drill four boreholes near Mission.
An iGas spokesman said data from the drilling "might be used to support a future fracking application".
Anti-fracking protestors said they had "lost a battle but not the war".
The protestors, including Misson parish councillor Jayne Watson, raised concerns about noise, potential impact on wildlife and whether or not there would be sufficient monitoring of iGas' activities.
The company insisted it would consult regularly with the Environment Agency over its plans.
Mrs Watson said the drilling, which was approved by Nottinghamshire County Council's planning committee, was intrinsically linked to a future application for exploratory shale gas drilling.
The licences granted by the government mean there are potentially hundreds of communities in Nottinghamshire who could see fracking on their doorstep.
In reality, though, it's a long way off - and companies such as iGas will have to clear several hurdles along the way.
Today's decision to grant permission for monitoring boreholes was a relative formality, but a busy public gallery underlined the growing determination among campaigners to stop fracking in its tracks.
Hydraulic fracturing or fracking is the process of drilling down into the earth before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas inside.
The firm said in a statement: "Establishing baseline monitoring is key to ensuring that our operations are carried out safely and environmentally responsibly."
Sterling fell by about 1.3% against the US dollar to a 10-month low of $1.61.
Shares in some firms with Scottish links have also fallen.
The SNP has dismissed a promise by the Chancellor to unveil a timetable for further devolution if voters reject independence as a last-minute "bribe".
George Osborne had said on Sunday that a "plan of action" would be set out in the next few days to give "more powers to Scotland; more tax powers, more spending powers, more powers over the welfare state".
BBC Scotland's political correspondent Glenn Campbell has reported that a new body will also be set up to hammer out more powers for Holyrood if there is a "No" vote on 18 September.
It came in the wake of a YouGov poll for the Sunday Times over the weekend which was the first mainstream study to put the pro-independence Yes Scotland campaign narrowly ahead.
The poll of 1,084 people, carried out between 2 and 5 September, suggested that, of those who have made up their mind, 51% planned to back independence, while 49% intended to vote no.
On Monday morning, shares in Scottish-based firms dominated the top fallers on the stock market.
Edinburgh-based Standard Life fell 3%, Royal Bank of Scotland slipped 2.4% and Lloyds Banking Group, which owns Bank of Scotland and Scottish Widows, dropped 2.7%. Their share prices recovered slightly later in the day but remained in negative territory.
Perth-based energy supplier SSE, Glasgow pumps specialist Weir Group and fund manager Aberdeen Asset Management also all fell between 1.5% and 1.9% early in the day and were still down by the end of trading.
Alistair Darling, head of the pro-UK Better Together campaign, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the referendum race was "clearly very tight" but said there was no panic.
He added: "We are in a position now where every voter in Scotland could potentially tip the balance in the referendum.
"But I am confident we will win because we do have a very strong, positive vision of what Scotland can be, both in terms of the opportunities and the security that come from being part of the UK, a strengthened Scottish Parliament, with more powers which is what people want and you can do that without having to break up the country to do it."
Mr Darling stressed that no new powers would be put on the table beyond those already announced by the three main Westminster parties earlier this year.
He added: "The additional powers coming to the Scottish parliament were announced by the party leaders, north and south of the border, some time ago.
"People have said, 'Yes we want to know the timetable and the process' and that is something the government is going to announce this week.
"But remember this, this is a referendum on whether or not we stay on the United Kingdom. It is not a referendum on what further powers we are going to get. We are going to get them anyway, if we stay in the United Kingdom.
Analysis: Brian Taylor, BBC Scotland political editor
It may not be outright panic. But it is hardly calm, measured insouciance either.
Better days may - or may not - return for Better Together but, right now, it is scarcely glad confident morning.
The reason? TOP, that opinion poll. You know, the one by YouGov in the Sunday Times which suggested that the "Yes" campaign might win this referendum.
At the core of the Better Together campaign, a series of interlinked challenges.
Firstly, they are seeking to negate a proposition, that of independence. They are saying "No". They are advocating a "No" vote.
The challenge is to say "No", positively. To project an upbeat vision of the continuing and reformed Union while talking up the downside of independence.
Secondly, they may be Together - but they are scarcely chums. Indeed, Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Tories will soon be clutching each warmly by the throat in the UK General Election.
That creates a temptation to diss their comrades as well as their opponents.
Labour leader Ed Miliband has joined Mr Osborne in saying the process of handing more powers to Scotland should begin immediately after any "No" vote.
SNP leader Alex Salmond said it was a "panicky measure" announced without credibility because his Yes Scotland campaign was "winning on the ground".
Neither Prime Minister David Cameron nor any other Conservative Cabinet Minister is expected to visit Scotland this week, but Downing Street denied any suggestion of complacency over the referendum result.
A spokesman for Number Ten was also unable to give any details of when an announcement would be made on setting up a new body to agree a timetable for handing more powers to Scotland. He said this would be an issue to be settled by the political parties.
It is understood discussions are still going on between the three main parties to finalise the details.
Number Ten also confirmed that no contingency plans are being put in place for a possible "Yes" vote in the referendum.
Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney told the BBC that it was a fair assessment of the polls to say the Yes campaign remained behind in general, but said his experience was that undecided voters were moving to Yes by a factor of two to one.
He added: "The movement is in our favour and the campaign is exciting an enormous amount of interest and activity and participation on the ground across Scotland. I think it is the formidable strength of the 'Yes' campaign that is motivating that."
On the morning after the poll before, "Vote No and get something better" summed up George Osborne's message. It's a tried and trusted message which worked in the independence referendum in Quebec when a last minute poll lead for Yes was transformed into a narrow No. It is, though, a message with a difficult history in Scotland.
Thirty five years ago it was precisely what Scots were told when they were voting in a referendum on a much more modest proposal - to create a Scottish Parliament with some devolved powers.
A former prime minister, a Scot and, as it happens, a Tory, Sir Alec Douglas Home urged his countrymen to vote No and get "something better". What they got soon afterwards was 18 years of Margaret Thatcher's government and no devolution at all (until, that is, Labour were re-elected in 1997).
That is just one reason why Osborne's promise of a plan to transfer new powers to Holyrood - covering tax raising, spending and benefits - caused such confusion yesterday. It is why Alex Salmond felt able to attack it as a sign of "panic" on the No side.
The other reason is that the three rival Westminster parties - the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats - have not agreed a plan for which precise powers to devolve. Each party has published its own set of proposals which overlap in the areas Osborne listed.
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Referring to Mr Osborne's announcement, Mr Swinney said: "There is nothing new being offered this week. We may well get a timetable but the substance, the actual powers, the things that matter, Alistair Darling made absolutely crystal clear yesterday in contradicting George Osborne, that on the substance there will be absolutely nothing new.
"If I look at the different offering of the the Labour party, the Liberals and the Conservatives they are all different. I can't answer to you today, neither could Alistair Darling, what would be the proposition that people get under this alternative scenario? So it is vague and it has all been offered before.
"The second point is that in 1979 Scotland was told vote 'No' in the referendum and you'll get a stronger parliament and what we got was a Conservative government for 18 years that we never voted for, industrial devastation and no parliament.
"So I think the moral of the story of recent history in Scotland is if you want a guarantee of strong powers for the Scottish Parliament you have to vote 'Yes' in the referendum a week on Thursday."
Canon Kenyon Wright, who chaired of the Scottish Constitutional Convention that paved the way for the creation of the devolved Scottish Parliament in 1997, said Mr Osborne's announcement had a "whiff of desperation about it".
Canon Wright, who now supports independence, added: "It's now clear that devolution has two main problems. One is that it is incomplete and will never cover the areas needed to protect the people of Scotland on issues like welfare. The second is that it is insecure and always will be, so long as sovereignty remains at Westminster."
BBC political correspondent Ben Wright said the outcome of the referendum now looked "utterly uncertain".
He said the "sleepy assumption" in Westminster among the pro-Union parties that there would be a relatively comfortable vote against independence had been completely destroyed over the past few days.
Voters in Scotland go to the polls on Thursday 18 September, when they will be asked the "Yes/No" question: "Should Scotland be an independent country?"
In the last full week of campaigning, Mr Miliband is expected to be joined on the stump by Gordon Brown.
The former Labour prime minister has said Westminster must deliver on its promise of further devolution so "a No vote doesn't mean nothing happens".
A YouGov poll for the Sunday Times over the weekend was the first mainstream study to put Yes Scotland narrowly ahead.
The poll of 1,084 people, carried out between 2 and 5 September, suggested that, of those who have made up their mind, 51% planned to back independence, while 49% intended to vote no.
The cross-party Better Together campaign had previously retained a lead in polls, often reaching double digits.
In London, the Tory mayor Boris Johnson said Scotland going independent would be "an utter catastrophe".
"We are on the verge of trashing our global name and brand in an act of self-mutilation that will leave our international rivals stunned, gleeful and discreetly scornful," he wrote in the Daily Telegraph.
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And over the weekend the leader of the pro-Union Better Together campaign, Alistair Darling, clarified that the chancellor's announcement was "about the process and timetable" for more devolution, not new powers.
The UK government said the timetable for new powers for Scotland would not break rules on what can be discussed during the referendum period.
Elsewhere, Mr Miliband will on Monday thank trade unions at the TUC general dinner in Liverpool for their work on the Better Together campaign.
He will say the unions have signed a joint statement, "declaring that our strength comes from staying together and that separation would damage the rights and conditions of working people".
Conjecture about the cause of his death emerged almost immediately as Mr Nisman had been due to give details of controversial allegations against President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and other high-ranking officials.
He had accused them of involvement in a plot to cover up Iran's alleged role in the 1994 bombing of the Amia Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires.
President Fernandez herself has cast doubts on the theory put forward by an investigating prosecutor that his death was suicide.
Here we look at some of the background to the case and the theories that have been put forward.
Alberto Nisman was investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, in which 85 people died.
He was put in charge of the probe in 2004 by the then-President Nestor Kirchner, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's late husband.
Mr Nisman was chosen to head the investigation after the previous investigation, led by judge Juan Jose Galeano, collapsed.
A car bomb exploded outside the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (Amia) on 18 July 1994.
The seven-storey building collapsed and 85 people were killed.
It was Argentina's deadliest terrorist attack.
The attack on the Amia community centre came two years after 29 people died in an attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires.
A group calling itself Islamic Jihad Organisation said it was responsible for the 1992 attack.
The group alleged the bombing was in revenge for the killing by Israel of Hezbollah leader Abbas al-Mussawi that same year.
Jewish and Israeli institutions abroad were seen as "soft targets", easier to attack than similar buildings in Israel.
Theories therefore soon surfaced pointing the finger for the Amia bombing at Hezbollah, a mainly Shia group backed by Iran.
Iran has denied any involvement in either of the attacks.
No one has been convicted in connection with the attack.
Twenty-two people were charged as part of the original investigation led by Judge Juan Jose Galeano.
After three years of hearings, the trial concluded in 2004 and all 22 suspects were found not guilty due to lack of evidence.
From the beginning, investigators suspected Iranian officials may have been behind the bombing.
Also among the accused were members of the Buenos Aires police force, who were suspected of helping to carry out the attack.
Argentine car salesman Carlos Telledin was accused of selling the lorry used in the attack.
The investigation and the court case were overshadowed by allegations that Judge Galeano paid Mr Telledin $400,000 (£263,000) to inculpate the police officers.
Judge Galeano was impeached. He is facing trial later this year accused of covering up evidence in the case.
In 2006, Mr Nisman formally charged Iranian officials with directing the Amia attack, which he alleged was carried out by Hezbollah militants.
In his most recent report, published just days before his death, he furthermore accused President Fernandez and Foreign Minister Hector Timerman of covering up the Iran's purported role in the bombing.
He alleged that the government wanted to whitewash Iran in order to secure lucrative trade deals with Iran, exchanging Argentine grain for Iranian oil.
President Fernandez dismissed the allegations as "absurd".
Speaking on 19 January, a day after Mr Nisman's body was found, investigating prosecutor Viviana Fein told reporters that his death was "suspicious", but that there was no indication of an "outside link" or the involvement of anyone else in his death.
She did not rule out that Mr Nisman might have been "induced" to take his own life, though.
"We're going to investigate if there was any kind of instigation to suicide through threats, be they through phone calls or text messages," she said.
Ms Fein added that suicide was the most likely cause.
But the time of his death, just hours before he was due to give details of his allegations against President Fernandez to a congressional committee, triggered outraged comments on social media networks, with many questioning whether the prosecutor may have been murdered.
Opposition member of parliament Elisa Carrio told daily Clarin [in Spanish] that she was convinced Mr Nisman had been murdered and that "the government, the power" had played a role in his death.
"They killed him," she said. "I thought they stole and systematically lied, but I never thought they would be capable of killing," she added.
Her views were mirrored by some of the protesters who demonstrated in front of the presidential palace in the days following Mr Nisman's death.
They yelled "murderer", and held up placards demanding justice for Mr Nisman.
In a letter [in Spanish] published a day after Mr Nisman's body was found, the president referred to Mr Nisman's death as a "suicide". The word was followed by a question mark.
She also asked what could have led a person to take the terrible decision to take his life.
Two days later, in another letter published on her website [in Spanish], President Fernandez wrote: "I'm convinced that it was not suicide".
She alleged that Mr Nisman was manipulated to attack her and her government.
"They used him alive and then they needed him dead," she wrote.
She did not explain who she thought had killed him but added that his death was "sad and terrible".
President Fernandez alleged Mr Nisman had been manipulated by rogue agents inside the Intelligence Secretariat (SI).
Parts of Mr Nisman's report were based on wiretaps and the president suggested he was fed false information by disgruntled spies and stooges posing as spies.
Ms Fernandez said she had "no proof" of her allegations, but stressed she had "no doubts" either.
South Wales Police said a stop check where someone was acting suspiciously led to the discovery of two factories, with 881 plants seized.
A man has been arrested and charged with producing cannabis.
Two warrants were executed in other locations acting on information from the community and the Crimestoppers charity.
Cocaine, six plants and a bag of cannabis leaf were seized and three people were arrested for possession with intent to supply.
Judges said Scotland Yard had breached the human rights of two women because officers didn't properly investigate and potentially apprehend John Worboys.
He was jailed for life in 2009 for more than 100 rapes and sexual assaults.
Monday's appeal could have profound implications for how police investigate serious sexual offences.
The case is so important to the law around police negligence that Theresa May, when she was still home secretary, intervened to support Scotland Yard.
The two women in the case, known as DSD and NBV, were raped in 2003 and 2007 by John Worboys.
The black cab driver drugged victims in his vehicle by offering them sedative-laced champagne, claiming he was celebrating winning a big cash prize.
The women were left confused, disoriented and with only a partial memory of what had happened.
Worboys was so confident he could get away with it that he even drove DSD to the police station so she could get help. Judges said if officers had taken his details, including, crucially, his cab registration, investigators may have identified him as the prime suspect.
NBV had some recall of the events of her attack and Worboys could be seen with her on CCTV - but officers dropped their investigation after failing to secure potential evidence of crucial links.
In a landmark 2014 judgement, the High Court awarded both DSD and NVB damages totalling more than £40,000, ruling the Metropolitan Police's failings had breached Article Three of the European Convention on Human Rights which bans inhuman or degrading treatment.
Until then, police couldn't be found to be negligent for generally failing to identify and apprehend an unknown suspect.
But if the Worboys ruling stands, it means they could be sued for the most serious of crimes that amount to inhuman or degrading treatment if they fail to conduct an effective investigation.
A spokesman for Scotland Yard said: "Our defence of these claims should not be taken as a reflection of any doubt upon the veracity of the claimants' accounts.
"The case has raised important arguments regarding the boundaries of police responsibility and liability and we believed that it was important for these principles to be tested before the courts."
The Home Office declined to comment ahead of the hearing as to why it had intervened in the case.
Its national strategy to end violence against women and girls says it wants to see an increase in victims coming forward and more investigations leading to successful prosecution.
Rachel Krys, co-director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, said the police, like all other public bodies, must be held to account - and that would lead to more rapists being apprehended.
"If things go disastrously wrong with other public services, there is some form of redress," she said.
"In cases of gross negligence by the NHS, the victim or the family of the victim can sue. If the Metropolitan Police and the government get their way in this case there are no such mechanisms for dealing with the police in UK law.
"That is why it is so disappointing that the Met along with the UK government are now seeking to overturn this judgement."
The 22-year-old was a free agent after being released by Middlesbrough.
Williams spent time on loan at the Iron last season, scoring two goals in six appearances and also had loan spells with both Coventry and Peterborough.
"I knew what a good group it was and it's a club that's going places. Hopefully I can add to that," he told the club website.
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The France right-back, 33, made the remark after his side's 2-1 Premier League win over Burnley on 2 January.
City were reduced to 10 men in the 32nd minute of the match, when referee Lee Mason sent off midfielder Fernandinho.
The Football Association said the post "questioned the integrity of the match official".
Sagna has also been warned about his future conduct.
BBC Sport football reporter Simon Stone
It is fair to say some senior figures at Manchester City feel Bacary Sagna was pretty harshly dealt with.
The feeling was Sagna has been given no credit for admitting he was wrong to post what he did on social media, nor has any account been taken for the fact he took down the "10 against 12" Instagram post down within an hour of putting it up.
Players and managers are allowed, within reason, to criticise a referee's performance or their decisions provided they do not imply bias, question the official's integrity or make offensive personal comments.
Hughes and Ben Slater put on 103 for the first wicket before Slater was caught off the bowling of Liam Norwell.
Madsen (58) and Hughes put on 71 to steady the innings after Norwell had Hamish Rutherford (1) caught behind.
Jack Taylor bowled Hughes to end his 206-ball knock, but Madsen remained unbeaten alongside Neil Broom (30) as the visitors reached 242-3 at stumps.
BBC Radio Gloucestershire's Bob Hunt at Bristol:
"Not the most exhilarating day's cricket, but both teams will feel reasonably satisfied with their work.
"After a first session where no wickets fell and 96 runs were scored, the visitors were setting their sights on a healthy total by the close but tight bowling slowed them down in a rather turgid afternoon.
"Liam Norwell picked up two wickets immediately after lunch, Wayne Madsen took his time to get going and only 45 runs came off 32 overs.
"Chesney Hughes had batted with discipline to get within four of his century, but inexplicably missed a long hop from Jack Taylor.
"If Gloucestershire get early wickets tomorrow then they will feel they are still very much in the game."
No Hollywood blockbuster, it's a low-budget music video for a band. Yet there is still something unique, almost revolutionary, about how it's being produced.
It's part of a new wave of independent film-making in Cuba.
Video clips, short films, documentaries and even successful feature-length movies have been made not through the state-run cinema industry, but by independents financed from abroad.
More and more, it seems, Cuba's film-makers are striking out on their own.
Leading the way is director Pavel Giroud. His latest movie, El Acompanante, examines the Cuban government's handling of the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. Set for its Cuban premiere during the Havana Film Festival, it is an independent co-production with support from France, Venezuela and Colombia.
"This is an indie film," Giroud tells me during pre-production. "It doesn't pertain to any of the major studios around the world or in the United States."
It is also not tied to Cuba's state-run cinema agency, the ICAIC. "They are collaborating with us, facilitating and making life easier for us, for which we're grateful," Giroud says. "But they have no link to the production itself."
The film has been well received on the festival circuit, though given the subject matter - about how the authorities kept infection rates down by detaining HIV patients in a sanatorium - its director thinks it's not one the state would have made itself.
But he says it's encouraging that he was able to make the movie with no interference from above and he's urging the government to change the law to allow more productions to adopt his model.
"It's a blueprint which a group of film-makers and I are putting all our support behind. This is our best bet for the future," he explains.
But Giroud admits there isn't complete unity over the idea.
"Others disagree with me, including within the cinema community in Cuba. But I'm going to push for the ICAIC to become a film institute like anywhere else in the world - with links and relationships to the smaller production houses.
"I think that would be the most effective structure for Cuban cinema."
It's not just younger filmmakers who are calling for change.
One of the most established names in Cuban cinema is Fernando Perez. His small apartment, which has incredible views across Havana, is adorned with almost no mementos from his long and distinguished career in film.
In one corner, though, he's kept a festival prize for his 2003 film Suite Havana - a love letter and a lament to Cuba's beautiful, decaying capital city. It was made entirely via the ICAIC but Perez says there are now other options for making films on the island.
"You can now make independent cinema in Cuba," he says. "You don't need to wait for the industry to give you the opportunity to film.
"There's a whole batch of young people involved with this. And some not-so-young ones too!" he adds with a smile. "It's a phenomenon, which hasn't grown into a full movement yet."
Two years ago, a group of film-makers partly led by Giroud and Perez engaged the authorities in discussions over the creation of a new cinema law to redefine the way in which films are produced on the island.
The initial reception from the culture ministry was positive, and the President of the ICAIC, Roberto Smith, was keen to stress that the dialogue should not be characterised as a confrontation between Cuba's independent film-makers and the state.
Fernando Perez agrees that the debate doesn't have to be a clash of ideas. "Independent film isn't cinema that runs against the principles of the ICIAC," he says.
"On the contrary, many of these young film-makers and independent directors still dream of making a film through the ICAIC. That's not what this is about. It's about diversifying."
As well as diversification, though, it's about access. Perez joined the ICAIC when he was 17 but says he didn't direct his first film until his early 40s.
The veteran director is quick to acknowledge the importance of those formative years in building up his training and experience before he tackled his first feature.
But Pavel Giroud says today's generation of Cuban directors aren't prepared to wait so long for the state's approval and will pick up their cameras to make 'indie' films instead.
"We've spent decades training film-makers," he says. "You can't then expect those film-makers to wait until their 40s to make their films when they have so much to say in their 20s - especially when we live in a country with so many stories to tell, where there's a story on every street corner."
The fire, at Devonshire Close, was reported to police at about 23:00 BST on Friday.
Group commander Geoff Somerville said quick reporting by the local community reduced the damage caused.
"The roof of one house was well alight, causing a significant smoke plume which covered a wide area and move into the Westlink [motorway] area," he said.
"We discovered that the cause of the fire was arson and a total of three fire appliances attended and 15 personnel."
The promotion-chasing Bantams took the lead when Tony McMahon's whipped cross was headed in by Jamie Proctor.
But Akpa Akpro beat keeper Ben Williams to the ball with six minutes left to draw Shrewsbury level.
Fourth-placed City are six points off a League One automatic promotion place, while Shrewsbury are 20th, two points clear of fourth-from-bottom Blackpool.
Micky Mellon's side have two games in hand over his former club, but Town's next three matches are all against promotion-chasing sides.
They are now at home to eighth-placed Sheffield United on Tuesday night before trips to sixth-placed Gillingham and third-placed Walsall.
Shrewsbury Town manager Micky Mellon told BBC Radio Shropshire:
"You have to dig in and keep fighting. It's very tight at the bottom and tense, but we need people who can believe.
"We didn't compose ourselves in the first half - but we kept battling away. You always get an opportunity at some stage in the game and we got one fall our way.
"The substitutions worked and gave us the battling qualities we needed to get back in it, but it's frustrating because we're trying to find a system that works."
Centre Scott is to have a scan to assess an elbow injury picked up in Edinburgh's defeat by Connacht.
But there is no place for London Irish duo Blair Cowan and Sean Maitland, who both withdrew from the previous squad.
Dunbar comes in as cover for Scott after proving his fitness following a thigh strain suffered in January.
Hooker Brown has played twice since his return from injury, while scrum-half Pyrgos was back in action on Sunday.
Warriors head coach Gregor Townsend hailed the performance of Pyrgos in the 27-20 win over Cardiff Blues in the Pro12.
"I thought Henry Pyrgos was outstanding," he told BBC Scotland. "To be out of the game for four months and really add tempo to our game, make the right decisions of where to attack and the players followed him and we got a couple of cracking tries in there."
Cowan and Maitland will be notable absentees from the Scotland squad that will gather on Tuesday at Murrayfield ahead of Sunday's Six Nations game against France.
Loose forward Cowan missed the victory over Italy through concussion, while winger Maitland dropped out of the squad with a thigh injury.
Both returned to London Irish for treatment but were deemed fit enough to play in the 47-20 defeat by Leicester in the English Premiership, a game that took place 24 hours after Scotland's win in Rome.
However, Scotland coach Vern Cotter has decided against recalling either player after the likes Ryan Wilson and Tim Visser, who had returned to the squad after recovering from their own injuries, took their chance to impress.
Dunbar, Pyrgos and Brown had missed the start of the tournament through injury.
Pygos, who captained Scotland for the first time last year in the absence of Greig Laidlaw, had wrist surgery after picking up his injury in October.
Brown, who takes the place of Edinburgh hooker George Turner, suffered an ankle injury at the same time.
He returned to action along with Dunbar in matches against Dragons and Cardiff.
Forwards: John Barclay (Scarlets), Fraser Brown (Glasgow Warriors), David Denton (Bath), Alasdair Dickinson (Edinburgh), Zander Fagerson (Glasgow Warriors), Ross Ford (Edinburgh), Jonny Gray (Glasgow Warriors), Richie Gray (Castres), John Hardie (Edinburgh), Rob Harley (Glasgow Warriors), Moray Low (Exeter Chiefs), Stuart McInally, Willem Nel (Edinburgh), Gordon Reid, Josh Strauss (Glasgow Warriors), Rory Sutherland (Edinburgh), Tim Swinson (Glasgow Warriors), Ben Toolis, Hamish Watson (Edinburgh), Ryan Wilson (Glasgow Warriors).
Backs: Mark Bennett, Alex Dunbar, Grayson Hart (Glasgow Warriors), Sam Hidalgo-Clyne (Edinburgh), Stuart Hogg (Glasgow Warriors), Ruaridh Jackson (Wasps), Peter Horne (Glasgow Warriors), Greig Laidlaw, captain (Gloucester), Sean Lamont (Glasgow Warriors), Duncan Taylor (Saracens), Henry Pyrgos, Finn Russell (Glasgow Warriors), Matt Scott (Edinburgh), Tommy Seymour (Glasgow Warriors), Tim Visser (Harlequins), Duncan Weir (Edinburgh).
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The attack happened in Clanrolla Park on Thursday evening.
A detective told Lisburn Magistrates' Court that he could connect Peter Colin Baron Maloney, of Drumarg Villas in Armagh, to the charge.
The court also heard that the victim, Brian Ward, is still in a critical condition in hospital and remains unconscious.
The detective said the attack had happened as a result of apparent "road rage".
Two witnesses told police that Mr Ward had been "almost knocked down" by a dark Mercedes car, which is believed to be Mr Maloney's, and that the pair proceeded to get into an argument.
The court was told they were "involved in a scuffle" when the witnesses walked away.
The detective said when the witnesses looked back, Mr Maloney's car was driving away and that Mr Ward was bent over and "had lost a lot of blood".
He added that the victim had been stabbed eight times, and that doctors are also treating him for a "punctured lung".
The court heard the defendant had contacted police himself regarding damage that had been caused to his car and he was arrested in connection with the stabbing.
The car was seized but has not been examined yet. The officer said police also found a "straight razor" in the vehicle, which is being sent for forensic tests.
The defence solicitor told the court that Mr Maloney had only "shoved" Mr Ward out of the way onto grass nearby before getting back into his car and going to work.
The defendant was released on bail with two cash sureties of £1,000 and will appear in court again on 1 April.
The judge described the stabbing as a "very frenzied and horrible attack", and banned Mr Maloney from entering Craigavon and from contacting the witnesses or the alleged victim and his family.
Muhammadu Buhari has ordered an investigation into how the spy agency headed by Mr Oke came into possession of the money, his office added.
Mr Oke has not yet commented.
However, unnamed intelligence officials told local media that the money was kept in the flat for covert operations.
Anti-corruption officials have uncovered bundles of cash in Nigeria this year.
Mr Buhari took office in 2015 with a pledge to root out corruption in government.
In a statement, his office said he had also suspended his close aide, David Babachir Lawal, pending an investigation into contracts awarded to deal with the humanitarian crisis in the north-east. The region has been hit by an insurgency by militant Islamist group Boko Haram.
A three-member panel, led by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, will investigate both cases, Mr Buhari's office added.
Apart from US notes worth $43.4m, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) found nearly £27,800 and some 23m naira ($75,000) at the empty flat in Lagos's affluent Ikoyi suburb.
The National Intelligence Agency (NIA), which led by Mr Oke, had laid claim to the money, Mr Buhari's office said.
The panel has been ordered to report within 14 days on who authorised the release of the money to the NIA and whether any laws or security procedures had been breached, Mr Buhari's office added.
Mr Oke would remain suspended pending the outcome of the investigation, it said.
Last week, the EFCC said it carried out the raid after a tip-off that a woman, looking "haggard" and wearing "dirty clothes", was taking bags in and out of the seventh-floor flat.
The "neatly arranged" cash was stashed in "sealed wrappers" in wardrobes and cabinets in the four-bedroom flat, the EFCC added.
In March, it said it had found "crispy" banknotes worth $155,000 at the airport in northern Kaduna city.
Carey, 19, a product of coach Robert Croft's local club Pontarddulais, claimed 3-37 in 10 overs.
Northamptonshire's top order paid the penalty for some risky shots as Carey bowled a full length.
Loan debutant Laurie Evans and David Murphy added 70 for the fifth wicket to salvage the visitors' day.
Both teams are without several regulars ahead of their T20 Blast quarter-finals, with Glamorgan resting Graham Wagg, Craig Meschede and Michael Hogan.
Northants, who are also in the last eight of the One-Day Cup, are managing injury concerns to Alex Wakely, Josh Cobb, Adam Rossington and Steven Crook.
A blue plaque was unveiled at the gates of St Helen's to mark the rich cricketing history of the ground, which saw West Indies' Sir Garfield Sobers hit six sixes in an over in 1968, as well as hosting Glamorgan victories over cricket's leading nations.
Glamorgan's chief executive Hugh Morris was joined by the county's leading wicket-taker Don Shepherd and Balconiers supporters group chairman John Williams.
Glamorgan debutant Lukas Carey told BBC Wales Sport:
"I felt really excited when I got the call-up, I was really looking forward to playing in Swansea as the home ground of the west.
"I thought hopefully I'd get a couple of wickets and get another game, then the first one came in the second over and there were a couple more in between the rain-breaks.
"I've played quite a bit of club cricket here so I know what the pitch is doing, it helped going into the game.
"I've played in the same side as [coach Robert Croft] for Pontarddulais when I came into the first team. He's good to have around for a chat, and [assistant coach] Steve Watkin has helped me a lot since I was about 16."
The RNLI said it was aware of congestion problems in St Dogmaels which is the main access route to the nearby lifeboat station in Cardigan.
It said it had led to delays in crews launching the lifeboat.
Pembrokeshire council said the restrictions will be in place in the next few weeks.
An RNLI spokesman said: "We would ask motorists in the area to consider that lifeboat crews will be using the route to respond to emergencies and park and drive accordingly."
Double yellow lines will be painted in areas around Pilot Street.
A Pembrokeshire council spokesman said the measures will "ensure sufficient carriageway width is retained to allow opposing traffic flow and vehicles to exit without any potential confrontation which is what is presently occurring".
In addition, St Dogmaels council has asked the county council to suspend the parking charges introduced in the High Street car park during the summer season to assess the impact it has on the congestion.
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Argentina won the quarter-final tie 2-1 - with Tunisian referee Ali Bin Nasser later claiming he was waiting for Dochev to give him an indication of whether he had seen anything.
Dochev said later: "Diego Maradona ruined my life. He is a brilliant footballer but a small man.
"He is low in height and as a person."
Discussing the incident with the Bulgarian media a few years ago, he added: "Although I felt immediately there was something irregular, back in that time FIFA didn't allow the assistants to discuss the decisions with the referee.
"If Fifa had put a referee from Europe in charge of such an important game, the first goal of Maradona would have been disallowed."
TV pictures showed Bin Nasser looking towards Dochev as he was running back towards the centre circle after the goal had been scored.
And Bin Nasser added: "I was waiting for Dochev to give me a hint of what exactly happened but he didn't signal for a handball.
"The instructions Fifa gave us before the game were clear - if a colleague was in a better position than mine, I should respect his view."
Dochev was Bulgaria's top referee in the 1970s and 1980s and also officiated at the 1982 World Cup. He took charge of the first leg of the 1983 Uefa Cup final between Anderlecht and Benfica.
Emily Jayne Collie, 20, died in the crash involving two rented jet skis on the resort island of Phuket on Sunday.
Thomas Keating, 22, told police that sunlight reflecting off the water prevented him from seeing Ms Collie, the Bangkok Post reported.
The Australian woman's family are travelling to collect her body.
"Ms Collie's boyfriend, Mr Keating, who was driving the other jet ski when they collided, will face a charge of reckless driving causing death," local police lieutenant Patiwat Yodkhwan told reporters.
She suffered neck and shoulder injuries in the crash and was pronounced dead on arrival at a nearby hospital.
Australian consular officials are providing assistance to her family.
Lt Patiwat said the jet ski owner did not want payment for damage to the machines because "he wants Phuket to have a good reputation as a holiday destination".
He said under an insurance policy taken out for the rental, Ms Collie's family will be entitled to a payment of 50,000 Thai baht (£1,145; $1,430).
Mr Keating's sister, Bree Lyon, told Fairfax Media her family was "absolutely devastated" about Ms Collie's death.
"I love how you loved my brother, the way you looked into his eyes with nothing but pure love, it was the truest thing I've ever been grateful to witness," she said.
Tourism is a key component of Thailand's economy, but the Australian government warns travellers of the risks of hiring jets skis and motorcycles in the country.
"Many vehicle hire companies do not have insurance and any damage, loss, or costs associated with injuries to third parties will be your responsibility to negotiate or pay," the warning on Australia's Smart Traveller website says.
"In addition to checking that your travel insurance covers hospital and other costs associated with motorbike, jet ski or other vehicle accidents, also ensure that the hiring company holds comprehensive insurance, including third-party, for the vehicle you are hiring."
More than 32 million foreign tourists visited Thailand in 2016.
The Switzerland midfielder cut inside on his left foot and found the top right corner with a sublime finish.
He doubled the lead with a free-kick from the edge of the area just after half-time.
The result sees Mike Phelan's side drop into the bottom three, after a fifth consecutive Premier League defeat.
The game ended on a strange note as Shaqiri appeared to grab Sam Clucas by the throat after being pushed by the full-back. Stoke trio Shaqiri, Phil Bardsley and Joe Allen were then all booked after the final whistle.
Stoke's first away victory of the season also brings them back-to-back Premier League wins for the first time since March - and moves them to 16th place on nine points.
Hull, meanwhile, have conceded 19 goals in their past five league games and are without a league win since 20 August.
Shaqiri's goals were two moments of magic in a match largely unmemorable otherwise.
The 25-year-old's past four Premier League goals have all come from outside the box and his two against Hull were his first since the opening day of the season.
His first came from his own corner, which was cleared by Hull as far as Ryan Shawcross, who passed the ball back to Shaqiri.
The former Bayern Munich winger then cut inside before unleashing a curling 25-yard shot, which left David Marshall no chance in the Hull goal.
He then won the free-kick for his second on 49 minutes and stepped up to send the ball over the wall and into the bottom right corner, beyond Marshall.
Shaqiri also created wonderful chances for Marko Arnautovic and Wilfried Bony, having three shots in all and making five key passes in the match.
Former England midfielder Danny Murphy on Match of the Day:
"Xherdan Shaqiri hasn't done enough of this in a Stoke shirt. He was outstanding. He had that strut around him and produced moments of brilliance. His first goal was unstoppable.
"He's got the ability to open up defences from anywhere on the pitch - not many players can do that. If he can stay fit, along with Joe Allen and Marko Arnautovic, then Stoke will be up the table before you know it."
The optimism of Hull's wins in the first two games of the season has faded at the KCOM Stadium, where plenty of empty seats could be seen among a crowd of only 18,522.
The hosts did not manage a shot on target until Abel Hernandez came on after 55 minutes.
Their best attacking efforts came with the game already won for Stoke and the home side still struggled in front of goal despite their late burst.
Stoke dominated the midfield, with Shaqiri and Arnautovic given too much space.
Hull also had returning captain Michael Dawson to thank for some crucial tackles. Playing in his first game of the season after a knee injury the 32-year-old stopped Bony and Shaqiri from scoring in the first half.
Phelan, upgraded from his caretaker role nine days ago, is yet to taste victory since and will have his work cut out to address the slide in form - something not helped by Robert Snodgrass limping off with an ankle injury late on.
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Hull boss Mike Phelan: "We were edgy and we gave the ball away too easily. There are lessons to be learned by all of us.
"We are under no illusions and we shouldn't be. We need to rebuild confidence and set our sights for the battle ahead. We need to do more. We are not here to lie down and let teams beat us.
"Robert Snodgrass got stood on - he's got a bruised ankle and we will assess that in the morning."
Stoke manager Mark Hughes: "Xherdan Shaqiri missed some games but since he came back he's been really positive and we are really pleased with him.
"We have been playing well for a number of weeks. We are building performances. From start to finish we were in control.
"People questioned us at the beginning but now we are allowing people to see our level.
"I didn't see what happened after full-time - there were afters from both sides."
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Hull travel to Championship side Bristol City in the fourth round of the EFL Cup on Tuesday before a trip to Watford on Saturday.
Stoke host Swansea on Monday 31 October.
Match ends, Hull City 0, Stoke City 2.
Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card.
Joe Allen (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card.
Phil Bardsley (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half ends, Hull City 0, Stoke City 2.
Sam Clucas (Hull City) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Adama Diomande (Hull City).
Geoff Cameron (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Robert Snodgrass (Hull City) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Ryan Mason (Hull City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Sam Clucas with a cross.
Attempt saved. Abel Hernández (Hull City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Adama Diomande.
Corner, Hull City. Conceded by Ryan Shawcross.
Attempt missed. Abel Hernández (Hull City) header from very close range misses to the right. Assisted by Sam Clucas with a cross.
Foul by Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City).
Harry Maguire (Hull City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Curtis Davies.
Offside, Hull City. Robert Snodgrass tries a through ball, but Adama Diomande is caught offside.
Joe Allen (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Abel Hernández (Hull City).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Ryan Mason (Hull City) because of an injury.
Ryan Mason (Hull City) is shown the yellow card.
Phil Bardsley (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ryan Mason (Hull City).
Geoff Cameron (Stoke City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ryan Mason (Hull City).
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by David Marshall.
Attempt saved. Joe Allen (Stoke City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Marko Arnautovic.
Geoff Cameron (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jake Livermore (Hull City).
Substitution, Stoke City. Mame Biram Diouf replaces Wilfried Bony.
Attempt missed. Jake Livermore (Hull City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Abel Hernández.
Substitution, Hull City. Adama Diomande replaces Will Keane.
Substitution, Hull City. Harry Maguire replaces Tom Huddlestone.
Foul by Joe Allen (Stoke City).
Jake Livermore (Hull City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Wilfried Bony (Stoke City) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Marko Arnautovic.
Attempt saved. Ryan Shawcross (Stoke City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri with a cross.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Sam Clucas.
Muhammad Ali was The Greatest. Period.
If you just asked him, he'd tell you.
He'd tell you he was the double greatest; that he'd "handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder into jail".
But what made The Champ the greatest - what truly separated him from everyone else - is that everyone else would tell you pretty much the same thing.
Like everyone else on the planet, Michelle and I mourn his passing.
But we're also grateful to God for how fortunate we are to have known him, if just for a while; for how fortunate we all are that The Greatest chose to grace our time.
In my private study, just off the Oval Office, I keep a pair of his gloves on display, just under that iconic photograph of him - the young champ, just 22 years old, roaring like a lion over a fallen Sonny Liston.
I was too young when it was taken to understand who he was - still Cassius Clay, already an Olympic Gold Medal winner, yet to set out on a spiritual journey that would lead him to his Muslim faith, exile him at the peak of his power, and set the stage for his return to greatness with a name as familiar to the downtrodden in the slums of Southeast Asia and the villages of Africa as it was to cheering crowds in Madison Square Garden.
"I am America," he once declared. "I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me - black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own. Get used to me."
That's the Ali I came to know as I came of age - not just as skilled a poet on the mic as he was a fighter in the ring, but a man who fought for what was right.
A man who fought for us.
He stood with [Martin Luther] King and [Nelson] Mandela; stood up when it was hard; spoke out when others wouldn't.
His fight outside the ring would cost him his title and his public standing.
It would earn him enemies on the left and the right, make him reviled, and nearly send him to jail.
But Ali stood his ground.
And his victory helped us get used to the America we recognise today.
He wasn't perfect, of course.
For all his magic in the ring, he could be careless with his words, and full of contradictions as his faith evolved.
But his wonderful, infectious, even innocent spirit ultimately won him more fans than foes - maybe because in him, we hoped to see something of ourselves.
Later, as his physical powers ebbed, he became an even more powerful force for peace and reconciliation around the world.
We saw a man who said he was so mean he'd make medicine sick reveal a soft spot, visiting children with illness and disability around the world, telling them they, too, could become the greatest.
We watched a hero light a torch, and fight his greatest fight of all on the world stage once again; a battle against the disease that ravaged his body, but couldn't take the spark from his eyes.
Muhammad Ali shook up the world. And the world is better for it. We are all better for it.
Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to his family, and we pray that the greatest fighter of them all finally rests in peace
Bewl Valley Sailing Club, on the Kent and Sussex border, said its £160,000 rent was untenable and it was technically insolvent.
It was handed over to administrator White Maund on 17 July, but has now announced it has been able to reopen.
Rowing and canoe clubs will continue to be based at the Lamberhurst site too.
Greg Clark, the Conservative MP for Tunbridge Wells, welcomed the return of sailing on Bewl Water.
He said: "Bewl Water is an important local recreational centre and it was regrettable that the sailing club went into administration.
"I am pleased that Bewl Water Boating has acted to get sailing back up and running again during this summer - for many local people boating at Bewl is an important pastime."
The married English pair beat France's Ronan Labar and Audrey Fontaine 21-14 21-13 to reach the mixed doubles final.
Kirsty Gilmour will meet Spanish top seed Carolina Marin in the women's final after the Scot beat Swiss Sabrina Jacquet 22-20 21-10.
Briton Rajiv Ouseph beat Denmark's Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus 18-21 23-21 21-16 in the men's semi-final.
The Adcocks, in their first European final, will face Joachim Fischer Nielsen and Christinna Pedersen after the Danish top seeds saw off Irish brother and sister pair Sam and Chloe Magee with a 21-14 21-10 victory.
Gilmour will be aiming to go one better than her silver in 2016 while Ouseph, bronze medallist last year, will take on either Viktor Axelsen or Anders Antonsen, both of Denmark.
Find out how to get into badminton with our special guide.
The unemployment rate and total both fell to seven-month lows, official figures showed, while the employment rate hit a record high.
There were some signs wage growth had eased, but sterling rose more than 2 cents against the dollar to $1.5442 and rose 0.67% against the euro to €1.3490.
The benchmark FTSE 100 index was down 1.15% at 6269.61.
Shares in housebuilders came under pressure, with Taylor Wimpey down 3.42% and Barratt Developments down 3.79%.
Mining shares reversed earlier losses, which had been triggered by concerns over the strength of China's economy following the release of weaker-than-expected inflation data.
After falling more than 3% in early trade, shares in Glencore closed up 1.65%.
Hargreaves Lansdown shares rose 3.66% after the fund supermarket said it had recorded record inflows of new business.
The firm said new business inflows during the three months to the end of September jumped 47% from a year ago to £1.43bn. However, the total level of assets under its management fell by £500m to £54.7bn.
In the FTSE 250, shares in Domino's Pizza jumped 12.58% after it reported strong quarterly sales and said its full-year results were set to be above expectations.
The former Wales international was told in January that he was part of manager Marcus Bignot's future plans but has not heard anything since.
"When I extended, the gaffer said he wanted me here next season as well," Collins, 36, told BBC Radio Humberside.
"But I've not signed anything as such. There's one or two others in the same boat."
Collins, whose career has included spells at Sunderland, Stoke, Ipswich, West Ham and Nottingham Forest, joined Grimsby last summer after leaving Rotherham.
He has played 30 times in League Two this season, scoring his only goal in a 3-0 win at Plymouth in November.
The veteran centre-back said he would discuss his future whenever the club were ready.
"I'll just play as many games as I can between now and the end of the season and take it from there," Collins said.
"I've enjoyed it. I've played week in, week out, which is what you want as a footballer."
Edward Tron, 51, of Carr Hill Road, Gateshead, claims stories about drug smuggling he told an undercover police officer were fabricated.
At Hull Crown Court, the prosecution alleged Mr Tron was attempting to "hide the position" he was in.
Mark Quilliam, 55, of Gladica Close, Liverpool, faces the same charges.
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Mr Tron's wife Susan, 54, also of Carr Hill Road, is accused of money laundering, with all three denying the charges against them.
The court previously heard Mr Quilliam and Mr Tron used their positions as P&O ferry crew to smuggle cocaine into Hull from Rotterdam on the Pride of Hull vessel.
It is claimed they made up to £60,000 a trip.
Mr Tron, who told police he had made £100,000 from gambling, told the court his gambling started to "hit lucky for four years" before his luck ran out.
"I thought I was invincible at one time", he said, but "before I knew it - I had nothing."
During cross-examination, Mr Tron denied being a "very skilful and adept liar", but said: "I can lie when I need to."
During a National Crime Agency undercover operation, an officer was placed on the ferry and recorded conversations.
Prosecuting barrister Paul Mitchell accused Mr Tron of telling the truth to the undercover officer and "lying today because it's the only way you can save your skin".
Mr Tron claimed he had suspicions about the undercover police officer "within a few days", but played along by making up stories.
The trial continues.
Francisco Reyes and Heriberto Valdez are accused of allowing the rape and abuse of 11 women at the Sepur Zarco military base in the 1980s.
The UN says rape was used as a weapon of war by the Guatemalan military.
Such an offence has never before been tried in the country where the crimes occurred.
In the courtroom the 11 alleged victims wearing traditional Mayan indigenous dress sat with their heads and faces covered.
In solidarity, other women in the room also covered their heads.
The two defendants, Francisco Reyes Giron and his regional commander, Heriberto Valdez Asij, are accused of allowing their troops to rape and abuse the women at the military base.
Both have denied any wrongdoing.
The base, near Sepur Zarco in eastern Guatemala, was being used as a "rest and recreation base" for troops fighting left-wing guerrillas in the Guatemalan highlands.
At a pre-trial hearing the women told the judge that their husbands had been murdered by the soldiers.
Then, a few weeks later, they came back for the women, they said.
Soldiers raped them and burned down their houses and crops, and forced them to move into shacks outside the military base.
Every two or three days, each woman was allegedly made to report for three-day shifts at the base where they were forced to cook and clean, and where they were systematically raped by the soldiers.
The women endured the shifts for 10 months in 1982-83. But some were not released from bondage until the military base closed in 1998.
Bringing the case to trial has been tortuous. The victims are now in their seventies and eighties.
The speak no Spanish, only the Mayan language, Q'eqchi.
Supported by women's' rights and advocacy groups, the women and five male witnesses decided to come forward with their stories in 2011.
The two ex-military officers were arrested in June 2014 and the case initially went to trial in October. But it was put on hold because of challenges by the defence.
A UN report has described how the Guatemalan military used rape and sexual violence as a weapon of war during almost 40 years of the armed conflict which ended in 1996 with a peace accord.
The trial is expected to last 40 days.
The aircraft crashed shortly after take-off from Spanhoe Airfield, near Corby at about 12:45GMT on Sunday.
Northamptonshire Police said a passenger on board sustained serious but not life-threatening injuries and is in hospital.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch and the police are investigating the cause of the crash.
The company has been at the centre of a huge global recall over faulty airbags it supplied to numerous car companies.
The airbags have been linked to six deaths in the US.
Despite the recalls, the company saw higher sales in the US, India and South East Asia and maintains its profit forecast for the full year at 20bn yen.
The fault has led to 34 million cars being recalled in the US, the biggest vehicle safety recall in US history.
Globally, the number of vehicles affected is thought to be more than 50 million.
The faulty front and side airbags were found to inflate with excessive force, causing the bags to rupture and dangerous shrapnel to be thrown at the drivers, sometimes with fatal consequences.
Faults with the airbags were first detected in 2004 and the first US death linked to an airbag rupture occurred in 2009.
Addressing the safety concerns, Takata told the BBC that the company had taken "broad actions that go well beyond the scope of the safety risk suggested by the current science and testing data, and will continue to do everything we can to ensure uncompromised safety for our customers and the success of the recall efforts."
The firm said it had produced more than five million airbag replacement kits and expected to be producing 1 million kits per month by September.
Takata's airbags are used in vehicles made by 11 global manufacturers, including Honda, Toyota and Nissan.
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New Zealand Under-20 handed out an 11-try thrashing to Wales Under-20 in the fifth-place semi final at the Junior World Championship.
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Chesney Hughes made 96 and Wayne Madsen hit an unbeaten half-century to put Derbyshire on top at Gloucestershire.
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Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro's late header helped relegation-threatened Shrewsbury pick up a vital point against Bradford.
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Teenage seamer Lukas Carey made a dream debut for Glamorgan as injury-hit Northamptonshire struggled between the showers on day one in Swansea.
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Bulgarian Bogdan Dochev - the assistant referee who failed to spot Maradona's Hand of God goal against England at the 1986 World Cup - has died aged 80.
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An Australian man will face a reckless driving charge over a jet ski collision that killed his partner in Thailand, police say.
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Xherdan Shaqiri scored twice, including a stunning 25-yard strike, as Stoke comfortably won at Hull to move out of the relegation zone.
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President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle issued a statement on Saturday on the death of Muhammad Ali.
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Sailing has resumed at a club, based at one of the South East's largest reservoirs, after it was forced to call in the administrators two months ago.
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Chris and Gabby Adcock led the British charge into the finals of the European Badminton Championships in Denmark.
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Grimsby defender Danny Collins says the club have yet to offer him a deal for next season.
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Japanese car parts firm Takata saw a 3bn yen (£15.4m; $24m) net profit in the three months to June, compared with a 38.65bn yen loss a year earlier.
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Mr Assange took refuge there three years ago to avoid extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual assault against two women in 2010.
He denies the accusations and says he fears Sweden would extradite him to the United States for possible trial there.
In 2010 Wikileaks published a huge number of US classified documents.
Britain has accused Ecuador of perverting the course of justice by allowing Mr Assange to remain in its embassy.
A spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said, "It is for the Swedish prosecutor to decide how they now proceed with the legal case."
The agreement was signed in Ecuador after about six months of investigations.
The co-ordinator of Mr Assange's international legal defence team, Baltasar Garzon said, "Julian Assange's rights need to be respected by Sweden and the United Kingdom. These countries have failed to do so until now.
"Julian Assange's only demands are that his fundamental rights are acknowledged and respected, including the asylum granted to him by Ecuador."
According to the British news agency PA, it is unlikely Mr Assange will be questioned by Sweden until the New Year.
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Shelly Wu, six, and Lily, seven, were hit near the Grove Lane and Antrobus Road junction, Handsworth, on 21 June.
Michael Junior, 35, of Copthall Road, Handsworth, is charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving.
He is also due to face three charges of causing serious injury by dangerous driving at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Monday.
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Amond fired the visitors ahead after being teed up by Andy Monkhouse.
Woking's Cameron Norman saw his free-kick crash against a post before Amond netted his second following good work from Omar Bogle and Craig Disley.
Bruno Andrade slotted home from close range to pull a goal back, but Amond sealed the points with a cool finish.
Grimsby, who were beaten in last season's play-off final, need two points from their remaining two games to secure a top-five spot this term.
Woking boss Garry Hill told BBC Surrey:
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"We started against a Grimsby side who started very quickly and moved the ball around and showed a lot of quality in a big way.
"We found ourselves 1-0 down in the first 20 minutes. they had players all over the park and we couldn't really live with them - they were playing some superb football.
"Playing against such a good side, a lot of teams would have turned around and buckled and folded, but I felt we showed a great deal of character and commitment and for a 15-minute period we played some very good football."
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Padraig Amond scored a hat-trick and took his tally of league goals for the season to 30 as Grimsby climbed up to third with victory at Woking.
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Mr Sirisena was elected with 51.28% of the vote compared with Mr Rajapakse's 47.58%.
The former health minister, who united a fractured opposition to pull off an unlikely victory, promised sweeping reforms of the presidency and said he would transfer many of its executive powers to parliament.
He was elected on a tide of resentment against Mr Rajapakse, who rewrote the constitution after his re-election in 2010 to remove the two-term limit on the presidency and give himself more powers over public servants and judges.
Mr Rajapakse enjoyed huge support among majority Sinhalese voters after overseeing the end of a separatist war by ethnic Tamil rebels in 2009.
But critics say he failed to bring about reconciliation in the years that followed his crushing victory over the Tamil Tiger guerrillas.
Mr Sirisena's decision to run triggered a slew of defections and became a rallying point for disaffection with Mr Rajapakse and his powerful family.
Like Mr Rajapaksa, Mr Sirisena is from the majority Sinhala Buddhist community, but he has reached out to ethnic minority Tamils and Muslims and has the support of several small parties.
He was set to lead a motley coalition of ethnic, religious, Marxist and centre-right parties, which analysts said could hamper economic reform and encourage populist policies.
The new project, called Circular Ocean, will see ideas shared online on what to do with millions of tonnes of plastic.
Marine litter is already used in the making of socks, rucksacks, skateboards and sunglasses.
The Environmental Research Institute (ERI) of the North Highland College UHI is heading up Circular Ocean.
It is working with organisations in Ireland and England, as well as the Arctic Technology Centre in Greenland and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
The project will focus on the recycling of waste from some of Europe's remotest coastlines.
Dr Neil James, of ERI, said "Virtually all plastic ever produced is still with us today, with more entering the seas each year to the detriment of fish, birds, turtles and marine mammals.
"If we utilise this so-called waste material for a new purpose we reduce the amount of new plastic created, reduce marine pollution, and encourage new green enterprises.
"Our aim in Circular Ocean is to facilitate this in the northern Europe and Arctic region."
David McNally quit Norwich City shortly before their relegation from the Premier League in May.
His departure was confirmed two days after he announced he was leaving on Twitter, before deleting the message.
The accounts show McNally was paid the money as "compensation for loss of office".
The Championship club - among the favourites for a return to the Premier League - made a post-tax profit of £9.4m, with an income of £100.6m, the newly-published accounts show.
Norwich City chairman Ed Balls, the ex-Labour shadow chancellor, said: "These figures once again underline the huge gap in revenue between the Championship and the Premier League."
News of McNally's departure first emerged after the Canaries were beaten by Manchester United on 7 May.
Replying to a fan calling for this departure, he tweeted: "I understand your view. I've resigned tonight and I hope the club can now progress."
The club confirmed his departure on 9 May.
The defender did not travel to Dortmund for Wednesday's friendly with Germany, instead going for scans and X-rays.
Jones, 25, was injured in an innocuous training ground tackle at St George's Park, with reports claiming it involved United team-mate Chris Smalling.
England manager Gareth Southgate did not reveal whether that was the case.
If the injury turns out to be a break and keeps Jones on the sidelines for a lengthy spell, it will cause a selection concern for United manager Jose Mourinho as they prepare for nine games in April.
Southgate said: "I don't know who it was with. It was just a nothing sort of thing really. It is very unfortunate for him and a huge disappointment as he has been playing very well and has had some injury difficulties in the past.
"We have respectfully sent him back to his club and we will know more once he has had scans and x-rays over the next 24-48 hours."
Southgate has no plans to call up a replacement as yet, but will "assess his options" after Wednesday's friendly in Germany, the FA said.
England play a World Cup qualifier at home to Lithuania on Sunday, for which Chelsea's Gary Cahill is suspended.
Southgate's other options at centre-back are Smalling, Manchester City's John Stones and Burnley's uncapped Michael Keane.
On Sunday, West Ham winger Michail Antonio withdrew from the England squad with a hamstring injury.
England squad:
Goalkeepers: Fraser Forster (Southampton), Joe Hart (Torino, on loan from Man City), Tom Heaton (Burnley).
Defenders: Ryan Bertrand (Southampton), Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool), Michael Keane (Burnley), Luke Shaw (Man Utd), Chris Smalling (Man Utd), John Stones (Man City), Kyle Walker (Tottenham).
Midfielders: Dele Alli (Tottenham), Ross Barkley (Everton), Eric Dier (Tottenham), Adam Lallana (Liverpool), Jesse Lingard (Man Utd), Jake Livermore (West Brom), Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal), Nathan Redmond (Southampton), Raheem Sterling (Man City), James Ward-Prowse (Southampton).
Strikers: Jermain Defoe (Sunderland), Marcus Rashford (Man Utd), Jamie Vardy (Leicester).
A study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggested that between three and six small glasses of wine a week was linked to a 15% increase in risk.
The study, which followed 105,986 people for nearly 28 years, said the increase was "small".
Experts said cutting down on alcohol could reduce the risk of breast cancer.
Other studies have linked the effect of drinking alcohol to breast cancer, but the authors of this study argued that the effect of low-level drinking had not been fully explored.
In women who never consumed alcohol, there were 281 breast cancers per 100,000 women per year.
That increased to 333 cancers for people drinking between three and six glasses of wine per week. There was a much greater increase, to 413, for those consuming more than 19 glasses.
One of the researchers Dr Wendy Chen said: "We did find an increased risk at low levels of use, but the risk was quite small.
"Although the exact mechanism for the association between alcohol consumption and breast cancer is not known, one probable explanation would involve alcohol's effects on circulating oestrogen levels."
Breakthrough Breast Cancer's Dr Rachel Greig said: "This study adds weight to what we already know; regularly drinking alcohol can increase your risk of developing breast cancer.
"We do know that limiting your alcohol intake can decrease your risk of developing the disease, as can maintaining a healthy weight, and being physically active."
Sarah Williams, health information officer at Cancer Research UK, said: "This study adds to already strong evidence that drinking even small amounts of alcohol increases the risk of breast cancer.
"Cutting down on alcohol can reduce the chance of developing breast cancer - as can keeping a healthy weight and being physically active.
"A healthy lifestyle isn't a guarantee against cancer but it helps stack the odds in our favour."
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Ward and Lee alternated 10m platform and 3m springboard routines to score a combined 353.85 points from six dives.
Russia's Nadezhda Bazhina and Viktor Minibaev claimed gold (413.30) ahead of Ukrainians Iuliia Prokopchuk and Oleksandr Gorshkovozov (396.40).
"That was incredible," Ward told BBC Sport.
"Having the crowd here supporting in my home pool was a real help and it's a great beginning to what will be a busy competition."
Lee, who performed two 3m dives and one from 10m, added: "I'm not a springboard diver and I only learnt the two dives I did earlier this week, but it's a really good start to the competition."
Ward, who dived twice from 10m and once from 3m, has been in impressive form this year, securing Britain a second 10m platform berth for the Rio 2016 Olympics via the Rio test event in February.
Lee won individual 10m platform gold at the inaugural 2015 European Games in Baku.
Both will compete in their individual 10m platform events later in the competition and will pair up again for the mixed synchronised 10m platform event on Saturday.
Women's 10m platform pair Tonia Couch and Lois Toulson will bid for European honours on Tuesday at the London 2012 Olympic venue.
Olympians Olivia Federici and Katie Clark will compete in the free duet preliminary round.
China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce - the body responsible for enforcing business laws - said it was looking into "alleged monopoly actions" by the company.
The announcement came after officials from the regulator visited some of Microsoft's local offices.
The company said it "will address any concerns the government may have".
It has not yet been accused of any specific wrongdoing.
Any potential investigation in China would be a fresh setback for Microsoft in the country, a key growth market for global technology firms.
Earlier this year, China said it would ban government use of Windows 8, Microsoft's latest operating system.
The visits to Microsoft offices come just days after the China's anti-trust regulator said that Qualcomm, one of the world's biggest mobile chipmakers, had used monopoly power in setting its licensing fees.
The anti-trust case has already seen some local handset makers hold back on signing licences for Qualcomm products, hitting its revenues.
Another technology firm, Interdigital - which specialises in wireless technology - has also faced a similar investigation.
Chinese regulators suspended that investigation earlier this year after Interdigital agreed to change its pricing structure.
However, some have alleged that China is using anti-trust probes to protect domestic firms.
"It has become increasingly clear that the Chinese government has seized on using the [anti-monopoly] law to promote Chinese producer welfare, and to advance industrial policies that nurture domestic enterprises," the US Chamber of Commerce said earlier this year.
Keen's side are bottom of League One, having leaked 55 league goals.
"We need to make sure defensively we are tighter and at the same time express ourselves," he told BBC Essex.
"If it means we lose a fraction going forward that might have to be so. The only priority is to win against Southend, Gillingham, then Oldham."
The U's take on a Shrimpers side who are just one place outside the play-off places having won promotion from League Two last season.
Southend boss Phil Brown, who takes charge of his first Essex derby match, said: "We're preparing for this game the same as any other game.
"The importance of it is the fact that we're knocking at the door of the play-offs and they're bottom of the league, and they'll be smarting from that.
"It's a massive game for both clubs - it's a local derby and we just want to give it our best shot."
Keen took his first permanent role in management by replacing Tony Humes at the Weston Homes Community Stadium on Monday after leaving his post as Reading assistant manager earlier in December.
"It's a fantastic game to come in to," added the former Stoke player. "I went to Southend on Friday and was really impressed with them, in the first half especially.
"It's a great challenge for the players and myself to get our teeth into.
"And I think it's tremendous there will be a full house and I hope the Colchester fans get behind the team because we're currently sitting bottom of the league.
"It's time for the true supporter to stand up and say 'come on, we're behind you, let's get going'."
A report into HMP Dovegate also found high levels of violence, insufficient staffing, unjustified segregation and poor visiting arrangements.
It was, though, praised for good living conditions and resettlement work.
The Category B jail houses about 1,060 male prisoners and is run by the private firm Serco.
Chief Inspector of Prisons, Nick Hardwick said the jail's performance "had dipped" since its last inspection in 2013 under a new management team.
The report said there had been an influx of prisoners convicted of serious violent offences, and a large number of men who had to be separated from the rest for safety reasons, including gang affiliations.
The use of force by staff was higher than average, attendance at activities was poor, and skills provision was inconsistent.
Mr Hardwick said Dovegate had struggled to respond to the "destabilising impact" of new psychoactive substances.
"There remains much to do," he said.
Michael Spurr, from the National Offender Management Service, said: "The prison is working hard to tackle violence, and is working with Ofsted to improve education outcomes for prisoners."
HMP Dovegate houses a 200-bed therapeutic unit, which is subject to a separate inspection report.
The 25 and 27-year-olds were attacked as they headed home on Castle Brae at about 02:00 on Sunday.
Police have appealed for witnesses to the incident and have been trying to trace two other men.
One was described as being 5ft 11in tall and having dark hair and the other 5ft 9in and light brown hair. Both had stocky builds and aged in their 20s.
The first man was wearing a blue shirt, jeans and Adidas trainers, and the second had on jeans, a red, orange or maroon jacket with a goggles-shaped motif on the hood.
Insp Jamie Wilson, of Police Scotland's Sutherland and Easter Ross community policing team, said: "We are still trying to establish the full facts, but I believe that a number of people would have seen what happened.
"These were particularly nasty assaults and I am appealing for anyone who can assist our investigation to contact us as soon as possible.
"We are especially keen to hear from anyone who may have seen a group of individuals fighting or heard a disturbance."
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It happened on the A20 Eglantine Lane in Farningham, near Dartford in Kent, at about 01:20 BST.
The two victims, aged in their 20s, died at the scene, South East Coast Ambulance Service said.
Police have appealed for anyone who saw a black Vauxhall Insignia with a 61 registration being driven on the A20 towards Swanley, to contact them.
A blue Citroen Berlingo van and a white VW Polo were also involved in the collision.
Sgt Glyn Walker, of Kent Police, said the two men who died were in the same vehicle.
He said there had been no arrests, but "one of those injured will be the subject of our enquiries".
The road was closed in both directions for more than 11 hours while an investigation was carried out.
Michael Shenton gave England the lead after being set up by Daryl Clark's first touch of the game, before Isaac Liu barged himself over for Samoa.
Daniel Vidot put the Islanders ahead after scoring in the corner, but Kallum Watkins restored England's advantage.
Wigan's Liam Farrell and Joel Tomkins and brother Sam all added tries for England in a free-scoring second half.
Two Pita Godinet tries and an Antonio Winterstein score were not enough for Samoa.
Steve McNamara's men will be relieved to achieve victory in the first match of the tournament at the Suncorp Stadium, before going on to face world champions Australia and New Zealand, who inflicted a shock defeat on the Kangaroos in Saturday's other match.
The former Bradford Bulls boss will be pleased at his side's kicking game, especially the performances of halves Gareth Widdop and Matty Smith, but will be concerned at the number of errors overall.
The encounter was England's first Test since their agonising 20-18 defeat against New Zealand in last year's World Cup semi-final.
Captain Kevin Sinfield has since retired and debuts were given to Smith, Josh Hodgson, Joe Westerman and Super League Man of Steel Clark.
England's defence stood firm in the first few minutes following early pressure but when they did manage to gain possession, McNamara's men were sloppy, not completing their sets and making poor decisions.
After a scoreless 20 minutes, Clark was sent on to the field and with his first touch for the national side, created the opening try of the game.
The hooker found space at the ruck area and evaded the attention of the Samoan defence before finding Castleford team-mate Shenton who had a clear run to the line. Widdop added the conversion.
Minutes later, the Samoans restored parity through Liu, as the big prop collected the ball through the middle and bundled over between the posts.
Having been behind, the Pacific Islanders took the lead with some smart play, offloading the ball to the right wing where Vidot dived over to score.
The tries began to come more freely after a quiet opening period. England worked the ball with quick hands for the first time and drew the Samoan defence in, as Leeds man Watkins touched down on the right-hand side.
Widdop added the two points as well as a penalty to give England a 14-10 half-time lead.
They extended their lead in the second half with crisp passing, as the new half-back pairing of Widdop and Smith combined to find Farrell who crossed for his first England try.
Matt Parish's Samoan side would not go away though and in fact went ahead in the contest.
Wakefield halfback Godinet embarrassed the England defence twice in the space of seven minutes, bamboozling his markers with dummies to touch down.
However, the see-saw clash went England's way again when Joel Tomkins collected Shenton's knock-down for his first try, while brother Sam took advantage of a dropped ball from full-back Tim Simona to put his side 32-22 in front.
The Samoans came again through Winterstein's effort in the left corner, but despite late pressure, England held on for the win.
England: S Tomkins (New Zealand Warriors); J Charnley (Wigan), K Watkins (Leeds), M Shenton (Castleford), R Hall (Leeds); G Widdop (St George Illawarra), M Smith (Wigan); G Burgess (South Sydney), J Hodgson (Hull KR), J Graham (Canterbury Bulldogs, capt), L Farrell (Wigan), J Tomkins (Wigan), J Westerman (Hull)
Replacements: D Clark (Castleford), B Ferres (Huddersfield), T Burgess (South Sydney), C Hill (Warrington)
Samoa: T Simona (Wests Tigers); A Winterstein (North Queensland), R Leutele (Cronulla), J Leilua (Newcastle), D Vidot (Brisbane); B Roberts (Melbourne), K Stanley (St George Illawarra); S Tagaetese Cronulla), M Sio (New Zealand Warriors), D Fa'alogo (Newcastle), F Pritchard (Canterbury Bulldogs), L Ah Mau (St George Illawarra), J McGuire (Brisbane)
Replacements: P Godinet (Wakefield), J Sene-Lefao (Manly), I Liu (Sydney Roosters), M Masoe (St Helens)
Cafodd y dyn ei arestio o dan Adran 41 o Ddeddf Derfysgaeth 2000 fel rhan o gyrch ar y cyd rhwng Uned Gwrth Derfysgaeth Eithafol Cymru (WECTU) ac Uned Gwrth Derfysgaeth y West Midlands.
Mae'r dyn yn cael ei holi mewn gorsaf heddlu yng nghanolbarth Lloegr.
Brynhawn Gwener, 20 Ionawr, mae ynadon wedi caniatáu gwŷs i gadw'r dyn yn y ddalfa am saith niwrnod ychwanegol.
Fe ddywedodd llefarydd ar ran WECTU nad yw'r ymchwiliad yn ymwneud ag unrhyw fygythiad i ddiogelwch y cyhoedd ar hyn o bryd.
Sales increased by 18.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual sales rate of 504,000 - the highest level since May 2008, according to the Commerce Department.
However, the S&P/Case-Shiller index, also released on Tuesday, found house price increases slowed in April.
Economists had expected bigger rises.
On a seasonally-adjusted basis, the home price index, covering 20 major US cities, rose 0.2% in April, and by 10.8% on an annual basis.
"Although home prices rose in April, the annual gains weakened. Overall, prices are rising month-to-month but at a slower rate," said David M. Blitzer, chairman of the Index Committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices.
A combination of higher mortgage rates and a surge in prices due to a lack of properties available for sale have weighed on the US housing market since the second half of 2013.
However, recent data suggests the housing market is beginning to improve again.
Referring to the new homes figure, Cooper Hawes from Barclays Research said in an analyst note:
"This is the strongest level since the end of the recession and is an encouraging sign that housing activity improved in the second quarter."
A report on Monday showed sales of previously owned homes, the largest part of the US housing market, recorded their largest increase in more than three-and-a-half years in May.
The collection of photographs found on a website also show 21-year-old Dylann Roof burning the US flag and visiting a former slave plantation.
In one image he is shown staring down the camera while sitting on a chair in camouflage trousers holding a gun.
It is unclear who posted the images on the site, which was found on Saturday.
The website also carries a racist manifesto, the provenance of which is also unknown. Internet records suggest the website's domain was registered in February but it is unclear who was behind it.
A law enforcement official, quoted by AP, said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was looking into the website.
Data from the images show many of them were taken in April and May this year.
Many of the photographs show Mr Roof posing with the Confederate flag, a symbol used in the US south during the civil war when southern states tried to break away to prevent the abolition of slavery.
It is viewed by many as symbolising the white supremacy advocated by those states at the time.
Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has joined calls for South Carolina to take down the controversial flag flying outside its capitol building in Columbia.
It follows US President Barack Obama's remark that the flag belonged "in a museum".
Hundreds of demonstrators rallied near the flag on Saturday to demand its removal.
Protesters chanted "Take it down" and sang We Shall Overcome, an anthem of the black civil rights movement.
On Friday, South Carolina's Republican state representative Doug Brannon told MSNBC that he planned to introduce legislation to remove the flag.
Elsewhere, Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton has made an impassioned appeal for tougher gun laws, saying that her heart was "bursting" for the families of the victims of the Charleston shooting.
"We can have common sense gun reforms that keep weapons out of the hands of criminals and the violently unstable, while representing responsible gun owners," she told a gathering of mayors in San Francisco.
Mr Roof was arrested on Thursday and charged with the murders of nine African-Americans at the Emanuel African Methodist Church in downtown Charleston.
Police said he spent an hour sitting with parishioners inside the church before opening fire on them on Wednesday evening.
Crowds gathered outside the historic church on Saturday to hear pastors from across the US lead prayers. Many travelled hundreds of miles from across the country to pay their respects.
"There was an overwhelming feeling that made me drive here," Monte Talmadge, a 62-year-old army veteran who drove nearly 480km (300 miles) to get to Charleston, told Reuters.
Also on Saturday, a group of congregation members met for the first time in the room where the killings took place.
One of those who attended, Harold Washington, told the Associated Press it was an emotional meeting.
Several rallies were due on Saturday, with one in Charleston organised by the Black Lives Matter movement, which began after the 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman over the killing of an unarmed African-American teenager, Trayvon Martin.
Up to 3,000 people are also expected to join hands in a march across the Ravanel Bridge, one of the city's main thoroughfares.
The church is due to reopen on Sunday for a service at 09:00 local time (13:00 GMT).
The victims of the Charleston shooting
They say they were not included in negotiations to end the action over pay.
On Friday, state officials threatened to charge more than 700 police with rebellion.
The strike has left a security vacuum, causing a wave of violence that has reportedly left 137 people dead.
Wives and relatives of the officers have been blockading stations because Brazil's military police, who carry out street patrols, are barred by law from going on strike. They face two years in prison if convicted.
Brazil's Defence Minister, Raul Jungmann who was visiting the state, said 3,000 troops drafted in to deal with state security would stay for as long as was needed.
He appealed to the women protesters to allow the police to leave police stations.
"I ask these police wives to not lead your husbands, your partners into a trap. There is no alternative and these actions are not going to lead anywhere."
Similar protests were staged in Rio de Janeiro but most police personnel there did not stop patrols.
Brazil's President Michel Temer addressed the crisis for the first time on Friday calling the strike "illegal" and saying: "The right to protest cannot take the Brazilian people hostage."
The strike paralysed many parts of Espirito Santo with local officials closing schools, clinics and public transport, while shops and businesses remained shuttered.
By Saturday, buses which had stopped running because of concerns that they might be wrecked, had gradually started running again.
In Rio de Janeiro, which has been struggling to pay public sector salaries, family members of police officers organised similar strikes at several police stations but the protest did not stop police patrols in most areas.
Similar protests were attempted in the northern state of Para, in the capital, Belem.
Espirito Santo is one of several Brazilian states struggling with a budget crisis that is crippling public services.
Military police salaries there are the lowest of all 27 Brazilian states.
James Laurence Farrelly, 51, is accused of killing Martin Hamilton whose body was found near West Calder in West Lothian on 17 December.
At Livingston Sheriff Court, Mr Farrelly, from Blackburn, West Lothian, made no plea or declaration andwas remanded in custody.
Hamilton, from Glasgow, was previously one of Scotland's most wanted men.
He was released from prison in September 2014 but went missing in April last year.
Hamilton was nicknamed the Blackhill Butcher, after the Glasgow housing estate from which he operated.
He had been on the police's most-wanted list before he was jailed in 2000 over a string of charges including drug dealing, torture, abduction and sodomy.
Owners and creditors of the airline have a plan to cut costs and jobs, but it needed approval from eight trade unions representing pilots and cabin crew in Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
The airline said on Monday afternoon it had reached agreement with the one remaining union that had held out.
SAS wants to cut 6,000 jobs.
Agreement with seven of the unions had been reached by early morning on Monday, with the Danish cabin crew union the only remaining obstacle.
"I am very happy that we managed to get a deal," said Helge Thuesen, the union's chairman. "We have stretched ourselves very, very far to reach out to SAS."
SAS said that the Danish pilots' union still needed to obtain approval from one-third of its members, which will be "finalised in the next few days" according to the airline's statement.
Shares in the company jumped by almost a quarter in Monday trading. Even so, they are still down by 98% since their peak in 2007.
"We have successfully negotiated seven of eight collective agreements, which is gratifying," said chief executive Rickard Gustafson.
"But there remains one union and we must have it on board too. That is a condition for carrying out our plan."
An agreement with all eight unions is a precondition for SAS to receive a 3.5bn-Swedish krona ($518m, ??325m) loan from its three government parents and from seven current lenders.
Despite the encouraging turn of events, rating agency Standard & Poor's said on Monday that it had cut SAS's credit rating from B- to CCC+, and placed it on review for further downgrade.
S&P attributed its downgrade decision to the company's weak cashflow position, noting it had debts coming up for repayment over the next 12 months, and risked a loss of confidence by its suppliers.
The rating agency made no reference to the union negotiations, but said it would make a decision about a possible further downgrade in the next three months, once it becomes clear whether SAS's restructuring plan is successful, including the possible knock-on impact on ticket sales.
SAS has struggled to deal with stiff competition from rival discount airlines, despite several attempts to cut its own costs.
The airline, in which the governments of Sweden, Denmark and Norway control key stakes, had set Sunday as a deadline for an agreement with trade unions on wage cuts, as well as changes to pensions and working hours for staff, but talks were extended into Monday.
In the early hours of Monday, at Copenhagen's main airport, negotiators were seen entering and leaving the company's headquarters, taking a break for food and drink.
"It has been a very gruelling process," said Espen Pettersen, deputy head of the main Norwegian cabin union.
"We have made big concessions in this agreement. We are not very happy, but we felt we had no other choice but to sign to secure the jobs and the company."
According to Norwegian press, pilots have agreed to a pay cut equivalent to one month's salary, as well as an 8% increase in their workload.
The company's turnaround plan - dubbed "4 Excellence Next Generation" - aims to reduce costs by 3bn krona per year, and sell 3bn krona of assets.
Fears have been widely expressed in the Scandinavian media that a lack of a deal might prompt the airline to apply for immediate bankruptcy.
SAS has told crews to ensure planes are fully fuelled, so that they are able to return home if necessary.
The carrier has also given cash to staff to ensure they can get access to hotels in the case of a bankruptcy.
SAS has said that it wants to cut staff numbers from 15,000 to 9,000, as well as cut salaries by up to 17%.
Marcos Rojo is also fit again after a knock but Phil Jones remains sidelined with a bruised foot.
Watford's Christian Kabasele has recovered from a muscle problem and could feature.
However, the game is likely to come too early for Nordin Amrabat, who has returned to training after an ankle injury.
Steve Bower: "I was at Vicarage Road back in September to see Watford's first-ever Premier League points against Manchester United, but Jose Mourinho's team have a much more solid and settled look about them now.
"United are currently on their longest unbeaten league run since Sir Alex Ferguson retired, but they know it is all about winning in the chase for a top-four finish.
"The Old Trafford draws against Stoke, Burnley, West Ham and Hull are still frustrating memories. Had those been victories, United would have been second, six points off Chelsea.
"Those results will be a source of belief for Watford, as will their recent victory at the Emirates; they've enjoyed upsetting the odds at times this season, although will have to be at their very best to do so again,"
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United have had problems breaking defences down at home before but I don't think that is a particular strength of Watford's.
Jose Mourinho's side lost 3-1 at Vicarage Road in September, which was one of the low points of their season, but I can see them getting their own back here.
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North, 22, left the field on a stretcher and was also twice hit in the head in Wales' Six Nations defeat by England in Cardiff on 6 February.
He was left motionless after a knee to the head from Wasps' Nathan Hughes.
"Thanks for all the messages," North said on his Twitter account on Saturday morning. "Feeling ok, up and about."
Saints' director of rugby Jim Mallinder added on Friday that the Welshman was "walking about in the dressing room" after the game, while the club issued a statement on Saturday to say the player had begun treatment and would see a specialist next week.
"He has been into the club today (Saturday) for treatment and will continue to be monitored by the Saints' experienced medical team throughout the weekend," said the statement.
"As with everyone in the squad, Northampton Saints places the highest importance on player welfare, and as such North will see a specialist early next week for an assessment."
North's knocks against England in the Six Nations opener prompted controversy as he was allowed to play on - but he missed Wales' trip to Scotland after being given an "extended recovery period".
The former Scarlets man was hurt in the act of scoring his second try when he was caught on the head by the knee of Wasps forward Hughes, who was sent off for dangerous play but protested his innocence.
"The opposition have got to then be very careful once the try is scored and it was reckless coming in with the knee," added Mallinder. "Some serious consequences happened because of it."
Wasps director of rugby Dai Young saw his side concede two tries in five minutes after the dismissal which he felt was "harsh".
Young added: "I hope George is okay, Nathan has gone looking for him to make sure he is okay - he is not that type of person [who would injure someone deliberately]."
Jonathan Kodjia came close for Ivory Coast but his toe-poke was well saved by goalkeeper Kossi Agassa.
At the other end, Sylvain Gbohouo rushed out of his goal to save smartly at the feet of Mathieu Dossevi.
Late on, Ivory Coast defender Serge Aurier headed wide from an unmarked position in a rare clear-cut chance.
Neither side found their fluency - not helped by a poor pitch - and even from early on the game had the look of a stalemate.
Wilfried Zaha, making his competitive debut for Ivory Coast after switching international allegiance from England, looked just about the liveliest player on show.
Switching wings regularly, he cut in off the right to send a shot just over and later ended a good run from the left with an effort that was well blocked.
Both sides were guilty of wasting set-piece opportunities. Togo's corners left a lot to be desired, while Ivory Coast fared no better from a series of free-kicks.
Aurier should have snatched a winner for the Elephants but nodded wide from six yards.
Four of the five games at the tournament have now been drawn.
Match ends, Côte d'Ivoire 0, Togo 0.
Second Half ends, Côte d'Ivoire 0, Togo 0.
Wilfried Bony (Côte d'Ivoire) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Serge Akakpo (Togo).
Substitution, Togo. Razak Boukari replaces Emmanuel Adebayor.
Attempt missed. Serge Aurier (Côte d'Ivoire) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Max Gradel with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Franck Kessié (Côte d'Ivoire) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Serge Aurier.
Substitution, Togo. Komlan Agbégniadan replaces Mathieu Dossevi.
Hand ball by Franck Kessié (Côte d'Ivoire).
Substitution, Côte d'Ivoire. Max Gradel replaces Jonathan Kodjia.
Substitution, Togo. Serge Akakpo replaces Kodjo Fo-Doh Laba.
Foul by Wilfried Bony (Côte d'Ivoire).
Jacques-Alaixys Romao (Togo) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cheick Doukoure (Côte d'Ivoire).
Lalawélé Atakora (Togo) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Serge Aurier (Côte d'Ivoire) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Wilfried Bony (Côte d'Ivoire) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Sadat Ouro-Akoriko (Togo).
Attempt missed. Kodjo Fo-Doh Laba (Togo) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Djené with a cross.
Eric Bailly (Côte d'Ivoire) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kodjo Fo-Doh Laba (Togo).
Foul by Adama Traoré (Côte d'Ivoire).
Mathieu Dossevi (Togo) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Salomon Kalou (Côte d'Ivoire).
Serge Gakpe (Togo) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Côte d'Ivoire. Franck Kessié tries a through ball, but Wilfried Bony is caught offside.
Foul by Jonathan Kodjia (Côte d'Ivoire).
Djené (Togo) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Franck Kessié (Côte d'Ivoire).
Emmanuel Adebayor (Togo) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Emmanuel Adebayor (Togo) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Kodjo Fo-Doh Laba.
Substitution, Côte d'Ivoire. Wilfried Bony replaces Wilfried Zaha.
Foul by Geoffroy Serey Dié (Côte d'Ivoire).
Ihlas Bebou (Togo) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Wilfried Zaha (Côte d'Ivoire) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Geoffroy Serey Dié.
Wilfried Zaha (Côte d'Ivoire) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Djené (Togo).
Corner, Togo. Conceded by Serge Aurier.
Franck Kessié (Côte d'Ivoire) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lalawélé Atakora (Togo).
The piece will be for an art installation to be sent out to California. But Ms Shin is planning more than just the future of this piece, she's thinking about her own future too - her retirement.
Ms Shin is part of a group called Artist Pension Trust (APT), an organisation that uses work from professional artists as the basis for raising funds they can use to retire.
"I'm interested in alternative systems for artists," Ms Shin says of the group's approach.
Artists traditionally rely on grants to fund their works, and sell their pieces to galleries or collectors for large one-off sums. Fluctuations in the art market can mean the prices swing massively, leaving artists without a stable income or the ability to put savings away for their retirement.
With this in mind, APT decided to bring artists together to invest not money, but their work in a new type of pension account.
"The idea was to share the risk of financial insecurity," said Al Brenner, chief executive of Mutual Art, the organisation that owns APT.
Like traditional pensions or trusts, APT works by pooling resources and sharing the value that is gained over time with its member. But rather than putting in money APT members must hand in 20 pieces of their art over 20 years.
APT keeps the art typically for ten years, often displaying it at exhibitions and museums before selling and distributing the proceeds.
Ten years ago Ms Shin was approached by a friend and curator, who worked for APT, about joining. She says the invitation felt like a vote of confidence in her work and an opportunity to add financial security to her future.
"At some point when you decide that [you are] going to make art your life and your profession then you are told that the odds of that kind of sustainable living are nearly impossible," says Ms Shin.
Like the other artists in the trust Ms Shin was early in her career when she joined - most artists are between 30 and 45 when they join - but like most she had already had success showing her work at several established galleries and museums.
APT has set up trusts across the world in cities including New York, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and Beijing. The number of members in each trust is limited to 250.
Artists are hoping to benefit not just from the increase in the value of their work but in the value of others work.
On 2 March APT participated in its first public auction, selling 13 pieces it has held for close to a decade. The group will participate in a second auction in London on 12 April.
From APT's perspective, this first sale at Sotheby's New York was a success. Collectively the work sold for $231,000 (£188,266). APT's low estimate of how much the work would sell for was $167,000.
"If you put works at auction you want to make sure they will sell well," says Mr Brenner, adding that he felt the auction would help get the word out about APT's collection and help future sales efforts.
But there are uncertainties about selling at auctions. Pieces can sell for lower than expected to buyers looking for a deal or skyrocket in a bidding war.
One bidder at Sotheby's, who would not give his name, noted that the piece he had bid for was an artist's early work which was less valuable. "I would have taken it if I could have gotten it at a discount," he said. He did not win that piece.
Many artists prefer private sales where the price is kept secret. This protects the artist's work from being stuck in a certain price bracket and allows buyers to go into future negotiations without a preconceived idea of what they are willing to spend.
APT does not give their artists a choice of how their work is sold, although they do take artists' input into consideration.
After a sale, the artist whose work was sold receives 40% of the revenue. The remaining artists in the trust split a further 32% of the money and the rest is used for APT overheads.
The artists don't have to be 65 to receive a payout. The money is distributed annually, but most do think of it as an investment for their future.
"Like many people in America I will invest in the future if I have extra funds," says Ms Shin, "I'm not banking on this to work out but I think it's an interesting alternative."
For artists - a class of individuals used to thinking outside the box - this creative approach to financial planning might be just the ticket to a stable retirement.
But like the art itself, the real value will take years to grow.
These gangs have spent years kidnapping oil workers, attacking oil fields, blowing up pipelines and fighting Nigeria's army.
Niger Delta politicians originally created the gangs - by arming young men to use as their private armies and to rig elections.
But later, the young men began to turn the guns on the government, and oil companies, organising into a militant movement, under the banner Mend.
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They demand that the Delta receive more benefits from its oil, with a fairer share of the wealth invested in roads, schools, hospitals, clean water and power supply.
The Delta is impoverished - in spite of five decades of oil extraction.
But Mend's gangs also run criminal rackets - kidnapping civilians for ransom, and making billions of dollars by stealing crude oil from pipelines.
In the past, they have cut Nigeria's oil production by one-third - causing spikes in the global oil price.
The group was successful, partly because of a sophisticated media strategy.
A shadowy figure, who signed himself "Jomo Gbomo", creates headlines by sending journalists dramatic e-mails - either promising attacks, or denouncing Nigeria's government.
Some security experts believed "Jomo Gbomo" to be Henry Okah, until he was imprisoned, accused of gun-running.
Their authorship today is unclear.
But at present, the Mend web is split.
Nearly all the senior commanders in the field - and their foot soldiers - have accepted an amnesty, and are observing a ceasefire.
One small faction has not. That group is presumed to be behind the Abuja car bombs.
That faction continues to send e-mails to the media - claiming to speak for the whole of Mend - to the irritation of the senior figures on ceasefire.
Authorities have said he left last Tuesday, days before a warrant was issued for his arrest after he failed to show up to face charges.
Mr Vorayuth allegedly knocked down the officer while speeding in 2012.
The high-profile case has attracted criticism that the elite enjoy special treatment from Thai authorities.
Singaporean police and aviation authorities did not immediately respond to the BBC's request for comment.
The Associated Press news agency said Singapore airport authorities had confirmed with them that Mr Vorayuth's private plane was in the country as of Tuesday.
A representative at Seletar Airport, which receives private aeroplanes, told the BBC that they were "unable to release any information" and declined to give a reason.
Singapore does not have an extradition agreement with Thailand, but the two countries frequently co-operate in transnational cases.
Mr Vorayuth has repeatedly failed to meet Thai police to face charges of speeding, reckless driving causing death, and fleeing the scene of an accident. Some charges have since expired.
His representatives have said each time that he was either away for business or too ill to meet police.
Thai news outlets quoted police as saying that Mr Vorayuth travelled to Singapore on 25 April, and that they were unable to stop him as this was before the warrant was issued on Friday.
A police spokesman also told The Nation newspaper that they did not put in place a travel ban as the case was about recklessness rather than one of criminal intent.
Thai investigators are now seeking to cancel Mr Vorayuth's passport.
A senior F1 source said Honda was "annoyed" by the development.
It follows the discovery of a loophole and subsequent clarification of the rules by the FIA, the governing body.
McLaren-Honda have been in contact with the FIA about the issue but said it would not comment further for now.
The situation has arisen because of a lack of clarity in the rules concerning permitted engine developments.
The intention was to freeze in-season development, to keep costs down.
Renault and Ferrari had wanted to end the ban in an attempt to close the gap on Mercedes, which had the dominant power-unit in 2014.
Honda has been told by the FIA it must submit its definitive 2015 engine designs by 28 February, whereas Renault, Ferrari and Mercedes can stagger improvements over the season if required.
Because Honda's new engine is racing for the first time 2015, the FIA believes it is "fair and equitable" that Honda complies with the same restrictions as its rivals last year.
Honda feels the ruling puts them at a disadvantage, and will meet the FIA next week to discuss the situation.
A senior figure from one of Honda's rivals said the changes "won't make that much difference".
Honda, which has returned to F1 this season following an absence of six years, has the option of lodging a protest against Ferrari, who discovered the loophole that has led to the change in interpretation of the rules by the FIA.
Renault, Ferrari and Mercedes have so far not responded to requests to comment from BBC Sport.
The season starts with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on 15 March.
Welsh Government buildings and councils observed the silence and the assembly's health and equality committees suspended proceedings for a minute.
Monday's bomb attack at the Manchester Arena killed 22 people and injured a further 64 after a concert by US singer Ariana Grande.
Eight men are in custody following the attack, carried out by Salman Abedi.
Councils across Wales also fell silent as did Swansea University.
Silences were also held in Cardiff, Carmarthen, Swansea, Aberystwyth, Conwy, Prestatyn, Haverfordwest and at the Hay Festival, which started on Thursday.
Proceedings also came to a halt at Mold Law Courts as barristers, solicitors, CPS prosecutors, staff and probation officers were joined by other court users including jury members in the national mark of respect.
Judge Rhys Rowlands said that the minute's silence was to remember those who lost their lives so tragically on Monday night, their families and all those who suffered dreadful injuries.
"Targeting the young, and the very young, is beyond comprehension," he said.
"You have to believe to achieve and we worked hard on getting the boys to believe," he told BBC Scotland after the 1-0 win over Celtic at Hampden.
"Celtic are a young team and there is always that strain on them to succeed, so we talked up their Treble chances.
"I knew it would be difficult for them if we kept the ball because Celtic were the team under pressure."
Kilmarnock goalkeeper Cammy Bell several fine saves and substitute Dieter Van Tornhout, celebrating his birthday, won it for the underdogs with a header on 84 minutes.
"Celtic are a fantastic team and they will go on to to be very successful," added Shiels.
"But they were gone in the last 10 minutes."
We are thinking more about Liam (Kelly) than our triumphalism
Despite Killie lifting the trophy for the first time, Shiels later revealed that the dressing room was "despondent" on hearing the news of midfielder Liam Kelly's father being taken to hospital after collapsing at the end of the game.
For several minutes after the final whistle paramedics treated Kelly senior right beside the Kilmarnock dugout.
Kelly did not join in the celebrations and went up the tunnel.
A sombre Shiels explained: "I am all over the place, I really am.
"It happened right beside this dugout and I am only doing this press conference out of respect to you (the media) so I hope you appreciate that.
"I don't know the medical term, but it is a heart attack, probably. He is away to hospital and the family has gone with him.
"I have gone from so high an emotion to so low an emotion.
"We are not sure of the outcome but he is very seriously ill and that's a tough emotion after going up to one of the best moments of our lives.
"The dressing room is very despondent and I don't know why the man above sends down these messages to us.
"We are thinking more about Liam than our triumphalism."
There was a fright for Kilmarnock in stoppage time when Anthony Stokes went down in the penalty area under a challenge from Michael Nelson.
However, referee Willie Collum chose to book the Celtic striker for simulation, much to the annoyance of Celtic manager Neil Lennon.
Bell was given the man-of-the-match award, having denied Gary Hooper and Anthony Stokes with excellent first-half saves as well as making other important interventions.
"It's amazing, I feel very emotional at the moment, brilliant, fantastic," Bell told BBC Scotland immediately after the game.
"It just shows how much commitment the boys had, we did it for the manager.
"Everybody dreams, but we are realistic. I think the boys were fantastic.
"I think we deserved to win, I had a few saves to make, but you are going to have to against Celtic."
The Grade II listed Scenic Railway rollercoaster, badly damaged in an arson attack in 2008, was due to be the centrepiece on 19 June.
The refurbishment of the park - which originally opened in 1920 - has cost £18m and began in September.
The funfair, once home to Europe's largest big wheel, was bought by Thanet council in 2013.
Susan Marsh, honorary secretary of the Dreamland Trust, said the delay in the rollercoaster's completion was "disappointing", but "only a blip".
"We don't have an exact date at the moment [when it will be ready], but it will be as fast as it possibly can be," she said.
"The delay is in respect to the trains and restoration of the trains, because these are quite unique features.
"When the arson attack happened a few years ago they were very badly damaged."
She said she did not know whether the operator would provide a refund to people who have already bought a ticket.
Prosecutors allege some of the girls were befriended and given drink and drugs before being forced to have sex.
Sheffield Crown Court was told one girl was tied to a chair in a bedsit by four of the defendants and made to have sex with men for money.
The offences are said to have taken place in Sheffield between 2005 and 2012. The defendants deny the charges.
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Prosecutor Peter Hampton said brothers, Christopher, Shane and Matthew Whiteley, Andre Francis-Edge, Taleb Bapir and Amanda Spencer "in differing ways sexually abused and facilitated the sexual abuse of teenage girls".
He told jurors that Christopher Whiteley and Amanda Spencer had "played a key role in the abuse".
The court was told Christopher Whiteley, who was aged 13 in 2005, would appear "charming" at first before being "aggressive, intimidating, threatening and on occasions violent".
The jury heard that at the time the alleged offending began he had already been convicted of two sexual offences.
Mr Hampton said Miss Spencer had "likely" been the victim of child sexual exploitation but had "turned her dreadful situation on its head and she became a facilitator of sexual abuse herself".
The jury heard Miss Spencer was convicted of 16 child prostitution offences in 2014.
Christopher Whiteley, 23, of Weakland Crescent in Hackenthorpe, Sheffield, is charged with 13 counts of rape, two counts of conspiracy to rape, two child prostitution offences, two counts of sexual assault on a child under 13, one count of theft and one count of sexual assault;
Shane Whiteley, 30, also of Weakland Crescent, is charged with three child prostitution offences and two counts of conspiracy to rape;
Matthew Whiteley, 24, also of Weakland Crescent, is charged with two child prostitution offences, two counts of conspiracy to rape and two counts of sexual activity with a child;
Amanda Spencer, 26, of Canklow Road, Rotherham, is charged with eight counts of aiding and abetting rape and 12 child prostitution offences;
Andre Francis-Edge, of Wheatley Road in Parson Cross, Sheffield is charged with one count of rape, one count of conspiracy to rape and one child prostitution offence;
Taleb Bapir, 39, of Verdon Street, Sheffield, is charged with one count of rape.
Outlining the case in relation to one girl Mr Hampton said she had been befriended by the Whiteley brothers and Mr Francis-Edge after meeting them at Sheffield's former Castle Market.
He said the girl was later taken to a flat in West Street and tied to a chair.
"She was prostituted to men who visited the flat," he said.
"She would tell them she did not want to do it but if she refused she would be subjected to violence by the brothers."
The prosecutor said another girl had been forced to stand on a street corner in Sheffield's red light district by Shane Whiteley as "pay back" for an alleged burglary.
The court heard Miss Spencer was "pimping out" one girl to Christopher Whitely and also took her to an address where she threatened her with violence if she did not have sex with an older man.
Taleb Bapir is said to have paid Miss Spencer £60 to have sex with another 15-year-old girl.
The trial continues.
Victims told IOM that after being detained by people smugglers or militia groups, they were taken to town squares or car parks to be sold.
Migrants with skills like painting or tiling would fetch higher prices, the head of the IOM in Libya told the BBC.
Libya has been in chaos since the 2011 Nato-backed ousting of Muammar Gaddafi.
Hundreds of young sub-Saharan African men have been caught up in the so-called slave markets, according to the IOM report.
A Senegalese migrant, who was not named to protect his identity, said that he had been sold at one such market in the southern Libyan city of Sabha, before being taken to a makeshift prison where more than 100 migrants were being held hostage.
He said that migrants held at the facility were told to call their families, who would be asked for money to pay for their release, and some were beaten while on the phone to allow relatives to hear them being tortured.
He described "dreadful" conditions where migrants were forced to survive on limited food supplies, with those unable to pay either killed or left to starve, the report adds.
Another witness, who was able to raise the funds needed for his release after nine months, was later taken to hospital with severe malnutrition, weighing just 5.5 stone (35 kg).
Women, too, were bought by private Libyan clients and brought to homes where they were forced to be sex slaves, the witness said.
The IOM's chief of mission for Libya, Othman Belbeisi, told the BBC that those sold into slavery found themselves priced according to their abilities.
"Apparently they don't have money and their families cannot pay the ransom, so they are being sold to get at least a minimum benefit from that," he said.
"The price is definitely different depending on your qualifications, for example if you can do painting or tiles or some specialised work then the price gets higher."
An IOM staff member in Niger said they confirmed the reports of auctions in Libya with several other migrants who had escaped.
"They all confirmed the risks of been sold as slaves in squares or garages in Sabha, either by their drivers or by locals who recruit the migrants for daily jobs in town, often in construction.
"Later, instead of paying them, [they] sell their victims to new buyers."
Some migrants, mainly Nigerians, Ghanaians and Gambians are forced to work "as guards in the ransom houses or in the 'market' itself", the IOM employee added.
The organisation has called the emergence of these markets "a disturbing new trend in the already dire situation for migrants in Libya".
In February, the UN children's agency Unicef released a report documenting - in sometimes horrific detail - stories of slavery, violence and sexual abuse experienced by large numbers of vulnerable children travelling from Libya to Italy.
The report, A Deadly Journey for Children, said that almost 26,000 children - most of them unaccompanied - crossed the Mediterranean in 2016, many of them suffering abuse at the hands of smugglers and traffickers.
Tens of thousands of migrants arrived in Italy last year by sea, crossing from North Africa. But before they reach the jumping-off point in Libya, many migrants will have undertaken a perilous journey of up to six days across the Sahara in extreme temperatures.
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The 31-year-old joined Bolton in February until the end of the season after being released by Bradford and contributed 13 assists to help the Trotters win promotion from League One.
Morais told the club website: "I'm really excited at what lies ahead and so happy that it's all sorted.
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The 20-year-old made his only first-team appearance for the Terriers as a centre-back against Bournemouth on the opening day of the season.
The ex-Manchester United academy player signed a professional deal at Huddersfield in November 2011.
He is available for Hartlepool's game at Accrington Stanley on Tuesday.
Pat Kelso from County Fermanagh said she needed a hip operation in 2012 but there was a 68-week waiting list within the Western Health Trust area.
The trust used the independent sector to treat NHS patients within 30 weeks, but Mrs Kelso said she was told over-70s were not allowed on that list.
The trust has denied using age as a discriminatory factor for surgery.
Mrs Kelso, who is now 81, said when her daughter inquired about a place on the trust's shorter waiting list in 2012, she was told patients aged over 70 were automatically deemed clinically unfit and excluded from the 30-week list.
"It was just that, if you are old, you are clinically unfit - one box fits all - and it doesn't, we're individuals," the pensioner told the BBC.
The Enniskillen resident said she was in agony and could not wait more than a year for a hip operation, so she used her own savings to pay for a private operation.
However, Mrs Kelso said she felt discriminated against, believing that doctors only took her age and not her personal circumstances or medical fitness into account.
She said she was speaking out in a bid to protect other pensioners who are clinically fit for surgery but who do not have the money to pay for private operations.
"I really felt that they were not looking at me. They only considered my age, they didn't consider Pat Kelso," she told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.
"I'm lucky, I had sufficient savings, I had a supportive family, but there are other elderly people who are as fit and indeed, in one case, a lady of 89 I know who is fitter than I am, and has had to go through the same procedure," Mrs Kelso said.
"There are some people who may not have that money and I think it is very unfair that they are not given the opportunity to at least see if they are properly clinically fit."
The pensioner's call to end automatic age discrimination in surgery is being supported by Age NI.
The charity's director of policy, Duane Farrell, said Age NI receives regular reports from elderly patients who say their doctors have treated them like "second class citizens".
"Pat's daughter said 'they treated my mother's age, not my mother' and that's what is at the heart of this," Mr Farrell told Good Morning Ulster.
"The really worrying thing is that it is still perfectly legal in Northern Ireland to discriminate in that way.
"We have outlawed discrimination on the grounds of race, on the grounds of gender, on the grounds of sexual orientation - that is quite right - but we have not outlawed discrimination on the grounds of age," he added.
Mr Farrell said the Northern Ireland Executive had failed to fulfil its commitment to ending age discrimination for access to goods and services.
He said some pensioners were being denied more aggressive cancer treatments on grounds of their age, and many with severe depression were not getting help on the NHS.
"Older people tell us on a day and daily basis that when they go to their doctor they are being told 'that's just the symptoms of getting older'.
Mr Farrell said age discrimination legislation had been promised in 2011 in Stormont's Programme for Government but added that three years on, the Northern Ireland Executive had missed "every milestone".
"That legislation will drive somebody to look at the individual and see if frailty is a consideration, not just look at it on the basis of a number and say 'because you're 80 you are frail, therefore you do not receive this service'.
"At the moment, administrators, doctors can operate in pretty much whatever way they see fit because it's legal to so, Mr Farrell added.
"Actually the key decision is a political decision to say 'this is not acceptable, we're not going to allow this type of discrimination' and provide a framework within which clinicians, within which hospitals administrators, can then make those decisions."
A spokesperson for the Western Health and Social Care Trust said: "All patients requiring surgery are assessed through good practice regionally set guidelines to determine their medical fitness for the surgery required.
"The Western Trust does not use age as a discriminatory factor during the assessment. Due to patient/client confidentiality the trust will not be commenting further."
Club captain McShane returned from injury as Reading beat Burton 4-2 on Sunday to guarantee third place.
"There's a massive three weeks ahead of us and this is where the hard work starts," the Republic of Ireland international told BBC Radio Berkshire.
"It's definitely exciting. You want to be part of these moments as a player."
Reading will face Fulham in the play-off semi-finals, with the first leg at Craven Cottage on Saturday, 13 May and the return on Tuesday, 16 May at the Madejski Stadium.
"It's going to be a great atmosphere as Craven Cottage is a smaller stadium with the crowd close to the pitch," McShane said.
"We're looking forward to playing them again and the only way you can enjoy the play-offs is by winning them."
Reading will hope for better fortunes in the first leg than their past two visits to Craven Cottage, where they finished on the wrong end of 5-0 and 4-2 scorelines.
"It's a clean slate and a different ball game," McShane added. "We've come a long way since those two games.
"We're just looking forward to the challenge and the final goal, which is getting to the Premier League."
The prime minister is expected to discuss trade, defence and security.
Mrs May is likely to fly to Ankara from the US, where she is meeting President Trump on Friday, Number 10 said.
It will be Mrs May's first visit to Turkey as PM and comes in the wake of Mr Erdogan's clampdown on opponents after the failed coup in July 2016.
Asked whether Mrs May will raise concerns over the clampdown during her talks with Mr Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, a Number 10 spokesman said: "We have been clear in our support for Turkey's democracy and institutions since the coup last summer.
"The PM will take this opportunity to reiterate our support for that, but we've also been clear that Turkey's response to that must be proportionate and of course we will continue to raise those issues.
"The visit will reflect the fact that Turkey is an indispensable partner and a close ally for the UK on many issues of global importance, including trade, security and defence."
It also comes after 39 people were killed in an attack on a New Year's Eve party in a nightclub in Istanbul.
So-called Islamic State it was behind the attack and the militant group was linked to at least two other attacks in Turkey last year.
The hole opened up as the vehicle was travelling down Hogg Lane in Grays at about 12:40 BST, a fire service spokesman said.
A 656ft (200m) hazard zone has been set up around the affected area. No one was trapped in the lorry but the smell of gas has been reported.
Essex Police and Thurrock Council officers are also at the scene.
Firefighters reported the hole exposed two gas pipes on either side of the road, and gas company officials had been called.
Lewis Smith, who works at a nearby Ford car dealership, said he and his colleagues "shot out and had a quick look" before the road was cordoned off.
He estimated the sinkhole could be up to 20ft (6m) deep.
The rail operator is under pressure to improve its service after failing to meet targets set out in its franchise agreement.
New figures show punctuality for the four weeks to 10 December was unchanged compared with the previous period.
ScotRail said it had to contend with two major disruptions - in Edinburgh and Glasgow - during this period.
The company also argued that similar figures for operators in England and Wales showed a decline in their punctuality, while ScotRail's "public performance measure" remained at 89.8%.
Phil Verster, managing director at ScotRail Alliance, said it had been an "extremely challenging period".
"As well as having some very low temperatures to contend with, we also saw two significant incidents which caused widespread disruption on the network," he said.
"These two incidents alone had a major impact on our train performance."
There has been recent criticism from the public over the punctuality and reliability of ScotRail services since Dutch firm Abellio took over the franchise in 2015.
Opposition parties have also repeatedly questioned the Scottish government over the level of service.
In November, Humza Yousaf called for "immediate improvement" in rail services as the government published its improvement plan for ScotRail.
ScotRail has defended its record by arguing it is in the middle of building a railway network fit for the 21st Century.
At the weekend, the operator unveiled the first in its fleet of 70 electric trains that will be phased into service from September 2017.
ScotRail has billed the trains as "faster, longer and greener". Night testing of the new trains started this week.
The picture, which appeared in several newspapers, shows Mr Nesbitt lying flat out with a woman pulling at his collar.
It has been reported the photograph was taken in the lobby of the Stormont Hotel in east Belfast last month.
Mr Nesbitt is reported to have told a national newspaper that "things happen".
"When you have a profile you can't expect people to respect your privacy," he added.
Alex Kane, a former director of communications with the Ulster Unionist Party, said Mr Nesbitt, who is standing as a candidate in the Westminster election, should explain what happened.
"It's embarrassing for the party and it's difficult for the candidate, and he is going to have to explain it.
"He can't hope that it is going to go away because in Twitter world and social media it's out there, it's a big story, he said.
"I think it's better the truth of what happened comes out, rather than leaving it to hundreds of thousands of people on social media to make up their own stories because, when that happens, the damage is so bad you can't stop it."
The Plymouth-born USA-based businessman has increased his stake in the League Two club to 41.9%, making him the second-largest shareholder after owner and chairman James Brent.
Hallett will be repaid over the next 30 years at a rate of 'less than 3%'.
Argyle had plans for their Mayflower grandstand approved back in 2013.
All the loans currently owed to Hallett, Brent and directors Tony Wrathall have been turned into equity in the club, reducing Argyle's debt level.
"It's a labour of love for me," Hallett, who has supported the club for over 50 years, told BBC South West.
"The new investment made by me is clearly not made on commercial terms, it's been made on very soft terms, so it's mine and my wife's contribution to Plymouth Argyle and towards the city of Plymouth.
"The return of our money is spread over 30 years, I'm 61, my life expectancy is 81, so I don't expect this money to be repaid in my lifetime," added Hallett, who says he has no ambition to become the club's chairman.
No date has yet been set for work to start on the new grandstand, but Brent hopes it will go ahead by the start of 2018, if planning applications are approved later this year, and be ready by 2020.
However, plans to build a 10-screen cinema, ice rink and a hotel on the site have been shelved.
"There was an alternative development in the city centre that attracted the restaurants out of Home Park," Brent told BBC South West.
"The difference between that scheme and this scheme is this one is not dependent on enabling development, it's being funded through additional investment from Simon Hallett and his wife."
Brent added: "It creates an environment for our existing fans that is modern and 21st century. The old grandstand is wonderful but very dated and doesn't work for modern purpose.
"It creates an environment where we can bring new fans in and it creates a revenue stream which will enable us to invest back into the club and the first team.
"The estimates are that once the conferencing and banqueting is up and running we'll be generating additional net income of over a million pounds a year at this level, and when we're in the Championship £2m a year, that's every year and inflation-proofed, so it makes a huge difference to what we can do for the football club. "
He succeeds Sir Simon Rattle, who will leave the orchestra in August 2018.
The Russian conductor was elected by a large majority of the members of the orchestra during an assembly yesterday.
Last month an initial vote saw the orchestra members fail to agree on who should be their next artistic director after 11 hours of secret discussions.
Petrenko, 43, is currently general music director at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.
He said: "Words cannot express my feelings - everything from euphoria and great joy to awe and disbelief.
"I am aware of the responsibility and high expectations of me, and I will do everything in my power to be a worthy conductor of this outstanding orchestra", he said.
"Above all, however, I hope for many moments of artistic happiness in our music-making together which will reward our hard work and fill our lives as artists with meaning."
Orchestra Board members Ulrich Knorzer and Peter Riegelbauer said they were "extremely pleased that Kirill Petrenko has accepted his election as chief conductor designate of our orchestra. We look forward to our musical future together with great confidence."
Sir Simon Rattle said he has "admired Kirill Petrenko for years, and I am delighted that he will be my successor with this wonderful orchestra".
He added: "I congratulate the Philharmoniker on making such a forward-looking decision."
Sir Simon said two years ago he would leave when his contract ended in 2018.
He will join the London Symphony Orchestra as its music director.
The Berlin Philharmonic, founded in 1882, has had three chief conductors over the past six decades; they were Herbert von Karajan (1954-89), Claudio Abbado (1989-2002) and Sir Simon Rattle (2002-18).
They acted after a complaint was filed by Rabie Darduna against a local artist who bought the door from him.
The artist, Bilal Khaled, insisted that the purchase was legal.
Banksy painted an image of a Greek goddess Niobe, weeping for her dead offspring, on a door standing among the ruins of Mr Darduna's home in February.
The home was one of an estimated 18,000 in Gaza destroyed during last year's 50-day war with Israel. The conflict displaced 110,000 people, according to the UN.
Banksy's work was seen in a video released by the secretive artist after he paid a surprise visit to the Gaza Strip.
Mr Darduna said that after the picture began to get media attention he was approached by a group of men. They convinced him they were acting on behalf of Banksy and wanted to buy the door, as it was part of a series of works.
"One man told me: 'We're from the group that did it.' They made me sign a paper. It said I agreed on 700 shekels ($175; £120). They pressured me and I accepted because I need the money," he told the BBC last week.
"Really we feel depressed and very upset," he added. "This door is rightfully ours. They cheated us. It's a matter of fraud. And we're asking for the door to be returned."
Original Banksy artworks have recently sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
On Thursday, police in Khan Younis acted on a court order and seized the door.
"The policemen took the door away and they told me it would be held in accordance with a court order because there was a lawsuit against me," Mr Khaled told the Reuters news agency.
"I am the true owner of the door now, and I will seek to establish this in court."
Mr Darduna's lawyer, Mohammed Rihan said he was seeking to "return the door to its true owner".
Each volume will include three novellas written by a variety of authors. Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker will edit them.
The novellas will all be original stories, with the first volume due to come out in February 2018.
Brooker announced the "all-new" works would appear in a "high-tech 'paper' format".
The satirical TV drama series began life on Channel 4 before moving to Netflix last year for its third series.
He said: "All-new Black Mirror stories from exciting authors - that's a joyous prospect. And they're appearing in a high-tech new format known as a book.
"Apparently, you just have to glance at some sort of ink code printed on paper and images and sounds magically appear in your head, enacting the story. Sounds far-fetched to me, but we'll see."
The authors of the book series have not yet been announced but will be "leading names in the literary world", according to The Bookseller. The books will be published in hardback and ebook form.
The next TV series of Black Mirror is due to drop on Netflix in October, with one of the episodes directed by Jodie Foster.
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Announce more money for a public policy initiative and say you will pay for it with an increase in taxes.
On Wednesday the Labour Party said that it plans to spend more than £5bn improving education in England.
To fund the initiative, the party also announced the details of its proposals to increase corporation tax from its present rate of 19% to 26% by 2020-21.
A move described by Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies as one of the most significant tax increases for 30 years.
Smaller firms with profits below £300,000 a year will see more modest rises - up to 21% by 2020-21.
Labour, using figures from the government's official economic watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility, says the increases in corporation tax will raise £20bn by 2022.
The Liberal Democrats have also pledged more money for education (£7bn) paid for by a slightly lower increase in the business tax and the scrapping of tax allowances for married couples.
As both Labour and the Liberal Democrats will know, income from corporation tax (a tax on profits made by firms), is notoriously difficult to forecast.
In 2010, corporation tax raised just over £43bn in revenue for the government.
Since then it has been cut from 28% (interestingly, above the level announced today by Labour) to 19%.
One would suppose that would reduce the tax take for the government.
Not quite.
In 2016, corporation tax raised £49.7bn, an increase of £6.7bn.
That is due to a number of interrelated issues.
First, economic growth has returned, leading to higher profits for firms.
Higher profits mean higher levels of tax receipts.
Now, supporters of corporation tax cuts argue that the very act of reducing the rate increases firms' propensity to invest and increases confidence that Britain is a "business friendly" economy.
Reducing business taxes ultimately creates wealth, they argue.
Second, although George Osborne reduced the headline rate (some joke it is called that for a reason as cutting it produces some nice headlines), he also announced a series of other, more Delphic, measures that actually increased business taxes.
The amount of tax that can be offset against capital investment in new buildings and machinery (called capital allowances) has been reduced.
Taxes on foreign income has also been reformed and rules over the shifting of profits between different tax jurisdictions have been tightened under the "base erosion" changes agreed with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Alongside these changes, the government has also introduced the banking levy, an extra tax on the City which brought in £1.6bn in 2012 - a figure that rose to just under £3bn by 2016.
Many businesses would argue that, yes, the corporation tax cut is welcome but business taxes are already bringing in significantly more money.
And increasing the rate to 26% will simply reduce Britain's attractiveness to business investors and lose Britain vital places in the competitiveness league tables - given that the headline rate is low by G7 standards but other business taxes are relatively high.
Further, any change would come just at the time that Brexit has left a number of firms with their fingers hovering over the "relocate" button.
The new president of France, Emmanuel Macron, says he wants to see the French corporation tax rate cut to 25% from the present 33.3%.
As Mr Johnson said on the Today programme: "The risk is, that while this [Labour plan] would raise knocking on for £20bn in the short run, it is probably going to raise rather less than that in the long run as companies invest less and take other opportunities to reduce the amount of tax that they pay.
"So, the long run behavioural result of this tax would result in revenues being less than the immediate headline increase."
Corporation tax is what is known as "dynamic" - that is, changes to it result in rapid changes in behaviour as sophisticated firms manage their balance sheet in such a way as to minimise any effects and support profits and returns to shareholders (which of course, don't forget, include our pension funds).
This leads to substantial levels of forecast error.
In 2013, the OBR forecast that corporation tax receipts for 2016-17 would fall to £38.2bn.
In fact, receipts were 30% higher.
That suggests that Labour and the Liberal Democrats' plans could raise more than the forecast £20bn.
Or - given the possible economic effect on business investment - far less.
That is the problem with pledges on tax - they are predicated on a forecast about an uncertain future.
That does not mean that political parties should avoid making policy funding announcements based on best revenue estimates by official bodies.
But it does mean that voters should be aware - forecasts can be wrong.
No MPs voted for the bill, with 36 voting against and 19 abstaining.
The finance ministry had modified the package, proposing an exemption for savers with smaller deposits, but opposition had remained fierce.
Thousands of protesters who had filled the streets outside parliament reacted with joy to the news of the vote.
EU finance ministers had previously warned that Cyprus' two biggest banks would collapse if the deal failed to go through in some form.
But after the vote the European Central Bank (ECB) moved quickly to announce it would continue to provide support for struggling Cypriot banks "as needed within the existing rules".
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble said he "regretted" the vote and that Cypriots must understand ECB aid was contingent on a reform programme.
"There's a danger that they won't be able to open the banks again at all," he said. "Two big Cypriot banks are insolvent if there are no emergency funds from the European Central Bank."
The bailout deal, announced after 10 hours of talks on Saturday, prompted widespread outrage on the island at the prospect of ordinary savers being forced to pay a levy of 6.75%
The Cypriot finance ministry announced a change in the plan on Tuesday morning, to exempt savers with less than 20,000 euros (£17,000), while those over 100,000 euros would still be charged at 9.9%. However, this was not enough to placate critics.
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The plan to tax bigger deposits at a higher rate has angered Russia, as Russian nationals hold many of those larger deposits.
Meanwhile, the UK ministry of defence said a plane carrying 1m euros had arrived in Cyprus as a contingency measure to provide military personnel and their families with emergency loans.
The money is to be used for British personnel and their families if cash machines and debit cards stop working.
Several MPs during the parliament debate on Tuesday evening denounced the proposed plan as "blackmail" and not a single lawmaker backed the deal.
The BBC's Mark Lowen in Nicosia said the vote had left the bailout in turmoil, sending a clear message to Brussels that the strategy needed a drastic rethink.
President Nicos Anastasiades had urged all parties to back the bailout, saying Cyprus would be bankrupt if the deal did not go ahead. However, he was aware that they were likely to reject the levy, regardless of the modifications.
"They feel and they think it's unjust and that it is against the interests of Cyprus at large. But I have to admit that it was something which was not expected by the troika and by our friends, the Eurogroup."
He has called an emergency meeting of political party leaders on Wednesday morning to discuss the way forward.
The president of the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers, Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, said he "took note" of the parliament's decision and that the Eurogroup stood "ready to assist Cyprus in its reform efforts".
Mr Dijsselbloem had earlier emphasised that no other eurozone country would be forced to impose such a levy.
The Cyprus central bank chief, Panicos Demetriades, warned that scrapping the tax on small savers would scupper the plan to raise 5.8bn euros in total from bank deposits. He also predicted account holders could suddenly withdraw 10% or more of the total in Cypriot banks if the levy was imposed.
Fearing a run on accounts, Cyprus has shut its banks until at least Thursday. The local stock exchange also remains closed.
Cyprus' banks were badly exposed to Greece, which has itself been the recipient of two huge bailouts.
Mr Demetriades said that he favoured imposing the levy only on deposits larger than 100,000 euros, with eurozone finance ministers also suggesting such a move.
Instead, they argue that wealthier savers should pay the levy at a higher rate - losing more than 15% of their investments, correspondents say.
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Damage limitation in Cyprus
Of the estimated 68bn euros in total held in Cypriot bank accounts about 40% belongs to foreigners - most of them thought to be Russians.
The government fears a higher levy on these larger deposits would prompt many large investors to withdraw from the island and would effectively destroy its financial sector.
Russia has also said it may reconsider the terms of a 2.5bn-euro loan it made to Cyprus in 2011, which was separate from the proposed eurozone bailout.
Cypriot Finance Minister Michalis Sarris arrived in Moscow on Tuesday to see if the repayment on that loan could be delayed until 2020, and whether the interest rate could be reduced. As his visit began, he denied rumours that he had submitted his resignation.
Officials said he would also be looking for "further investment" in his country, correspondents report, with some speculating this might mean Russian access to Cyprus' large undeveloped gas deposits.
The action is being taken by former workers across the UK, including many at the head office in Portsmouth.
They used to be able to retire early, losing 3% of their annual pension for each year before 60, but the new scheme now sees 6% lost each year before 63.
IBM said its changes were legal and it will contest any action.
Under the old scheme if an employee with an annual pension of £40,000 retired at 55 they would sacrifice £6,000 (15%) over the five years before their 60th birthday.
But under the new scheme the same person would sacrifice £19,200 (48%) over eight years, from their annual pension.
The employees are claiming unfair dismissal and age discrimination.
Their solicitors, Now Legal based in Fareham, Hampshire, claim they were effectively forced to take early retirement to avoid the new terms which would mean losing "substantial proportion" of their future pensions.
The firm added that because the changes impacted on long-serving employees, who are all aged in their 50s, a claim for age discrimination would also be pursued.
Teja Bains, solicitor, said: "Many of the claimants are extremely bitter about the way they have been treated by IBM after so many years of loyal service.
"Many had been with the company for all or most of their working life.
"Being effectively forced into early retirement in their 50s came as a great shock and will have had a very significant financial impact."
All UK claims, which also include independent actions, are being lodged with Southampton Employment Tribunal but could take months to deal with.
IBM, which said it will fight any action, added: "Throughout the process of changes to IBM defined benefit pension plans - and the introduction of a new early retirement programme - IBM has consulted with relevant employees and complied with all legal requirements.
"Claimants left IBM of their own volition, on favourable early retirement terms.
"Thus, we will contest these actions, which are without merit."
Russia has seen this before - from the departure of left-wing revolutionaries in Tsarist times and the writers and artists who fled after the October 1917 revolution to the great brain drain that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union at the start of the 1990s.
The latest wave stems from the crackdown on the liberal opposition and independent media that followed Vladimir Putin's re-election as president in March 2012.
More than 186,000 people left Russia in 2013, five times as many as two years earlier, according to state statistics agency figures quoted by business magazine Sekret Firmy,
A recent UN report notes that around 40,000 Russians applied for asylum in 2013, 76% more than in 2012.
Among those packing their bags have been former world chess champion and opposition activist Garry Kasparov, top economist Sergei Guriyev and social media whizz kid Pavel Durov.
Another is Leonid Bershidsky, who worked at several of Russia's leading business publications, including Vedomosti, and was latterly editor of liberal website slon.ru.
Bershidsky recalled in a Facebook post in June how he had come back to Russia from university in America in the 1990s with the hope of creating a "real press", "the sort that in America publishes the Snowden revelations or in Europe stops ministers from getting away with misusing official credit cards".
Now, though, he has gone to live in Germany.
He now writes in English for US business publication Bloomberg and says even reading in Russian or Ukrainian has become an ordeal amid the welter of "propaganda" pouring out of the two countries.
Russia still has a smattering of independent media, including newspaper Novaya Gazeta, niche TV station Dozhd and radio station Ekho Moskvy.
But they are dwindling almost by the month as the Kremlin cracks down.
Independent news agency Novy Region was one of a number of media that have come under pressure because of their coverage of the Ukraine crisis. Its founder Alexander Shchetinin has now taken up residence in Kiev and has declared that he is planning to renounce his Russian citizenship and become a citizen of Ukraine.
The spur for this decision was the experience of watching Russian state TV.
"The more I watched the more I became convinced that nothing can be remedied here," he wrote in Ukrainian magazine Novoye Vremya. "It will take generations to cleanse people's souls of the effects of this radioactive TV."
State TV has also played its part in creating a hostile atmosphere towards journalists.
In August, Gazprom-Media's NTV aired two films branding a number of leading cultural figures as "friends of the junta" - Russian state TV's term for the government in Kiev.
Among those targeted were writers and journalists Dmitry Bykov, Viktor Shenderovich and Andrei Malgin.
One of the many Russian journalists who have been physically attacked because of their work is Oleg Kashin, a former columnist with heavyweight broadsheet Kommersant.
He was badly beaten up outside his Moscow home in 2010, spending several weeks in hospital as a result.
Mr Kashin now lives in Switzerland, where he moved in 2013 after his wife got a job there. Making the move was made easier by two things - first the internet, which allows him to continue to function as a journalist; and second the dearth of openings for independent journalists these days in Moscow.
"There is really nowhere for me to write, no place where I would even fantasise about working," he told liberal magazine Afisha.
Emigre journalists like Oleg Kashin and Leonid Bershidsky have come under fire from some colleagues. Writing on Facebook in June, former TV presenter Anton Krasovsky said it was an act of "egotism" because it meant abandoning friends and family.
But for some journalists it is the only feasible means to continue their careers.
Galina Timchenko was sacked in March as editor-in-chief of top news website lenta.ru after publishing an interview with a member of Ukrainian ultra-nationalist group Right Sector.
She is now working on a new website called Meduza to be launched later this month from the Latvian capital Riga.
Originally, Meduza was to be part financed by Russia's most famous current exile, former oil boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky, but the deal later fell through.
A colleague, Ilya Krasilshchik, told the Russian version of Forbes magazine: "It is simply the case at the moment that in Latvia it is possible to create an independent Russian-language media outlet, whereas in Russia it is not."
They appear upbeat about the prospects of Meduza. But many emigre journalists express a sense of disappointment and disbelief at how Russian society has changed over the past decade and a half.
"It is an emigration of disillusionment," Leonid Bershidsky said.
Safia S, who was 15 at the time, stabbed and seriously wounded a police officer in the neck at the central station in Hanover.
Prosecutors described the attack as ordered and supervised by IS.
She was convicted of attempted murder and helping a terrorist organisation.
Safia S, described as a German Moroccan, was also found guilty of grievous bodily harm. Her defence had called for her to be cleared of the other charges and given a lesser sentence.
A 20 year-old man, Mohamad Hasan K, was jailed for two and a half years on Thursday because he knew of the planned attack but failed to alert authorities.
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Safia S stabbed the 34-year-old policeman on 26 February last year, weeks after flying to the Turkish city of Istanbul to join IS in Syria. Although her mother brought her back she kept in touch with the jihadist group over the internet.
The judge cited messages on her phone as evidence that the attack was in support of IS. One text was sent to Mohamad Hasan K after the jihadist attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015 in which she wrote: "Allah bless our lions who carried out an operation in Paris yesterday".
Security camera footage from Hanover station showed her staring at two police officers. When they asked to see her identity card she lunged at one of them with a knife.
The girl later wrote to the police offer to apologise for her attack and she repeated her apology during the trial. Her legal team said they would appeal against the verdict.
Her family had warned the authorities that she had become radicalised and lawyer Mutlu Guenal argued that "the real failure lay with police".
Under German privacy laws, defendants' surnames are not publicised. The case at Celle regional court was heard behind closed doors because of Safia S's age.
Police in Hanover are also investigating a suspected jihadist plot to target an international football friendly, four days after the Paris attacks.
Now 91 and still painting every day, he speaks about his friendship with LS Lowry and why he is not a fan of the hit play The Pitmen Painters.
Like Lowry, Cornish is fascinated by the world around him, painting vivid views of ordinary life that combine unpretentious realism with nostalgia for a half-forgotten, fast-vanishing world.
His is a world where women wear headscarves and men wear flat caps, a world of fish and chip vans and horse-drawn carts, of men playing dominoes in the pub and children skipping in the street. There are no cars.
But unlike Lowry, Cornish's subjects walk, talk and play together and are not haunting, alienated faces in the crowd.
"With Lowry, it's almost as if he were looking at real life through a window," says Cornish, who was born and still lives in Spennymoor, County Durham. "I was in the real life. I was outside amongst it all."
Cornish's friend and author Sid Chaplin once said his paintings depicted a "narrow world" - his family, the mines, the pubs, the faces of Spennymoor.
That phrase has been borrowed for the title of his latest exhibition, at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle, which charts his work from early sketches of his parents to his newest work, dated 2011.
The eldest of nine children, whose father was out of work, Cornish had no option but to start working in a mine at the age of 14.
He soon joined the Spennymoor Settlement, a cultural venture that ran art classes and had a library where he could learn about Van Gogh, Toulouse Lautrec and Renoir.
"The only tuition I got was from the settlement," Cornish says. "I didn't have a lot of time, but I had to paint... it's an itch that you have to scratch."
He slowly started to exhibit but did not acquire a set of oil paints until a wealthy lady, who lived in "a big hall", admired one of his watercolours and asked why it was not painted in oils. Told he could not afford them, she wrote out a cheque.
Cornish worked in four mines during those 33 years and his fellow workers, he says, were mildly amused by his artistic endeavours.
"They would maybe make a joke up about things or pull my leg from time to time, but they never really bothered me a lot."
A growing artistic reputation and worsening back problems led him to become a full-time artist at the age of 47.
While most people might not give a road or a pub a second glance, Cornish seeks beauty in the life and shapes of everyday locations.
"If you see a street and it's not terribly interesting, you don't draw it," he says.
"But then something happens. Some interesting people come in or a couple of dogs start fighting or some kids start playing with skipping ropes, and suddenly it enlivens the place and I want to draw it."
Many of his paintings show men leaning into each other to talk in the pub, or standing with legs bent at the bar.
"In the past I was so used to going in the pub drawing that they didn't take the slightest bit of notice of me," he says.
"I was painting real people. They couldn't care less about me. I was in a wonderland there."
Cornish became friends with Lowry after meeting him at a gallery in Newcastle and recalls him as being "a bit funny, a bit peculiar".
"I remember we talked about what happened to an artist when he died. His work - was it forgotten or was it going to be cherished?" Cornish says.
He told a sceptical Lowry that his works would be cherished "for obvious reasons", he remembers.
"I've lived long enough and he's been dead long enough for me to see the real result of what we were discussing, the fact that he was important.
"I don't know about my own [work], but that's another matter."
The story of north-east miners-turned-artists has recently been celebrated in The Pitmen Painters, a play by Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall, which is preparing to open in the West End.
The play focuses on a group of miners in Ashington, Northumberland, who became respected painters after seeking art tuition in the 1930s.
After opening in Newcastle in 2007, The Pitmen Painters has had successful runs at the National Theatre in London and on Broadway.
Cornish feels an affinity with the Ashington men - and believes Hall did not do them justice.
"I know that the Ashington Group were quite intelligent men and they wanted to be educated," he says.
"But I'm afraid the author took the mickey a bit, you know, and had us laughing at what the different people in the group would say.
"There were some bits that made me feel it was a bit of an insult to these lads - because they were bright lads, the best kind of working people who wanted to be educated.
"There was nothing silly about them. And I don't think he did them much favours turning them into... entertaining clowns. Well, they weren't."
Cornish himself is not ready to stop working, but is aware that many of the scenes that he depicted have long since changed beyond recognition.
"That's why I'm sometimes referred to as a sort of historian," he says. "I didn't mean to be. But the things that I was fascinated by, in many ways, have slowly disappeared."
The Narrow World of Norman Cornish is at the University Gallery, Northumbria University, until 8 October. The Pitmen Painters is at the Duchess Theatre, London, from 5 October.
While 2.5 million people lined the route, Le Tour captured the heart of a nation as it weaved its way through Yorkshire over two glorious days.
Riders sped through narrow country lanes in the Yorkshire Dales on their way to Sheffield before a final jaunt from Cambridge down to central London.
Britain was on a high. The tour's opening three days on the island were such a roaring success that race director Christian Prudhomme described Yorkshire's Grand Depart as the "grandest" in the race's history, insisting the Tour would return to these shores in the future.
But the early elation, tinged with sadness at the exit of sprint star Mark Cavendish after a crash on the opening stage, has turned into major disappointment with the retirement through injury of defending champion Chris Froome on stage five.
Cavendish, 29, hit the deck hard in a sprint for the line on day one, resulting in a dislocated shoulder and ligament damage. The Manxman, who was chasing a 26th Tour stage win, will also miss the Commonwealth Games later this month after having shoulder surgery.
British hopes remained high for Froome to clinch back-to-back Tour titles, but he damaged his wrist in a fall on stage four and went down again twice the following day. Enough was enough, and the 29-year-old limped to the Team Sky car in the rain, holding his wrist, his Tour in tatters.
That leaves Welshman Geraint Thomas and 21-year-old debutant Simon Yates, a late addition to the Orica GreenEdge team, as the only Britons left in the race.
Thomas is still 14th overall, two minutes, 16 seconds adrift of leader Vincenzo Nibali, and may be allowed to try for stage wins. Yates, in his first Grand Tour, is 26 minutes down on the leader.
Speaking after Froome's exit on Wednesday, Thomas said: "Professional sport can be brutal and I'm gutted for Froomey. But we will regroup, keep fighting and I won't stop until we reach Paris. There's still a lot of racing to go. You don't compete in sport just to make up the numbers."
Thomas's main job now will be to support Team Sky colleague Richie Porte, the new focus of Sky's efforts for the general classification (GC) in Froome's absence, with the Australian currently 1:54 behind Nibali in eighth place.
"Today showed how hard it is to win the Tour de France, but the team will have prepared for this and they'll deal with it," said Sir Bradley Wiggins, the 2012 Tour winner who was left out of the Team Sky squad.
Wiggins's omission - along with compatriots David Millar of the Garmin-Sharp team and Movistar's Alex Dowsett, who were not picked because of illness, and Sky trio Pete Kennaugh, Ben Swift and Ian Stannard - raises an interesting question.
Should team principal Sir Dave Brailsford have included Wiggins in his team alongside Froome as a plan B?
Not according to three-time Tour winner Greg LeMond.
"I haven't seen anything in the first days that would have made any difference if Wiggins was included in the team," said the American, who won the Tour in 1986, 1989 and 1990.
"It's tragic for Chris, for him to not be able to defend his title and to have to leave the race in that way must be his worst nightmare - it would have been mine."
Before announcing that Wiggins would not be part of the team, Brailsford dismissed the idea of having him as a back-up leader.
"The bottom line is, as far as my experience has been, if you want to win the biggest events in the world, normally the guy with plan A tends to win," he said.
"It's not often you get 'let's revert to plan B' and win. It's not the norm."
However, Team Sky do now need an alternative option and it is in the form of Australian Porte, who won Paris-Nice in 2013, rode strongly in the Tour that year as well as 2012 and is in good form coming to the event after a slow start to the season.
"Richie is a good rider and that is why we chose him to be our back-up GC rider and he is climbing better than he has ever climbed and if we can get to the mountains unscathed then there is all to play for," said Brailsford.
But it means a British rider is no longer in contention to win the Tour for a third straight year. Will British interest, after such a raucous start, now dwindle in an event in which it revelled so recently?
In three of the last six years, the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in December has gone to a cyclist. But Sir Chris Hoy is retired, Cavendish injured and Wiggins unwanted, for the Tour at least.
Perhaps a knight rider will come to the rescue, when Wiggins takes to the track and road at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next month. But for now, it's all about what might have been.
Conflict minerals, as they are known, are mined in areas of fighting or human rights abuses, such as the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The first published list detailed 104 suppliers that were unverified for compliance with ethical guidelines.
Electronics firms are being pressured by human rights groups to use their influence to force suppliers to change.
Most electronic devices contain either gold, tantalum, tin or tungsten. The gathering of these raw materials is often controlled by violent militias who may profit greatly from the activity.
"The ethical sourcing of minerals is an important part of our mission to ensure safe and fair working conditions," Apple said in its latest Supplier Responsibility Report, published annually.
"In January 2014 we confirmed that all active, identified tantalum smelters in our supply chain were verified as conflict-free by third party auditors, and we're pushing our suppliers of tin, tungsten, and gold just as hard to use verified sources."
The first published list showed that 59 smelters were compliant with its guidelines.
A further 23 have agreed to be audited by the Conflict-Free Smelter Program (CFSP), meaning their status should soon be known.
But the document stated that the status of 104 smelters was unknown, highlighting the scale of the challenge.
Bandi Mbubi is a director of Congo Calling, a UK-based campaign group calling for greater transparency in the sourcing of minerals, particularly for electronics.
He told the BBC that Apple's announcement was to be applauded.
"What we want is the whole industry to start transforming the way they do their business," he said.
"The way Apple has gone, even though it is not 100%, is something that is quite encouraging."
In an interview with the Financial Times, Apple's senior vice president of operations Jeff Williams explained why the company would not just use smelters it had identified as conflict-free.
"Quite honestly, if we did that, we could wave our conflict-free flag but it would do nothing to affect the workers on the ground," he told the newspaper.
"And so what we are focused on is getting a critical mass of suppliers verified such that we can truly influence the demand situation and change things."
Last month, Intel announced that it would no longer use conflict minerals in its microprocessors.
The declaration came as a response to a law passed in 2010 that gave companies a May 2014 deadline for reporting the source of its raw materials.
Mr Mbubi said he hoped the moves from Apple and Intel would spark a race for other technology companies to show they too were taking action.
"I think the competition has now started. I think very soon Microsoft will have to say something, or Nokia, or Samsung.
"The competition is good for places like the Congo."
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Patients at the Mapperley Park Medical Centre in Nottingham have been advised to contact other GP surgeries nearby.
After being put in special measures last year, continued concerns were raised about staffing levels, infection control and record keeping.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said the practice will remain closed until necessary improvements are made.
The practice, run by Dr Mark Stephen, was initially rated as inadequate after an inspection in March 2015 and placed in special measures the following June.
A subsequent assessment in December found "patients were still at risk of harm because effective systems were not in place to ensure identified risks were sufficiently mitigated".
The CQC confirmed it carried out another inspection on 1 September and found "a number of concerns".
In a statement it said: "We are working closely with Nottingham CCG [Clinical Commissioning Group] and NHS England with regard to the service and have taken urgent action to protect people who use the service.
"While our legal processes do not allow us to go in to further detail at this time, we will publish a full report of our findings in due course."
A patient outside the clinic said they were "very surprised" at the move.
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The 34-year-old holed eight birdies and an eagle to finish on 11 under, with Italy's Francesco Molinari moving up to second after a four-under 68.
Sweden's Henrik Stenson (68), Belgium's Nicolas Colsaerts (65) and Japan's Hideto Tanihara (68) were two back.
England's Graeme Storm (68) was the top home nations player on seven under.
He was joined by Ireland's Shane Lowry and Australia's Andrew Dodt, who jointly led overnight with Branden Grace but finished with a one-over 73.
South African Grace trailed Noren by two shots with seven holes remaining but his challenge effectively ended with a double bogey on the 11th after he failed to hack his ball out of a ditch and was then forced to take a penalty drop.
World number 13 Noren, who began 10 pairings ahead of the final group, told Sky Sports: "It feels amazing. I've been in the players' lounge for the last two hours. I was so nervous. It finally went my way."
He was seven shots off the lead following a double-bogey on the last hole on Saturday, but made it to the turn in 31 and picked up further birdies on the 12th, 13th, 14th and 16th.
Noren then capped off a brilliant display with an eagle at the last after his five-iron approach from 204 yards finished just four feet from the pin.
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"I've been envious of the champions of the past," added the Swede, who won £894,000.
"I looked at the score a lot at the 12th and 13th holes - I didn't have a clue what I was going to shoot."
England's Lee Westwood, who began the day three off the lead in the penultimate group out on the course, carded a final round one-over 73 to finish joint 14th.
Last year, festival-goers were caught up in lengthy queues and traffic gridlock around the T in the Park site at Strathallan.
The organisers' new transport plan includes separate roads for buses and cars at the venue.
A bus station will also be created at a new location for next month's festival.
Ian Martin, transport manager at T in the Park, said: "We've made some major changes to our transport plans and we strongly advise people take the time to plan their journey.
"Our main message is that bus is best. You'll be able to relax while the driver gets you to the festival safely, quickly and closest to the site.
"We are confident in the set-up for 2016 and would remind fans that T in the Park is Scotland's biggest festival, so an element of patience will always be required, but waiting times will be of a normal level for an event of this scale."
He added: "Please be respectful of the local community and, if you are driving, leave time for toilet stops at service stations. Remember there is a strict drink-driving limit in Scotland, so don't risk it."
Due to temporary road closures, organisers have warned that satellite navigation systems will be "wrong" and have asked drivers to follow event signs.
Calvin Harris, the Stone Roses and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are scheduled to headline the three-day festival.
Griffiths had not netted in four games, including Scotland's win over Denmark, and missed a penalty before his brace.
"There's been talk of me hitting a barren spell and a few reporters giving me a bit of stick," he said.
"My all-round game's about scoring goals; if I'm not scoring I'm disappointed."
Griffiths, 25, feared another frustrating outing beckoned when Scott McDonald levelled after his opener at Fir Park.
Motherwell goalkeeper Connor Ripley denied Celtic on several occasions before allowing Griffiths' shot to squirm through his legs and re-establish the visitors' advantage.
The result put the champions eight points clear of second-placed Aberdeen, who were beaten at Hearts on Friday, at the top of the Scottish Premiership.
"When Motherwell pegged us back, I thought it was going to be one of those afternoons," said Griffiths. "The goalie was terrific and it's unfortunate he's made a mistake for my goal."
Griffiths was booked for removing his shirt after scoring his first and said his animated reaction was the culmination of pent-up frustration.
"There was so much anger in that celebration, partly because I set such high standards for myself, and a lot of belief as well," added the striker.
"The last three weeks haven't been good enough by my own standards, especially Wednesday night [in the 0-0 draw with Dundee], my first touch wasn't good enough, and I was criticised and rightly so."
Plans include a "duty of quality" for health boards and replacing community health councils with stronger bodies for patient voices.
Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said it would "ensure our health and social care services are fit for the future".
A consultation will now run for the next three months.
The plans in a White Paper were published jointly by Mr Gething and social services minister Rebecca Evans.
They also include:
It follows criticism by an influential international body - the OECD - which claimed health boards and social care services in Wales were not working well enough together.
The OECD also wanted a better system of inspection and regulation within the NHS and social care in Wales.
Mr Gething said he believed the proposals would "make a real difference" by putting people at the centre of how health and care services are delivered.
"It will also enable health and social care organisations to work together and across boundaries to ensure they deliver the very best care for people across Wales," he added.
Mr Igga has been speaker of parliament and a commander in the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), the ex-rebel group that now runs the country.
He succeeds Riek Machar, who was sacked by the president last month following an apparent power struggle.
South Sudan became independent in 2011 after decades of conflict with Sudan, making it the world's youngest country.
Numerous armed groups remain active in the oil-rich country.
After his dismissal, Mr Machar said he planned to challenge Mr Kiir for the leadership of the SPLM so that he can run for president in the 2015 election.
The entire cabinet was dismissed at the same time as Mr Machar on 24 July, and replaced this month with a smaller team.
Mr Kiir is from the Dinka community, which is the largest in South Sudan, while Mr Machar is from the second-largest group, the Nuer, some of whom have complained about Dinka domination.
Correspondents say Mr Kiir's choice of vice-president may be a way of shoring up support from Mr Igga's large Bari community in South Sudan's Central Equatoria region ahead of the elections in 2015.
Wickham, 22, appeared to elbow Belgian defender Vertonghen in the face during a tussle at a second-half corner.
Vertonghen, whose team won 3-1, was substituted after the incident, which was missed by referee Martin Atkinson.
Wickham has until 18:00 GMT on Tuesday, January 26 to respond to the charge.
Results are expected on 5 June, and there are few doubts that the former defence minister Abdul Fattah al-Sisi will win comfortably.
The only other candidate is veteran left-winger and former presidential contender Hamdeen Sabahi.
Why is the election being held early?
The army ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi after mass protests last July, and went on to outline a "roadmap" to democracy that provided for presidential elections two years ahead of schedule.
A parliamentary poll was meant to come first, but the interim government reversed the order in January.
Parliament will be elected later this year, once the president is firmly in power.
The new constitution of January 2014 limits the president to two consecutive four-year terms.
Mohammed Morsi is now on trial accused of inciting the murder of anti-government protesters, murdering prison officers during a 2011 escape from jail, espionage and conspiracy to commit terrorist acts.
What are the candidates' programmes and support base?
Mr Sisi has set out an ambitious plan to develop agriculture, housing, education, impoverished areas and employment.
He is vague on how the massive funds required would be raised, apart from calling for hard work from all and lower profit margins for state and private companies.
He campaigns under the slogan "Long live Egypt!" and says his win would mean the Muslim Brotherhood is "finished" as a political force.
Mr Sisi enjoys the support of several big businessmen, as well as a broad range of political parties from the Islamist right to the moderate left.
Hamdeen Sabahi, a leading left-winger since the 1970s, offers an alternative to young voters who favour a civilian candidate over a military one.
Under the slogan "We will pursue our dream", he promises to combat corruption and incompetence while promoting civil rights.
Like Mr Sisi, however, he says he will not re-legalise Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, which was banned as a terrorist group.
The parties and movements that back Mr Sabahi are overwhelmingly left-wing.
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Is the vote likely to be free and fair?
Two factors work against this. First, the election comes amid security and political turmoil.
The Muslim Brotherhood is continuing to protest against the removal of President Morsi, and the authorities have responded with a violent crackdown on the Brotherhood and its supporters.
Hundreds have died in clashes with security forces since last summer and hundreds of others face jail or even death sentences, prompting further protests.
Second is the overwhelming support Mr Sisi receives from the mainstream media, which are already portraying him as the next occupant of the presidential palace.
Furthermore, the Muslim Brotherhood's own media within Egypt have been banned, so this major opposition voice is restricted to online television and news portals hosted abroad. These do not have anything near the reach of the mainstream media.
Who is monitoring the polls?
Major Western monitoring groups are not observing the vote.
The US Carter Centre says it will not take part, though the European Union says it will monitor the poll across the country.
The Arab League will send 100 monitors, and the African Union will also send a mission despite having suspended Egypt from membership last year.
Who is calling for a boycott?
Several but not all Islamist parties have announced that they will boycott the vote, though some have endorsed Mr Sisi.
The Muslim Brotherhood regards Mr Morsi as the legitimate president and refuses to recognise the new election.
The pro-Morsi National Alliance to Support Legitimacy describes the vote as a "farce", and the Salafist Front has called it "illegitimate".
The political arm of the Gamaa Islamiya (Islamic Group), the Building and Development Party, says most of its members also favour a boycott.
The secular 6 April Youth Movement - prominent in the uprising against Hosni Mubarak - has also called for a boycott, saying the elections were just a way of "enthroning" Mr Sisi.
What problems will the new president face?
At home, the new president will have to tackle severe political, economic, security and social problems.
The public expects the president to deal with unemployment, inequality and corruption, but restoring security may be his single greatest challenge.
Abroad, the new leader will seek to maintain friendly ties with the US and the West, while trying to improve relations with those countries that supported Mr Morsi - Turkey and Qatar and, to some extent, Iran.
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The New Chapel Unitarian and Free Christian in Denton, Tameside, agreed the move at its annual general meeting.
Jean Clements, the church's worship leader, proposed the change after meeting a couple who had a transgender child.
The church was moved to make a change in order to help those in the same situation.
Mrs Clements said: "I felt saddened by the fact that this family were being shunned by many mainstream churches.
"However, when the family came to New Chapel, the congregation welcomed them with open arms. "
Mrs Clements described her congregation as "a multi-generational community who are very willing to accept change and progress" and said the Unitarian Movement stands for freedom, reason and tolerance.
New Chapel stressed it is for other Unitarian Chapels within neighbouring districts "to decide for themselves whether they wish to offer similar services".
The church said the transgender services would be "very similar" to an adult baptism.
"While I am being congratulated for our progress on this particular matter, I would like to thank one courageous girl for inspiring me to think carefully about this issue in the first place," Mrs Clements added.
Derek McAuley, the chief officer of the church's General Assembly, said it is "quite possible" other churches would follow suit.
The Unitarian church was the first to allow divorced people to remarry and has been receptive to interfaith marriages.
Fermanagh were relegated on a dramatic last day when Carlus McWilliams scored with the last kick of the game to give Derry a one-point victory.
The win at Brewster Park was not enough to save Derry, though, as they went down on points difference.
Galway and Kildare will meet in the Division Two final on 9 April.
Down had looked doomed, but they saved themselves from relegation when Jerome Johnston's late point salvaged a draw at Pairc ui Rinn.
The Mourne county finished the seven-match league campaign on five points, the same as Clare and Derry.
Fermanagh had looked to be well on the way to securing their survival as they recovered from conceding a first-minute goal to lead Derry by four points.
Conor McAtamney got that goal after just 15 seconds when Niall Loughlin flicked on straight from the throw-in.
It was a second McAtamney goal after the interval which hauled the Oak Leaf county level and they edged ahead through Enda Lynn.
James Kielt landed three points for Derry before being red-carded for a striking offence.
Sean Quigley converted seven frees and a 45 but it was a hugely disappointing end to the Division Two series for his Fermanagh team as McWilliams scored with a hopeful effort right at the end.
Green, 30, was released by the Stags after being told he was not a part of manager Steve Evans' plans.
Ex-Leyton Orient forward Palmer, 25, ended last season on loan at Luton.
Ginnelly, 20, played 13 games during a loan spell with Lincoln last season and has joined on a season-long deal.
Lincoln won the National League title in 2016-17 and earned promotion to League Two after a six-year absence.
Speaking about the addition of Green, Imps boss Danny Cowley told the club website: "Technically he's a really good footballer. He can play up front in a pair, or play on his own so he gives a bit of flexibility and versatility."
On Palmer, Cowley added: "Physically he's unbelievable, he's mobile, and has a desire to score goals. He gives us an alternative option and gives us the opportunity to switch formation too.
"We are delighted to be able to extend the loan of Josh. We thought he bought into what we are and the pressing game we like to play. He's got real talent, pace and he's got a good end product."
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According to a version of the text seen by the BBC, the cable says Mr Trump's temporary ban on refugees as well as nationals from seven Muslim majority countries will not achieve his aim of protecting Americans from terrorist attacks, and will likely be counterproductive.
The memo is set to be filed through the State Department's "dissent channel," a way for employees to register policy disagreements with the Secretary of State and other top officials.
While dissent cables are not that unusual, a State Department official has told the BBC that this document has garnered "hundreds" of signatures, which would be "unprecedented."
And while the dissent channel is meant to provide an avenue for protest without fear of reprisal, there are strong indications that this administration might not see it that way.
Asked about State Department criticism of the immigration ban, the White House Spokesman Sean Spicer said if "these career bureaucrats" had a problem with it, "they should either get with the programme or they can go."
The draft dissent cable argues Mr Trump's Executive Order will be ineffective because of the "vanishingly small" number of terror attacks committed by foreign nationals admitted to the US on a visa.
It warns that the ban will increase anti-American sentiment; that it will have an immediate and clear humanitarian impact; and that it will sour relations with the countries on the blacklist - Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and Libya - as well as much of the Muslim world.
Going even further in a personal and moral appeal, the draft says the ban "stands in opposition to the core American and constitutional values that we, as federal employees, took an oath to uphold," such as equality and an abhorrence of discrimination on race, religion, sex or national origin.
Mr Spicer said the criticism was blown way out of proportion. He repeated Mr Trump's assertion that barely more than 100 people out of 325,000 travellers had been detained and held for questioning at US airports after the executive order was issued.
It's not clear, though, how many other people who were expecting to travel to the US in the near future using previously valid visas have had their plans upset by the changes.
Mr Spicer called the move to set up extreme vetting measures for refugees and certain categories of immigrants "common sense steps" to ensure "the safety of America."
While acknowledging that the dissent channel was an established way for State Department career officers to express themselves, he added that "if someone has a problem with that agenda, than that calls into question whether or not they should continue in that post."
The dissent channel was instituted in the early 1970s as an outlet for diplomats frustrated by US policy in turbulent times.
The very first cable was filed by the former Ambassador Jack Perry protesting the Christmas bombing of North Vietnam in 1972, on the eve of the Nixon-Breszhnev summit.
In an early analysis of dissent in the foreign service, author Kal Bird notes that this had no impact on the Nixon-Kissinger Vietnam policy, and that precisely because few dissent cables ever changed policy, they came to be seen as a tool of "desperate last resort."
He cites two cases of foreign service officers who were given poor work evaluations as a penalty for speaking out.
The most recent use of the dissent channel was in June last year, when more than 50 diplomats sharply criticised the Obama administration's policy in Syria.
They urged Mr Obama to authorise military strikes against Syrian government forces in order to stop their violations of a ceasefire in the civil war, and to back up US diplomacy with a "judicious use" of force.
This would have been a radical change in the US approach.
Then Secretary of State John Kerry heard them out.
The policy didn't change and the diplomats remained frustrated, but they continued in their jobs.
Comber-based TG Eakin Limited exports its products to more than 40 countries.
The company said the new posts would pay "well in excess of the average Northern Ireland salary".
The new extension, if given the go-ahead by Ards and North Down Council, would be the firm's second increase in floor space in as many years.
"We want to continue to invest in our premises at Ballystockart and bring jobs to the area," said managing director Jeremy Eakin.
"We need to recruit highly-skilled people in areas such as research and development, global sales and engineering."
TG Eakin Limited currently employs more than 70 people.
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Eugene Sheehy admitted AIB "took too much risk" on property developers ahead of the Irish banking crisis in 2008.
He was giving evidence to a Dublin inquiry into the causes of the crisis.
Mr Sheehy added he did not understand at the time why Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide were included in the government's bank deposit guarantee.
He was referring to the controversial blanket guarantee the government gave in September 2008, that it would protect all deposits in Irish banks in the midst of a deepening international financial crisis.
The aim was to reassure investors and prevent a "run" on Irish financial institutions, but ultimately resulted in the Irish government having to seek an international bail-out from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2010.
The two smaller lenders - Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide - eventually absorbed more than half of the 64bn euros (46bn) that the Irish government pumped into the banks.
Mr Sheehy also told the inquiry that he cannot remember telling government officials that AIB was facing bankruptcy and disaster on the night that the banking guarantee deal was agreed.
The comments were attributed to him in a internal Department of Finance memo.
Mr Sheehy spent 38 years working at AIB, and was in charge of the bank from 2005 to his retirement in 2009.
Badly exposed to the bursting of the Republic of Ireland's property price bubble, AIB was forced to seek billions of euros of government money to stay in business.
Mr Sheehy told the Irish Banking Inquiry: "I would like to express my deep personal regret for my role in what occurred. I am keenly aware of the damage caused and this fact occupies my thoughts on a daily basis."
The Republic of Ireland's international bail-out programme led to years of austerity, with significant public spending cuts and new taxes on property and domestic water supplies.
Referring to AIB's failed property development loans, Mr Sheehy added: "We took too much risk in a sector that turned out to be toxic. I was CEO, I could have stopped it.
"That I failed in that responsibility is a matter of eternal shame."
Mr Sheehy confirmed that AIB was asked to provide 5bn euros (3.6bn) towards the rescue of Anglo Irish Bank, as part of the government guarantee deal.
He said he believed that a default by Anglo would badly affect the reputations of all Irish banks, risking a run on their UK deposits.
Given the public's reaction to Northern Rock in the UK, Mr Sheehy said was likely that domestic customers would panic and Irish branches would not be able to cope.
He is expected to tell MPs on Wednesday that the threshold at which the tax is levied will rise for couples from £650,000 after April 2017.
Writing in The Times, PM David Cameron and Mr Osborne said those who worked for their homes should be able to pass them on to family members.
The move fulfils a key pledge made in the Conservatives' election manifesto.
Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne also unveiled housing measures to help people buy and build their own home.
The inheritance tax policy will be funded by limiting the amount of tax relief on pension contributions given to those earning more than £150,000 a year.
In a joint article, Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne write: "As we promised in our manifesto, we'll take the family home out of inheritance tax for all but the richest."
They add: "It can only be right that when you've worked hard to own your own home, it will go to your family and not the taxman."
The Taxpayers' Alliance (TPA) - a right-leaning pressure group - said it "broadly welcomed" the end of inheritance tax, but said flaws in the proposals meant there could be "perverse incentives" for older people to sell all of their assets to buy a bigger home and pass it on tax-free when they died.
Andy Silvester, campaigns director at the TPA, said: "Inheritance tax is one of those things, that even for people who frankly would not be hit by it at the moment, is a really unpopular tax.
"People find it fundamentally unfair that income you've already been taxed on in order to buy your house is taxed on when you die.
"In parts of the country the really wealthy are not necessarily living in £1m houses."
But Mr Silvester said there was a danger the policy could increase house prices and said "radical planning liberalisation" was needed to build more homes and prevent house prices from rising.
Mr Osborne has been keen on the idea for nearly a decade, BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said.
Before the election, the chancellor told the BBC the plan "supports the basic human instinct to provide for your children".
At present, inheritance tax is payable at 40% on the value of an estate in excess of the tax-free allowance of £325,000 per person. Married couples and civil partners can pass the allowance on to each other.
From April 2017 parents will each be offered a further £175,000 "family home allowance" to enable them to pass property on to children tax-free after their death.
This will be added to the existing £325,000 inheritance tax threshold, bringing the total transferable tax-free allowance from both parents in a married couple or civil partnership to £1m.
Since the election, it is reported the plan has been tweaked so that where couples have "downsized" to a smaller property after their children have left home, the allowance will still apply to the old family home.
Critics are expected to argue the plan will benefit the wealthiest in society. Last year, the estates of 35,000 were subject to inheritance tax; around 5% of the total.
Before the general election, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said of the Tory plan: "This (and in fact any) IHT cut will also go disproportionately to those towards the top of the income distribution".
In April Labour's Chris Leslie, currently the party's shadow chancellor, said the policy was a "panicky promise" from the Conservatives.
He said at the time: "The Tories made a promise on inheritance tax before the last election and they broke it.
"At a time when our NHS is in crisis and most working people are paying more under the Tories, it cannot be a priority to spend £1bn on a policy which the Treasury says would not apply to 90% of estates."
He and the Duchess of Cornwall enjoyed a demonstration of the ancient Irish sport at Kilkenny Castle.
Their visit to the Republic of Ireland, which followed a two-day stay in Northern Ireland, is at the request of the British government.
They later visited the Curragh Military Camp, where Irish UN peace-keeping soldiers are trained.
On Thursday morning, the Royals visited a farmers' market in Kilkenny, and they met some of the thousands of people who had lined the streets there.
They also attended a cartoon animation studio in Kilkenny, and a craft centre, before heading to County Kildare to the military camp.
The couple, who are being hosted by President Michael D Higgins, are also expected to attend a ceremony at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin to commemorate those who lost their lives in World War One and during the Easter Rising.
The Duchess will also visit the national stud and Japanese gardens.
At Kilkenny Castle, Prince Charles met former county hurler, Henry Shefflin - or 'King Henry', as he is known by locals.
Mr Shefflin gave the Prince a little instruction on how to hit the ball, before letting him try for himself.
"He kept it low into the bottom of the net," he said. "But for the first go it was very, very good."
Mr Shefflin, who has been on the all-Ireland winning team 10 times, said the Prince may have had a good chance of being signed up if he had been in Kilkenny in his youth.
The couple left Northern Ireland on Wednesday, where Prince Charles opened a garden of remembrance for police officers killed on duty in Northern Ireland.
The Royal couple's trip began on Tuesday with a visit to the Seamus Heaney Homeplace Centre in Bellaghy, where they met members of the poet's family.
The finds were uncovered off the coast of Dunwich, Suffolk - a small village which in the 11th Century was one of the largest towns in England.
The town was hit by a succession of storms in the 13th and 14th centuries and is now largely below the sea.
Researchers said sediment gathered from the cliffs independently corroborated the historical record.
Professor David Sear, of the University of Southampton, said Dunwich was hit by huge storms on an annual basis.
"[They were] like the south coast storms of 2013-14, at least once a year for decades," he said.
The three-year research off Dunwich has been funded by Touching the Tide, a £900,000 Heritage Lottery Fund scheme to explore the changing Suffolk coast.
A diver used ultrasound to "illuminate" finds on the seabed, and the marshes and eroding cliffs were surveyed.
"It offers a marvellous history of climate change and coastal erosion," said Prof Sear with regards to the findings.
In the 11th Century, Dunwich was the 10th largest town in England, but now has about 120 residents.
Two great storms in 1286 and 1326 resulted in the loss of its harbour and started its decline.
Prof Sear said pollen analysis revealed how "people gave up on Dunwich" after 1338, when another great storm silted up the port for good, and food production declined.
Sediment gathered from the cliffs, he said, "independently confirmed the sequences of storms recorded in the historical record".
Dating of the old defensive town ditch produced a result which surprised the researchers - suggesting the town's origins date back to the Iron Age.
The underwater research has been carried out using acoustic imaging technology, and has unearthed a series of buildings.
"We use sound to create a video image of the seabed and the reason we do that is because when you dive at Dunwich it's pitch black," Prof Sear said.
"We found the ruins of about four churches and we've also found ruins of what we think was a toll house. But we've also found shipwrecks for example, and there's some we've found with this Touching the Tide project, which no-one's known before."
The shipwreck was found on the seabed just north of the village.
The ribs of the 32m (105ft) ship are covered in a thin sheet of copper, dating it from after 1750.
Prof Sear, who has been researching Dunwich since 2008, said he did not yet know "the identity or type of wreck", but was working with local museums to source this information.
A dig in 2015 discovered evidence of Dunwich's prehistoric origins, as well as evidence it was "a substantial Saxon port, prior to its rapid growth following the Norman invasion".
Bill Jenman, from Touching the Tide, said: "We found loads of pottery, a lot more than we've found before, so sort of High Medieval - the peak of the affluence of Dunwich.
"We can push the story of Dunwich certainly back to the Iron Age, and we know people were here back into the Stone Age. We know it was a fairly major town in the Anglo-Saxon period."
You can watch the story of Britain's Atlantis on BBC Inside Out East, on Monday at 19:30 GMT on BBC One.
The diplomat, named by Russian media as Onno Elderenbosch, was reportedly tied up by men posing as electricians.
Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said the diplomat had been lightly wounded. He added that he had summoned the Russian ambassador.
Mr Timmermans apologised last week after a Russian diplomat was arrested.
Dmitri Borodin was held for several hours on suspicion of mistreating his two young children, prompting President Vladimir Putin to demand the Dutch apology.
Protests were held outside the Dutch embassy in response to the arrest.
After an investigation, the Dutch foreign minister conceded that police had breached the rules on diplomatic immunity.
Writing on his Facebook page late on Tuesday, Mr Timmermans said the Dutch diplomat, whom he did not name, had been mistreated by two intruders.
"Our people must be able to work there safely and I want the assurance that the Russian authorities also take their responsibility on that point," he said.
According to Russian TV, Moscow police confirmed that the deputy head of the Dutch embassy had been attacked.
When Mr Elderenbosch, 66, had returned home he found the lift was not working and two men in uniform were inspecting the fuse box, the report said. When he opened his door, he was then attacked.
The motive for the attack is not clear.
Russian reports said that Mr Elderenbosch was tied up and beaten, and that the attackers daubed a heart on a mirror in lipstick with the letters LGBT. The letters are an acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.
Diplomatic relations between the two countries were already strained before Mr Borodin's arrest.
The Netherlands launched legal action to free 30 people from several countries who were detained in Russia after a Dutch-flagged ship belonging to environmental group Greenpeace, the Arctic Sunrise, was boarded over a protest on a Russian oil rig in the Arctic.
The activists and journalists on board have been charged with piracy.
Raymond Gilmour, from Londonderry, was found dead by his son, according to the Belfast Telegraph.
He became an RUC Special Branch informer when he was 17 and was the only witness in a trial of 35 IRA suspects that collapsed in 1984.
Raymond Gilmour lived under an assumed identity for more than 30 years.
It is understood that his death is not being treated as suspicious.
He first joined republican paramilitaries, the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) in 1976 as a police agent working for the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC).
He then moved to the IRA in 1980 before his cover was blown two years later when police used information supplied by him to recover a machine gun.
He decided to testify against a number of alleged republicans in 1984, but the case collapsed when the then lord chief justice, Lord Lowry, dismissed his evidence, calling it "unworthy of belief".
Sir John Hermon, the RUC chief constable at that time, called them "CTs" - converted terrorists. Technically they were "assisting offenders".
But on the streets of the communities they came from, as evidenced by the graffiti on the walls, they were branded "touts" and "supergrasses".
During the early 1980s, people took to the streets to protest at what they called the "show trials".
It was claimed informers were offered cash inducements and that secret deals were struck at a political level, approved by the secretary of state for Northern Ireland.
At that time, the trials held in the now derelict Crumlin Road courthouse in Belfast were the largest in British criminal history.
In one of them in 1983, 22 IRA suspects were jailed for a total of 4,000 years.
That stalemate arguably ended with the government's decision to revoke the citizenship of Sheikh Isa Qassim, the kingdom's most prominent Shia Muslim cleric and spiritual inspiration behind the main opposition bloc Wefaq.
The move is but the coup de grace in a series of recent crackdowns on dissent.
These included the re-arrest of outspoken government critic Nabeel Rajab and a travel ban on activists planning to attend this month's UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
The government has also imposed an extended nine-year prison sentence for Wefaq's longstanding secretary-general Sheikh Ali Salman, introduced a new law barring religious leaders from membership in political societies, and has enforced the wholesale suspension of Wefaq's activities.
On the face of it, such decisions would seem to point to an emboldened regime finally willing to throw off the pretence of entertaining serious reform - one confident in its ability to handle the inevitable domestic and international fallout of redoubled political repression.
And, on the diplomatic front at least, such a conclusion is undoubtedly correct. Since Wefaq's boycott of 2014 parliamentary elections in protest at a lack of meaningful concessions by the state, its one-time interlocutors at the US and British embassies have all but shunned the group.
The UK Foreign Office in particular has communicated bluntly that the opposition made its own bed by refusing to participate within the existing political framework, however flawed, and now will have to sleep in it.
Around the same time at the regional level, the unforeseen rise of so-called Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq meant that the US and its allies found themselves in immediate material need of Bahrain and the other Arab Gulf states, rather than the usual reverse relationship.
In return for their diplomatic and (nominal) military assistance, Gulf leaders demanded greater leeway in managing domestic politics. In the case of Bahrain, Western criticism and engagement have been noticeably muted since.
What is less clear, however, is whether Bahrain's latest measures against the opposition are evidence of a position of domestic strength, or of perceived vulnerability. At least three separate factors are at play. Notably, two of the three have more to do with economics than politics.
The first is Bahrain's Sunni Muslim community, which gave vital support to the ruling family in 2011 by organising counter-rallies that helped arrest the momentum of the uprising.
But rather than fading away with the end of mass demonstrations, many of these populist Sunni coalitions transformed into political movements in their own right, making demands upon the state, often vocally, for higher wages and a harsher security response to lingering protests.
Fearful that these groups could potentially give rise to a new phenomenon of Sunni opposition, the state redrew electoral boundaries in time for the 2014 elections in a way that disadvantaged their candidates, who failed to win a single seat.
These electoral machinations, combined with the government's new disqualification of religious leaders from politics, makes it clear that it is not simply Shia who are the target of the state's clampdown, but politically active Sunnis as well.
This bodes ill for the country's two largest and most established political societies after Wefaq, which represent Salafists and followers of the Muslim Brotherhood respectively. For ordinary Sunnis, such suspicion is seen as poor repayment for their loyalty in the state's hour of need.
A second factor that could help explain the timing of Bahrain's authoritarian turn is the fiscal crisis presently facing the state as a result of low oil prices.
Already poor by Gulf standards, in the past six months alone Bahrainis have had to endure a string of cost-cutting measures that have seen dramatic overnight increases in the prices of food, water and electricity, and vehicle fuel.
The state has promised even further fiscal tightening in the form of a GCC-wide value-added tax, increased fees on government services and even changes to state pension benefits.
In Saudi Arabia, similarly painful economic reforms announced in January were famously preceded by the surprise execution of dissident Shia cleric Sheikh Norm al-Nimr, which most observers interpreted as a transparent attempt at appeasing the regime's core Sunni supporters. Might Bahrain be taking a page from the Saudi playbook?
Finally, it is possible that Bahrain's steps toward authoritarian retrenchment reflect a struggle for influence within the fractured ruling Khalifa family itself.
Specifically, the immediacy of the country's economic challenges has thrust back into the limelight Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad, a moderate who was marginalised after an embarrassing failed attempt at negotiating with Wefaq leaders in February 2011.
The crown prince's economic reform agenda is strongly opposed by his powerful uncle, Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman, whose influence is rooted in vast patronage networks.
The bold steps against the opposition may thus be a message to the reform-minded Salman that he should not expect the newfound demand for his economic expertise to present an entry into the political realm.
Equally likely, perhaps, the experience of the past five years may have brought the Crown Prince closer to the thinking of more conservative members of his family: that engagement with the opposition is at best a waste of time, at worst a repeat of a grave mistake. And far better, then, to do away with it altogether.
Justin Gengler is Research Programme Manager at the Social and Economic Survey Research Institute of Qatar University. He is the author of Group Conflict and Political Mobilization in Bahrain and the Arab Gulf.
The anonymous owner took the document to a valuation day at The Beatles Story in Liverpool on Wednesday - and discovered it was worth about £60,000.
One expert believes the text is a draft of the letter Lennon eventually sent, which remains in the Royal archives.
Lennon returned the MBE in protest at Britain's involvement in a civil war.
The letter reads: "I am returning this MBE in protest against Britain's involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam and against Cold Turkey slipping down the charts."
The letter, which was recently unearthed in the owner's attic, has been described as an "incredible find" by music memorabilia expert Darren Julien.
It was originally discovered inside the sleeve of a record that was part of a collection of 45s, picked up for £10 at a car boot sale 20 years ago.
"My theory is that John Lennon never sent this draft because of the smeared ink," said Mr Julien.
"If you're writing to the Queen, you want the letter to look pretty perfect, you don't want the ink to be smudged.
"This suggests that he wrote a second version of the letter, which was the one that was actually sent."
Other items that valued at the event include:
The Napoli midfielder's measured pass set up Vladimir Weiss, who cut inside and side-footed Slovakia ahead.
Hamsik then spectacularly doubled the lead, receiving a short corner out wide before firing a shot in off the post.
Russia face disqualification if their fans misbehave inside stadiums and a flare was seen among their supporters when Denis Glushakov headed in late on.
That appeared to be the only issue for authorities inside Lille's Stade Pierre-Mauroy, in contrast to last week's scenes in Marseille's Stade Velodrome, where Russian fans charged into a section for England supporters after the final whistle in the draw between the two countries.
Russia will now almost certainly need to beat Wales on Monday if they are to stand any chance of progress, while Slovakia know victory over England will see them through.
Slovakia's defensive effort as Russia applied pressure late on was admirable, but without Hamsik it is hard to see Jan Kozak's side creating opportunities.
"He has matured as a person and as a player at Napoli - he is ready to play for a very big club," said Slovakia coach Jan Kozak of Hamsik afterwards.
Hamsik is one of only two players in the Slovakia squad with more than 10 international goals - and just as in their opening defeat by Wales, he had more touches than any of his team-mates.
This time his touches were more telling as he found positions to have five shots, made more passes than any of his team-mates and won possession 12 times.
The ball to free Weiss took advantage of Russia's early positivity. Right-back Igor Smolnikov had continuously joined attacks and his poor positioning saw Hamsik curl a pass into space from deep.
Weiss, who plays for Qatari club Al-Gharafa, easily evaded two challenges before becoming the first player from a non-European club to score at a European Championship.
If his finish was composed, Hamsik's was an exhibition of power as his effort flew across goal to cannon off the upright and back across the goalline into the bottom corner.
Slovakia go into their final game with one loss in their past 10 matches, while Russia have had just one win in seven before their meeting with Wales in Toulouse.
Manager Leonid Slutsky - at 45, the youngest at Euro 2016 - looked distraught as he sat on his bench in silence after the final whistle.
The momentum he gave their qualifying campaign after succeeding the sacked Fabio Capello has seemingly been lost, and his double role as CSKA Moscow boss and national manager looks unlikely to continue if Russia exit at the group stage.
Though they went close when Fedor Smolov's long-range shot went inches wide early on, all too often their play looked mechanical and devoid of flair in the final third.
Glushakov only came on at the break but the Spartak Moscow player made a difference, completing 97% of his passes and heading in Oleg Shatov's pinpoint late cross.
A wayward Glushakov effort from 18 yards - one of 13 Russia attempts to miss the target - proved the final action and what has already been a difficult tournament for the nation now looks likely to end in disappointment on the pitch.
Russia coach Leonid Slutsky on whether he picked the wrong line-up: " I wouldn't say that because if the plan we had at the beginning had been executed, and if we had scored the first goal, it would have been a different game. After we went behind, we had to change our plan, especially the system in midfield."
Slovakia coach Jan Kozak: "The match was very close and tense; nobody wanted to open up space and concede. At half-time we said it was only 2-0, we had things under control for a time, but we got tired. The last 10 minutes seemed to last a very long time."
Both teams have 20:00 BST kick-offs on 20 June - their final group matches. Slovakia will meet England - a side they have never beaten - in Saint-Etienne, while Russia face Wales - a side they have never lost to.
Match ends, Russia 1, Slovakia 2.
Second Half ends, Russia 1, Slovakia 2.
Corner, Russia. Conceded by Marek Hamsik.
Attempt blocked. Sergei Ignashevich (Russia) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pavel Mamaev.
Artem Dzyuba (Russia) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Martin Skrtel (Slovakia).
Igor Smolnikov (Russia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Nemec (Slovakia).
Attempt blocked. Artem Dzyuba (Russia) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Roman Shirokov.
Artem Dzyuba (Russia) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Martin Skrtel (Slovakia).
Attempt missed. Denis Glushakov (Russia) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Corner, Russia. Conceded by Martin Skrtel.
Corner, Russia. Conceded by Viktor Pecovsky.
Attempt blocked. Oleg Shatov (Russia) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Goal! Russia 1, Slovakia 2. Denis Glushakov (Russia) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Oleg Shatov with a cross.
Substitution, Slovakia. Michal Duris replaces Robert Mak.
Attempt missed. Pavel Mamaev (Russia) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Denis Glushakov.
Substitution, Russia. Roman Shirokov replaces Aleksandr Kokorin.
Fedor Smolov (Russia) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Viktor Pecovsky (Slovakia).
Offside, Slovakia. Matús Kozácik tries a through ball, but Adam Nemec is caught offside.
Substitution, Slovakia. Dusan Svento replaces Vladimir Weiss.
Foul by Oleg Shatov (Russia).
Juraj Kucka (Slovakia) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Oleg Shatov (Russia) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tomas Hubocan (Slovakia).
Attempt blocked. Marek Hamsik (Slovakia) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Marek Hamsik (Slovakia) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Robert Mak.
Substitution, Slovakia. Adam Nemec replaces Ondrej Duda.
Attempt missed. Denis Glushakov (Russia) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Artem Dzyuba.
Attempt blocked. Fedor Smolov (Russia) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Georgy Schennikov.
Attempt blocked. Aleksandr Kokorin (Russia) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Denis Glushakov.
Corner, Russia. Conceded by Matús Kozácik.
Corner, Russia. Conceded by Peter Pekarík.
Pavel Mamaev (Russia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marek Hamsik (Slovakia).
Dangerous play by Denis Glushakov (Russia).
Martin Skrtel (Slovakia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Aleksandr Kokorin (Russia) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Sitting on the start-finish straight with two others for company, the position panel waits for one of the top three drivers to gently ease their car in front of it.
That wasn't the case for the 'number three' board in Monaco.
After a needless pit stop saw Lewis Hamilton let slip the lead to finish third, the Briton - still fuming from his team's decision to call him in - appeared to be in a grumpy mood.
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On the lap of honour after the race, Hamilton stopped his car on the outside of the Portier corner, with the front of his Mercedes overlooking the sea.
As Hamilton sat in his cockpit for a good minute or so, staring out to the Mediterranean Sea, the thoughts of those watching turned to the moment Ayrton Senna abandoned his wrecked McLaren at the same corner during the 1988 grand prix and promptly walked back to his Monaco flat without saying a word to anyone.
Hamilton, did not follow in the footsteps of his hero this time. Instead he fired up his Mercedes, swung it round the remainder of the slow-down lap and promptly slammed the front of his car into the awaiting position panel.
For that brief moment, Hamilton the slick and professional world champion disappeared. Hamilton was like a child who had just lost a running race they were convinced they would win.
Much like smashing a racquet in tennis or kicking a goalpost in football, it was a hilariously petulant reaction. And we loved it.
Licensing firm Dramatic Publishing had not extended the performance rights for the production, so Lee stepped in with Mockingbird Company.
It will produce the play from 2016, giving proceeds to local communities.
Dramatic Publishing said on its Facebook page it was "thrilled".
It added: "We are also happy to announce that the play will be performed by Mockingbird Players, who have acted this American classic so well for so long. We believe that this is the best way (from the stage) to celebrate Ms Lee's masterpiece throughout the greater Monroeville area."
A Facebook page called Save Monroeville's To Kill a Mockingbird play had been campaigning for the play to stay in Monroeville.
Comments on the Facebook page included Johnny Johnson saying: "Thank you Miss Harper Lee , you have made Monroe County proud," and Meagan McDonald adding: "Thank you for working towards an agreement!! What a blessing for Monroeville!!"
Performances for the play for this month and next are sold out, boosted by excitement over the upcoming publication of Lee's second book, Go Set a Watchman. It will be the 88-year-old American author's first release since the 1960s.
The show has been staged by the Monroe County Heritage Museum for years, despite it being involved in legal disputes with Lee, 88, in the past. She sued the museum in 2013 for selling Mockingbird souvenirs in its shop, after it had opposed her application for a federal trademark for the title of her book.
The dispute has since been settled.
To Kill a Mockingbird, which explores issues of race, class and the loss of innocence, was published in July 1960 and has sold more than 40 million copies globally. It won a Pulitzer Prize and became an Oscar-winning film starring Gregory Peck two years later.
Go Set a Watchman was written before Mockingbird, and features many of the same characters, with an adult Scout Finch returning to her native Alabama from New York to visit her father, lawyer Atticus Finch.
Written in the mid-1950s but shelved on the advice of her editor, it will be released on 14 July.
At a ceremony in the southern French city of Bayonne, an inventory of weapons, and their locations, was passed to the judicial authorities.
French Interior Minister Matthias Fekl hailed the move as a "major step".
Eta killed more than 800 people in some 40 years of violence as it sought to carve out an independent country straddling Spain and France.
It declared a ceasefire in 2011 but did not disarm.
Mr Fekl said the inventory included eight sites, and a police operation was under way to secure them.
The caches contain 120 firearms, three tonnes of explosives and several thousand rounds of ammunition, according to a spokesman for the group which mediated between Eta and the French authorities.
The group was set up more than 50 years ago in the era of Spanish dictator General Franco.
Its goal was to create an independent Basque state out of territory in south-west France and northern Spain.
Its first known killing was in 1968, when a secret police chief was shot dead in the Basque city of San Sebastian.
France and Spain refuse to negotiate with Eta, which is on the EU blacklist of terrorist organisations.
It has taken years to convince Eta members to disarm without getting anything in return, says the BBC's Lyse Doucet, in Bayonne.
She says she has been told about 100 hardline fighters still oppose the move.
French police have begun checking the list of sites handed over on Saturday.
There is also the International Verification Commission (IVC), set up in 2011 to monitor Eta's progress towards disarmament.
It is not recognised by the French and Spanish governments, but it does have the backing of the regional Basque government in Spain.
In 2014, the IVC reported that Eta had taken some of its weapons out of action, but the Spanish government dismissed the move as "theatrical".
The Spanish government does not believe Eta will hand over all its weapons, Reuters quoted a government source as saying.
Slowly, and with many false starts.
Eta's first ceasefire was in 1998, but collapsed the following year.
In 2006, it made another pledge to lay down arms that, too, proved to be illusory. In December of that year, it bombed an airport car park in Madrid, killing two people.
Four years later, in 2010, Eta announced it would not carry out further attacks and in January 2011, it declared a permanent and "internationally verifiable" ceasefire but refused to disarm.
In recent years, police in France and Spain have put Eta under severe pressure, arresting hundreds of militants, including leadership figures, and seizing many of its weapons.
Eta's political wing, Herri Batasuna, was banned by the Spanish government, which argued that the two groups were inextricably linked.
A simple ceremony in a city hall ended Eta's bloody campaign for independence. In an elegant high-ceilinged room, five people sat around a plain square table as early-morning light filtered through heavy drapes.
Bayonne Mayor Jean-Rene Etchegaray welcomed them to a "moment we have all been waiting for". After a few short speeches, French Basque environmentalist Txetx Etcheverry approached the table with a bulky black file, with a dozen blue folders. From where I sat, I could see it included photographs as well as text.
The dossier was handed to international witnesses including Italian Archbishop Matteo Zuppi and the Reverend Harold Good, who played a role in the Northern Ireland peace process. French security forces discreetly secured the area and the Spanish government raised no objections to the ceremony going ahead.
Ram Manikkalingam of the IVC called it a "new model of disarmament and verification which emerged from Basque society".
Evie and Ossie, rescue cats from the Celia Hammond Trust, have been given the run of four floors at the Whitehall office.
Downing Street has its own mouser - Larry - who was tasked in 2011 with ridding No 10 of a rat problem.
In April, the Foreign Office took on its own mouser, Palmerston, while the Treasury recruited Gladstone in July.
Evie and Ossie are the first to come from the Celia Hammond Animal Trust - Larry, Gladstone and Palmerston came from the better-known Battersea Dogs and Cats Home.
Evie is Ossie's mother - a Cabinet Office spokeswoman said the cats would be looked after with donations from staff and were "settling in really well".
Much of Whitehall seems to have a rodent problem. Larry was first bought after a rat was spotted scuttling past Downing Street's famous front door on live TV. The Foreign Office and Treasury recruited their own mousers this year.
The Cabinet Office has named Evie after Dame Evelyn Sharp, the first female permanent secretary, while Ossie is named after Sir Edward Osmotherly - author of the rules followed by civil servants in giving evidence to select committees.
A spokesman said the cats had arrived a couple of weeks ago, in time for the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Cabinet Office.
"Everybody's been really enthusiastic. They are a very welcome presence in the office," she said.
"They have been settling in and getting familiar with the building."
The cats will be kept indoors and will have four floors to roam around.
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Scott Williams' brilliant steal, kick-ahead and try with five minutes remaining put Wales ahead for the first time after four penalties apiece from Owen Farrell and Leigh Halfpenny had the teams locked together at 12-12.
With time up, replacement Mike Brown put David Strettle over on the right but after several minutes of deliberation, television match official Iain Ramage ruled the winger had failed to ground the ball.
It means Wales now have the Grand Slam in their sights and handed England interim coach Stuart Lancaster his first defeat in charge.
Seven of England's starting XV had never played at Twickenham before but their performance belied that lack of international inexperience.
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With Farrell pulling the strings, scrum-half Lee Dickson impressive on his first full cap and the defence rock solid, this was the best display of Lancaster's reign so far.
But Wales, despite losing Rhys Priestland to the sin-bin and struggling to replicate the fluid rugby of earlier in the month, did what all top teams do and found a way to win.
If it was a frantic finale, it was also a breathless start, Sam Warburton feeding Mike Phillips off the top of a line-out and the scrum-half sending George North away with a cute inside pass.
North seemed certain to score but was brought crashing down by a desperate full-length tap-tackle from Strettle. When the ball was recycled, Priestland put a kick just too far ahead of Alex Cuthbert.
Wales had three-quarters of the possession and almost as much territory in the first quarter, and although Strettle nearly picked off a poor Alun Wyn Jones pass for an intercept, the Welsh forwards then launched a series of rumbles deep in English territory.
Halfpenny missed a simple penalty chance after his pack made a mess of the English scrum, and when Dickson went on a dart after a tap-and-go, England finally made inroads
Manu Tuilagi hammered dents in the red defence and Farrell made it 3-0, only for Halfpenny to level things up after Chris Robshaw took a pass standing still and was smashed by Dan Lydiate.
Dickson's quick pass and Tuilagi's power were lifting England's backline. It took a desperate tackle from Warburton to deny England's outside centre but Farrell made it 6-3 when other defenders went offside.
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Farrell then chipped over the onrushing Welsh defence and gathered in space only to be clattered backwards by the monstrous North, and Halfpenny landed his second penalty from distance for 6-6.
The game was being played at a ferocious pace, the intensity relentless and the atmosphere crackling. Farrell's third successful kick from the left touchline came after an England turnover in the Welsh 22 and meant Lancaster's young side led at the interval.
Within four minutes of the restart the game turned again. Mouritz Botha charged down Priestland's attempted clearance and looked odds-on to secure England's third charge-down try in three matches. And although Halfpenny scragged him, Priestland then went off-side and found himself sin-binned.
Farrell knocked over another nerveless penalty to extend the lead to six points and the choruses of "Swing Low" rippled around the packed stands.
Wales went through phases after phases but England's defence initially held firm against the 14 men until Jonathan Davies thumped into Farrell, Ken Owens barrelled on and Dylan Hartley went off his feet to allow Halfpenny to take his side back within a single score.
Errors began to creep in, turnovers slowing Welsh advances and Geoff Parling being bundled into touch on the left as a promising move crabbed sideways.
Lancaster threw Ben Youngs and Courtney Lawes into the fray. Priestland missed touch badly with a penalty and was then pinged for holding on when Ben Foden's clearing kick came back to him. Farrell, for once, could not take advantage, and England's lead remained just three as the minutes ticked away.
It was Farrell's last deed, cramp forcing him to hobble off and Toby Flood coming on in his place.
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Welsh replacements Ryan Jones and Williams then worked a priceless opportunity for Warren Gatland's team to wrest back the initiative. Jones burst off a scrum, Williams sliced through the scrambling English rearguard and had North completely free out wide, only to take the ball needlessly into contact and get turned over to roars from the home crowd.
The pressure was making strong men weak. Matt Stevens kept his hands on the ball in a ruck despite repeated warnings from referee Steve Walsh and Halfpenny brought the scores level with just eight minutes left on the clock.
England came again. Lawes thundered down the left, Halfpenny scampered and Wales cleared. When Wales had possession just inside the England half another fumble forced Priestland to kick possession away.
Williams was not finished. Lawes crashed into three Welsh tacklers on halfway but the centre, on for an injured and ineffectual Jamie Roberts, ripped the ball from English hands, turned and span away.
With a kick through he was free, gathering a kind bounce to dive over the try-line as his team-mates celebrated in his wake. Halfpenny added the extras and the Triple Crown was within their grasp.
England needed a converted try to save the game. They went right, then left, and with time up a long mis-pass found Strettle sprinting for the right-hand corner.
Halfpenny and Davies threw themselves at man and ball with North also playing a hand; the crowd celebrated and it went to the television match official for a heart-stopping age until the fateful decision came: no try.
England: 15-Ben Foden, 14-Chris Ashton, 13-Manu Tuilagi, 12-Brad Barritt, 11-David Strettle, 10-Owen Farrell, 9-Lee Dickson; 1 Alex Corbisiero, 2-Dylan Hartley, 3-Dan Cole, 4-Mouritz Botha, 5-Geoff Parling, 6-Tom Croft, 7-Chris Robshaw, 8-Ben Morgan.
Replacements: 16-Rob Webber (for Hartley, 73), 17-Matt Stevens (for Corbisiero, 66), 18-Courtney Lawes (for Botha 61), 19-Phil Dowson, 20-Ben Youngs (for Dickson, 61), 21-Toby Flood (for Farrell, 66), 22-Mike Brown (for Foden, 78)
Wales: 15-Leigh Halfpenny, 14-Alex Cuthbert, 13-Jonathan Davies, 12-Jamie Roberts, 11-George North, 10-Rhys Priestland, 9-Mike Phillips; 1-Gethin Jenkins, 2-Ken Owens, 3-Adam Jones, 4-Alun Wyn Jones, 5-Ian Evans, 6-Dan Lydiate, 7-Sam Warburton, 8-Toby Faletau.
Replacements: 16-Richard Hibbard, 17-Paul James, 18-Ryan Jones (for AW Jones, 54) 19-Justin Tipuric, 20-Lloyd Williams, 21-Stephen Jones, 22-Scott Williams (for Roberts, 41).
Referee: Steve Walsh
Touch judges: Peter Fitzgibbon, Pascale Gauzere
TV: Iain Ramage
Edwina Hart said there were "issues we do not control" as AMs debated chaos surrounding games in Cardiff in 2015.
Tory leader Andrew RT Davies said one family with tickets gave up the journey and watched the game on TV in Bath.
A committee of AMs has made several recommendations, including improvements to Cardiff Central railway station.
Problems for rail passengers suffering delays and overcrowding were the main focus of a report by the business and enterprise committee in December.
But fans travelling by road also suffered, AMs debating the report in the Senedd on Wednesday heard.
Mr Davies spoke of "considerable congestion" at the Severn Bridge toll plaza, and highlighted the case of a family travelling from London who gave up their attempt to reach Cardiff for a match.
"They were so far away from the toll plaza that in the end they turned in for Bath, watched the match in Bath, and spent the weekend in Bath," he said.
"They had to forego the tickets that the father had bought for his family to enjoy a game of rugby here in Cardiff.
"What sort of message is that sending out?"
Responding, Mrs Hart said: "I'll be writing to the Department for Transport to raise the committee's concerns because these are issues we do not control.
"We don't want to apportion blame but it's important people recognise the difficulties that were surrounding what was happening on the bridge."
Daniel Zamudio, 24, has been in a medically induced coma since Saturday's attack by unidentified assailants.
He had swastika-like shapes drawn on his chest, fuelling speculation that neo-Nazis were involved.
Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter said efforts would be stepped up to pass an anti-discrimination law.
"We're going to give added urgency to the anti-discrimination law," said Mr Hinzpeter, referring to legislation currently being considered by the Chilean congress.
Chile should also consider passing a hate-crime law, he said.
Mr Zamudio was left with severe head injuries and a broken right leg after being attacked in Santiago.
He is on a ventilator and in an induced coma, but doctors say he is out of immediate danger.
Mr Zamudio's parents said it was not the first time he had been targeted because of his sexual orientation, and that his attackers were neo-Nazis.
A group representing gay rights in Chile, Movilh, has launched a publicity campaign to appeal for witnesses.
"It wasn't a one-off event, violence by neo-Nazi groups keeps happening," Rolando Jimenez from Movilh told BBC Mundo.
Prosecutors say they do not have firm evidence of neo-Nazi involvement but it is a possibility given the victim's profile, previous incidents, and the suspected swastika marks.
In total, 2,984 runs were scored and 96 wickets fell across the nine matches taking place in Divisions One and Two, with England's Test players also in on the action.
BBC Sport takes a closer look at how the opening day of pink-ball cricket in England and Wales played out.
"First things first, this round of matches is about England players preparing for day-night Test cricket, rather than boosting the health of the county game," said BBC Sport's Stephan Shemilt, who was watching Warwickshire against Lancashire at Edgbaston.
"Any impact on the crowd would be incidental, but it would be encouraging to see greater numbers through the gates. Here, that was not the case.
"There was no noticeable difference in attendance when compared to a normal Championship match. It was free to get in for the final session but, instead of people arriving after work, the crowd thinned. The weather may have played a part in that."
Edgbaston was not alone in seeing the crowd diminish rather than increase, as was hoped, during the final session - despite some grounds offering free and reduced-price entry.
BBC Radio London's Kevin Hand at Chelmsford and BBC Radio Solent's Kevan James at Southampton both reported a reduced number of spectators after the last interval, although BBC Radio Newcastle's Martin Emmerson said the crowd at Durham was "a bit bigger and certainly noisier than usual".
Across the nine matches, there appeared to be more concern over the visibility of the pink ball for spectators and fielders than for the batsmen - and any additional movement compared to the red ball seemed negligible.
This is arguably backed up by the number of wickets to fall. So far this season, Division One matches have seen an average of one wicket every 11 overs on the opening day of matches, while on Monday a wicket came on average every 10.3 overs.
"I would say it was very similar to the red ball," explained BBC Radio Northampton's Alex Winter. "It just depended on the overheads.
"There was a little early swing in the daytime and the Leicestershire bowlers did find some movement with the older ball. But, in the final session with the lights taking good effect, there was much more movement than with the new ball earlier in the day.
"To begin with the new pink ball was better to pick out than the red but towards the 50-over mark, with no floodlights on, it became quite hard to pick up.
"When the floodlights came on, it shimmered in the lights like the white ball never does - but it was still difficult until the floodlights took full effect very late in the day."
BBC Radio London's Mark Church also highlighted the very noticeable change when the new ball was taken during the final session, saying that "it almost looks like it's come out of a toy shop," such was the difference in brightness and clarity between the two.
Kevin Howells, commentating at Headingley, even said on BBC Radio 5 live there had been some suggestions that, after about 20 overs, the ball not only becomes duller and softer but also gets bigger because it retains moisture.
With a full contingent of England players in action this week - aside from injured Nottinghamshire seamer Stuart Broad - much of the attention has centred around how the international stars would perform in alien conditions.
Essex opener and former Test captain Alastair Cook continued his imperious domestic form, compiling another confident 64 not out for the Division One leaders.
But the problem of who should partner him at the top of England's order still appears unsolved, with Lancashire's Haseeb Hameed and Durham's Keaton Jennings again struggling with modest scores of 17 and six.
All-rounder Ben Stokes also endured a disappointing day at Chester-le-Street, making a seven-ball duck, while Jos Buttler was dismissed for just two despite being promoted to number three for Lancashire.
Elsewhere, Northants' Ben Duckett blasted 112 - his century coming from just 89 deliveries in the first session - and white-ball specialist Jason Roy clobbered 87 from 91 balls for Surrey against Yorkshire.
With the ball, fast bowler Mark Wood took 3-30 while the rest of the Durham attack struggled against Worcestershire.
Domestic cricket history was also made in Glamorgan's game with Derbyshire in Cardiff, with the visitors naming 16-year-old Afghan-born spinner Hamidullah Qadri in their team, making him the first player born in the 2000s to play Championship cricket.
Division One leaders Essex also handed a debut to Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Amir - and he followed his performance in the Champions Trophy with 2-53 against Middlesex.
Yorkshire's Tim Bresnan told BBC Radio Leeds: "It was a kind of weird day. It nipped around with the new ball and we thought 'if it keeps doing this, we've got half a chance'. Then it stopped.
"When the ball got really soft, it was difficult and looked easy-paced. It was quite slowish. I don't think the light played as much of a factor as we expected it to."
Surrey's Jason Roy told BBC Radio London: "We saw it doing a little bit more than expected in the evening. But, apart from that, everything was pretty standard.
"It was just a different colour, everything else was pretty similar. You could see when the lights came on, the ball was like a lightbulb. It was extremely shiny and the boys had to get to grips with that. After three, four, five overs it died down."
Hampshire all-rounder Liam Dawson told BBC Solent: "The crowds haven't changed. We haven't had any more people in. But it is early days and it is something that might work.
"From my first experience of it, they need to have a good look at what balls they are going to use. If you are going to keep on using those balls then you are going to get some pretty boring cricket."
One of the major - albeit more trivial - talking points on Monday was what the intervals should be called, with breaks at 16:00 and 18:40 not particularly befitting of the titles 'lunch' and 'tea'.
In Australia, where three day-night Tests have already been played, they are called 'tea' and 'dinner'.
'Afternoon tea', 'high tea' and 'supper' were all put forward by readers of the BBC Sport live text commentary page - while 'tiffin' was one suggestion made by BBC Radio Kent's Ben Watts.
Even our scorecards were bamboozled for a short period during the second interval, temporarily crashing before normal service was resumed for the final session.
England will play their first home day-night Test against West Indies at Edgbaston from 17-21 August - and will also play a day-night Test in Adelaide in December as part of the 2017-18 Ashes series against Australia.
"It was important for us to arrange a full round of fixtures to give our England players the chance to experience the conditions," said ECB chief executive Tom Harrison, when the Championship plan was announced last November.
"But, just as we wanted to assess the impact of making Test cricket more accessible by changing the hours of play, the counties have really embraced the potential of Championship matches that stretch well into the evening when people have finished school or work."
The ECB will not make any firm decision on whether to schedule a similar round of day-night fixtures in 2018 until they have received feedback from the counties about this season's round of games.
The County Championship has actually played host to day-night cricket in the past - a one-off fixture between Kent and Glamorgan at Canterbury in 2011.
That game took place late in the season in September and, despite free entry for the final 'night' session, attendances were poor and the experiment received a mixed response from players.
Brian Óg Maguire, 24, from Lisnaskea died after being hit by a steel cable.
It snapped at the Quinn pre-stressed concrete factory in Derrylin on 13 September 2012.
Liam McCaffery, a Quinn Building Products Ltd director, admitted it had failed to ensure the health and safety of an employee.
He also admitted it had failed to maintain work equipment.
A barrister for the firm said Mr Maguire was a popular work colleague and the "very significant sense of loss" had not diminished with the passage of time.
Mr Maguire was a senior Fermanagh GAA football player.
Members of his family wept in the public gallery during the court proceedings.
The company will be sentenced on 7 October following the preparation of victim impact reports.
In a statement on Friday, the company's management said the "tragic event" had occurred prior to the acquisition of the business by Quinn Industrial Holdings Limited.
However, it said the company accepted that there "were failings in its maintenance of appropriate Health and Safety regulations at the time of the accident".
"Brian's death remains a tragic loss to his family, his community and his work-colleagues and he is sadly missed by all his friends throughout the business," the statement added.
"The company has worked closely with the Health & Safety Executive, implemented significant changes to work practices and made every possible effort to ensure that no such incident ever occurs again."
The prince met staff and patients from east London's Mildmay Hospital, which has treated those living with the illness for more than 25 years.
He highlighted how his mother helped break the stigma around the illness when she kissed an Aids patient there.
The visit marked the official opening of the new £6m Mildmay Hospital.
Harry, who put his signature in a visitors' book beneath a picture of Diana signing a photograph of herself during a 1991 visit, was told stories of his mother making private late-night visits to the hospital.
Kerry Reeves-Kneip, Mildmay's fundraising director, told Harry that Diana made 17 visits to the centre in Shoreditch - three publicly - and that staff faced discrimination from some neighbouring shops which refused to serve them.
She said: "She [Diana] came at such an important time - around this area local barbers wouldn't cut staff's hair. She really did break down the stigma."
Ms Reeves-Kneip also told a story of one of Diana's visits. Speaking about Harry and his brother William, she said: "There was a telephone call from a school - one of you had clambered on to a school roof."
Harry joked that "it was probably me", and when told his mother "found it amusing", replied "phew".
The new hospital admitted its first patients in September.
The prince also cut a cake marking the charity's 150th anniversary, which is next year.
Mildmay began as a mission hospital in the mid-19th Century, providing care during a cholera outbreak in London, and became part of the NHS after World War Two before being closed down in 1982.
In 1988 it reopened as the first dedicated hospice for people dying of Aids-related illnesses.
The Beggarwood practice "put patients at risk of harm", the Care Quality Commission (CQC) said.
CQC inspectors visited the Basingstoke surgery in February, and said two of GPs felt the practice was "clinically unsafe due to staff shortages".
The GPs are leaving this month, but operator Cedar Medical insists the surgery has "adequate staffing".
More on this and other stories from across the south of England.
The CQC said it was "worrying" standards had "declined" since a previous inspection in May last year found the surgery "required improvement".
It said patients' records were not kept up to date, some staff were not properly trained and the surgery team was "disengaged".
Ruth Rankine, Deputy Chief Inspector of General Practice, said: "While the majority of staff were viewed as caring, there seemed to be a lack of commitment from the leadership."
She said fire risk assessments had not been acted on and some staff did not know where emergency equipment was stored.
Patients were waiting up to four to six weeks for routine appointments, the report said.
A notice on the surgery website, which lists five GPs, said four of them were leaving between 1 and 9 June.
It said: "We are in the process of recruiting two full time equivalent GPs and two full time equivalent Advanced Nurse Practitioners."
Cedar Medical, part of the Integral Medical Holdings (IMH) group, said it was supporting Beggarwood after the surgery's funding was "reduced across the board".
IMH director Richard Power, said: "There is currently an adequate number of clinicians."
The NHS North Hampshire Clinical Commissioning Group said "taking all necessary steps" to ensure progress.
Police said officers were called to a property after reports of the sudden death of a man in the early hours of the morning.
A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said: "The death is being treated as unexplained and inquiries are at a very early stage and ongoing."
Police remained at the scene and an area of grass was cordoned off.
Wightlink began operating larger cross-Solent ferries from its new Lymington terminal in 2009.
The Lymington River Association (LRA) claimed it was harming wildlife habitats.
At a hearing at the Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Sullivan refused it permission to appeal further.
The campaigners had attempted to appeal over a 2011 planning inquiry decision about Wightlink's project to operate larger W-class ships between Lymington and Yarmouth, which had commenced two years earlier.
Wightlink had been allowed to continue running larger ships on Lymington River after promising to "offset" the environmental impact.
Opponents mounted legal action, claiming the ships were creating a bigger wash and were harming habitats in the Lymington River.
But following a public inquiry, the planning inspector agreed that a plan to dredge material from the river to replenish marshland was sufficient.
New Forest's district council and national park authority withdrew their objections to the scheme after it was revealed Natural England had agreed to the plans to replenish the marsh.
The ferry company said the legal action had cost it £3.5m in five years.
John Burrows, chief operating officer, said: "While we recognise the rights of individuals to challenge developments on environmental grounds, we believe this case has gone too far.
"It seems to us to be quite wrong that a small group of individuals should be able to impose such a costly legal burden on the UK taxpayer and on our company."
Stephen Akester, of the Lymington River Association, said the decision was "very disappointing".
He said the objections were mounted by "responsible citizens seeking the truth and conservation of the marshes which protect and form an essential part of the character of Lymington".
A small Potter-themed event with stalls and games had been planned for Bearsden Cross, on the outskirts of Glasgow,.
But the Reverend Roddy Hamilton of New Kilpatrick Parish Church said the plans had been "blown out of the water" by the massive interest on Facebook.
The festival has been cancelled amid concerns that it had got out of hand.
Mr Hamilton, one of the co-ordinator's of the Bearsden Festival, said people had been planning to travel from all over Europe and some had compared it to T in the Park, a music festival that attracts 80,000 a day.
He said it was a small, local event that had been held for five years.
The aim was to develop "better relationships" between the church and the community, he told BBC Scotland's Kaye Adams programme.
Mr Hamilton said: "This was blown out of the water this week by our Facebook post going viral and Potter fans from all over the world being interested in it."
He said the page had reached 250,000 people, with 10,000 confirming that they wanted to attend.
"We got messages from Croatia, Norway and Holland," he said.
"It's amazing what Harry Potter fans are like, they will fly anywhere - broomsticks or otherwise - to get to a Harry Potter festival."
The minister said they were not set up for the level of interest it generated and there were concerns about "safety, parking capacity and licensing implications".
He said: "We were going to do one or two events, a barbeque, a Quidditch match.
"One of the local cafes would decorate themselves as one of the houses in Hogsmead ,where Harry Potter and his friends used to meet, and we would create Butter Beer.
"It was very small scale but it didn't end up being like that."
He said Facebook had been useful to get local interest in previous festivals but the Harry Potter theme sent the post global.
"We just saw the numbers increasing and increasing," Mr Hamilton said.
"It took us three years to get 155 likes on our church Facebook page and three days to get to 10,000 on the Harry Potter page."
Harry Potter superfan Kathryn Burnett, from County Durham, told Call Kaye she had been was planning to go to the festival and was "gutted" it had been cancelled.
"I think I had been tagged on the Facebook page 12 times by friends," she said.
"If it is an Harry Potter event then I'm there.
"I think the fans would love something like this.
"If something on that scale, a huge Harry Potter festival was done, it would be jam-packed. For fans that would be a dream come true."
The Harry Potter Weekend had been due to take place between 23 and 25 June 2017.
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Kaye Adams is to host a new daily three-hour programme, replacing Morning Call and MacAulay & Co.
Starting in March, it will include debates, interviews and phone-ins.
Fred MacAulay will continue to work for the station on a series of comedy programmes.
They include Breaking The News, a new weekly satirical panel show with comedians and journalists recorded in front of a live audience.
Elsewhere, Good Morning Scotland will be broadcast on Sundays and Newsdrive will be extended by 30 minutes every weekday.
Morning Briefing will no longer be broadcast.
All of the new schedule changes will start in mid to late March.
The changes are being made to bring more news and current affairs to daytime coverage in line with BBC Scotland's "speech by day, music by night" strategy.
Jeff Zycinski, head of radio for BBC Scotland, said: "Both the Commonwealth Games and the referendum showed us that our listeners want to participate in issues that affect their lives and this move will help them do just that.
"They've told us they want to play their part in questioning the people whose decisions impact on their lives and this move, along with a commitment to new comedy, sport and music, will form the spine of our new schedule."
Kaye Adams said: "Our listeners often help us get to the nub of any story and their contributions and reactions frequently shed new light on subjects close to their hearts.
"They tell us how things impact directly on them and that way we, in turn, can ask our decision-makers to explain their thinking.
"This new show will allow us to really discuss and dissect the issues of the day and put our decision-makers on the spot."
The new morning programme "Kaye Adams" will be hosted by John Beattie on Fridays, in addition to his existing lunchtime news programme which runs Monday to Thursday.
As well as Breaking The News, Fred MacAulay will host a series of shows from the Edinburgh Fringe and present a documentary on the impact of comedy on politics.
Mr MacAulay, who has been presenting MacAulay & Co for the last 17 years, said: "I am looking forward to taking my radio audience with me on a new journey as I return to my comedy roots.
"I am excited to be hosting these brand new series and working with BBC Scotland and independent production colleagues."
A new two-hour evening music show, Tonight at The Quay, will also be recorded weekly in front of a live audience at the BBC's Pacific Quay building as part of the changes.
There will be extra sports coverage as well, with extended Sportsound programmes and a weekly magazine show focussing on personal fitness.
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The game in 2020 would help celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower's voyage from the city.
The Pilgrim Fathers were aboard the boat and are seen as the founders of the modern day United States.
"We've been in discussions about a series of international matches to recognise 2020," Argyle chairman James Brent told BBC Radio Devon.
"We've been talking to the FA for two years now, they have a certain calendar when they can commit to game, but we are hopeful that we can get an international or two and we are also looking at establishing a tournament."
Plymouth attracts thousands of tourists from the United States every year who come to see the Mayflower steps in the city's Sutton Harbour.
"It's so important to Plymouth and South West, the founding of modern America, the basis of the US constitution is based on the documents that were brought on that boat, the basis of the UN constitution was based on that, so it's massive opportunity," added Brent.
"We are very keen as a football club and as part of the sporting community within Plymouth that in terms of the sports offer in 2020 that we recognise that special relationship with the US."
The artwork was selected from 50 entrants in the annual awards.
Alt-rock band Drenge's second album Undertow came second, while Currents, the third studio album from Australian group Tame Impala, came third.
Now in its 10th year, the prize is organised by Art Vinyl, a company that promotes record covers as art.
The winner - art directed by Dave Stansbie from The Creative Corporation - was decided by public vote from nominees that also included Blur's The Magic Whip and Bjork's Vulnicura.
Previous winners of the prize include Klaxons' Surfing the Void - which depicted a cat in a spacesuit - and last year's recipient, Royal Blood's self-titled debut album.
This year's winners will be showcased in exhibitions in Ayrshire, Bologna, Budapest and Munich, as well as at two locations in London.
Feghouli, who is out of contract at the end of the season, has not featured for Valencia since coming on as a substitute during their 2-1 win over Sevilla on 10 April.
He returned to first-team training on Wednesday, but was omitted from their squad for the game against Getafe.
I do not know if he [Sofiane Feghouli] will ever wear the Valencia shirt again
"I do not know if he [Sofiane Feghouli] will ever wear the Valencia shirt again," Valencia coach Pako Ayestaran told the Spanish media ahead of Sunday's game.
"It depends on the day to day and what the team needs."
Voted the best African player in La Liga last year, Feghouli joined Valencia in May 2010 from French side Grenoble Foot 38, but was sent on loan to UD Almeria, returning after they were relegated at the end of the season.
Since then, the Algeria international has been a regular starter and an important player for Valencia.
Feghouli, a former French youth international who scored on his Algeria debut in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifying win over Gambia in February 2012, has made 39 appearances for his country, scoring 11 goals.
He played for the Desert Foxes at the 2013 and 2015 Africa Cup of Nations tournaments as well as the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
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Rodgers, 44, has guided Celtic to the league title and the League Cup in his debut season since succeeding Ronny Deila.
The former Liverpool, Swansea City, Reading and Watford boss had signed a 12-month rolling contract last May.
"It just felt right," said Rodgers. "I couldn't be happier. I'm in the best place I could possibly be."
The Northern Irishman, whose deal will run until 2021, is chasing a potential domestic treble with Celtic facing Rangers in the Scottish Cup semi-final later this month.
Rodgers thanked the club's board for their commitment since appointing him in the summer.
"Professionally and personally I'm in a good place," he added. "A few years ago I might have been in a rush. But I have learnt to cherish what you have.
"It's the beginning of the journey, but there's a lot more to achieve."
Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell described Rodgers as "one of the best coaches in Europe".
Lawwell added: "Brendan has made a huge impact at Celtic already.
"He's an outstanding manager and we believe he is one of the best coaches in Europe, if not world football. We're delighted that he has committed his future to Celtic."
Celtic are unbeaten domestically this season, having dropped points in the league against Rangers, Partick Thistle and Inverness CT.
Rodgers left Anfield after more than three years in charge.
The appointment of Brendan Rodgers last year was viewed as something of a footballing coup for Celtic. A big name with a big reputation.
After almost 12 months in charge, the title and League Cup have been secured, Celtic remain favourites for the Scottish Cup and with just seven game to go, they could finish the season unbeaten. It's safe to say he has lived up to his billing.
With each passing success though, there have been questions about how long he'll hang around in the Scottish game. This contract extension doesn't necessarily mean he will stay in Glasgow until 2021 but it's evidence of real ambition from the club and an indication from the manager that when he said recently he's never been happier, he meant it.
Fly-tipping cost Manchester City Council about £1m in 2016-17, with over 2,000 legal notices served last year.
Part of the Rochdale Canal in Manchester city centre was drained earlier this week revealing a huge amount of litter on the canal bed.
Councillor Pat Karney said "fines don't work" and those caught should be "in Strangeways as quickly as possible".
On the spot fines were brought in for fly-tipping by the government in May. The penalty is £400 payable within 14 days, reduced to £250 if paid within 10 days.
Manchester City Council said a total of £30,000 of penalties were paid for fly-tipping last year and 51 prosecutions relating to waste crimes resulted in £42,000 in fines and costs.
In February, the council secured a further eight prosecutions at Manchester Magistrates' Court, with fines issued totalling £5,685, it said.
Mr Karney said: "If we could catch these people they should be before the courts and in Strangeways as quickly as possible.
"You are getting regular and serious perpetrators. These fines need looking at - we need to jail these people who are spoiling the environment for all of us."
Gillian Renshaw from the Canal and River Trust said it was "totally disheartening" to see what people dumped in the canal.
"[It] is not a rubbish bin, it is something that is a very valuable asset for the community and people should embrace that and celebrate it and want to make it look as best it possibly can."
Mr Karney said he could not comprehend the thinking of those who dumped litter.
"I try and work the logic of people. They've has a good time at bars and lovely restaurants and they're so selfish they throw bottles and cans in the canal.
"It doesn't matter what you throw you should be before the courts and should have hefty jail sentences."
He added: "In the end we need to send the message out that you could be on the way to jail if you keep dumping."
Four members of the Connors family from Rumney, Cardiff, deny allegations from 2010 to 2013 at the city's crown court.
They are accused of forcing Michael Hughes and another man referred to as Mr K to work for tiny sums.
Defence barristers said the men kept coming back for work to sustain their drink and drug habits.
Prosecutor John Hipkin said Patrick Joseph Connors, 59, ran a driveway resurfacing and building firm, targeting "vulnerable" victims using "inflated" prices.
He is on trial alongside Patrick Dean Connors, 39, William Connors, 36, and his son-in-law Lee Carbis, 34.
The court previously heard the alleged victims were paid £10 a day or less, sometimes in the form of alcohol or tobacco and were beaten or threatened if they did not follow orders.
But Kevin Seal, defending Patrick Dean Connors, said: "This is not a case of them being shackled and somebody standing over them with a whip.
"They had access to shops, pubs and drug dealers in the case of Mr K."
While he admitted they did not live in four star accommodation, he said: "This is the lifestyle of somebody in the throes of, if not an addiction, then a longstanding reliance on alcohol".
He described the allegations as "fantastical", saying Mr K's claim he was kidnapped and intimidated by a senior gang member "like a Sopranos-type sketch."
Defending Mr Carbis, Hashim Salmman said his client was friends with Mr Hughes to the extent he invited him to his wedding and let him borrow his Cardiff City season ticket.
"Gestures like this are not bandied around cheaply," he said.
On cross examination, Mr Hughes accepted that Mr Carbis bought him food at lunchtime and gave him £200 to go on holiday.
"They were friends on social media, spent time together outside of work, on occasion went together for a drink after work and Mr Hughes would refer to Mr Carbis as 'bruv'," Mr Salmman added.
Earlier in the trial, the jury were shown photos of Mr Hughes on family holidays in Tunisia and Benidorm, something Mr Salmman said he could not have afforded if his version of events was accurate.
He said: "How does the man you see in these photographs fit with the picture the prosecution has tried to paint- a cruel tale of woe, removal of independent will and despair?"
Terence Woods, defending William Connors, said by the time Mr Hughes worked for his client, he had moved away from the farm.
"He has chosen to stay in this area and he was earning cash in hand- up to £50 a day- so it would appear there is a pretty steady supply of work," he said.
All four defendants deny one count of requiring another person to perform forced or compulsory labour between 2010 and 2013.
Patrick Joseph Connors denies eight counts of causing actual bodily harm, four of kidnap and one of conspiracy to kidnap.
Elder son Patrick Dean Connors denies kidnapping and conspiracy to kidnap.
William Connors denies causing actual bodily harm between 2009 and 2013.
Mr Carbis also denies one count of kidnap between 2001 and 2002.
The trial continues.
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In the past 45 days, no transmissions have occurred in Miami's trendy Wynwood neighourhood, Florida's governor said at a news conference in the city.
Authorities credit an aggressive campaign of aerial and ground insecticide spraying.
But the virus has spread elsewhere in Florida. Five new cases were recorded on Friday in nearby Miami Beach.
Miami Beach has trebled the area under advisory, now 4.5 square miles (11.7 sq km).
"Everyone should be coming back here and enjoying themselves," Gov Scott told a Monday morning press conference in Wynwood, which was dubbed the US 'ground zero' of Zika.
"We had an issue, everybody took it seriously and we solved it."
The Florida Department of Health has recorded 93 total cases in the state since transmissions first began earlier in the summer.
"Wynwood has emerged from this challenge stronger than ever," said Albert Garcia of the Wynwood Business Improvement District.
He also called upon the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to remove their travel advisory for pregnant women.
That advisory was the first time in the CDC's 70-year history that they advised against travel somewhere in the continental US.
Women in Florida are still being advised to cover up if they are considering becoming pregnant.
Zika has been found to cause a severe birth defect, known as microcephaly, in infants.
It was first detected last year in Brazil, where over 1,800 cases of microcephaly have been recorded.
"Wynwood has emerged from this challenge stronger than ever," said Albert Garcia of the Wynwood Business Improvement District
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) later on Monday removed its travel advisory for pregnant women.
That advisory was the first time in the CDC's 70-year history that they advised against travel somewhere in the continental US.
Women in Florida are still being advised to cover up if they are considering becoming pregnant.
Zika has been found to cause a severe birth defect in infants known as microcephaly.
It was first detected last year in Brazil, where over 1,800 cases of microcephaly have been recorded.
Violence flared at the South Yorkshire coking plant in 1984.
Ms Rudd told MPs on Monday the incident during the miners' strike happened too long ago and that an inquiry was not in the public interest.
In her letter she said policing had changed sufficiently since Orgreave to mean an inquiry was not merited.
Those calling for a review said the decision was an "establishment whitewash".
In the six-page letter seen by the BBC, the home secretary said the decision was made by her personally in accordance with the ministerial code, after appropriate consultation at the highest levels.
She also argued that any review would be hampered by the passage of time, that some of those involved had died and that - in terms of accountability - most officers whose conduct might be examined were no longer employed by the police.
The Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign has reiterated it will continue to demand an inquiry and is scheduled to hold a news conference on Tuesday morning in association with the National Union of Mineworkers.
A few weeks ago the mood music from government was that there would be an inquiry into what happened at Orgreave.
The only decision was what form the investigation would take. So those pushing for an inquiry were astonished on Monday when the announcement was made that there is going to be no review. They now claim they were misled.
The home secretary says she made the "difficult decision" because "ultimately there were no deaths or wrongful convictions" resulting from the conduct of South Yorkshire Police at the time.
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The Battle of Orgreave was the most violent day of the year-long 1984-85 miners' strike.
Huge lines of police clashed with striking miners as they tried to stop lorries carrying coke to fuel the Scunthorpe steel furnaces.
Violence erupted on both sides and at one stage police horses were sent to charge the crowd up the field as officers followed to make arrests.
A video shows the tree crashing down on a crowded square in a suburb of the main town, Funchal, spreading panic among people enjoying the festivities.
Two children are reported to have been killed, and some of the injured are said to be foreign nationals.
Reports suggest the tree which fell was an oak that was about 200 years old.
As the island declared three days of mourning, Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa arrived in a display of solidarity, telling reporters that "all Portuguese people" shared their shock.
He was due to visit the scene of the disaster as well as a hospital and a civil defence facility.
Madeira, a popular destination for European tourists, is the largest of a group of Portuguese islands in the north Atlantic Ocean, south-west of the Portuguese mainland.
People had gathered outside a church in a village in the hills overlooking the town to celebrate the Roman Catholic Feast of the Assumption, which takes place on Tuesday and is a public holiday. The Lady of the Mount festival is the island's biggest.
The tree came down just after midday (11:00 GMT) on Fountain Square, which has a Catholic shrine and other monuments, and is shaded by plane trees, according to the Funchal town website.
"I heard a great noise and when I looked at the tree it was already falling but was too fast and people started to run and those who couldn't run stayed under the tree," one unnamed eyewitness said.
"It was something we will never forget," said another. "It sounded like shots and it just gave us time to look and run away when we realised there were people under the tree."
Emergency services flooded the area after the disaster, tending to the injured.
Pedro Ramos, health secretary of the local government of Madeira, said the injured included German, Hungarian and French citizens, the Portuguese news site Publico reports.
Witnesses quoted by Portuguese broadcaster RTP say the tree that fell had been shored up for at least two years because the trunk was hollow.
President de Sousa said it was not for him to give an opinion on responsibility for the disaster as that was a "matter for the regional authorities".
"The president of the republic is conveying the clear, total and unconditional solidarity of the Portuguese," he said.
This year's festival would have been all the more special because, Portuguese news site Publico notes, last year's event had to be cancelled due to forest fires.
Danny Savage, BBC News
High above Funchal, looking out across the Atlantic, is the village of Monte. Last night, the Catholic church, which attracts thousands of tourists, stood out like a beacon above the town, floodlit for the Feast of the Assumption.
The cable car linking the town and the church worked late into the night taking thousands of people to and from the festivities. When we visited last week, parishioners were decorating the church altar in beautiful flowers.
Friendly, cheerful, trying to make this year's festival special after wild fires destroyed the surrounding countryside last year leading the event to be cancelled.
Today, thousands of people had gathered around the church again for a procession. A small square, close to where buses drop visitors, was busy when the tree came down.
The crowd would have been mainly Portuguese but there are thousands of people from many other countries here at the moment, some of whom may have been caught up in this disaster.
Palma-Newport has made 30 top-flight appearances for Bath, having come through the club's academy system.
The 25-year-old has also had loan spells with Championship sides London Welsh and Yorkshire Carnegie.
"Kane's developing into a very good player who has benefited from some invaluable experience," said Bath first-team coach Neil Hatley.
"He's a local boy who understands the essence of Bath Rugby, which makes him an asset to the team."
Bath are ninth in the Premiership table, having won just six of their 16 games this season.
The club wants to upgrade its stand, facilities and build a new supermarket at the Copse End of Huish Park.
But the council says the plans breach national planning policy framework as an out-of-town store would impact on the vitality of the town centre shops.
Yeovil Town FC said it did not wish to comment.
Council leader Ric Pallister said: "There is a presumption from central government we shouldn't grant planning permission to out-of-town superstores."
The application was due to be discussed in May, but the date was cancelled after further paperwork was needed from the football club.
No date has been set for the plans to go before the planning committee.
Mr Pallister said: "The land upon which they wish to seek planning permission for is indeed public open recreation space so selling that will mean we also have to re-provide that somewhere else.
"It is probable that it will end up in an appeals situation, but even if we were to grant it there is a very strong chance that the secretary of state would call in the whole matter for him to determine because it breaches government planning policy."
Parish councils and the town council, which have been consulted on the plans, have already objected to the expansion.
The trouble is that when we are at work we are terribly unproductive; we produce less per hour than our main economic rivals.
The difference is pretty dramatic, we produce on average 30% less per hour than workers in Germany, the US and France - we even produce 10% less than the average Italian.
Leaving aside the fact that those bare statistics should undermine any stereotypes we have about Italian or French workers, they really matter because the more productive we are, the more money we can earn, as individuals and as a country.
Professor John Van Reenen, head of the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE, makes the point rather graphically: "By Thursday lunchtime the other countries have produced as much as it takes us to produce by Friday afternoon when we knock off work.
"So basically we could take every Friday off if we could be as productive as those other countries and earn the same amount of money."
I don't know about you, but I think taking every Friday off is quite appealing, another way of looking at it is we keep working the same hours and increase our wages by 30%.
But the big question is: why exactly we are so unproductive?
Economists have identified three main reasons.
For a start, we do not invest enough - our companies don't spend enough on the latest technology or on research and development.
For instance in Germany there are 1,034 R&D staff for every 100,000 people, in the UK there are 883.
Nor do we have the best railways, roads and airports in the world. We all know about the arguments over whether Heathrow should have a third runway or not, it has been going on for years, but Charles de Gaulle airport outside Paris has had four runways for years.
The second major factor is that our companies are not well managed, we are it seems a nation of David Brents - the self satisfied but useless office manager in the sitcom The Office.
Bad management alone accounts for a quarter of the difference between our productivity and our rivals'.
There are plenty of internationally successful and cutting edge companies in the UK, but they are outnumbered by a long tail of businesses with pretty mediocre managers.
In particular, family owned and run businesses seem to be badly managed.
In a sense this is fairly obvious, after all what are the chances that the best person to run a business should just happen to be the eldest son of the last manager?
As Warren Buffet once put it: "Would anyone say the best way to pick a championship Olympic team is to select the sons and daughters of those who won 20 years ago? Giving someone a favoured position just because his old man accomplished something is a crazy way for a society to compete."
In Germany where there is a even larger section of small and medium sized family owned businesses, the so called Mittelstand, they tend to be run by professional managers.
The final point is that not only are our workers poorly managed, they are also in comparison with many of our rivals, poorly educated and poorly trained as well.
This explains why French or US workers get more from the equipment they use than British ones. BMW's mini plant in Oxford apparently struggles to find qualified operators for its machinery and attempts to improve their training with internal qualifications have failed to close that gap.
Of course, some companies do invest heavily and are well managed but they still have to wrestle with skills shortages and bad infrastructure.
Jaguar Land Rover has had billions poured into it since it was taken over by Tata Motors.
But JLR is still not as competitive as its continental rivals says Professor Lord Bhattacharyya, head of the Warwick Manufacturing Group, part of Warwick University: "Productivity is not just about the amount of money they spend on R&D or technology. One of the most modern plants is engine manufacturing at Wolverhampton. A state-of-the-art facility, but they are still not as competitive as German engine plants."
Lord Bhattacharyya blames low skills and bad infrastructure as well as the fact that nearly all the key component suppliers are now based outside the UK.
It all points to a worrying problem, to really deal with low productivity we will have to improve education, skills, investment, infrastructure and management. Just solving one or two factors is probably not going to be enough.
It seems we might just have to get used to those long hours.
The trade balance came in at 229.3bn yen ($1.9bn; £1.3bn) in March, beating market expectations for a surplus of 44.6bn yen.
Exports rose by 8.5% from a year earlier, while imports fell by 14.5%.
For the fiscal year to March 2015, preliminary data showed Japan logged an overall trade deficit of $9.1tn yen.
Japan's trade balance fell into the red after the March 2011 earthquake and disaster led to the closure of the country's nuclear plants.
Nuclear power used to provide about a third of Japan's energy needs.
To make up for the shortfall, Japan began importing huge amounts of liquefied natural gas, coal and oil. The ballooning energy bill led to Japan's massive trade deficits.
However, a fall in commodity prices has eased the import costs.
Exports have also risen for seven straight months due to Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policy aimed at weakening the yen, which has led to an increase in overseas sales of cars and machinery.
Marcel Theliant, from Capital Economics, said Japan's trade results were stronger than expected but it was unlikely to last.
"Looking ahead, the rebound in crude oil prices since the start of the year has not been fully reflected in the cost of petroleum imports yet," he said,
"We expect the yen to weaken further in coming months, which should lift the cost of imports by more than the yen-value of exports. The upshot is that the trade balance is unlikely to remain in surplus for long."
The officers were seized by the so-called Chhotu Gang earlier in the operation in Punjab province, which is now in its 10th day. Reports say that troops have been sent in to aid police.
Six policemen have been killed so far.
The gang has been blamed for hundreds of kidnappings and other crimes in recent years.
Leader Ghulam Rasool told local media on Friday that the gang would not surrender to the police but to the army, as they "respected" it.
The operation against the gang has involved more than 1,500 security personnel, which has been called an unprecedented show of force, with the army saying it had deployed helicopter gunships.
"The gang will not be allowed to get away," Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah told Pakistani TV, Reuters reports.
"Political and military leaders agree that there will be no negotiations with these criminals. They will either have to surrender or be eliminated within the coming 24 to 48 hours," Mr Sanaullah went on.
An anonymous senior police official told the Dawn newspaper that police had lacked the proper equipment, weapons and boats to launch an assault on the island.
"We used two boats that we acquired privately from locals but we were attacked," said the police official.
Punjab is Pakistan's most populous and wealthiest province - and the heartland of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's support.
It has seen a crackdown on militancy and lawlessness since at least 72 people were killed by a suicide bombing in Lahore.
The site of the operation is in deeply forested islands which lie between the districts of Rajanpur and Rahim Yar Khan, close to the borders with Sindh and Balochistan provinces.
Correspondents say the area has been a hideout of choice for bandits and rebels since the colonial era.
In recent times, the criminals in the area have been involved in kidnapping for ransom and gun-running rackets, and are said to be linked to sectarian militant groups.
Natural Resources Wales said the action was aimed to slow the spread of phytophthora ramorum, which kills the tree once infected.
Preparatory work has now begun in advance of major felling operations.
The Forest Drive will shut while the trees are felled but the visitor centre and other facilities will remain open.
About 6.7 million larch trees have been hit by the disease in Wales.
Research by Wrap Cymru showed there were 319,000 tonnes of household food waste in 2015.
Of this, 188,000 tonnes could have been eaten but was thrown in the bin.
However, figures showed the amount of household food waste in Wales was reducing compared with the rest of the UK. The Welsh Government said cutting down on food waste was a key priority.
Researchers went through the bins of consenting households and classed items such as egg shells and meat bones as unavoidable waste and things like uncooked chicken and bread as avoidable waste.
The not-for-profit company found the amount being thrown out by each person fell by 12% between 2009 and 2015.
Councils collected 66.2kg of food waste per person in Wales in 2015, compared to 75.4kg six years previously.
Over the same period, household food waste dropped by just 5% per person on average across the UK.
Wrap Cymru said the "significant reduction" in Wales could be due to lower income levels and better separate waste collections.
The study also showed a fall in the amount of edible food being thrown out.
The 188,000 tonnes discarded in 2015 was down from 212,000 in 2009 - a drop of 24,000 tonnes which Wrap Cymru said equates to about £70m of food a year.
For the UK as a whole, 7.3 million tonnes of edible food worth £13bn was thrown away from homes in 2015.
Chief executive Marcus Gover said: "Every person in the UK can help reduce food waste.
"Wrap's research found that almost 60% of people believe they personally waste either no food or hardly any, even though people know food waste is an issue."
He added that lessons would be taken from its work in Wales.
Environment Secretary Lesley Griffiths, said: "Significant progress has been made since the figures were first reported in 2007 but as these new results show we still have a long way to go.
"In Wales, cutting down on the amount of food we unnecessarily dispose of is identified as a key priority in our waste strategy, Towards Zero Waste, and contributes to the goals of the Well-being of Future Generations Act."
"It is pleasing to see that in Wales, there is evidence that HHFW [household food waste] levels reduced between 2009 and 2015 by 12% per person."
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On Tuesday, Mr Gove said the UK would still be able to trade freely within Europe even if it left the EU.
Speaking to BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis Mr Lamy said if the UK left the EU there would be it would be "less trade, less exports and less jobs".
"The notion that you exit the EU tradewise with no price is simply a lie," he said.
Cycle response paramedic Catherine Maynard was helping an elderly man, who had fallen in central London.
Ms Maynard said the former England captain greeted them, got in his car and returned 10 minutes later with cups of tea and coffee.
"We were both very amused and flattered," she said.
Ms Maynard said she had been trying to keep her patient warm as they waited for an ambulance near Endsleigh Street.
"All of a sudden, I looked up and saw someone who looked like David Beckham walking past us," she said.
"He said hello and got in his car. I said to the man I was treating, 'I think that was David Beckham'. Ten minutes later, he came back with a cup of coffee for me and a tea for the patient.
"It was awful cycling around in the cold today and I couldn't believe it when he came back with some hot drinks - I was so chuffed."
London Ambulance Service said Beckham had shown he "respects hard-working paramedics and even a gesture as small as buying a cup of coffee makes our crews feel appreciated".
The patient was taken to hospital where he was treated for minor injuries.
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Mystics led at every quarter, and in Dominique Allen had the games' Most Valuable Player for her 21 points haul, 11 rebounds and two assists.
Rheanne Bailey top-scored with 23 points for Manchester.
Nottingham did enjoy some success, levelling up at 37-37 in the third quarter, before Mystics pulled away.
"We played about 25 minutes of our kind of basketball," said Manchester coach Jeff Jones. "It's the first trophy but hopefully not the last."
Nottingham skipper Siobhan admitted her team had allowed the Mystics to set the tone for the final. "We didn't shoot the ball well or get out of the blocks," she said. "We got into our rhythm in the second half but couldn't sustain it."
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The Orange Order complied with a Parades Commission restriction on the number of people who could walk on to the mainly nationalist Springfield Road, at the junction with Workman Avenue.
About 50 residents from the Springfield Residents Action Group held a silent protest along the short stretch.
More than 100 police officers were present.
PSNI Ch Supt Nigel Grimshaw said he was "encouraged by the calm and peaceful way in which the parade and associated protests were conducted".
He added: "I want to commend those involved for their efforts in ensuring the day was a success."
A senior police officer in the state told BBC Hindi that Colonel Jasjit Singh had been arrested on Thursday.
He is accused of directing his men to loot gold worth 140m rupees ($2.1m;£1.8m) that was being smuggled into Mizoram from Myanmar in December last year.
Mizoram shares an international border with Myanmar.
The police official told BBC Hindi that eight other army personnel were also arrested from the state's capital Aizawl for their role in the robbery.
Mr Singh knew about the smuggling of gold on this route and ordered his armed men to loot the vehicle, he said.
The police took action after the driver of the vehicle, C Lalnunfela, filed a complaint with the police on 21 April.
Mr Lalnunfela said he had earlier been too worried about his safety to complain, but decided to go the police after his friends and family talked him into it.
The Indian army has also started its own investigation into the matter.
Campaigners hoped to stop plans for a marina at Newry Beach by securing the status.
A public inquiry last year recommended the application should be refused and Anglesey council's planning committee rubber stamped those findings.
A report said the land's use for recreational activity was not enough to grant village green status.
To succeed, the applicant needed to prove residents had the right to use the land - but the lease's conditions stated that right could be withdrawn.
Developers said the plans would see "enhancement of Newry Beach", including improved public access and facilities.
The marina is part of a £100m Anglesey waterfront development which was granted planning permission in 2012.
Hounslow Council has apologised for the administrative error which has affected about 3,000 voters in the Bedfont area.
A bus service is being run between the Southville Community and Children's Centre in Southville Road and Bedfont Library in Staines Road.
Red-faced council chiefs said they were "very sorry" for the inconvenience.
The council said it was alerted to the error at 07:00 BST.
Some residents due to vote at Bedfont Library had been incorrectly told to go to the Southville Community and Children's Centre on their polling card and some voters had been told to go to the community centre instead of the library, the council said.
A council spokesperson said: "We're very sorry for any inconvenience this has caused.
"Unfortunately due to an administrative error, some residents received polling cards with the incorrect polling station printed on them.
"As soon as the error came to light, we put information through the letterboxes of all affected residents informing of their correct polling station.
"We also made arrangements for a free bus shuttle service to take residents to the correct polling station to ensure they can vote easily."
The council said the free bus service would run until 22:00 BST for affected residents voting for the Feltham & Heston parliamentary seat.
The incident took place at about 18:30 local time (16:30 GMT) in the suburb of Créteil and no-one was hurt.
The man was apparently thwarted by barriers put up to protect the mosque.
The suspect's motives remain unclear but Le Parisien newspaper reported that he was of Armenian origin and had said he wanted to avenge Islamist-linked attacks in Paris.
Europe has seen a number of vehicle attacks in the past year, many by those claiming allegiance to IS.
A police statement said the suspect's 4x4 vehicle repeatedly struck bollards and barriers designed to protect the mosque in the south-eastern suburb of the French capital.
The car sped off but crashed and the man fled before being arrested shortly afterwards.
He did not appear to be acting under the influence of drugs or alcohol, Le Parisien said.
It reported that the suspect had said he wanted to avenge attacks on the Bataclan theatre and Champs-Élysées, both linked to so-called Islamic State.
France remains under a state of emergency, in place since attacks on the capital in November 2015, including at the Bataclan theatre, claimed 130 lives.
In April, a gunman killed police officer Xavier Jugelé on the Champs-Élysées before being shot dead. A note defending IS was found near his body.
The report said the building had been constructed with sub-standard materials on unsuitable land.
It also recommended life sentences for the building's owner and the owners of five garment factories operating there.
The Rana Plaza collapse on 24 April is one of the world's worst industrial disasters and sparked global outrage.
It highlighted working conditions, low wages and safety standards in the country's garment sector. In the wake of the disaster, there have been a series of angry protests by workers in the garment industry.
On Thursday, thousands of garment workers took to the streets in Ashulia, the industrial belt near Dhaka, demanding wage increases and other benefits. Some vehicles were attacked during the protest.
The Bangladesh Garment Manufactures and Exporters Association (BGMEA) said they had shut down 21 factories to avoid further unrest.
The Rana Plaza disaster prompted the government to introduce some reforms and some international retailers have also proposed an accord to improve safety conditions in Bangladesh.
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Oppau, Germany (1921): Explosion at Badische Anilin chemical works, producing nitrates, destroys plant as well as nearby village, killing 1,500 people
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The owner of the building, Mohammad Sohel Rana, was arrested last month as were the owners of factories inside the building.
Mr Rana has made no public comment about the incident. His father and uncle have also been arrested and no members of his family have come forward with a statement.
The man in charge of the investigation, Mainuddin Khandker, told BBC Bangla on Wednesday that "extremely poor" construction materials were used in the building and said the report identified five causes of the collapse.
"A portion of the building was also constructed on land which had been a body of water before and was filled with rubbish," he told the Associated Press news agency.
The 400-page report was submitted to the government on Wednesday. It also made several recommendations. As well as life sentences for those responsible for the collapse these included:
The authorities say 1130 people died, about 2,500 people were injured in the accident and 2,437 people were rescued.
On 10 May a woman was pulled alive from the rubble, 17 days after the collapse. It was a glimmer of hope for rescue workers after weeks of hauling bodies out of the ruins but the authorities called off the rescue just three days later.
Just a day before the collapse, the building was briefly evacuated when cracks appeared in the walls. However, workers were later allowed back in or told to return by the factory owners.
Bangladesh has one of the largest garment industries in the world. Some of the clothes produced in the Rana Plaza building were made for Western retailers.
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Langford meets the Georgian at Leicester Arena, with the winner claiming the WBO interim title to become Saunders' mandatory challenger.
"This means I can't be avoided so I have to win this fight," said Langford, 27. "I've never been shy about saying I'd fancy the Billy Joe fight, and I fancy myself to beat Billy Joe."
Saunders - undefeated in 24 fights - hopes to meet WBA, WBC and IBF champion Gennady Golovkin in a unification match this summer.
He has defended his title once since winning it in December 2015 and although he spoke earlier in the year of being confident of announcing a big fight, it has yet to materialise.
Langford added: "Originally you're thinking that the Golovkin fight would happen in the meantime, and you're going to be there as a certainty to fight the winner. But if [Saunders] doesn't get that - and it's looking more suspect now - then [a mandatory defence] has to happen."
Langford is undefeated in 18 contests and captured the British title in his last bout. He is the WBO's number-three ranked fighter, with Khurtsidze number one.
In the build-up to the bout, the West Bromwich Albion fanatic - nicknamed 'the Baggies Bomber' - has been supported by some of the club's players in the gym, and he says one day he wants to fight at the club's stadium.
Nicknamed 'mini Mike Tyson', Khurtsidze has a record of 32 wins, two draws and two losses. At 5ft 4in, he is eight inches shorter than Langford.
"It will be an honour to add the first loss to Tommy Langford's record," said Khurtsidze. "After I defeat Langford, Saunders is next."
But a strong showing by the left-wing People's Democratic Party (HDP) could not only thwart this plan, but also herald a serious weakening of the AK Party's 13-year grip on power.
The AK Party obtained a comfortable majority of 327 out of 550 seats at the 2011 election under its veteran leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who served as prime minister from 2003 until winning the presidential election last year.
If it can raise its tally of MPs to 330, it would be enough to authorise a referendum on the presidential question.
A win of 367 seats - a two-thirds majority - would mean the AK Party could, under the current constitution, simply pass the amendments it wants without public consultation.
Opposition parties have complained that Mr Erdogan has defied protocol by campaigning for the AK Party, acting more as a party chief than impartial head of state.
He has also chaired cabinet meetings, something that presidents are only meant to do in certain circumstances.
Opinion polls show consistent support for the current parliamentary system, even among AK Party voters, so President Erdogan's increasingly high-handed attitude will only make the electoral stakes higher.
The main opposition Republican People's Party's leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, has repositioned the party on the centre-left after years of tacking to the centre.
But he faces a strong left-wing challenge from the HDP, just at when he was hoping to benefit from the flagging economy.
The far-right National Movement Party (MHP) is likely to remain third-largest party.
Its veteran leader Devlet Bahceli has softened its hard line against minority rights, but the party's real appeal is to opponents of the government's rapprochement with the Kurdish community.
That community is the key constituency of the HDP, which is also reaching out to the squeezed working and professional classes.
Under the energetic male-female leadership team of Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag it has also seized on recent disputes over women's rights and civil liberties to galvanise younger, urban voters.
Opinion polls are banned in the last 10 days of campaigning, which means last-minute swings cannot be tracked.
But, if the most recent polls are reasonably accurate, the AK Party should win 40-44% of the vote. The HDP would just about make it into parliament, passing the 10% threshold to entry with more than 50 seats.
This would mean the AK Party would have little chance of a majority and, given that all other parties oppose the constitutional reform plans, even less chance of approval for a referendum.
A stronger showing by the AK Party, but with the HDP still in parliament, would allow the AK Party to govern alone, but the problem over support for the referendum would remain.
On the other hand, a poor HDP showing would mean the AK Party would be more likely to hit its target of 330 seats and secure its referendum, as it would also receive a proportion of the re-allocated HDP votes.
They don't seem to. A recent poll suggests that public fears of electoral fraud have risen dramatically since the last parliamentary vote, and opposition parties of all stripes accused the AK Party of vote-rigging at last March's municipal elections.
Given how much rides on the HDP entering parliament, its activists fear government supporters will try to switch the few thousand votes needed to secure an AK Party majority.
This has prompted citizens' groups to carry out their own monitoring of the vote this time around.
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After a 29-year-old gunman opened fire in Pulse Nightclub, killing 49 revellers over the course of a three-hour siege on Sunday, one of the first questions asked was, how did he obtain his weapons?
The answer: He did so legally, from a gun shop called the St Lucie Shooting Center.
"An evil person came in here and legally purchased two firearms from us," said store owner Ed Henson in a press conference outside the store. "He passed a background check that every single person who purchases a firearm in the state of Florida undergoes."
According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Omar Mateen bought a 9mm semiautomatic handgun and a .223 caliber AR rifle in Florida, within the last ten days, and within the bounds of state and federal laws.
Under local law, he could have left the store with the rifle the same day - for the handgun, he would have needed to wait 72 hours (unless he had a concealed carry license, which it appears Mateen may have had).
The FBI investigated Mateen twice for potential ties to terrorism - neither incident resulted in charges, and after the investigations were closed, Mateen's name was removed from a terror watch list.
But even if he had remained on the FBI's list, that would not have necessarily prevented him from purchasing the weapons he used in Sunday's attack. A federal law that would "deny the transfer of firearms or the issuance of firearms and explosives licences to known or suspected dangerous terrorists" failed in the US Senate in December 2015.
So what would it take to be denied a gun in Florida, which is known for its relaxed gun laws? Here is a quick breakdown.
1. You've been convicted of a felony.
When prospective gun buyers visit a licensed gun shop in Florida and attempt to purchase a firearm, they must fill out a federal background check form which asks if they've ever been convicted of a felony - the most serious and violent criminal charges that carry sentences of as little as a year all the way up to death. Examples include murder, aggravated assault or arson.
If the answer is "yes" the purchase will be denied. Store clerks also perform a criminal background check which happens within minutes, right in the shop, with a phone call to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
There are ways for convicted felons to have their gun ownership rights restored, but in Florida that means applying for a pardon or for clemency from the state government.
"[Clemency is] a very slow process in Florida - very lengthy, very slow," says Cord Byrd, a lawyer who specialises in firearms law in the state.
2. You've been convicted of misdemeanour domestic violence or have an active restraining order against you.
According to Byrd, the second most common reason to be denied a gun purchase in Florida is for domestic violence.
In the same federal background check, if it comes back that you have been convicted in a domestic violence misdemeanour or are under a current court order to stay away from a victim of domestic violence, you may not purchase a gun.
"Guns in a domestic violence situation are a recipe for murder," says Laura Cutilletta, managing lawyer for the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. "There is such a high percentage of deaths if there's a gun involved."
It is the only misdemeanour crime which federal law prevents the purchase of a gun, and went into effect in 1996. Some argue misdemeanour hate crime convictions should also halt a gun purchase.
3. You've been committed to a mental institution.
Since the 1960s, federal law has prohibited anyone who has been involuntarily committed to a mental institution from buying a gun. A person deemed "mentally defective" as determined by a court, for reasons of "subnormal intelligence or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease" is also banned.
This would also apply to anyone who has been found not guilty by reason of insanity in a court case.
In 2013, the state of Florida expanded this prohibition - with the approval of the National Rifle Association - to include people who have voluntarily committed themselves to a mental hospital. It joined states like Illinois, Maryland and the District of Columbia in expanding this restriction.
4. A mistake.
Byrd says that a healthy chunk of his work is litigating on behalf of Floridians who have been denied purchase of a firearm erroneously. The records maintained by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (Nics) are not perfect, and mistakes can include anything from a name misspelling to erroneous court records.
"I help law-abiding people who are having problems with the system," he says.
The opposite outcome - that someone buys a gun who is not supposed to be able to - is also possible thanks to incomplete record-keeping, says Cutilletta. Some states are much more disciplined and rigorous about sending their data into Nics than others.
The loophole
Florida has no law requiring background checks of any kind if a private individual - as opposed to a licensed gun shop - sells to another private individual. This is often referred to as a "gun show loophole".
"If you go to a gun range and the guy next to you says, 'Oh, I love your gun,' you can sell it to him without going through a background check," says Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America and a professor at UCLA School of Law.
The rape of an elderly nun in West Bengal state last week has sparked outrage in the country.
At the weekend, a Catholic church in Haryana was vandalised and the cross replaced with an idol of a Hindu god.
Critics say Mr Modi's government is not doing enough to stop Hindu zealots targeting minorities.
Correspondents say the rape case and recent attacks on churches have made Indian Christians feel insecure, although it is not clear whether the assault on the convent was sectarian.
On Tuesday, Mr Modi's office put out a series of tweets on the two incidents:
Ten men have been detained in connection with the rape of the 74-year-old in West Bengal's Nadia district early on Saturday morning.
But none of them resemble the six alleged attackers who were caught on CCTV burgling the convent before the nun was raped.
On Monday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the nun was recovering in hospital and the police were "looking for the mastermind of the incident".
At least 14 people have been questioned in connection with Sunday's attack on a church which was being built in Haryana's Hisar district, but no arrests have been made.
"We have to raise our voice against the atrocities. Christians will not tolerate this humiliation," Father Savari Muthu, spokesman for the Delhi Catholic Archdiocese, told the NDTV news channel.
Last month, Mr Modi vowed to protect all religious groups after a string of attacks on churches in Delhi.
Addressing a Christian audience in the capital, he called on all religious groups to show restraint and mutual respect.
Since December, five churches have been attacked in the city and police has tightened security.
"Almighty God created the races… and he placed them on separate continents. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix."
These were the very words used by a judge in Virginia in 1965 to defend the US state's segregation laws that prohibited interracial unions.
Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter, from Central Point in Virginia, fell foul of these laws in 1958 when their marriage in Washington DC was deemed unacceptable back home.
Indicted for violating Virginia's Racial Integrity Act, the couple were given a suspended prison sentence and were told to leave and not return "together or at the same time… for a period of 25 years".
Richard and Mildred reluctantly did as they were ordered and moved in with cousins in their nation's capital.
In 1963, however, Mildred wrote a letter to Attorney General Robert F Kennedy that led to their case being taken up by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Six years later, the Supreme Court decreed their sentence to be unjust and ruled the laws behind it were unconstitutional.
Yet it is the story behind the headlines that director Jeff Nichols wanted to tell in Loving, which received its world premiere this week at the Cannes Film Festival.
According to Arkansas-born Nichols, rewriting history was the last thing on the minds of Richard, a bricklayer, and Mildred, a mother of three.
"The Lovings weren't trying to preach," he told the BBC. "The Lovings were just trying to get through life.
"They didn't sit around and talk about the ramifications of what they were involved in. The court case could fill a whole film in itself. But I didn't want it to overtake the love story.
"That's what their story provides: A human entry point into these big social topics and big political ideas."
Central to Loving is its use of silence. Courtroom speeches are kept to a minimum, while neither of its leads are prone to excessive articulation.
"These are people who do not convey their emotions very readily or easily, and the film reflects that," agrees Nichols.
Loving is already making some noise, having been tipped for accolades in the end-of-year awards season by many who have seen it at Cannes.
At a press conference this week, the film's stars - Australian Joel Edgerton and the Irish actress Ruth Negga - were even asked if they had their acceptance speeches pre-written.
"Yes, I've got it here," quipped Edgerton, who previously worked with Nichols on his fantasy drama Midnight Special.
It is a conversation the director is content to be a part of, as long as the film's message is not drowned out by the ensuing hubbub.
"This is a film that needs to be seen," he declares. "So if being in that conversation gets it out into the world more, great - I'm willing to accept it.
"The downside will be if [the press] only talk about the film in terms of how it operates in the awards season, which has nothing to do with the price of tea in China.
"We want people to talk about what the film is about, and not what the film can do in an awards circuit.
"Those are two different conversations, one of which is silly and one very important."
Loving will be released in the US in November. A UK release date has yet to be finalised.
It culminated with the Doctor finding out that recurring character Missy was a female incarnation of his arch-enemy the Master.
But some viewers found the plotline, about death and cremation, disturbing and complained to the BBC.
The BBC's officially responded and has defended the episode.
The BBC said: "Doctor Who is a family drama with a long tradition of tackling some of the more fundamental questions about life and death.
"We were mindful of the themes explored in Dark Water' and are confident that they are appropriate in the context of the heightened sci-fi world of the show."
The episode featured an organisation called 3W (standing for Three Words) which offered the slogan "Afterlife means after care".
As part of the plot, some of the characters discussed what may happen to people after they die.
The BBC said: "The scene in which a character reveals 3W's unconventional theory about the afterlife was preceded by the same character warning the Doctor and Clara several times that what they were about to hear could be distressing.
"When the Doctor does hear these claims, he immediately pours scorn on them, dismissing them out of hand as a 'con' and a 'racket'.
"It transpires that he is correct, and the entire concept is revealed to be a scam perpetrated by Missy."
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Data from the National Crime Agency (NCA) reveals more than 335,000 missing person calls were made in 2015/16.
The figure is an increase of 15% on the previous year.
The data also shows that around one in every five missing persons was an individual who had some form of mental health issue.
335,624
the number of missing people calls received by police forces
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individual people reported as being missing everyday
79% of missing people return within 24 hours
22% of incidents involving a missing person are due to the person having a mental health issue
The families of those searching for a loved one have said the experience leaves them devastated.
Margaret Cooper, who has been searching for her son Steven, who went missing from his home in Huddersfield in 2008, said: "Its the not knowing, that's the worst thing.
"One day I think he's dead and then another I think he's still alive."
Steven was last seen in Scotland and officers from West Yorkshire searched Loch Laggan in 2011 as part of their investigation, but no sign of him has ever been found.
Ms Cooper added: "If I had a body, because he'd died, I could then grieve - but having no idea what's happened to him has left me in limbo.
"Throughout the initial search it just didn't feel real, it was like being in a bubble, and it was so hard because there was no reason we could think of as to why he would disappear."
The NCA said its latest report is its "most complete assessment to date" of people going missing in the UK.
The majority of police forces reported a rise in the number of missing people calls they had handled, although the NCA warned year-on-year comparisons should be treated with caution as each force records data differently.
Det Ch Insp Chris Gibson of West Yorkshire Police, which said it had seen a 72% increase in the number of calls received, said: "I think people are more aware now of the issue of missing people.
"We've also improved the way we record missing people, so that contributes to the rising numbers.
"But, for us, this is a really important issue and when we identify that a vulnerable person is missing we'll have officers on the ground out searching in less than 15 minutes".
For the first time the NCA has also published data that examines why people go missing.
It shows that one in five people who disappear are reported to have some form of mental health issue.
Abduction and relationship issues are also two of the most common reasons why people disappear.
Claire Cook, from the charity Missing People, said the issue affects people from all backgrounds.
She said: "If someone goes missing it signals there's a problem.
"For adults, the common issues are mental health problems and relationship breakdowns, whilst if a child goes missing it's often a sign that there's something wrong at home.
"What's clear is that it's not just the police that have to deal with missing people, this is a societal issue and one we have to tackle together".
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American Bill Kochevar, who was paralysed from the shoulders down in a cycling accident, said he was "wowed" to regain control of his right arm.
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Ben Stokes made 47 not out and Chris Woakes sealed the win with 13 balls to spare with a glorious straight six.
Opener Sam Billings impressed with 62 and Ben Duckett hit four fours and a six in his 63.
Spinner Adil Rashid claimed an ODI-best 4-43 in Bangladesh's 277-6, inspired by Mushfiqur Rahim's unbeaten 67.
It was an impressive chase from England, whose top three had a mere 14 appearances between them, compared to the 250 between Bangladesh's top three.
The tourists now turn their attention to Test cricket, with back-to-back two-day warm-up matches this week before the first Test begins on 20 October.
Reaction - Stokes targets top of ODI rankings
A new opening partnership of James Vince and Billings quickly put England ahead of the rate in their chase under the floodlights.
Vince (32) played fluently once again but it was the kind of promising, yet unsubstantial, innings that cost him his Test place.
Billings, however, scored all around the wicket with some cleanly struck shots and the tourists were 10 runs ahead of Bangladesh at the same point when the Kent batsman picked out deep square-leg in the 25th over.
Northants left-hander Duckett, 21, the first player to win the Professional Cricketers' Association Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year awards in the same year, reined in his natural inclination for the reverse sweep.
He also used his feet to excellent effect to play straight down the ground and reached 60 for the second time in his maiden international series.
There was also judicious use of the improvisational, but a delicate leg flick was superbly snaffled by a diving Mushfiqur with 99 still needed.
The powerhouse middle order of Stokes and skipper Jos Buttler looked to be guiding England to a comfortable victory with a stand of 48 in seven overs that prompted parts of the passionate crowd to head for the exits, but the captain was one of two wickets to fall in 12 balls.
Woakes was dropped at slip with 21 still needed, but in between the errant strokes he played some masterful shots - none better than the majestic lofted drive that settled the contest.
Having been dismissed for a mere 204 at Dhaka in the previous match, England were in danger of a first ODI series defeat by Bangladesh.
The Tigers, who played their first international in March 1986, lost their first 12 one-day matches against England but had won four of their past six against them going into the decider.
They were also seeking a sixth successive home one-day series victory and began in confident fashion after being invited to bat first, Tamim Iqbal (45) becoming the first Bangladesh batsman to 5,000 ODI runs and sharing 80 in 19 overs with Imrul Kayes (46).
While England's 20 overs of spin yielded 5-85, the decision to employ four seamers was hardly vindicated by 1-185 in 30 overs.
Rashid claimed four wickets in an innings for the fourth time and finished as the leading wicket-taker for the series with 10, though it often proved to be his less impressive deliveries - rather than the fantastical Shane Warne-style fizzing leg breaks turning square - that brought him success.
Mushfiqur and Mosaddek Hossain added 50 in the final five overs to ensure a competitive total but, although wickets fell at regular intervals, England's batting depth proved decisive.
After the drama of Dhaka, when Buttler was reprimanded for the vehemence of his reaction to taunts from the Bangladesh fielders and two home players were fined, there were no scenes of a similar nature.
A potentially explosive moment when bowler Mashrafe Mortaza collided with Billings pursuing a run was settled amicably after a brief exchange of views.
England captain Jos Buttler: "In tough conditions, physically and mentally, we've stood up as a young side, and to come away with a series win is just reward for that.
"Ben Stokes showed great leadership to take the onus on and be the man there at the end."
England coach Trevor Bayliss on Sky Sports: "Bangladesh are putting together a good young team and are difficult to beat on home turf.
"We played some good cricket. Our two most inexperienced batters top-scored and batted very, very well. For a young team to come away with a win is fantastic."
Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza: "The toss was the real factor. England's bowlers got turn. Our spinners had a lot of dew so couldn't turn the ball.
"Until the end we fought it out. But England were too good. They played really well. All credit to England."
BBC Radio 5 live's Charles Dagnall:
A thrilling end to what has been an absorbing one-day series. It has been keenly contested, with plenty of fiery moments but some great skill on show from both teams.
England will take heart that Ben Duckett and makeshift opener Sam Billings both scored half-centuries - remember England were missing Alex Hales, Jason Roy, Joe Root and Eoin Morgan.
But Ben Stokes batted with great maturity, keeping the scoreboard ticking with the odd lusty blow thrown in, and his innings came when the game could have gone either way.
Adil Rashid would have bowled far better in picking up four wickets, and as a bowling unit it was probably their poorest outing, but overall an excellent win.
The sperm whale was found at about 07:30 GMT at Hunstanton on Thursday. Rescuers kept the bull comfortable and hoped it would refloat when the tide came in, but it died at about 20:00.
Scientist Rob Deaville said it had "died fairly quickly" and there would have been little chance of saving it.
His team examined the whale earlier.
Samples taken from the carcass will now be taken to a laboratory for testing.
It is the 30th sperm whale to have died this year after becoming stranded on beaches in northern Europe and the east coast of England.
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They are thought to have all been from the same bachelor pod.
Marine conservationists said it was possible the male whales, which normally live off the west coast of Norway, could have taken a wrong turn into the North Sea, while heading south to find females or been lured by food.
Mr Deaville, from the Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme - which examines all whale, dolphin and porpoise strandings in the UK - took samples from the Hunstanton earlier.
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He said it could takes months to "try and work out why these whales have come into the North Sea in the first place".
"There are many possible reasons and we're keeping a very open mind about the whole investigation."
"This is the question everyone is asking."
But Mr Deaville, who has examined all six sperm whales that washed up on the east coast, says the answer may never be known.
"We'll be working very closely with our German, Dutch and French colleagues, gathering data about what might have been going on in the north Atlantic to potentially - potentially - bring them into the North Sea."
There are currently two schools of thought, he says:
The second theory is "more worrying because that would suggest there's a systemic problem out there in the north Atlantic," Mr Deaville says.
"If that's the case this isn't the end of what we might see.
"Potentially there'll be more coming in, and that is more concerning. I hope that isn't the case.
"In a way the first is the better outcome because that would suggest there's a finite number of whales in the North Sea."
Mr Deaville, who arrived at the beach between Old Hunstanton and Holme-next-the-Sea moments after the whale died, said seeing the 14m-long (46ft) bull had "quite an emotional impact" on him.
"This dim shape appeared out of the gloom. You got closer and closer and there was this whale, lying on its side on the sand... it had been alive just an hour earlier."
Asked if the whale had suffered, he said: "No doubt it probably was suffering on shore, but it was probably very compromised by being stranded for such a long time.
"There would be no chance of being refloated or rescued, which is what a lot of people hoped would happen - and it wouldn't have been a good outcome here.
"So probably the best outcome in terms of the welfare of the whale is that it died fairly quickly."
It happened on Saturday at about 08:30 BST while they were walking in Shackleton Walk.
The robbers threatened the couple with a knife and stole the woman's handbag.
The men are believed to have been wearing dark clothing and balaclavas over their heads.
Police have appealed for information.
Rome, Miami, Beijing and Rio de Janeiro are also among the eight cities so far named as sites for races in 2014.
Alejandro Agag, chief executive of Formula E Holdings, said it was currently working on "the feasibility and design of the street circuits".
London Mayor Boris Johnson said it was a "scintillating concept".
In total 10 cities will host the first championship and formal agreements will be finalised by July.
The race will feature cars that are powered only by electric energy.
Mr Johnson, said: "Zero emission world class motor racing is a scintillating concept and I am hugely keen that London be involved in the birth of Formula E.
"It has the potential to highlight the impressive strides being made in the manufacture of electric vehicles and hosting a street race could also be of considerable economic benefit to our city."
Mr Agag said: "The fact that cities from all over the world are interested in the FIA Formula E Championship is extremely heartening and shows a global commitment to clean mobility and sustainability.
"They will all be in city centres, easily accessible by public transport, and will feature some of the most beautiful and well-known landmarks as a spectacular backdrop for the races."
Two separate religious services were held on Good Friday at the Dublin Unitarian Church in memory of "the dead of two conflicts in Ireland".
The names of the 485 people who died during the rising were read out at 11:15 local time on Friday morning.
At noon, for the 16th year, the names of more than 3,500 Troubles victims were also read out.
They included the latest victim. Adrian Ismay, the prison officer who was murdered earlier this month in a dissident republican bomb attack in east Belfast.
A statement from the church said: "This double act of commemoration is the only religious service of its kind in Ireland."
It added: "These readings illustrate powerfully the terrible, random nature of death in war and civil conflict. All human life and death is in these mournful lists."
The names included Irish rebels, British soldiers, IRA members, loyalist paramilitaries, policemen and women, prison officers, civil rights marchers, judges and civilians, including many children.
It is the 16th year that the Dublin church has held a "reading of the names" service for all those who died as a result of the Northern Ireland conflict.
The tradition was started by the Reverend Chris Hudson, a leading member of the Peace Train movement, and has been continued by the current minister, the Reverend Bridget Spain.
She said a number of people who lost loved ones in the Troubles travel to the church every year to hear their names read out.
The congregation and members of the public were invited to take part in reciting the list.
Friday's ceremony was attended by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Councillor Críona Ní Dhálaigh from Sinn Féin, along with historians, broadcasters, campaign groups and relatives of those who died.
The Unitarian Church is on St Stephen's Green - a public park in the centre of the Irish capital that became a battleground during the Easter Rising.
It is affiliated to both the Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland (Northern Ireland) and the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches in the UK.
However, it describes itself as "not governed by either" and "an autonomous body in its own right" where the emphasis is on personal faith.
Oswaldo Ochoa was met by cheers and applause from crowds of supporters on his arrival in Guatemala City.
Mr Ochoa, who said he had been inspired by Gandhi, wants social, political and agricultural change.
A series of corruption scandals forced the resignation of Vice President Roxana Baldetti last month.
Wearing a straw hat and a Guatemalan flag around his neck like a cape, Mr Ochoa, known as "Quixote", left his home city of Quetzaltenango a week ago.
He said he was joining a growing movement of Guatemalans who have been demanding the resignation of President Otto Perez Molina.
Mr Ochoa was on hunger strike during his journey, only drinking tea and juices. He got blisters on his feet and said he lost more than 4kg (9lbs) in weight.
In the capital, he called on all Guatemalans to rise against impunity and allegedly corrupt politicians who have enriched themselves with public money.
President Perez Molina, who has the backing of the army, says he has done nothing wrong and will not leave office before his term expires next January.
Trouble flared at Carlisle United's Brunton Park on 15 October last year as the Cumbrians hosted Hartlepool United.
Luke Hodgson, 18, Stephen Neaves, 25, and Carl Swan, 24, all of Carlisle, pleaded guilty to football-related public order offences.
Malcolm Turner, 56 and also of Carlisle, was spared a ban by city magistrates despite throwing a punch.
He also admitted the charge but was fined £261 and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £30 victim surcharge after mitigating factors were taken into consideration.
Hodgson, Neaves and Swan were ordered to pay £170 costs and also sentenced to a mix of community orders and curfews.
Manx politicians voted 24-9 in favour of its introduction following nearly two hours of debate in Tynwald on Wednesday.
Chris Thomas MHK, who voted against the move, said it was "wrong and unfair".
From 1 April, all Isle of Man households on mains sewerage will have to pay the annual £50 fee.
The Isle of Man Water and Sewerage Authority also said the charge would rise to £100 next year.
It claims the levy is needed following a "reduction in its revenue grant".
Chairman John Houghton MHK said there was "no alternative" to the charge.
Spokeswoman for the petition, Amy Burns, said: "If half the population had signed the petition, it would have gone through anyway.
"It seems the public's voice doesn't matter."
The Isle of Man's Chief Minister Allan Bell said "cuts have to be made".
A petition containing 6,314 signatures - 11% of the electorate - was presented to politicians ahead of the announcement of the Isle of Man budget on Tuesday.
The metal fell to $4,955 a tonne, just $100 above the level it reached in 2009 in the wake of the financial crisis.
Demand for copper, which is used across industry from construction to car manufacturing, has suffered from the slowing Chinese economy.
Investment bank Goldman Sachs warned investors this week that prices would continue to fall.
In a note entitled, "Copper's bear cycle still has years to run", its analysts predicted copper prices would probably drop to $4,800 a tonne by the end of December and to $4,500 by the end of next year.
The decline in copper is only a part of a global meltdown in commodity prices caused by China's economic downturn.
The depth of the slump was emphasised on Monday when shares in commodities trader and miner Glencore dived 30%.
Four years after the group went public in the UK's biggest stockmarket flotation, analysts at Investec warned that weak commodity prices could lead to the firm's equity value being "eliminated".
Crude oil has fallen some 60% from June last year, thermal coal has been on a long 60% slide since 2011, and iron ore is down even more, close to 70% since 2010.
The effects are rippling out into other sectors. On Tuesday, Japanese shipping business Daiichi Chuo Kisen Kaisha filed for protection from creditors, caused by the collapse in Chinese demand for iron ore and coal.
Unsurprisingly the collapse sent a shiver through the rest of the Japanese shipping sector. Nippon Yusen, Mitsui OSK Lines, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha saw their shares fall between 4% and 8%.
And the effects spread far wider than the mining companies and their support services.
Any economy dependent on commodity exports is seeing its currency punished.
Australia, whose iron ore, coal, oil and natural gas fuelled the Chinese boom, has seen its dollar lose more than a quarter of its value against the US dollar over the past year.
Chile, where copper makes up 30% of the value of its exports, is expected to announce on Tuesday that public spending, having grown almost 10% last year, will rise by half that amount this year.
Economic growth there has slowed along with the fall in the copper price and a decline in investment in the mining sector.
For smaller countries the effect can be catastrophic.
On Monday, Zambia's currency, the kwacha, fell more than 17% - its biggest one-day fall on record - as prices for its copper exports dived again. Copper accounts for 85% of the country's exports.
The currency recovered on Tuesday but it is down 45% on the year.
It has also been hit by the news that Glencore, the country's second largest employer after the government, might make further cuts at its Mopani Copper Mines there. Last week, it announced it would lay off more than 3,800 workers.
Ratings agency Moody's cut Zambia's sovereign rating on Friday, making it more expensive to borrow in the international markets.
26 January 2015 Last updated at 08:54 GMT
That happened to 12-year-old Cameron Orton whose home was totally destroyed by wildfires in Australia last year.
It's a problem the country faces every summer.
The BBC's Phil Mercer went to meet him.
Alongside the reintroduction of turbos and fierce, inter-team rivalry, F1 became fully retro in 2015 when titanium skid blocks were fitted to the underneath of the machines.
The return of sparks may not have solely been about increasing the spectacle of the sport - there was also a safety factor - but there is no doubting that their appearance has been universally welcomed.
Night races, in particular, have been a real treat for the eyes when it comes to sparks - part of BBC F1's list of who (or what) has inspired us this season.
In Bahrain, the first race under floodlights in 2015, Jenson Button failed to make the start of the grand prix because of technical problems, giving him a front-row seat of the lightshow. What he saw thrilled him. "Loving the sparks from the car," he tweeted.
It's been an opinion shared by his fellow drivers, who have not had a bad word to say about the aesthetic addition.
The fireworks by night continued at the Singapore Grand Prix and at the season-ending race in Abu Dhabi.
There is plenty going on behind the scenes of Formula 1 to try to improve the show after another season of Mercedes dominance, but nothing will be more eye-catching than cars spitting hot metal across the tarmac.
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Health Secretary Alex Neil said gay and lesbian couples will be able to tie the knot from 31 December.
Couples in an existing civil partnership will also be able to change their relationship to a marriage from 16 December.
MSPs approved the Marriage and Civil Partnership Act at Holyrood earlier this year.
The Scottish government said the move was the right thing to do, but Scotland's two main churches - the Catholic Church and Church of Scotland - are opposed.
The legislation will see religious and belief bodies opting in to perform same-sex marriages, and ministers have stressed that no part of the religious community would be forced to hold such ceremonies in churches.
Mr Neil said the move was an "important signal that our nation is absolutely committed to the same rights for all our citizens".
He added that Hogmanay would be "a proud and no doubt emotional day for many" and said: "I, for one, can't wait."
Those couples who are already in a civil partnership will be able to convert that to a marriage from the earlier date of 16 December, as a minimum notice period of 14 clear days is required for marriage ceremonies.
The Scottish government has pledged that those who convert to a marriage in the first year of the legislation will not be charged to do so.
Mr Neil said: "It is wonderful that same-sex couples can now begin to make plans to have their marriage just as any other couple can.
"This historic legislation had overwhelming support across the Scottish Parliament, demonstrating to the world how importantly Scotland views equality."
Tom French, policy and public affairs co-ordinator for the Equality Network, said: "We are very pleased that after years of campaigning for equal marriage, it is now just weeks away from becoming a reality.
"Today's milestone announcement means that same-sex couples across Scotland will be able to set a date and start planning their weddings.
"With the first ceremonies set to take place on Hogmanay, Scotland can be proud that we will bring in the new year as a fairer and more equal country."
He said December 31 2014 would be "a date that is remembered for many years to come, and a profoundly emotional day for those couples who celebrate their commitment to each other".
He also stressed the importance of the legislation for all Scottish lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people who "grew up in a country where being gay was still criminalised until 1981".
A spokesman for Scotland For Marriage, the umbrella group which spearheaded opposition to the legislation, said there was still a "substantial silent majority" of people who were opposed to same-sex marriage.
He said: "Of course, our parliament has voted and we accept the outcome of the democratic process.
"However, there remains the fact that 80,000 people signed a petition against this legislation. There is a substantial silent majority in this country who take and hold different views from our MSPs.
"These people adopt a viewpoint very much opposed to that of the Holyrood metropolitan elite which took the decision to legislate.
"We hope the views of those opposed to this legislation will continue to be respected in the future."
The Bears were runners-up in both the Championship and One-Day Cup in 2014 and went one better in the T20 Blast, winning the trophy for the first time.
But, in 2015, they lost in the semis, came fifth in the Championship and did not get out of their One-Day Cup group.
"I'm not sure we need to bring players in," Brown told BBC WM 95.6.
"People would need to be better than what we've got and we have a great youth structure with some really good players coming through.
"It was an indifferent season and a few senior players have been down on where they need to be, but we need to address that and march on. All we know is we cannot start next season like we finished this.
"In August, we were second in the Championship, well placed in the One-Day Cup and through to Finals Day in the T20. What followed was a hell of a disappointment. For whatever reason, we've fallen away and then ended up losing three of the last four Championship matches.
He added: "The guys feel a bit wounded but they can go and recharge their batteries and collect their thoughts. The inconsistencies we showed in all forms of the game have been disappointing.
"All we can do is address what isn't right and we already know we can do that. There needs to be a line drawn in the sand and it's now case of how we move on from here. Things aren't desperate but we need to be absolutely clear where we're going."
Warwickshire came fifth in the County Championship - their worst finish in five years. They finished exactly 100 points behind champions Yorkshire, but only 25 points clear of relegated Sussex.
No Bears batsman topped 1,000 Championship runs (opener Ian Westwood with 858 runs from 14 matches at 36.67 was the best), while four bowlers earned 40 wickets - Jeetan Patel (58), Rikki Clarke (47), Boyd Rankin (46) and Keith Barker (43).
In the weather-hit One-Day Cup, the Bears won only three of their eight Group B games (two of which were rained off), yet only missed out on a place in the quarter-finals on run rate.
In the T20 Blast, the holders topped their group to again reach Finals Day at Edgbaston, but slumped to a shock defeat against a David Willey-inspired Northants.
Untreated tick bites can result in neurological problems and joint pain months or years later.
The Mountaineering Council of Scotland said the creatures could be found on a person's body days after a walk.
It said the cold winter and spring appeared to have not reduced numbers of the blood-sucking arthropods.
Heather Morning, the council's mountain safety advisor, has already had some experience of ticks this year.
She said: "Last weekend we were climbing at Duntelchaig, near Loch Ness.
"At home later, we noticed several ticks on our feet and since then have found several latched onto our bodies even though we had checked ourselves when we got home.
"The dog didn't escape either. We have been removing ticks from her for several days now."
The safety advisor said walkers could protect themselves better by tucking trousers into socks or wearing gaiters, and also by making thorough checks of their bodies once back home.
She added: "From experience, they seem to appear even a few days later. If you find one attached to you, remove with a tick hook. If in doubt, seek advice from your doctor."
Ticks are small arthropods related to spiders, mites and scorpions and Britain has a number of different species.
People are most likely to come across sheep ticks, which feed on mammals and birds, in open spaces with long grass or bracken.
The moment has passed, the rapturous celebrations fading from view, but still they cling to the memories. As does the man who masterminded it all.
It is almost two months since Chris Coleman guided Wales to a first semi-final at a major tournament and, although he is in Cardiff to name his squad for Wales' opening 2018 World Cup qualifier, conversation inevitably turns back to events in France.
Coleman gives a pensive sigh as he collects his thoughts, his mind transported back to those stirring nights in Toulouse and Lille.
Yet he has to snap out of the trance. A new campaign beckons as Wales host Moldova on 5 September.
Coleman and his players will be braced for their next challenge but, beyond the cool facade of professionalism, it will be difficult to rouse themselves from their post-Euros comedown.
"For two weeks when I got home, I think my wife was expecting me to be something else and I clearly wasn't. I was on a real downer," Coleman says.
"You come out of one situation which is so exciting, it's hard work and it's exhausting actually, but there's everything on it and you feel all the emotion from everybody.
"And when it's finished, it's not like you get weened off it, it is just done and you're home and back into reality, back into real life where you're fathers and husbands and it's completely different.
"It was really hard, I found it really tough, and I know a lot of the lads did too. You just miss that buzz. When you're in it, sometimes you feel like you need just five minutes' rest from it but, I promise you once it stops and you're out of it, you pine for it. I still do.
"I still look back and, especially if you see one of the games on TV, and you put yourself back in that moment, it's dangerous because that moment's finished."
Coleman recognises the "danger" of looking back and standing still because he realises the gravity of Wales' next assignment.
Their appearance at Euro 2016 was their first at a major tournament for 58 years, and reaching a maiden semi-final has given them the belief they now belong in international football's upper echelons.
Coleman has consistently maintained the campaign in France would not be the end for this Wales team, and his players share his desire to make qualifying for these events a regular occurrence.
It is not a matter of forgetting the ecstasy of Euro 2016 but of harnessing it, learning from the campaign and using the experience to create more golden moments.
"We've got to start it again. We've got to recreate something new because that's gone," Coleman adds.
"But every time you see it, you want to be back in it because it was so spectacular and special."
Wales' best hope of replicating the elation of the summer will be to qualify for the 2018 World Cup.
As European Championship semi-finalists and top seeds in Group D, Coleman's men find themselves in the unusual position of shouldering great expectations.
Although there is no genuine international heavyweight, the presence of Austria, Serbia, Republic of Ireland, Moldova and Georgia makes this one of the most open groups in Europe.
Having defied the odds to qualify for Euro 2016 as fourth seeds - and then confounded them further during the tournament in France - Wales must now cope with the new pressure of being favourites.
"I am not sure people think we will sail through the group, but there may be an expectation of us playing super attractive football, creating chances and scoring loads of goals," Coleman says.
"If it goes that way it will be great, but I know football is not like that. Teams will not open up against us, they will do to us what we did to a lot of teams in the last campaign.
"This first game, everyone expects us to win because of where the teams are in the rankings and how we did in the tournament.
"It will be a hard game for us, not just because they will make it tough, but the expectation is different and it is about our mindset. It's a different challenge."
Acquah was living on the streets in his home country when an academy, supported by east Belfast club Glentoran, helped turn his life around.
He has since carved out a professional career in Italy, with Palermo and Parma among his previous employers.
On Sunday, the midfielder hopes to inspire Ghana to their first Africa Cup of Nations success in more than 30 years, as they take on the Ivory Coast in the tournament's final in Equatorial Guinea.
Sam Robinson, of the Glentoran Community Trust, has kept in regular contact with Acquah since hosting him as a teenager in Belfast, where he bonded with his two youngest sons.
Robinson says he is still amazed at the transformation in the player from shy youngster to African soccer star.
"It is the fairytale that keeps on giving," he said.
"It was great him reaching the World Cup Finals with Ghana last year, but now he is on the cusp of something very special.
"Ghana have not won the African Nations tournament for 33 years.
"For the World Cup finals we had a party in my back garden with a big screen, we will be looking at doing something similar indoors for the Africa Cup of Nations final.
"A number of other people in east Belfast are trying to organise watching the final via social media, they have all been part of this lovely journey."
Acquah trained with Glentoran's first team during his two-week spell in Northern Ireland in 2007 and Robinson said his talent was immediately evident.
However, he said it was the pace of his progress that had surprised him.
This was brought home when he caught up with the Ghanaian in Verona last year.
"He has gone from this shy, happy-go-luck teenager we met in Belfast to this footballing star in Ghana," he said.
"I think we will see him in the Premier League in England sooner rather than later and the more he plays for Ghana, the easier it will be for him to get a work permit.
""In Verona, it was the first time I had met him in over six years, I met him at the team hotel and saw him play for Parma against Chievo.
"I had a big lump in my throat it was really emotional.
"The last time I had seen him physically was waving him off at George Best Belfast City Airport and I had not known then if I would see him again.
"I had left him as a scrawny, wiry kid, who I brought to the Elk Inn for chicken and chips, and here was this athlete stepping towards me to shake my hand."
Robinson said he was in contact with Acquah "three to four times a week" and had spoken to him after Ghana's semi-final triumph over Equatorial Guinea which was marred by violence off the field.
"We would often speak before a game and then after, he would still ask about Glentoran and my kids," he said.
"He still talks about the club and the people he met when he was over here.
"I was talking to Afriyie on the morning after the Equatorial Guinea semi-final, he was delighted with the win.
"We were worried because of the trouble, but it did not seem to worry him, it didn't affect him in the slightest."
The Glentoran fan hopes his next meeting with his friend will be in Belfast and if he returns as the champion of a continent, then all the better.
"He desperately wants to come back to visit Belfast again, it is part of him and he is always thankful for the Glentoran experience and what people did for him," Robinson added.
"If he came back to Belfast with a winning medal from the Africa Cup of Nations tournament, that would be the icing on the cake."
The Australia international, 22, has agreed a three-year deal and is the Hoops' first signing since their relegation from the Premier League.
QPR have also signed fellow midfielder Ben Gladwin, also 22, from Swindon.
Both played a crucial role in helping the Robins reach the recent League One play-off final, where they lost to Preston.
Former Tottenham trainee Luongo, who helped Australia win the Asian Cup earlier this year, made 34 appearances in 2014-15 for Swindon, scoring six goals and making eight assists.
Gladwin, who was playing for non-league Marlow two years ago, scored eight goals in Swindon's final seven games of the campaign.
"I'm confident Luongo will flourish at QPR," said boss Chris Ramsey, who previously worked with the Australian at Spurs.
"As with any young player there are areas of his game that need improving, but knowing him as I do, I know he will embrace the learning curve of playing for us in the Championship.
"Ben's a fine addition for us and someone myself and Les have been monitoring for some time.
"I'm happy we've persuaded him to come here because there was a lot of interest from other clubs, some in the Premier League."
Sammy's team beat England by four wickets after Carlos Brathwaite hit four consecutive sixes in the final over, to become the first two-time winners of the tournament.
"Nobody gave us a chance," said Sammy.
"We had a lot of issues, we felt disrespected by our board. All these things brought this team together."
West Indies' build-up to the tournament was overshadowed by a pay dispute with their board, which was almost forced to send a second-string squad to India.
In addition they were riled by a pre-tournament Cricinfo column written by broadcaster Mark Nicholas, in which he described the Windies as "short of brains".
"People were wondering whether we would play this tournament," Sammy said. "Mark Nicholas described our team as a team with no brains.
"I'm yet to hear from our own cricket board [during the tournament]. That is very disappointing.
"I really want to thank these 15 men, the ability to just put all those adversities aside and to come out and play this type of cricket in front of such passionate fans, it's just tremendous."
With the next men's World Twenty20 not until 2020, Sammy cast doubt on the long-term future of this West Indies side.
"For today, I will celebrate with these players and staff," he said.
"I don't know when I'll play with them again because we don't get selected for one-day cricket and we don't know when we'll play another T20."
Sammy was supported on Twitter by high-profile former cricketers including Sachin Tendulkar and Michael Vaughan.
"WI players emerged true champions overcoming challenges on and off the field," India batting legend Tendulkar wrote. "West Indian Board should support them and address their concerns."
"Respect Darren Sammy," ex-England skipper Vaughan tweeted. "Great words tonight. Passionate with a huge amount of meaning. Let's hope your West Indies board take note."
Meanwhile, West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels was fined 30% of his match fee for using abusive and offensive language directed at England all-rounder Ben Stokes.
The Jamaican also used his interview at the man-of-the-match award presentation to continue his long-running feud with former Australia spinner Shane Warne.
"I woke up this morning with one thing on my mind," he said. "Shane Warne has been talking continuously and all I want to say is 'this is for Shane Warne'. I answer with the bat, not the mic."
Samuels and Warne angrily confronted each other during a Big Bash League match in Melbourne in 2013, an incident for which Warne was fined and suspended.
Ronald dela Rosa was speaking at a senate hearing into the sharp rise in deaths since Rodrigo Duterte became president.
He said police operations had killed about 750 people, but the other deaths were still being investigated.
Mr Duterte won the presidency with his hard-line policy to eradicate drugs.
He has previously urged citizens to shoot and kill drug dealers who resisted arrest, and reiterated that the killings of drug suspects were lawful if the police acted in self-defence.
He also threatened to "separate" from the UN after it called his war on drugs a crime under international law.
The US has said it is "deeply concerned" by the increase in drug-related killings.
The senate joint inquiry is being conducted by Senator Leila de Lima, who has called on authorities to explain the "unprecedented" rise in deaths.
It is also hearing from the relatives of some of those killed.
The family members of some of those killed are getting the chance to tell their stories to the inquiry.
Wearing dark glasses and draped in a shawl, Harra Besorio said policemen raided her home in Pasay City without a warrant and stripped her infant daughter to check for drugs.
Her partner, who she admitted was a small-time dealer, and his father were beaten up in front of them, she told the inquiry on Monday. They were later taken to a police station and allegedly killed there.
The two police officers accused claimed an attempt had been made to grab one of their guns, but this was refuted by the Philippines Commission on Human Rights.
It said they had been badly injured and were shot three times. The two officers have been charged with murder.
Mr dela Rosa told the inquiry on Tuesday that a total of 1,916 deaths had been recorded during the crackdown, 756 of which were during police operations.
He said the number had gone up even since he gave evidence on Monday, where he gave a figure of 1,800 deaths.
"Not all deaths under investigations are drug-related," he told news agency Reuters, saying about 40 killings were due to robbery or personal disputes.
However, Mr dela Rosa said there was no declared policy to kill drug users and pushers, saying police were "not butchers".
The police director-general also added that about 300 police officers were suspected to be involved in the drugs trade, warning that they would be charged and removed from their positions if found guilty.
Nearly 700,000 drug users and peddlers have turned themselves in since the launch of the campaign, Mr dela Rosa said.
He also said that there was a decrease in overall crime, though the number of homicides and murders had increased.
On Monday, Mr dela Rosa told the inquiry: "I admit many are dying but our campaign, now, we have the momentum."
Senator Frank Drilon told Reuters that the number of deaths was "alarming" and had "a chilling effect".
In his previous role as mayor of Davao, Mr Duterte built a reputation for blunt speaking and supporting the extrajudicial killings of suspected criminals.
Crime rates in Davao decreased while he was in office, though human rights groups estimate than more than 1,000 people were killed with no legal process.
Barker was part of the Great Britain quartet who won the team pursuit gold medal in Rio last year.
The 22-year-old is looking to compete in the points, scratch or Madison events next month.
"I just wanted to have a break from team pursuit," Barker told BBC Sport Wales.
Barker was also a member of the team pursuit quartet who won the world title in 2013 and has concentrated on that event ever since.
"I could have done the team pursuit this year, I still enjoy it and get a lot out of it," said Barker.
"But if I am still going to do it in Tokyo at the 2020 Olympics which is where I want to be, I needed to take a step back from it this year and possibly next year and come back into it fully motivated.
"Otherwise it would have been eight years of my life that I would have dedicated to (the team pursuit) and that's a lot.
"I have done individual events at world championships before but it has always been after the team pursuit and I have always been fatigued.
"I have never done specific training for individual races. If I can go into it wholeheartedly hopefully I can get some more success."
Barker achieved her Olympic success with Laura Kenny, Katie Archibald and Joanna Rowsell Shand, but none of the gold medal winners will compete as a quartet in Hong Kong.
Archibald will also be competing in individual events, four-time Olympic champion Kenny is pregnant, while Rowsell-Shand has announced her retirement.
The new-look GB endurance squad also includes Welsh duo Manon Lloyd and Emily Nelson.
"The topic of the conversation is how different team pursuit is going to look," added Barker.
"None of us are doing team pursuit for various reasons but the new squad looks strong and it's good to have some fresh blood."
Rowsell Shand announced she was quitting international cycling after winning gold in the team pursuit at London 2012 and Rio 2016.
In a career spanning 10 years, she was a five-time world and four-time European champion.
"Joanna has won everything and was such an inspiration," added Barker.
"She was always the senior rider and was able to give out the sound advice. I will miss her being around."
The Bob Jones Memorial Air Show and Transport Festival, held at Mid Wales Airport in Welshpool for the past 10 years, has been cancelled for 2018.
Airport owner Linda Jones said this year's "nasty showers" and rain in 2016 had seen visitor numbers dwindle from 10,000 to 2,000.
"You have your fixed costs but not the people paying at the gate," she said.
She said the festival's committee of volunteers had unanimously voted to cancel next year's event but in the spring they would reassess whether it could be held in the future.
"British weather is unpredictable. It's sad but it's reality," she said.
"We hope we can do it again in the future."
Richard Harris, 38, who has Swastika tattoos, smashed a bottle over Zahoor Hussain's head at the Mornington Lodge in Blackwood in July 2013.
Newport Crown Court heard he got angry after spotting his victim talking to an "attractive white woman" colleague.
Harris, of Blackwood, was found guilty of racially aggravated wounding.
Harris, who said he was a member of a fascist "white pride" movement and had pictures of Hitler in his living room, shouted at the woman: "What are you doing drinking with terrorists?"
He then told the British Asian Mr Hussain: "You are all animals. This is not your country".
Harris then smashed a full beer bottle over Mr Hussain's head knocking him unconscious and leaving his left ear nearly severed from his scalp.
Harris told his trial "Hitler's views are common sense on a lot of things" and claimed there "needs to be more research done" into whether the Holocaust took place.
He was found guilty of the attack, which left his victim with hearing problems and severe lacerations to his left ear and neck.
Sentencing him, Judge Jonathan Ferris said was a "dangerous extremist who is capable of extreme violence".
Speaking after the case, Supt Mark Warrender, who is in charge of hate crime at Gwent Police, said the attack was a "disgusting assault" which had life-changing effects for the victim.
"The majority of people find his behaviour, which was fuelled by racism, abhorrent. There is no place for racism or any hate crime within our communities," he said.
Stephen Miller told US media the court ruling was a "judicial usurpation of power" and that "the president's powers here are beyond question".
The court rejected Mr Trump's attempt to reinstate the ban on Thursday.
His executive order barred citizens from seven mainly Muslim countries from entering the US.
The ban caused chaos at US airports and sparked protests across the country.
Several lawsuits have been filed against the ban, and a federal judge has issued a temporary nationwide block on the travel ban.
Mr Trump has said he may fight the case in the courts, but could also consider issuing a new executive order.
Speaking on Fox News Sunday, Mr Miller accused the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the block on Mr Trump's order, of "overreaching".
He also told ABC's This Week: "We have equal branches of government in this country. The judiciary is not supreme."
Under the US system of checks and balances, courts can declare laws, or acts by the president, unconstitutional.
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The US government has argued that the president is best placed to make decisions about national security, and that the ban does not discriminate against Muslims.
But upholding the suspension last week, the three appeals court three judges said that the government had provided "no evidence that any foreigner from the countries named in the order" had carried out a terrorist attack on US soil.
Lawsuits against the ban have been launched in 14 states.
The states of Washington and Minnesota have argued that the travel ban is unconstitutional and harmful to their residents, businesses and universities.
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson told ABC on Sunday the current order was "unlawful" and had an "improper motive" because it was intended to discriminate against Muslims.
If necessary, he could ask government officials to testify, and examine "documents and emails to get behind what truly motivated that executive order", he added.
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Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel set the pace, 0.137 seconds ahead of Red Bull's Max Verstappen with Vettel's team-mate Kimi Raikkonen third.
Hamilton maintained the advantage over Mercedes team-mate Rosberg he has had all weekend, lapping 0.103secs quicker.
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But their rivals' pace gives Hamilton hope others may mix it with Mercedes.
That is what the Briton needs if he is to wrest the title from Rosberg, who has an advantage of 12 points.
Hamilton needs to win the race with Rosberg finishing lower than third if he is to overturn the German's lead.
It would still, though, be a major surprise if Hamilton and Rosberg were not in a private battle for pole position when qualifying starts at 17:00 local time (13:00 GMT).
McLaren driver Fernando Alonso, who was 11th fastest, said: "Mercedes have been dominating quite easily every single race of the year so I don't expect coming to the final race someone putting a lot of pressure on them. I expect first and second for the Mercedes in qualifying and first and second on Sunday."
Hamilton ended final practice 0.103secs quicker than Rosberg and 0.290secs slower than Vettel.
A genuine challenge to Mercedes would be a surprise, but Ferrari do appear to be having a good weekend and it cannot be completely ruled out.
However, the Ferrari drivers and Verstappen all set their fastest times later in the session than Mercedes ran their qualifying simulations on ultra-soft tyres.
This would give Ferrari and Red Bull an advantage because the track would be quicker.
When they were out at the same time, Mercedes were more than half a second quicker than Ferrari and Red Bull.
Verstappen's team-mate Daniel Ricciardo may therefore be a more reliable indicator of the competitiveness of Mercedes' rivals - he was 0.663secs behind Rosberg in sixth place.
The Force Indias of Sergio Perez and Nico Hulkenberg were seventh and eighth, ahead of Esteban Gutierrez's Haas, McLaren's Fernando Alonso and Renault's Jolyon Palmer.
Jenson Button's final grand prix has improved after a difficult start. He had a troubled Friday with limited running because of an engine problem, but the 2009 world champion was 13th quickest, just 0.079secs behind team-mate Alonso in final practice.
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The streets echo regularly to the sound of artillery fire, as the pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian army fight for control of the airport.
But in the warm autumn sun, Donetsk still retains some measure of normality.
The central market is quite lively with shoppers browsing the clothes, music and other stores.
Rebel fighters in camouflage uniform, armed with Kalashnikovs or pistols, occasionally mingle among them.
And yet the shock of this well-heeled, tranquil city being transformed into a battleground, has taken a huge psychological toll on those who have chosen to remain.
"We can't bring back those who have been killed," says Oksana, immediately breaking down in tears as we speak inside her tiny dress shop.
"I want my mum to stop crying, I want my son to stop being afraid when they bomb. We want to end this whole mess, this war, so life can be like before."
In one western suburb which has been under fire for weeks, people lined up to receive bags of food being handed out by local officials from the back of a van.
They have been spending much of their time sheltering in basements. Several older women said they had no money because their pension payments had stopped.
And yet the overwhelming yearning for peace is, for some in this city, tempered by fear of what a ceasefire agreement might lead to.
Senior rebel leaders have been demanding that any agreement should include a complete withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the region.
"If the Ukrainian army leaves this area, then Ukraine will become part of Russia and we are all finished. We would have a life without water, without light, without money without any resources," says Igor who used to be an engineer, but now has no work because of the conflict.
"Russia won't be able to provide anything [for this region], because it is bankrupt, they don't have enough money for themselves."
Igor is also horrified at the prospect of the rebels remaining in control of this region.
"They are not rebels," he says, "they are criminals who came here to steal money and cars."
But for all the talk of a possible ceasefire, there has been no let-up in the fighting across the region so far.
If anything the fighting has intensified with a move by rebels and possibly Russian troops towards the vital port city of Mariupol which lies on the Azov Sea.
While in Donetsk, heavy shelling late on Thursday afternoon hit homes in the city leaving at least one person dead and setting a line of garages on fire engulfing the area in thick smoke.
And even if a ceasefire is signed in Minsk on Friday, there is scepticism on both sides about whether it will hold.
The rebels who have been making rapid advances on the battlefield over the past 10 days, suspect their success is the reason the Ukrainian government now wants the fighting to stop.
"As soon as the army of the Donetsk People's Republic is advancing, as soon as there is some serious success for our army, the Ukrainian side offers some sort of agreements," says a commander of a rebel reconnaissance and intelligence unit, who did not wish to give his real name.
"And usually they break those agreements themselves."
Veterans have complained that the Military Covenant is not fully implemented in Northern Ireland.
The covenant is a promise to look after members of the armed forces and their families.
The DUP and Conservatives are in talks over a deal at Westminster.
Theresa May is seeking the support of the DUP's 10 MPs after losing her majority in the general election.
Some unionists, including the DUP, have long called for a change in the law in Northern Ireland so that the Military Covenant is implemented in line with the rest of the UK.
On Thursday, DUP MP Ian Paisley tweeted a screenshot of the DUP's pledge to support a change in the law along with the word: "Progress!!"
The covenant means that former members of the armed forces in Great Britain are entitled to some priority medical treatment, and assistance with housing and school places for children.
The same arrangements do not apply to military veterans in Northern Ireland. A lack of specialist mental health treatment for those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been highlighted as the most significant issue.
Sinn Féin has made it clear it would not support any policy that gave priority treatment to military veterans.
Implementation of the covenant is a devolved matter that would require agreement between the first and deputy first ministers at Stormont.
However, DUP sources have said the Westminster government has now agreed to ensure that all the provisions of the covenant are implemented in Northern Ireland in the same way as other parts of the UK.
They point to a section of the Queen's Speech to Parliament on Wednesday and claimed that the party pushed for it to reference the covenant being implemented in the whole of the UK.
The Queen said: "My ministers will continue to invest in our gallant armed forces, meeting the NATO commitment to spend at least two per cent of national income on defence, and delivering on the Armed Forces Covenant across the United Kingdom."
The DUP said the party insisted that the government included the phrase "across the United Kingdom".
A source claimed that effectively means decisions about the implementation of the agreement have been taken out of the hands of the Stormont Assembly.
The covenant, published in 2011, aims "to redress the disadvantages that the armed forces community may face in comparison to other citizens, and to recognise sacrifices made".
It "recognises that the whole nation has a moral obligation to members of the armed forces and their families".
The covenant's two principles are that:
It is unclear at this stage how Westminster could overrule the Northern Ireland Assembly on an issue that was previously devolved.
Lord Justice Goldring has called more than 500 witnesses including survivors, police and medical experts.
Over the next three weeks, he will review evidence on how the 96 Liverpool fans at the FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield died.
The jury is due to retire to consider its verdicts on 22 February.
The inquests, which began on 31 March 2014, are already the longest in English legal history.
The Hillsborough Independent Panel set up in 2009 reviewed 450,000 pages relating to the disaster before publishing its report in September 2012.
Hillsborough inquests: What you need to know
In November that year, the original 1991 inquests were quashed by the High Court.
Sitting at a purpose-built coroner's court in Birchwood, near Warrington, the jury of seven women and three men have looked at 4,000 pages of documents and hours of video evidence relating to the UK's worst ever sporting disaster.
During 280 days of hearings, evidence was given on the design of the stadium, planning and preparation for the game and emergency response, as well as the movements of the 96 fans and the care they were given.
The victims were caught in a crush on the Leppings Lane terraces of the Sheffield stadium as the FA Cup game kicked off on 15 April 1989.
A police order to open an exit gate to relieve pressure at the turnstiles led to around 2,000 Liverpool fans entering "relatively full" pens via a tunnel, the inquests heard.
During the inquests, the jury heard criticism of the emergency response and were told a number of victims might have been saved by a "sustained and earlier" intervention.
Unlike the previous inquests, which were held in Sheffield, the coroner Lord Justice Goldring did not establish a "3.15pm cut-off time" after which no evidence could be considered.
The 1989 match commander David Duckenfield and South Yorkshire Police are among the 12 individuals and 12 organisations listed as interested parties, along with the families of 95 of the 96 victims.
One victim, Martin Wild, had no surviving relatives who could be traced.
The cost of the new inquests, which were set up in February 2013, had reached £14m by November last year.
Read profiles of all those who died in the disaster
The 16-year-old took third place after a phenomenal routine in the women's floor exercise competition.
So here are 16 things you might not know about the sensational gymnast...
1. Amy's the first British woman ever to win an Olympic medal in the gymnastics floor exercise.
2. She's the only British woman to win an artistic gymnastics medal in Rio 2016.
3. She's the third British woman to win an individual gymnastics medal. Beth Tweddle was the first, with a bronze on the uneven bars in London 2012. The second was Bryony Page, who won trampoline silver in Rio last week.
4. Amy's just missed out on the title of youngest ever British Olympic medal winner. That title's held by swimmer Sarah Hardcastle - she won a silver in the Los Angeles Olympics 32 years ago, aged 15 years, three months and 22 days. Amy won hers at 16 years, nine months and 20 days.
(However, even Sarah Hardcastle seems pretty old compared to Team GB's youngest summer Olympian ever - Margery Hinton swam in the Paris Olympics 1924, aged 13 years and 43 days.)
5. Amy says she first started doing gymnastics when she was just two years old.
6. And the talent runs in the family - her mum was a gymnast too, and was her first coach.
7. Her local gymnastics club in South Durham is known as the "Pink Gym", because everything in it is pink! And they're pretty proud of of Amy's achievement.
8. She now trains for up to 31 hours every week, which is a lot to fit in alongside school work!
9. Speaking of which... Amy only finished taking her GCSEs about a month before the Rio Olympics kicked off, and she'll find out her results when she gets back. Good luck, Amy!
10. Her school gave her special permission to do her GCSEs over three years instead of two, so that she could fit in her training as well.
11. Amy won her first national medal when she was just nine years old. She bagged a silver in the British Championships.
12. She's been representing Britain in international competitions since she was 11.
13. She's been crowned British floor champion for four years in a row.
14. Her final score at Rio was 14.933 - just 1.033 below champion Simone Biles who won the gold with 15.966.
15. Rio is Amy's first Olympics, and she wasn't expecting a medal. She told the BBC: "I wasn't thinking about winning a medal. My coaches said I had nothing to lose and just to go out and enjoy it. I could hear a lot of cheers from the crowd and that helped me a lot."
16. And this was her face after she'd heard she'd won bronze...
Congratulations, Amy!
Transit, the 37-year-old photographer's latest project, aims to "capture the daily theatre" of Singapore's multi-racial passengers on board its Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) trains.
"If you commute on the MRT and we are forced two inches in front of the doors, we'd all have the same reactions and share the same expressions and vulnerability," he told the BBC.
"The MRT is special to me perhaps because I grew up beside a train station. I would watch the old trains pass by my window everyday," he said.
He was inspired in 2011 when he returned to Singapore after a stint in Nepal, feeling like it was "a different country".
"I found that the trains in Singapore had become so crowded that it was difficult to board them during peak hours.
Out of frustration, I started to photograph what I saw at the doors."
As a photographer, Mr Koo said he tries to "make it a point" to spend time with his subjects and environment.
But the nature of this project drove him to adopt a different approach.
"It's practically impossible for me to speak to the commuters during the photography process," he said.
So he took things a step further, and turned to social media.
Mr Koo's Facebook page, which currently has more than 5,000 likes, also sees users actively commenting on his photos and sharing them.
He has managed to identify 15 people so far, from his photographs.
"With social media, I realised that it's actually feasible to connect with the commuters I photographed," he said.
Among them, Singaporean housewife Teresa Lee, whose daughter Astrid got in touch after a friend spotted her mother's photo on Facebook.
Mr Koo also said that his Transit project has seen its fair share of negativity online.
He told the BBC that he had seen some passengers in his photographs being "victimised by online trolls and insensitive netizens", and highlighted an incident involving a commuter whose photo was "unnecessarily" attacked online.
He then took down the post
His photographs were also recently featured on an internet forum "without his permission", he says, and prompted more "unkind" remarks.
"I want to leverage social media for its reach. But I also want to avoid the damage it is capable of," he said.
"If it comes down to that, I'll offer to remove the photos, delete the posts and even put up public notices to give voice to [my subjects'] concerns."
Dealing with online trolls was not the only challenge that Edwin Koo faced in the project.
Explaining his intentions to Singapore's transport station wardens security proved "especially tricky" too.
"Because they only see me taking photos of random commuters, it can be easily read as a security threat," Mr Koo explained.
"The MRT staff are there to do a job, so my stance is always non-confrontational. I try not to argue and always offer a way to allow them to fulfil their duties."
Looking forward, Mr Koo plans to continue his Transit project and said it would be "good" to see its progress.
"Wouldn't it be interesting to look back in 2030 and see how Singaporeans used to travel in 2015?" he said.
He also hinted at a follow-up project: possibly photographing inside the trains.
He said: "Ultimately, if I am to continue to pursue this project, I will seek other ways of expression, beyond the photos of closing train doors."
There are no more all male board in FTSE 100 companies says the report's author, former trade minister Lord Davies.
FTSE 100 firms met a voluntary target of 25% of women board members.
But he says this should now replaced by a new target of 33% of women board members at FTSE 350 firms by 2020.
In 2011, women made up 12.5% of board members.
Lord Davies said that there had been a "steady and sustained increase" since then.
He cautioned against the introduction of legally enforced quotas to guarantee a female presence on boards, describing them as "unwarranted".
On the Today Programme, Lord Davies was asked why 260 of the 286 women on the boards of FTSE 100 companies are non-executives. Non-executive board members are involved in the policy making decisions for the business but not in the day to day operations.
"The focus of our work was on fixing the boardroom. We've done that and there's very few all-male boards left," Lord Davies he said.
"We now need to see the same change, through a voluntary approach, in the executive committee structure of big companies and small companies."
But Shainaz Firfiray, an assistant professor at Warwick Business School warned that setting quotas was not be enough to fix the boardroom gender gap: "It may not be enough for companies to simply appoint women to board positions in response to external pressures.
"Prior research has shown that women who succeed in typically male tasks such as leadership positions are more disliked and derogated, implying that women confront obstacles in work settings that are not encountered by men to the same degree."
She said diligent management was needed to ensure their appointments were effective.
Lord Davies said in his latest report that the next five years should see "substantive and sustainable improvement in women's representation on boards of FTSE 350 companies".
"Following five years of significant effort on the part of the biggest FTSE boards, all FTSE-listed companies should be taking action," he added.
The government has already said it plans to bring in a target to include women on the boards of all the UK's top 350 companies.
This will come as part of a series of "equality-boosting measures" which it hopes to introduce in the first half of 2016.
The role of a non-executive is to keep the management in check and look out for the interests of shareholders .
They are intended to be independent and differ from executives in that they do not work solely for the company and often serve on multiple boards. This is true of both men and women.
The report counts positions held by women not individuals, so women who serve on more than on board would have been counted multiple times.
Several female non-executive board members serve on more than one FTSE 100 board, including Jasmine Whitbread, who serves on the boards of BT and Standard Chartered and Mary Harris on the boards of ITV and household products giant Reckitt Benckiser.
According to executive search firm Audeliss, though if current trends continue many female non-executive directors may leave their boards in the next 18 months as their terms expire.
Audeliss said that that could mean a drop in the number of top women non-executive directors to 17%.
Chile's government criticised Mr Ledezma for wearing a vest which made reference to Bolivia's claim to a stretch of coastline it lost to Chile in a 19th-Century war.
Mr Ledezma was delivering drinking water to a flood-hit region of Chile.
He was replaced in the post by former university rector Reymi Ferreira.
Me Ledezma travelled to the northern Chilean town of Copiapo on Tuesday aboard a Bolivian Air Force plane to deliver drinking water.
Copiapo and the surrounding region has been devastated by flash floods triggered by the heaviest rains to fall in 80 years.
At least 23 people died and 57 are missing and many communities were left without electricity and drinking water.
During his visit, Mr Ledezma wore a vest sporting the motto "The sea belongs to Bolivia" and a map in the colours of the Bolivian flag including the disputed area.
Bolivia has been landlocked for 136 years, ever since it lost 400km (250 miles) of coastline to Chile during the War of the Pacific.
Bolivia has long tried to reclaim the territory and has repeatedly severed relations with Chile when those attempts failed.
Two years ago, it filed a lawsuit against Chile at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The court has not yet made a ruling.
While handing out water to flood victims, Mr Ledezma told local radio he was there not to provoke but to help.
He said he put on the vest after he got cold.
He said he often wore it and shared the sentiment of the motto printed on it, but that it was not a topic he had intended to raise on his visit to Chile.
Chile's Foreign Minister Heraldo Munoz said that while his country was grateful for the help "this tragedy should not be used for political purposes".
Bolivian President Morales apologised to Chile saying it had been Mr Ledezma's personal decision to wear the vest.
"We can't commit these type of errors. No minister is autonomous and there's no room for personal decisions," he said at the swearing-in of the new minister.
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The girls, aged 10 and 11, were in Mainsforth Terrace West at 16:00 BST on Friday when they were struck by a blue MGZR, Northumbria Police confirmed.
The 10-year-old suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries, the force said.
Two men, aged 28 and 29, have been arrested in connection with the collision and are due to be questioned in custody.
Officers are appealing for witness to the crash or for anyone who saw a car being driven erratically in the area to come forward.
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It encourages people to discreetly ask for help by going to the bar and 'Ask for Angela' - a phrase aimed at alerting bar staff to the cry for help so they can help defuse the situation.
The poster also includes a phone number for Lincolnshire Rape Crisis for anyone who needs to talk.
One of the posters was tweeted by IZ (@iizzzzzi ) and has since gone viral and retweeted more than 28,000 times.
It is the work of Lincolnshire County Council and has even caught the attention of Hollywood.
Hayley Child, who came up with the campaign, was amazed when the poster got Ashton Kutcher's approval.
Hayley, who works as the sexual violence and abuse strategy co-ordinator for Lincolnshire, said: "Angela was a play on the word (guardian) Angel. The posters are up in male and female toilets, and provide reassurance there is support available if needed."
Many people have expressed their support for idea and called for it to be rolled out nationwide.
Others had mixed feelings about the 'Ask for Angela' Campaign.
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Reports say one of those arrested is the groom. The footage showed guests singing and dancing with weapons.
One stabbed a picture of a Palestinian baby who died in the attack in July.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the "shocking" scenes, aired on Israeli television.
Wedding-goers could also be heard singing about taking revenge on Palestinians in the video.
Police opened an investigation into the events on suspicion of incitement to violence.
Israeli media identified one of the suspects as a resident of the Jewish settlement of Kfar Tapuach in the occupied West Bank. The four were arrested on Tuesday, a week after the footage was broadcast.
It was filmed at a Jewish wedding in Jerusalem earlier this month.
In the clip, young Orthodox Jewish men are seen dancing with knives, guns and fire bombs while singing about revenge.
One of the revellers stabs a picture of 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha, who was killed in an arson attack on his home in the Palestinian village of Duma.
His parents, Saad and Riham, were also killed, while his five-year-old brother, Ali, was injured in the attack.
Several youths, whom the authorities suspect of belonging to a "Jewish terror organisation", have been arrested in connection with the attack.
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The Bantams dominated but were grateful for Jordy Hiwula's 53rd-minute equaliser after falling behind to Isaiah Osbourne's opener four minutes earlier.
Bradford almost led inside four minutes but Saddlers goalkeeper Neil Etheridge produced a superb instinctive save to tip over Mark Marshall's point-blank strike.
Etheridge also foiled Josh Cullen and Hiwula towards the end of the half but made the pick of his saves two minutes after the interval, clawing Cullen's 20-yarder out of the bottom corner.
And the hosts went in front with their first real chance of the game in the 49th minute, Osbourne drilling the ball into the bottom corner from just inside the box.
Hiwula levelled four minutes later as he was denied by the excellent Etheridge one-on-one but tucked the rebound into a gaping net.
Full-back Jason McCarthy had two chances to win it for Walsall, but his rasping drive was tipped onto the bar by City keeper Colin Doyle and his header from the resulting corner was blocked on the line.
Report supplied by the Press Association
Match ends, Walsall 1, Bradford City 1.
Second Half ends, Walsall 1, Bradford City 1.
Timothee Dieng (Bradford City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Joe Edwards (Walsall).
Romain Vincelot (Bradford City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Romain Vincelot (Bradford City).
Isaiah Osbourne (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mark Marshall (Bradford City).
Scott Laird (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Nathaniel Knight-Percival.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Nicky Law.
Attempt blocked. Andreas Makris (Walsall) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Walsall. Erhun Oztumer replaces Amadou Bakayoko.
Attempt saved. Marc McNulty (Bradford City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Josh Cullen (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Franck Moussa (Walsall).
Attempt missed. Mark Marshall (Bradford City) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Substitution, Walsall. Andreas Makris replaces Simeon Jackson.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Timothee Dieng.
Attempt saved. James Hanson (Bradford City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Nathaniel Knight-Percival (Bradford City).
Simeon Jackson (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Josh Cullen (Bradford City).
Jason McCarthy (Walsall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. James Hanson (Bradford City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Timothee Dieng (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Franck Moussa (Walsall).
Romain Vincelot (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Simeon Jackson (Walsall).
Substitution, Bradford City. Haris Vuckic replaces Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila.
Substitution, Walsall. Franck Moussa replaces Florent Cuvelier.
Foul by James Hanson (Bradford City).
Jason McCarthy (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Bradford City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Jason McCarthy (Walsall) header from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Colin Doyle.
Attempt saved. Jason McCarthy (Walsall) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Nathaniel Knight-Percival.
Attempt blocked. Scott Laird (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Josh Cullen (Bradford City).
Police received a number of reports of young people setting pallets and rubbish on fire at the Leckey Road and Westland Street.
Petrol bombs and missiles were also thrown in the Bishop Street and Magazine Street direction.
There are no reports of any injuries or any serious damage caused.
A pizza delivery van was also hijacked in the Iona Court area by two masked men and set on fire a short time later at Fahan Street.
PSNI chief inspector Andy Lemon said: "The local residents in this area have suffered once again due to the reckless actions of these youths, some as young as 10.
"I want to reiterate our message to youths involved in this kind of activity that you run the very real risk of being arrested and getting a criminal record which could affect your life for a very long time.
"Parents need to know where their children are, who they are with and what they are doing.
"Police will continue to work closely with community representatives, local elected representatives and other statutory bodies to address these issues in the area.
"I appeal to anyone with any information about those involved in the disorder last night to contact police at Strand Road."
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness tweeted on Monday night that he "unreservedly condemned" those responsible for the attacks.
The incident happened at the Cuckoo Bridge near College Mains and Lincluden Road at about 21:30 on Wednesday.
A blue Mazda 2 was struck by a "wooden object" which shattered its windscreen.
The driver was able to park his car safely. Police are appealing for witnesses.
Scrum-half Larissa Muldoon moves from the replacements to the starting XV.
"There's a very strong spirit in this squad that's been developing nicely over the last few months," said Ireland head coach Tom Tierney.
"While the performances haven't been as accurate or as clinical as we would like, we've ground out four wins."
"That has set up a very big game this Friday evening," he added.
Ireland's relative continuity in selection is highlighted by the fact that props Lindsay Peat and Ailis Egan join Leah Lyons in the front row for the fifth successive game.
In the back row, flankers Ciara Griffin and Claire Molloy pack down with number eight and captain Paula Fitzpatrick for the sixth game in a row.
Second row Marie-Louise Reilly is set to win her 50th cap.
England will arrive in Dublin on the back of a huge win against Scotland and in the hope of pipping Ireland to the championship.
"From our point of view, we have a huge opportunity on St. Patrick's Day and for us it's about looking to rectify some of the areas of our game that we haven't been happy with over the past few weeks," said Tierney.
"If we can make those small changes, then Friday evening's game should be a great one."
Ireland women: K Flood (Leinster); H Tyrrell (Leinster), J Murphy (Leinster), S Naoupu (Aylesford Bulls), A Miller (Connacht); N Stapleton (Leinster), L Muldoon (Railway Union); L Peat (Leinster), L Lyons (Munster), A Egan (Leinster), S Spence (Leinster), M-L Reilly (Leinster), C Griffin (Munster), C Molloy (Connacht), P Fitzpatrick (capt) (Leinster).
Replacements: C O'Connor (Connacht), I Van Staden (Ulster), R O'Reilly (Connacht), C Cooney (Leinster), N Fryday (Connacht), M Healy (Connacht), N Caughey (Ulster), M Coyne (Connacht).
Under a deal agreed on Friday, the list must be approved by the international creditors in order for Greece to secure a four-month extension of its bailout.
"We won a battle, not the war," Mr Tspiras said on Saturday.
The deal is widely regarded as a major climb down for the PM, who won power vowing to reverse budget cuts.
He hailed the agreement as a "decisive step" that "achieved much" towards ending austerity, but added: "We have a long and difficult road ahead."
The BBC's Mark Lowen in Athens says the government is engaged in a hard sell to the Greek people over the deal with eurozone ministers and the IMF in Brussels.
The Greek cabinet is discussing the potential list of reforms, which must be approved before eurozone members ratify the bailout extension on Tuesday.
Analysts say a collapse of the deal would revive fears of an exit from the euro, a so-called "grexit" - something both the EU and Greece say they want to avoid.
Mark Lowen, BBC News, Athens
After the late-night deal comes the hard sell to the Greek public. A government elected by promising to reverse austerity and end the bailout has had a major climb-down.
It has had to accept supervision by its creditors - no moves without EU agreement - and a loan programme with conditions.
To its voters, the government will stress that it now has a say in which reforms it is willing to make.
The hard-left of the party won't like it, but the centre ground will, and Greece has staved off euro-exit for now. That is the success that the government will trumpet. But it is limited.
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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble stressed on Friday that there would be no payment of new funds to Greece until the conditions of the deal had been met.
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said he would work night and day until Monday to devise the list of reforms.
"If the list of reforms is not agreed, this agreement is dead," he admitted.
Greece's liberal daily Kathimerini warned on Saturday of "stifling" conditions attached to the deal in Brussels while the centre-left Ta Nea said both sides had made "compromises".
The Greek Communist Party (KKE) accused the coalition, which is led by its far-left rivals Syriza, of extending the bailout without getting the loan conditions changed.
"Ultimately the bill will be footed by the people, as it happened with all previous governments," KKE leader Dimitris Koutsoumbas said.
The government is already in trouble with its voters for seeking the bailout extension at all - something it swore it would never do.
On the streets of Athens, reaction to the deal in Brussels was mixed.
"I think it was positive in the sense that at least for now we can relax a bit," one man, Nikos, told the BBC. "We will have to wait see what will happen next."
But another man, Costas, dismissed the deal as a "somersault that the whole world will remember".
Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, head of the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers, said on Friday night that the deal was a "very important" step in the process of rebuilding trust between Greece and its creditors - the EU, the European Central Bank and the IMF.
So how can the modern office attract people to tumble outta bed and commute into work, especially when many employees could simply turn on their laptop and get things done? And how can that office make you more productive?
One idea, popular among new technology companies, is to mix work and play.
Stroll around the London headquarters of peer-to-peer money transfer service TransferWise in Shoreditch, London, and you see scooters, a hammock and, would you believe, one of these:
Companies like this say such an office helps create a culture where staff enjoy coming to work, and are more productive as a result. For others, office perks like a sauna are simply a load of hot air.
Twenty-somethings might enjoy the perks, says Clare Coatman, of trade union body the TUC, but they must be in addition to, rather than instead of, decent pay and conditions.
"Compare the cost of buying a ping-pong table to offering a living wage, rather than a minimum wage, and you start to cut through to the reality," she says.
"Perks are nice, but they do not pay the bills."
Taavet Hinrikus, founder and chief executive of TransferWise, says the aim of his firm's offices around the world is to "create an environment for people to do their best work".
Finding a premises that allowed everyone to work on the same floor was important, he says. After that, many of the ideas of how to furnish it came from the staff themselves.
The overwhelming view, and the resulting set-up, was a mix of areas that suited certain tasks. Various soundproofed phone booths are dotted around. There are traditional desks, soft seating ("the padded cell") and a kitchen with background music. Friday's playlist included Gregorian chant and the Bee Gees (separately).
Speaking in the Magic Roundabout meeting room, Inez Miedema, head of affiliates and partnerships at TransferWise, admits that her parents - during a tour of the office - saw people playing a football computer game and questioned whether any work actually got done.
Ultimately each team has performance indicators to ensure they are doing a good job and those failing to do so will be challenged.
The trendy office and flexibility at work helps to attract talent, she says, but it is far from the only attraction, not least pay.
There is a keen eye cast over competitors and similar businesses to benchmark the competitiveness of salaries. As the business has grown in size, so has the package of other benefits offered to staff.
The TUC's Clare Coatman says young people really want job security and pay progression - much the same as any other generation of workers. No matter how trendy the office, their focus was still on the job, not on the jest.
A report by accountancy firm PwC said career progression was the top priority for "millennials" - the term typically applied to those born between 1980 and 1999 - who expected to rise rapidly through an organisation. Some 52% of those asked said this was the main attraction in an employer, coming ahead of competitive salaries in second place (44%).
The trouble is, says Ms Coatman, that they have very low expectations of the workplace. This theory was echoed in a recent poll commissioned by the RSA which suggested that fewer than one in 10 workers thought that "all work was fair and decent".
As a result younger workers may choose to move to another job, rather than fight to improve the terms of their current roles, Ms Coatman says.
A small, start-up tech firm can quite easily make their office attractive to the young worker, but what about bigger, more traditional companies?
Many staff can carry the contents of their desk around with them, usually digitally on a laptop, says Philip Ross, founder and chief executive of UnWork.com, which promotes new ways of working.
Young tech-savvy staff, particularly, can work anywhere so why bother getting on a packed bus or sit in a traffic jam to get to a chicken-coop office?
"As a place for people, both employees and clients, it has to work hard to pull people in - there needs to be a compelling reason to come to work," UnWork says in a report about a recent project for a business in New York.
The office priorities for staff were "air quality, daylight, good acoustics, great coffee and food". The motivation for the business was a 30% cut in property costs per person, by using the space more efficiently.
Some of the vocabulary about modern offices - such as "app-centric workplace" and "collision coefficient" - may raise eyebrows among your average office worker.
Yet, the logic behind the lexicon is worth a closer look.
Mr Ross says that offices should allow people to move around and work with those engaged in the same "activities". The design of a building should encourage people to communicate in person, rather than by email or in formal meetings.
Meanwhile, an office app may suggest who in an organisation is free for lunch at the same time. Then, it will point out which of them are working on a similar project. Alternatively it may highlight that some have the same interests, such as running marathons, and match-make them for lunch.
However, Mr Ross argues that, among tech start-ups in particular, there has been a "rush to collaboration". The trend towards shared space means it can be difficult to find anywhere for staff to quietly get work done on their own.
In the end, he says, there needs to be areas of an office to fit different types of work.
That, it seems, may even include a sauna in the corner.
Disney subsidiaries Disney Enterprises Inc. and Pixar are suing Chinese companies G-Point, PPTV and Bluemtv for hosting images and posters of 'The Autobots', a Chinese film that was released in July 2015.
'The Autobots' was criticised last year at home and abroad for being visually similar to the Disney animated franchise 'Cars' but has only gained wide media attention since going to court on Tuesday.
Critics are sceptical over whether Disney will win the case, noting that China has ripped off overseas-produced cartoons before.
Thousands of Chinese social media users are talking about the case on the popular Sina Weibo microblog, saying that 'The Autobots' is a "blatant copy" and that they "support Disney".
Chinese papers have also noted similarities between the two productions, but with more carefully worded editorials. The Beijing Economic Daily says that the two films are visually "extremely similar", and highlights that this is not the first time it has happened.
China has been criticised in the past for copying a number of Japanese cartoons.
These include the 2011 production 'Train Hero', which was criticised for "suspected plagiarism" because of its strong similarities to the Japanese animation 'Hikarian' in 2011.
In 2007, a CCTV Children's Channel cartoon 'Big Mouth Dodo' was also criticised for its similarities to another Japanese production, 'Crayon Shin-chan'.
Videogame critics note that China has escaped punishment for replicating Disney products before.
On 13 June, US comedian and videogame critic JonTron remarked on the explosion of bootleg games and products based on Disney films.
In a YouTube video with over three million views, he says that Disney is not safe from "the curse of bootleg". He singles China out as being "farther away from US jurisdiction and much better at Disney bootlegging" than any other country, and says that it is able to produce products like 'Bear of the Interest', a toy that strongly resembles Winnie-the-Pooh, but has flashing eyes and is described in Chinglish on the box as a "high class weapon".
JonTron also notes the wider trend of bootleg online games based on Disney films internationally, and highlights the launch of questionable online games 'Elsa Frozen Brain Surgery' and 'Anna Cesarean Birth' [sic], based on the 'Frozen' franchise.
The case has perhaps comes as a surprise in China, given that its media regulator recently introduced strict new guidelines.
On 19 June, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) issued new rules on "foreign-inspired" shows in a bid to boost domestic production.
The Xinhua news agency said "the new regulation came as many TV channels rely on foreign programmes, with few original ones. The new regulation will boost self-innovation by Chinese TV channels".
Along with other mainstream outlets, it highlighted widely-praised programmes like 'The Voice of China', which was "inspired by The Voice of Holland", and 'Running Man', a variety show that is based on a South Korean series of the same name.
While China has been embroiled in a number of copyright infringement cases, in recent months some high-profile companies have lost cases against Chinese companies.
Electronics giant Apple was especially hard hit. On 17 June, the Beijing Morning Post noted that a regional court specialising in intellectual property rights had determined that the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus were an infringement of a Chinese patent, the 100C produced by Shenzhen Baily.
National broadcaster China Radio International said that the court had added that "Apple must stop selling the products and providing related services".
In May, Apple also lost a trademark fight over the 'iPhone' name in China against a handbag and leather goods firm Xintong Tiandi, which had trademarked "IPHONE" in 2010.
Both moves came as a blow, as China is the second biggest market for Apple products.
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The party's press release says there are around 800,000 housing association tenants who only have a limited "Right to Acquire" social housing. The Conservatives also say that around 500,000 housing association tenants currently don't have the right to buy their homes.
As the new policy would affect both of those groups, the Conservatives say that 1.3m people could benefit. But is this correct?
The first thing to note is that the housing landscape has changed considerably in recent decades. The government's English Housing Survey (EHS) said there were 3.9 million households in the social rented sector in England in 2013-14. At 17%, that was the smallest type of tenure and follows a long downward trend since the 1980s. That suggests that the proportion of potential beneficiaries from the Right To Buy extension is dwindling.
Of those who might qualify under the Conservative plan, not all will be in a position to buy their own home. The EHS said that 8.6% of people in the social rented sector were unemployed. That compares with 3% overall in England or 5.4% among private renters. In terms of economic activity, the survey said that only 23.9% of people in the socially-rented sector were in full-time employment, compared with 62.1% of private renters. The survey also said that just 25.2% of people in the socially rented sector expected to buy a property, compared with 61.1% of private renters.
The Conservatives could argue that this figure might change following today's announcement. And they might also take some comfort from the EHS survey, which showed that 73.8% of people in the social rented sector have been in the property more than three years and so would meet the eligibility criteria in terms of length of stay in the property. But given the relatively high unemployment rate, and relatively low rate of people in full-time work, it is perhaps less likely that all of the people who are potentially eligible will find themselves in a position to buy their home.
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Deputy chief executive David Rooke said better waterproofing of homes and improved warning systems would be vital for tackling future weather extremes.
Parts of Yorkshire, Lancashire and Greater Manchester were flooded after downpours caused river banks to burst.
Prime Minister David Cameron defended government funding for flood defences.
He denied accusations - made by the leader of Leeds City Council - that there was a "north-south divide" in efforts to prevent flooding.
Judith Blake said flooding in Leeds was a "preventable disaster", saying the North had not received "anywhere near the support that we saw going into Somerset" - which flooded in 2014.
She said the government had cut funding for a flood defence project in Leeds in 2011, and there was now a "real anger growing across the North".
However, Mr Cameron - speaking as he visited flood-hit areas - said the UK had spent "more per head of the population on flood defences in the north than we do in the south".
"We are going to spend £2.3bn on flood defences in this parliament but we will look at what's happened here and see what needs to be done," he added.
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The Environment Agency has nine severe flood warnings - meaning danger to life - in place in north-east and north-west England, and more than 100 other flood alerts across England and Wales.
It comes as more heavy rain and wind is forecast for late Tuesday into Wednesday. BBC Weather's Nick Miller says this next bout of bad weather has officially been named Storm Frank.
The Environment Agency's Mr Rooke told the BBC the UK was moving from a period of "known extremes" of weather to one of "unknown extremes".
"I think we will need to have that complete rethink and I think we will need to move from not just providing better defences... but also looking at increasing resilience," he said.
Improvements to flood warning systems and better building design would help, he added, so that "when properties do flood, they have solid floors, waterproof plaster, more electrics up the wall".
Many places in northern England have seen record river levels over the past 24 hours, including the River Aire in Leeds, and the rivers Calder and Ribble, affecting places such as Whalley, Hebden Bridge and Ribchester.
The River Ouse is now thought to have stabilised in York, where hundreds of people had to leave flooded homes following the torrential rain over Christmas, but water levels are still believed to be rising in the town of Selby.
Extra soldiers were deployed on Sunday to aid emergency services, and about 200 unpaid mountain rescue volunteers from Wales, Cornwall and the Lake District have also been helping in the city.
In other developments:
Downing Street said emergency financial assistance would be available to homes and businesses in Yorkshire and Lancashire.
They will have access to the support package announced earlier in the month for people affected by Storm Desmond in Cumbria.
Shadow communities secretary Jon Trickett called for a major programme of public works and an end to cuts to local authorities in order to deal with the flooding.
Meanwhile, the Met Office has issued yellow (be aware) warnings for rain on Wednesday in areas of northern England, Wales and Northern Ireland, bringing the threat of further flooding.
Amber (be prepared) warnings for rain are also in place for parts of Scotland on Wednesday. There are currently no flood warnings in Scotland.
People can access information from council websites and the Environment Agency Floodline.
The agency is also operating a phone line - 0345 988 1188 - which will be staffed rather than offering recorded information.
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Santadevi Meghwal said her family had been ostracised and the village council had ordered them to pay a fine of 1.6m rupees ($25,000; £16,000) if they chose to annul the marriage.
At the time of the wedding, the groom was nine years old, she said.
Activists say child marriages are prohibited in India, but millions of children are still married off.
They must be dissolved if one or both partners wish to opt out, activist Kriti Bharti of non-governmental organisation Saarthi Trust, which is helping Ms Meghwal in her appeal, told BBC Hindi's Abha Sharma in Jaipur.
"If done with mutual consent, the annulment may take place within three days. Otherwise, things may take their own course. An annulment application of a 15-year-old girl married to a 55-year-old man is pending for the past 18 months," she said.
Ms Meghwal, who lives in Rohicha Kalan village in Rajasthan's Jodhpur district, said she didn't even remember her "marriage".
A college student who wants to be a teacher after graduation, she told the BBC that her so-called husband had studied only up to 10th standard in school and that she had no intentions of living with him.
Despite being illegal, child marriages are common in many parts of the country, and millions of children, especially in rural and poorer communities, are routinely married off and incidents of young women refusing to accept them are rare.
In a similar case in Rajasthan in 2012, another young woman had her child marriage legally annulled.
According to the figures released by Unicef in 2015, 47% of girls in India were married before they turned 18, the official age for marriage.
Wolsty Banks on the Solway coast is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and home to ground-nesting birds, sand lizards and the rare natterjack toad.
Seven hectares of dune grassland were destroyed in a fire on 20 July caused by a discarded disposable barbecue.
Environmental experts have been assessing the "long-lasting and horrendous" damage to wildlife.
Rose Wolfe, from the Solway Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, said: "It is going to take a long time for nature to repair it - up to 10 years in the worst affected areas.
"The heat will have been so severe in some parts of the dunes that the roots of the grasses will have been burnt away and will be unable to re-grow immediately."
She added: "I can't emphasise enough the danger of using barbecues on the dunes.
"I know it's a gorgeous place to sit and picnic, but the risk of fire is just too great."
The fire was likely to have been started by two bare wires touching in a piece of location equipment, the UK Air Accidents Investigations Branch said.
It then spread through the cabin and burnt through the fuselage.
Investigators recommended tighter testing and certification of devices.
The piece of equipment that caught fire - the Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) - was located near the back of the plane, and was made by Honeywell.
The battery-powered transmitter is designed to detect unusual deceleration, such as the force produced by a crash, and to transmit a distress signal.
The device in the 787 had positive and negative cables that were too long to fit into the box housing the device, and so ended up touching one another.
Testing had predicted that the worst reaction from a short circuit would be the batteries running down.
Unfortunately, what actually happened was what investigators called "a thermal runaway" - a fire that spread from one battery cell to the next.
On the ground, the skin of the aircraft was pierced by the heat and the flames.
The drilling rig came ashore at Dalmore, near Carloway on Lewis, during a storm almost two weeks ago. It was being towed from Norway to Malta.
Those involved in the operation to salvage the rig suggested the structure might be refloated over the weekend.
However, they stressed that this would only happen if it was deemed safe to do so.
Over the past few days equipment to improve the buoyancy and stability of Transocean Winner has been brought on board the structure.
More than 12,000 gallons (56,000 litres) of diesel oil were lost from two tanks on the Transocean Winner after it came ashore. The fuel is said to have evaporated and not caused a pollution incident.
Tens of thousands of gallons of the fuel remain in other tanks on the decommissioned rig.
Once refloated Transocean Winner would be towed to a nearby location at sea for further checks for damage.
Wales coach Warren Gatland said James was short on "sharpness" as he named fellow Blues wing Alex Cuthbert in his place for the 19-10 win over France.
Neither player has been released for Blues' game in Glasgow on Sunday, as Wales prepare to face England.
"He [James] is in great nick, he's extremely fit, a very powerful and dynamic runner," said Wilson.
"In our camp, he's been great and stepping up to international rugby is for other people to assess, not for me.
"Around the World Cup he had a small injury to his foot which has needed a little management.
"He's completed the same training as the other boys - the Cuthberts of the world and so on. Maybe he can't put in quite the same miles, so to speak, on our surface.
"We've been really happy with his fitness at Cardiff Blues."
James, 28, started both Wales' opening Six Nations matches against Ireland and Scotland but failed to score in either.
For Friday's victory against France he was replaced by Cuthbert, who had initially lost his place to James after a poor run of form which included a failure to score a try in five matches at the 2015 World Cup.
It appears both could be in contention to face England having not been released for the Blues this weekend.
"It's a good battle. It's one I don't have to make the decision on, which is nice," said Wilson.
"It's just pleasing, first and foremost from our point of view, that we've got two players in the same position who are both in the Wales squad and both challenging.
"They're both guys who've been in form for us this season and a real tough choice, I'd imagine, to pick between them."
With the Blues in Pro12 action against Glasgow on Sunday and Wales at Twickenham six days later, Wilson feels Gatland's decision not to release James - who played in last Sunday's win against Ulster - was precautionary.
"It's probably about making sure we look after their players to reduce the risk of injury going into what is an enormous game for Wales," he added.
"I fully understand that and we're very appreciative to have the two boys [hooker Kristian Dacey and back-rower Josh Turnbull] back to play."
The Scottish government-commissioned survey found 60% of pupils questioned had seen e-cigarettes for sale in shops, shopping centres or stalls.
About a quarter (26%) had seen outdoor poster adverts.
And 23% of the 2,016 11 to 18-year-olds questioned had seen or heard adverts on TV or radio in the past week.
Although 16% had used an e-cigarette, most had only tried them "once or twice", the survey found.
Only 5% of pupils who had never smoked tobacco had tried e-cigarettes. Curiosity was the main driver for use, sometimes motivated by seeing a friend or family member trying them, the report found.
The forthcoming Health Bill proposes a ban on the sale of e-cigarettes to under-18s, "proxy purchase" by adults for minors and restrictions on the marketing of the products.
Public health minister Maureen Watt said: "This is an extremely useful survey, that gives us one of the first good indications of young people's awareness and experience of e-cigarettes.
"Of particular interest is the large number of children who are being exposed to marketing of these products.
"While more research is needed, e-cigarettes are almost certainly less harmful than tobacco and if people are using them as an aid to quit smoking that is a good thing.
"However, the Scottish Government does not believe that children should have access to them. This is the balance we are aiming for in our forthcoming Health Bill.
"We would consult with stakeholders to consider where exemptions might apply, such as at point of sale where adult smokers who might benefit from e-cigarettes and can find out more about the products."
The medic, who caught the bug while working in Sierra Leone, had blurred eyesight and pain two months after being declared Ebola-free.
Scientists say his eye infection presents no risk to the public.
But reporting in the New England Journal of Medicine they warn that research is needed to see if Ebola can also linger in other parts of the body.
Patients with Ebola are generally discharged once tests show the virus is no longer present in blood. At this point, experts say, it cannot be spread to members of the general public.
But there have been suggestions the virus may live on in some bodily fluids as certain parts of the body could act as reservoirs.
Now a team, including scientists from Emory University School of Medicine, say Ebola can persist in the eye and lead to further damage.
Their 43-year-old patient recovered from a serious Ebola infection that needed weeks of intensive care.
But shortly after being discharged, he had a burning sensation in his eyes and suffered worsening blurry vision.
Tests showed the fluid in his left eye had live Ebola virus.
And doctors say there was widespread inflammation which can lead to blindness.
But after three months of treatment with steroids and antiviral drugs, his vision began to improve.
Experts think the virus's staying power might be due to the eye's ability to tolerate certain pathogens once inside its walls.
They suggest further studies are warranted to check for the the presence of the virus in other "immune privileged" sites such as the central nervous system, testicles and cartilage.
And doctors are calling for more help for survivors in the worst-affected countries. Recovering patients are reporting eye problems among other difficulties.
But eye specialists are in short supply in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
Dr Russell Van Gelder, of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, said: "This remarkable case now demonstrates that the virus can remain viable in ocular fluids long after the patient has recovered from the systemic infection.
"If the Ebola epidemic continues, ophthalmologists throughout the world will be seeing patients with post-Ebola uveitis (inflammation), and will need to recognise and treat this condition.
"However, I want to emphasise that as far as we know, the Ebola virus is not transmitted by casual contact.
"The current study does not suggest that infection can be transmitted through contact with tears of patients who have recovered from their initial infection."
Separately, the World Health Organization (WHO) has strengthened its safe sex advice for survivors.
A recent case suggested Ebola fragments could remain in the semen of male survivors some months after recovery.
This, alongside evidence gathered from similar viruses, led WHO experts to warn there is a "strong possibility" Ebola could be passed on from male survivors to females during sexual contact.
This has not yet been proven.
But the organisation now advises all recovered patients and their partners to abstain from or practise safe sex until male survivors have had two negative semen tests.
WHO scientists add it is not clear whether female survivors can transmit the virus through sexual contact. But they caution it remains "theoretically possible".
The 29-year-old Finland international was tested after CSKA's 2-2 draw with Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League on 14 September. He scored the Russian club's equaliser.
His ban runs until 6 October 2018.
A Uefa statement said: "The analysis of the A sample revealed the presence of cocaine and its metabolites."
Nicola Park was performing in The Real Hoosewives Fae Glesga: Wee Fat Glesga Wedding in the Pavilion Theatre when the outage happened on Friday night.
She stayed on stage and joked with the crowd, who could not see her, until all 1,389 theatregoers were evacuated.
Police believe a fire at an electricity substation, which caused the power cut, was started deliberately.
Ms Park was playing a character in the comedy show who is getting married. She is left on stage on her own after waving off her friends, who have left for America in search of stardom.
The lights went down as planned as Ms Park prepared to sing All By Myself.
She told the BBC Scotland news website: "I was standing there in the dark and nothing happened with the spotlight. Then I realised there was no microphone.
"I said to the audience 'I'm still here by the way' and I told them 'this is not part of the show'.
"I continued to talk to them. I said I was doing a wee dance and they couldn't see me. Then I started a wee jingle bells. Everyone was laughing. I was there for five to 10 minutes before we all left.
"I've worked on the stage for 20 years and I've never known anything like it."
Iain Gordon, manager of the theatre, said: "Around 35 minutes into the show, the lights went down when they were supposed to.
"Then we realised it was a problem and we had to evacuate the theatre. Once we talked to Scottish Power, we discovered it would be several hours until the power was back on."
The theatre has added an extra performance for Sunday after they were forced to cancel Friday's show.
Scottish Power said the fire at the electricity substation in Renfield Street, near the Herald newspaper building, left 200 properties without power.
About 20 firefighters attended the blaze just after 20:00.
A man and a woman were trapped for about 30 minutes in a lift in the Apex Hotel in Bath Street as a result of the power cut.
The fire was extinguished by 21:30 and firefighters remained in the area until midnight.
A spokesman for Scottish Power said the substation was completely destroyed and engineers have worked through the night to reconnect all properties.
He said: "By 21:30 we had reconnected approximately 150 properties, and the remaining 50 properties were all restored by 09:00 this morning (Saturday).
"We will work with Police Scotland to assist with their investigations."
A spokeswoman from Police Scotland said it is believed the fire was started deliberately and that officers were following a positive line of inquiry.
Waseem Baloch, 25, was arrested in Dera Ghazi Khan in central Pakistan on Saturday night.
The Dawn newspaper said he had confessed to the murder, saying he drugged and strangled her "for dishonouring the Baloch name".
Qandeel Baloch, 26, became a household name for posting sometimes raunchy photographs, comments and videos.
She recently caused controversy by posting pictures of herself alongside a Muslim cleric.
Dawn quoted police as saying her selfies with Mufti Qavi were one of the issues cited by her brother.
The paper quoted Waseem Baloch as saying: "She wasn't aware I was killing her. I gave her a tablet and then strangled her."
Police said the brother had escaped to Dera Ghazi Khan after the killing in the Karimabad area of Multan early on Saturday morning.
They said he fled with two friends who were still being sought.
Ms Baloch was buried on Sunday morning in her ancestral village near Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab province. Images from the scene showed scores of people attending the services.
Mufti Qavi, who said he had forgiven Ms Baloch for her actions, had offered to lead the funeral prayers, reports said.
Ms Baloch had built up a large social media fan-base, with 43,000 Twitter followers and more than 700,000 on Facebook.
She was well aware of the opposition she faced but continued to post defiant tweets. One on Thursday read: "I will not give up. I will reach for my goal & absolutely nothing will stop me."
Ms Baloch, dubbed by some Pakistan's Kim Kardashian, rose to fame in 2014 when a video of her pouting at the camera and asking "How em looking?" went viral.
In a recent interview she was bitterly critical of Pakistan's patriarchal society and described herself as a leading exponent of girl power.
While many younger people saw her as a cultural icon and hailed her liberal views, she was also subjected to frequent misogynist abuse online.
Ms Baloch had gone to Punjab from Karachi because of the threat to her security, police say.
Her request for better security was ignored by the government, Dawn reported, despite pleas made three weeks ago to the interior minister and other senior officials.
Hundreds of women are murdered every year in Pakistan in so-called honour killing cases.
Qandeel Baloch used social media to find fame and the reactions there showed the feelings she inspired, from admiration to disgust.
Some called her death "good news" and even praised her suspected killer. Others said it was wrong to condone her murder, even if she was flawed. Some showed outright support.
Qandeel Baloch has been dubbed Pakistan's Kim Kardashian. There are comparisons: the provocative selfies, the pursuit of celebrity, the controversial rise to notoriety.
But in Pakistan, women, especially poor ones, still lack basic rights, from schooling to choosing a husband and violence against them is rife. The country struggles with sexuality and especially with "immodest" women.
The fact that many of her videos went viral suggests a titillating fascination with confident female sexuality - along with fear of its power and of her assertion of independence. However she lived her life, tweeted one, it was her life.
It follows a stampede last year in which more than 750 people are believed to have died, with 900 injured.
The bracelets will contain personal and medical information to help authorities care for and identify people, according to the Saudi Press Agency.
Nearly 1,000 new surveillance cameras have also been installed.
The ID bracelets will contain crucial information such as passport numbers and addresses but will also offer information to worshippers, such as timings of prayers and a multi-lingual help desk to guide non-Arabic speakers around the event.
They will be water-resistant and connected to GPS. The information can be accessed by employees of the ministry, and security and services bodies via a smartphone.
Cameras have been installed at Mecca's Grand Mosque and will be linked to control rooms staffed by special forces monitoring pilgrim movements for the event scheduled for August, according to Saudi newspapers.
2015 was the deadliest year for the pilgrimage in 25 years.
The tragedy led Saudi's King Salman to promise improvement in the level of organisation and led to a souring of the already-strained relationship with neighbouring Iran.
Iran, which lost 400 of its citizens in the crush, has criticised Saudi Arabia's preparedness and said that it will not send pilgrims to this year's gathering.
The annual pilgrimage to Mecca is attended by more than two million Muslims from around the world and has long been something of a safety nightmare.
Over the years the Saudi authorities have spent billions of dollars on improving transport and other infrastructure.
Finlay, a star of the Three Musketeer films, earned an Oscar nomination for his role as Iago opposite Laurence Olivier in Othello in 1965.
On TV, Finlay made a name for himself in 1971's Casanova, cementing his reputation in Bouquet of Barbed Wire.
Gatiss praised him for his "wonderfully fiery presence on stage and screen".
The Lancashire-born actor's death was announced on his website on Saturday.
The message read: "We are very saddened to announce that Frank died today 30 January 2016 at home surrounded by his family. He was a fine actor and will be very much missed by his friends and family."
The family said he had been "renowned for his kindness and generosity" and his death was an "inestimable loss to the acting world".
Finlay died at home in Weybridge, Surrey, from heart failure after a short illness.
Following his success in the mini-series Casanova, Finlay became an established star with his role in Richard Lester's big screen adaptation of The Three Musketeers.
In the 1973 film, he played Porthos alongside major stars of the day such as Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain and Michael York, in a cast that also included Christopher Lee and Raquel Welch.
He returned to the role in 1974's The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge - and again in 1989's The Return of the Musketeers.
An accomplished stage actor, Finlay landed his first professional role in Scotland in 1951.
He won a scholarship to London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, but did not take his first role in the West End until he was 31.
Following a series of acclaimed performances in various plays, he was invited to join Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company. He starred opposite the legendary actor in Othello, and then reprised the role on the big screen in 1965.
Sir Roger Moore, with whom Finlay starred in the 1978 film The Wild Geese - alongside Richard Burton and Richard Harris - called him "a great co-star" as he paid tribute on Twitter.
Sherlock star Mark Gatiss wrote: "Bouquets to the great Frank Finlay. Musketeer, vampire hunter, green-eyed Iago. A wonderfully fiery presence on stage and screen. RIP."
Singer David Essex tweeted: "So sorry that dear Frank Finlay passed away yesterday. He was a wonderful actor and a gentleman. As Bligh in Mutiny he was inspiring RIP."
Finlay was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1984 New Year's Honours List.
Among his final films was Roman Polanski's 2002 film The Pianist with Adrien Brody, but he continued to perform widely on television until 2009, including a recurring role alongside Alexander Armstrong in Life Begins in 2006.
"Oh Lord, and Frank Finlay too," tweeted Armstrong, referring to the earlier announcement of the death of Sir Terry Wogan.
"My father-in-law in Life Begins, an astonishing actor and wonderful man. What a sad, sad day."
John Challis, who played Boycie in Only Fools and Horses, recalled "happy times" together with Finlay while touring the country's theatres in Laughter on the 23rd Floor.
Loose Women star Sherrie Hewson tweeted: "So very sad! The wonderful actor Frank Finlay has died! Amazing talent will always be remembered."
Actor Colin Baker tweeted: "Very sad to hear we have lost the lovely, gentle, talented Frank Finlay. And now Sir Terry. Too many greats leaving us."
The 33-year-old will be available for three T20 Blast matches, against Kent, Middlesex and Glamorgan.
Kulasekara has taken 56 wickets in 50 T20 internationals for Sri Lanka and has also played 21 Test matches and 173 one day internationals.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh bowler Mustafizur Rahman is now due to join Sussex for their final four T20 Blast group games.
The 20-year-old's move to Hove has been delayed by his commitments with Indian Premier League side Sunrisers Hyderabad.
In the meantime, Sussex fast bowler Chris Jordan has been made available for Thursday night's T20 Blast match against Kent, having been released from the England ODI series with Sri Lanka.
London Mayor Boris Johnson confirmed the deal on a visit to the company on Monday.
It will secure 300 jobs at Wrightbus.
"Wrightbus has done a great job and the NI workforce has done a great job in producing buses that are not just much-loved by passengers on our streets but also at a good price," he said.
"I am aware, fully aware, of some of the difficulties that industry has had in recent times in Ballymena and I am just very proud that we are able to support a great United Kingdom business."
Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness have welcomed the announcement.
"This latest contract not only results in almost 200 Routemaster buses servicing London but it is a timely boost for the Northern Ireland manufacturing sector," Mrs Foster said.
Mr McGuinness said the latest contract put Wrightbus in the "manufacturing fast lane".
"This follow-up order is testament to the quality of the hard work and skill of their workforce and the benefits to our economy will extend beyond the gates of Wrightbus," he added.
Mr Johnson is also expected to visit two other manufacturers on Monday who supply parts for London buses and trains.
Later, he will address a business gathering hosted by the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce.
Mr Johnson backs a UK withdrawal from the European Union, but a majority of chamber members are said to support continued membership, believing a so-called Brexit would damage the local economy.
Prime Minister David Cameron was in Northern Ireland on Saturday as part of his UK tour to persuade voters that membership of a reformed EU is in their best interests.
Earlier this month, Transport for London (TfL) gave the green light on financing the new Wrightbus order,.
The intervening weeks have been spent smoothing out the contract's finer details.
TfL had been told that without the new order, Wrightbus would close its Routemaster production line in March.
Wrightbus has had two previous orders for 805 Routemasters.
The company has its headquarters in Ballymena, with another plant in Antrim, and employs about 1,500 workers.
But the rise was offset by a decline in non-food sales, according to the KPMG Scottish Retail Sales Monitor.
The figures came as retailers were warned to be prepared for the impact of Brexit amid early indications of faltering consumer confidence.
Overall, sales decreased by 1.4% in June compared with the same month the previous year.
Adjusted for deflation, measured at 2%, sales increased by 0.6% in real terms.
KPMG said grocery sales were up 0.1% in June compared with the same month in 2015.
It is the first reported sales growth since December 2015 and only the third time sales have increased in the last two years.
However non-food sales dropped by 2.6% compared to June 2015.
David McCorquodale, head of retail at KPMG, said: "Although total sales are down on last year, the grocery sector saw a change in fortunes, registering its first growth in sales since December.
"Big ticket items in the non-food category continued to perform strongly.
"Bolstered by a summer of sport, electricals fared particularly well, as consumers looked to buy the latest televisions to watch the football, tennis and golf.
"That being said, the food retail market continues to face challenges and we can't yet fully predict how the cost impact of leaving the EU will trickle down to the consumer.
"Where we have already seen an impact is on the rising cost of family holidays abroad. As a result, we expect to see retailers try to benefit from staycations and overseas tourists in the short term."
He added: "June also saw high street retailers, once again, fall victim to inclement weather. Introducing early sales didn't prevent seasonal lines being hit by an unpredictable weather front which, after an initial sunny spell, dominated from the second week in June through to the end of the month.
"One thing for certain is that regardless of the weather forecast, the retail sector should be braced for further change and uncertainty as the politicians begin the process of brokering a new deal with Europe."
Ewan MacDonald-Russell, of the Scottish Retail Consortium, said it was too early to say if Brexit would have an impact on retail sales or shop prices.
"Scottish retailers remain open for business, and the vote has not changed their commitment to deliver for customers," he said.
"However, there are signs that customer confidence may have faltered since June 23."
Watford's Roberto Pereyra was dismissed in the 84th minute when he reacted angrily to a James McClean challenge in an incident that resulted in both sets of players clashing on the touchline.
Watford manager Walter Mazzarri said his midfielder was "unfairly sent off".
West Brom finished 3-1 winners at the Hawthorns.
Mazzarri added: "Pereyra was fouled. He was on the floor and his rival kept fouling him. He stood up and gave a small push and that's when I went to separate them."
West Brom boss Tony Pulis said on McLean's part in the melee that "trouble seems to follow him around".
However, he added: "The lad [Pereyra] kicked out. Whether you catch him or not, it is the intent."
Both clubs have until 18:00 GMT on 8 December to respond to the charge.
Winkelman previously was unsure whether English football's third-longest serving boss would remain in place.
"I'm comfortable in saying that Karl will be the manager next season because he wants to be," said Winkelman.
"If he wants it and he's got that drive, ambition then he understands the club so much better that someone else."
He continued to BBC Look East: "He already has a promotion out of League One and he's somebody that when we make mistakes, we make them honestly and ultimately, I trust him.
Robinson, 35, was unable to keep the Dons up in their first-ever season in the Championship.
Following relegation, Robinson publically said he felt the club should have used the money received from Tottenham for midfielder Dele Alli more wisely, and Winkelman admitted mistakes had been made with recruitment.
"Everybody had to get off their chests the things they felt were wrong and that's part of the cathartic nature of sorting out problems," said Winkelman.
"We needed to talk. Karl needed to look me in the eye and know I would continue to invest in him and I needed to look in his eye and know that if I'm going to do that he's going to work his guts out because I think we have more pressure than we've ever had as a football club.
"In fact, I'm quite excited by the fact we've got more pressure because it means we're becoming a bigger club. I'm excited about being a big club in League One next season."
Penelope Wilkinson was employed by IP&E, which was closed down by Shropshire Council in February after it failed in its efforts to sell its "know-how" to other authorities.
The 42-year-old, of Colley Close in Shrewsbury, is set to appear at Telford Magistrates' Court on 22 August. She is currently on bail.
The council said it cannot comment as it is a "police matter".
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IP&E was set up by former council leader Keith Barrow, who resigned as director of the company after admitting he had not declared a relationship with the director of an accountancy firm appointed to work with it.
New leader Malcolm Pate ordered a review of the company, which found it had made total losses of £183,000 in its first two years and a profit of £28,000 in its third year.
Last year IP&E had said it would make profits of £238,000 by 2017.
Glasgow's 14-12 defeat to Munster means they must win at Welford Road on Saturday to guarantee a place in the last eight as one of the top three pool runners-up.
Leicester cannot qualify after losing to Racing 92 in Paris on Saturday.
"We're a really good side - play our rugby and we'll win," said Swinson.
The Warriors hammered Leicester 42-13 in their opening Pool One clash in October, but the Tigers have only lost once at home in Europe in the last 10 years.
"Leicester are a quality side, especially at home, but we know when we play well we can beat any team in Europe," added Swinson, who signed a new three-year contract with Glasgow last week.
"We showed in the first game up here that when we play to our tempo, not many teams can handle it - Leicester couldn't that day.
"We've got to take that aggression and positivity down there and really put them under pressure. It'll be a fantastic opportunity."
Warriors sit second in their pool, behind Munster, who have an unassailable six-point lead at the top. At the moment Glasgow are in the eighth qualification spot as the third best of the pool runners-up. A win at Leicester guarantees their progression and they could even lose and still go through, but that would require a highly unlikely sequence of results elsewhere.
Scotland second-row Swinson, 29, says an intense week of training will lay the platform for their decisive trip to Welford Road.
"We've got to be competitive in training next week," he said. "Our line-out sessions are sometimes the toughest line-outs we face. We have a real zeal for the contact sessions that (assistant coach) Dan McFarland takes us through.
"It's really competitive, we had a squad of about 45 training this week and really any of the guys could've played (against Munster). There are so many quality players, we've got competition every day throughout the squad, and that will help us improve."
Exeter took a deserved lead in the 19th minute when Lee Holmes got free down the left and pulled the ball back to Watkins, who guided the ball past Scott Shearer from 10 yards.
Holmes drilled a shot into the side netting as Exeter continued to create all the chances and the winger then curled another effort narrowly past the far post.
Mansfield boss Steve Evans was clearly unimpressed by his side's first-half performance and made a double change at the break.
Christy Pym made a brave stop to deny excellent substitute Darius Henderson, who was the catalyst for a vastly improved second-half performance from the Stags, while Jake Taylor dragged a shot wide for Exeter after an incisive counter-attack.
However, the Grecians ensured an end to their long wait for a win in the last minute when Watkins ran clear and fended off two defenders before sliding the ball past Shearer.
Mansfield's misery was compounded in stoppage time when Malvind Benning was sent off for a second yellow card.
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Match ends, Exeter City 2, Mansfield Town 0.
Second Half ends, Exeter City 2, Mansfield Town 0.
Attempt saved. Liam McAlinden (Exeter City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Chris Clements (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Tillson (Exeter City).
Second yellow card to Malvind Benning (Mansfield Town) for a bad foul.
Liam McAlinden (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Malvind Benning (Mansfield Town).
Goal! Exeter City 2, Mansfield Town 0. Ollie Watkins (Exeter City) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jack Stacey.
Attempt missed. Jake Taylor (Exeter City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Ollie Watkins (Exeter City) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is blocked.
Darius Henderson (Mansfield Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Darius Henderson (Mansfield Town).
Jack Stacey (Exeter City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Exeter City. Liam McAlinden replaces Reuben Reid.
Ashley Hemmings (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Reuben Reid (Exeter City).
Substitution, Mansfield Town. Jack Thomas replaces Jamie McGuire.
Substitution, Exeter City. Matt Oakley replaces Lee Holmes.
Attempt saved. Darius Henderson (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Darius Henderson (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Troy Brown (Exeter City).
Attempt blocked. Darius Henderson (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Christy Pym (Exeter City) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Exeter City. Jordan Tillson replaces Lloyd James.
Attempt missed. Matt Green (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Jamie McGuire (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Jack Stacey.
Chris Clements (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ollie Watkins (Exeter City).
Krystian Pearce (Mansfield Town) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Malvind Benning.
Attempt missed. David Wheeler (Exeter City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Foul by Ashley Hemmings (Mansfield Town).
Craig Woodman (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jake Taylor (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jamie McGuire (Mansfield Town).
Krystian Pearce (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ollie Watkins (Exeter City).
Attempt missed. Jamie McGuire (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Mr Trump's doppelganger replaces Barack Obama's waxwork in the set and joins various other world leaders at the attraction, including Vladimir Putin and Nelson Mandela.
Mr Trump will be sworn in as the 45th US president on Friday.
App users should tap on the image to compare the real Donald Trump with the waxwork
Images courtesy of AFP
The making of Donald Trump's waxwork
Prices rose 0.3% last month after increasing by 0.4% in May, according to the Labor Department's Consumer Price Index.
Continuing price rises are likely to strengthen the case for an increase in US interest rates.
However, the year-on-year rate is still only 0.1%, although excluding food and fuel so-called core inflation was 1.8%.
Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said this week that a rate rise this year was likely if the economy continued to grow.
Prices at the pump rose 3.4% in June on top of a 10.4% increase in May. Egg prices surged 18.3%, the biggest gain since August 1973.
Other US data on Friday also pointed to a strengthening of the US economy.
The Commerce Department said house building jumped by 9.8% in June, while the number of building permits issued rose 7.4% to a near eight-year high.
The Fed has kept its short-term interest rate near zero for more than six years, but many economists believe rising prices will trigger a rate rise later this year.
Ms Yellen has said she wants to see more improvements in the economy, particularly the jobs market, but expects rates to rise modestly by the end of the year.
Employers have been adding a healthy 208,000 jobs a month so far this year, and the unemployment rate has fallen to a seven-year low of 5.3%.
The dollar rose to a session high against a basket of currencies on the data.
The 23-year-old was disciplined along with Leicester's Manu Tuilagi because of "team culture issues" on 7 August.
The pair were believed to have gone out drinking and contravened the team's standards of behaviour.
"What happened was out of character. It was definitely a mistake on my behalf. I'll work harder to get back," he said.
"I put that person behind me a long time ago."
During the camp, it is understood the England players went out as a squad to dinner, and returned to their hotel as a group, but Tuilagi and Solomona then left the hotel for a second time, returning in the early hours of the morning, thought to be as late as 4am.
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It is the first time since taking on the role that England head coach Eddie Jones has disciplined individuals for off-the-field behaviour.
"[Jones] has just said to train harder and play harder and that's what I'll do. I need to do what he says. That's the only way I'll achieve what I want to achieve," Solomona continued.
"By training hard, I'll improve my game capabilities and I'll learn a lot more. And in the game I'll go as hard as I can and give everything I've got every single game.
"I'm hungry for it. I'm eager for it and I'm only going to train harder and play as good as I can to let my rugby do my talking."
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Wolfgang Niersbach quit as president of the German football federation (DFB) amid claims payments were made to officials at world football's governing body Fifa during the bidding process for the 2006 World Cup.
Germany beat England, South Africa and Morocco to host the 2006 event.
"It is like The Archers. Every week something is happening," said Dyke.
"You begin to be convinced almost no World Cups have been allocated without a pile of bungs," Dyke added.
The Germans beat South Africa by one vote after New Zealand delegate Charles Dempsey abstained.
Niersbach denies any wrongdoing but said he had taken the decision to quit in order to "protect the DFB". He remains a member of Uefa and Fifa executive committees.
In October, the head of Germany's organising committee, Franz Beckenbauer, said he made a "mistake" in the bidding process to host the 2006 World Cup, but denied that votes were bought.
The 70-year-old denied sending "money to anyone in order to buy votes" in a statement on 18 October, but gave further details after being questioned by a law firm hired by the DFB to investigate the claims.
"In order to get a subsidy from Fifa [for the organisation of the 2006 World Cup] those involved went ahead with a proposal from the Fifa finance commission that in today's eyes should have been rejected," he said.
Beckenbauer has also recently been investigated by Fifa as he was one of 22 men to vote on the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. He was provisionally banned by Fifa for "failing to co-operate" with its ongoing inquiry into the bidding process.
Dyke's comments come after a World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) commission report recommended Russia should be banned from athletics competition.
Wada's independent commission examined allegations of doping, cover-ups, and extortion in Russian athletics.
Dick Pound, author of the damning report, has said Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko - who is also on Fifa's executive committee - must have been aware of the level of cheating.
Mutko has denied knowledge of any wrongdoing, but Dyke questioned whether he should stay on the board of world football's governing body.
"I don't know where it ends," said Dyke. "You need a completely reformed organisation because you can't carry on like this.
"Whether someone who is involved in all that can stay on the board of Fifa is something Fifa needs to address very quickly. There has to be a question mark."
Two weeks ago, suspended Fifa president Sepp Blatter suggested there was an agreement in place for Russia to host the 2018 World Cup - before the vote took place.
And now England, the Netherlands and Belgium are seeking legal advice over whether to claim compensation for the cost of their respective failed bids.
The Dutch and Belgian bid, which cost 10m euros (£7m), went up against another joint venture from Portugal and Spain, as well as individual entries from England and Russia.
England were eliminated after the first round of voting, while the Dutch-Belgian bid finished third in the second round, and Russia went on to be declared winners.
Belgian FA president Francois de Keersmaecker said: "In agreement with our Dutch colleagues we have asked a legal firm to see if we can claim for compensation.
"It was unethical to allow us to incur unnecessary costs while the outcome of the bidding process had already been determined."
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Bruce's side won the first leg 3-0 before losing 2-0 in the second leg on Tuesday to edge through to Wembley.
"We handled the occasion really well on Saturday but we couldn't put one front in foot of the other on Tuesday," he told BBC Radio Humberside.
"It was a really difficult evening but we've got through."
Bruce has led Hull to Wembley three times in the last four seasons and achieved promotion to the Premier League in his first season in charge.
They were relegated to the Championship in 2015 but Bruce has led them steadily up the table, finishing the season in fourth place.
"It could have been our most embarrassing night but it's not, thank the lord," he continued.
"(Tom) Huddlestone clearly wasn't fit. That was a gamble, where he played with a knock, and I shouldn't have took that gamble."
Never in play-off history has a team overturned a three-goal first-leg deficit but Derby came close on Tuesday through Johnny Russell and Andrew Robertson's own goal.
Despite continued pressure from Derby, Hull were able to hold on and secure their spot to face Sheffield Wednesday in an all-Yorkshire final on 28 May.
"I won't try and mask it up any more - we did enough at Derby, where we put in a good performance," Bruce added.
"We know we will perform better than that because we can't be any worse. Let's make sure now that we try our upmost because we have just seen our Achilles heel."
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The Confederation Internationale de la Peche Sportive says accepting fishing as an Olympic discipline would enlarge the universality of the Olympic idea because angling is so popular.
Fish caught would be returned to the water unharmed.
But critics say fishing involves too much luck, is incomprehensible to outsiders and too boring to watch.
They reject Confederation president Ferenc Szalay's assertion that angling's "ancient and fair competition system" matches Olympic ideals.
Fishing is among a raft of sports aiming to secure Olympic status.
Skateboarding, surfing, climbing, Karate and baseball/softball have already been confirmed for Tokyo 2020.
The IOC said it hopes the "innovative" move will draw in new audiences by focusing inclusions on youth-oriented sports.
The five extra sports, which do not replace any of the 28 already on the Tokyo schedule, will include 18 events and involve hundreds of athletes.
Baseball and softball featured separately between 1992 and 2008, but made a joint bid to be readmitted.
Fishing has featured at the Olympics once before - it was an unofficial sport at the 1900 Paris games. Only six nations took part and there is no record of the eventual winner.
The biggest drop of the day was seen in the shares of the global bank HSBC, which ended 47p lower at 666p, a fall of nearly 7%.
The bank reported a 62% drop in profits and a smaller-than-expected plan to buy back $1bn worth of its shares from investors.
Capita was the biggest riser of the day, up 4% at 534p.
Shares in Rolls-Royce rose 3.5% to 733p, as investors continued to react to Goldman Sachs upgrading its rating on the shares to "buy".
On the currency markets, the pound ended the day barely changed against the US dollar at $1.247 but rose more than half of one percent against the euro to 1.182 euros.
James Reekie, 28, from Glenrothes, was caught after police seized a computer he used to download indecent images of children.
The sex attack on the baby took place while she was alone and was downloaded onto his phone.
Reekie was a guest of the child's parents at the time of the attack.
At the High Court in Glasgow judge Lord Pentland ordered Reekie to be monitored in the community for five years after his release from prison.
Lord Pentland told Reekie: "You have a deviant interest in young children."
He added: "You progressed to sexually abusing an 11-month-old girl in a depraved and revolting manner.
"The child was alone in a room of the house where you were a guest. This was a grievous breach of trust and shows a degree of deviousness and planning by you."
Defence solicitor advocate Chris Fyffe said: "Mr Reekie wishes to extend apologies to al those affected. He is angry at himself. He is deeply ashamed.
"This is an individual who accepts that he needs help and he needs to change."
The police traced the baby from the one-minute, four-second film and told her family. She was taken to hospital but found to be uninjured.
Reekie admitted sexually assaulting the baby, an offence which counts as attempted rape under new laws.
The 28-year-old also pled guilty to making indecent images of children. The computer in Reekie's bedroom contained 215 indecent photos and 138 videos of children.
Prosecutor Richard Goddard said the images were found after police were tipped off that someone from the home Reekie shared with his parents was looking at indecent images.
Reekie, who worked as a cleaner at a high school in Fife, was placed on the sex offenders' register.
The gaps were found in computer records studied by a financial consultancy, Alvarez and Marsal, Cypriot media say.
Bank of Cyprus - the island's biggest bank - bought Greek bonds which turned into some 1.9bn euros (£1.6bn; $2.4bn) of losses in the Greek debt crisis.
Depositors with more than 100,000 euros in the bank are now facing a big loss.
The "haircut" for such deposits in Bank of Cyprus is expected to be about 60%.
The money taken from those accounts, and from deposits above 100,000 euros at Laiki (Popular) Bank, will be used by the government to contribute billions towards the bailout.
Strict capital controls - unprecedented for the eurozone - are in force in Cyprus, limiting cash withdrawals to prevent a run on the banks.
The "haircut" - hugely unpopular in Cyprus - is a condition for the EU and IMF to grant a 10bn-euro bailout to rescue the Cypriot economy.
The Cyprus Mail website says information provided by Bank of Cyprus was incomplete and data-deleting software was found on some computers there.
There were significant gaps in computer records for the period 2007-2010. It is not yet clear whether the wiping of records was accidental or deliberate. There were signs of mass deletion of data.
The Central Bank of Cyprus says that Alvarez and Marsal are now investigating Laiki too - Cyprus's second largest bank, which is being wound up and folded into Bank of Cyprus.
"The investigation will continue and cover: the purchase of Greek government bonds by Laiki Bank; the expansion of Laiki Bank outside Cyprus; the role and responsibilities of all parties involved," the central bank said on Friday.
The consultancy's report on Bank of Cyprus has been leaked to Cypriot media, but not yet published.
Besides the Greek bond purchases the consultancy also scrutinised Bank of Cyprus operations in Romania and Russia.
The consultancy's findings have been handed over to the Cypriot parliament and the attorney-general, Petros Clerides.
The Cypriot government has appointed a special judicial panel to clarify what happened in the country's financial crash and pinpoint any wrongdoing.
National Treasure, writes Jasper Rees in the Telegraph, "feels like a hefty landmark drama" that is "audacious, disturbing but above all elusive".
The Guardian's critic concurs, calling it "thoughtful, bold and accomplished".
Robbie Coltrane plays Paul Finchley, an ageing comic accused of raping a woman in the 1990s.
The role, writes Kevin Courtney in The Irish Times, is the former Cracker star's "most daring and challenging in 20 years".
The drama draws on recent revelations involving well-known personalities, among them Jimmy Savile, Rolf Harris and Stuart Hall.
According to The Guardian's Sam Woolaston, "a dark, Yewtree-shaped shadow hangs over" the programme - a reference to Operation Yewtree, the police investigation launched after Savile's death in 2011.
Written by Jack Thorne, who co-wrote Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the drama also stars Julie Walters as Finchley's wife and Andrea Riseborough as his daughter.
The former, writes Digital Spy's Morgan Jeffery, gives a "captivating" performance and is "every bit Coltrane's match".
The result, says Brian Donaldson of Scotland's The List, was "wonderfully tense and atmospheric".
An average of three million people tuned in on Tuesday to see the first instalment of the four-part series, according to overnight figures.
The second part will be aired on Channel 4 on 27 September at 21:00 BST.
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We don't know the full detail of the allegations in each of these cases, but the level of counter-terrorism police activity at the moment underlines that Syria is not going away.
Last year there were 327 terrorism-related arrests - more than half of them related to Syria - leading to 64 charges and prosecutions.
Not all of those cases have been under counter-terrorism laws, but they include around a dozen serious convictions relating to preparing for acts of terrorism by either trying to go to Syria or, making it there, to join jihadists.
The details relating to the arrests over the last few days are unclear.
Late on Saturday night, two 17-year-olds and a 19-year-old from London were arrested after they were deported from Turkey.
Scotland Yard, reportedly acting on information from family members, alerted the Turkish authorities to intercept the men as they arrived in Istanbul.
The three have been bailed to a later date as police carry out investigations into their plans.
The fourth teenager was arrested on Monday morning in Birmingham as he allegedly prepared to leave for Syria.
These four cases come after the disappearance of girls from east London to Syria which has led to the police facing criticism for not acting quickly enough.
Assuming detectives have the intelligence and are able to intervene in time, how should they be handling these people: charging them with crimes or finding another solution?
The police have demonstrated that in relation to Syria, they will arrest and charge if there is clear evidence that someone has committed a terrorist offence.
The counter-terrorism toolbox includes much more than a pair of handcuffs. Police can hold people at ports for questioning and the recently-passed Counter Terrorism and Security Act creates a new power to seize travel documents, including passports.
So in some cases police may try to intervene to delay and frustrate plans to go overseas because that breathing space may provide enough time for someone to start changing their mind. As we have seen in recent weeks, the police aren't always successful in stopping people going.
Beyond the legal toolkit, counter-terrorism officials are trying to find tactics to get people to stop and think. And the Home Office and police chiefs have placed a big bet on getting mothers and families more closely involved in counter-extremism work.
Police say that in the last year, 22 women and girls are suspected of having gone to Syria. They are now urging mothers to have "open dialogue with their daughters" in the hope that the early signs of radicalisation can be spotted.
There's an online campaign at the heart of this new call, although compared to the number of social media accounts being used by the jihadists, it is something of a drop in the digital ocean.
Kalsoom Bashir, the co-director of Inspire, a counter-extremism organisation, says that even if some families are scared of alerting the police about their own children, it will always be the right decision.
"In our campaigns, we are working with mothers who, at the heart of their homes, their families, can give that counter-narrative," she says.
"What we are talking to them about is being able to spot the signs that perhaps their children may be changing in their behaviour or what they are saying... and to start having conversations about what is happening in Syria and how terrorists are recruiting people from the West."
The new counter-terror laws mean that local councils will soon be ordered to set up special panels to make sure all agencies - from police to social workers - are referring vulnerable individuals into these de-radicalisation programmes.
"I think we have to reassure [parents] that if their children have not committed any crime, or terrorist activity, then they won't be charged," says Kalsoom Bashir.
"It is about keeping them from going down that criminal path.
"The cases are growing, and worryingly there is a growing number of women who are leaving and probably will do in the future as well.
"This is about making that safety net much much stronger so fewer and fewer people can slip through it. We can only do that if we start to have conversations in our homes with our families."
So the police will continue to make arrests. But there is going to be an increasing focus on the really difficult business of preventing someone being radicalised in the first place.
Planning permission for the 40m-high lights was unanimously approved at a Leicester City Council meeting on Wednesday evening.
Chief executive Wasim Khan said: "It is fantastic news.
"We saw an average 48% increase in attendances for NatWest T20 Blast matches in 2015. The floodlights will help retain and grow our audiences."
The club hope to have to the floodlights installed for the first T20 Blast game of the season in May.
Mr Khan added: "We can start games later in the evening which will give more people the opportunity to attend after work."
Konta, seeded ninth, won nine games in a row on her way to beating the Danish 17th seed 6-3 6-1 in 75 minutes.
It was an eighth successive victory for the Briton, who won the title in Sydney in the build-up to Melbourne.
Konta, 25, will face Ekaterina Makarova next after the Russian upset sixth seed Dominika Cibulkova 6-2 6-7 (3-7) 6-3.
"We played in the fourth round here last year and I think it was 8-6 in the third, so I am expecting a battle," Konta said.
"It will be tough, just like against anyone in any match, you don't have any easy matches any more."
Six-time champion Serena Williams - a potential quarter-final opponent for Konta - earlier beat fellow American Nicole Gibbs 6-1 6-3.
"I think if she keeps playing like this, then she has good chances against Serena," Wozniacki said of Konta.
"Serena has won so many Grand Slams and she's been in tough positions. But I think Johanna is playing on a very high level right now."
After a tight start to the contest on Margaret Court Arena, Konta took control midway through the first set and powered away from Wozniacki.
The British number one's consistent aggression on serve, return and off the ground left the Dane struggling to find an answer.
A thumping drive volley gave Konta the first break of serve in game seven and she got the better of the Wozniacki serve once again to clinch the set.
A bewildered Wozniacki double-faulted twice to fall behind in the second set and in the end she did well to get on the scoreboard at all after going 5-0 down.
There was the odd sign of nerves from Konta as she closed in on victory but after double-faulting on her first match point, she converted the second to end the day with 31 winners to Wozniacki's six.
"I definitely played at a high level today," Konta said.
"Caroline really makes you work for it and doesn't give you anything so I am happy with my level.
"I knew it would be incredibly tough and I wanted to assert myself from the get go and play the match I wanted to play. What an amazing crowd, you guys were incredible."
Russell Fuller, BBC tennis correspondent
Konta's Australian Open challenge is gathering some serious momentum. Always aggressive from the baseline, she hit 31 winners against an opponent who is very quick across the court and one of the best on tour at getting balls back in court.
Konta has now won eight matches and 16 sets in a row, and if she can get past Makarova in the fourth round, she is likely to face the ultimate test of Serena Williams after that.
The 55-year-old, who had presented the afternoon show since 2010, died at the Royal Derby Hospital early on Sunday.
He first joined the station in 1999 and had also been a regular presenter of the Saturday breakfast, Sunday mid-morning and Sunday afternoon shows.
His family praised his "tremendous" courage in fighting the disease.
In the statement, they said: "He has taken each day as it came and dealt with everything that has been thrown at him."
The family said they will "miss him everyday" and thanked all his well-wishers for their support over the past month.
"People's love for him, the beautiful words and unbelievable kindness that we have witnessed is beyond words and will not be forgotten," it read.
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Simon Cornes, the station's editor, said he would be "deeply missed".
He said: "Andy is going to be deeply missed by all his friends at Radio Derby as well as the thousands of listeners who regularly tuned into his programmes.
"He's been a big part of the station for many years and it's hard to imagine the place without him.
"Andy was a Derby man through and through and a great champion of the city's arts scene."
Listeners, friends and colleagues have been paying tribute to a "very special man".
Olympian and Commonwealth Games swimming champion Ross Davenport tweeted his "shock".
Former Derby County football player Shaun Barker tweeted: "Lovely guy that would always come to say hello."
Derbyshire-born actor Sean Mckenzie tweeted: "A great man - wonderful at his job and a champion of the arts. You will be sorely missed. #AndyPotter."
The news follows the death of fellow BBC Radio Derby presenter Colin Bloomfield who died from skin cancer in 2015.
The broadcaster announced he had cancer in his bowel, liver and kidneys and only had months to live on Radio Derby's breakfast show, on 26 January.
He had been grateful he had got to do a job he "truly loved", he said on the day.
Listen to a special tribute programme to Andy Potter at 13:00 GMT on BBC Radio Derby.
Organisers said a 55-year-old collapsed on the lower part of the ascent of Leith Hill near Dorking in Surrey on Sunday, during the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100.
The "mass participation" event follows the route from London to Surrey made famous in the London 2012 Olympics.
The man received immediate medical attention but he died at the scene.
Organisers said the air ambulance attended the incident.
More than 25,000 cyclists - including club cyclists, celebrities and amateur riders - took part in the amateur sportive.
The 20-year-old has played 11 times in all competitions for Mick McCarthy's side, who are 17th in the second tier, this season.
"I feel I have made a lot of progress this year," Kenlock told the club website.
"It's been great to have been involved in the first-team squad regularly and playing games in the Championship."
Schoolchildren are closely watched by teachers and parents as they make their way home from school. In playgrounds and on the roadside are posters warning of the danger of abduction by witch doctors for the purpose of child sacrifice.
The ritual, which some believe brings wealth and good health, was almost unheard of in the country until about three years ago, but it has re-emerged, seemingly alongside a boom in the country's economy.
The mutilated bodies of children have been discovered at roadsides, the victims of an apparently growing belief in the power of human sacrifice.
Many believe that members of the country's new elite are paying witch doctors vast sums of money for the sacrifices in a bid to increase their wealth.
At the Kyampisi Childcare Ministries church, Pastor Peter Sewakiryanga is teaching local children a song called Heal Our Land, End Child Sacrifice.
To hear dozens of young voices singing such shocking words epitomises how ritual murder has become part of everyday life here.
"Child sacrifice has risen because people have become lovers of money. They want to get richer," the pastor says.
"They have a belief that when you sacrifice a child you get wealth, and there are people who are willing to buy these children for a price. So they have become a commodity of exchange, child sacrifice has become a commercial business."
The pastor and his parishioners are lobbying the government to regulate witch doctors and improve police resources to investigate these crimes.
According to official police figures, there was one case of child sacrifice in 2006; in 2008 the police say they investigated 25 alleged ritual murders, and in 2009, another 29.
The Anti-Human Sacrifice Police Task Force, launched in response to the growing numbers, says the ritual murder rate has slowed, citing a figure of 38 cases since 2006.
Pastor Sewakiryanga disputes the police numbers, and says there are more victims from his parish than official statistics for the entire country.
The work of the police task force has been strongly criticised by the UK-based charity, Jubilee Campaign.
It says in a report that the true number of cases is in the hundreds, and claims more than 900 cases have yet to be investigated by the police because of corruption and a lack of resources.
Tepenensi led me to a field near her home where she found the body of her six-year-old grandson Stephen, dumped in the reeds. She trembled as she pointed out the spot where she found his decapitated body; he had been missing for 24 hours.
Clutching the only photo she has of her grandson, Tepenensi sobbed as she explained that although the local witch doctor had admitted to sacrificing Stephen, the police were reluctant to pursue the case.
"They offered me money to keep quiet," she says. "I refused the offer."
No-one from the Ugandan government agreed to do an interview. The police deny inaction and corruption.
The head of the Anti-Human Sacrifice Police Task Force, Commissioner Bignoa Moses, says the police are doing all they can to tackle the problem.
"Sometimes, they accuse us of these things because we make no arrests, but we are limited. If we get information that someone is involved in criminal activities like human sacrifice, we shall go and investigate, and if it can be proven we will take him to court, but sometimes the cases are not proven."
At Kampala main hospital, consultant neurosurgeon Michael Muhumuza shows me the X-rays of the horrific injuries suffered by nine-year-old Allan.
They reveal missing bone from his skull and damage to a part of his brain after a machete sliced through Allan's head and neck in an attempt to behead him; he was castrated by the witch doctor. It was a month before Allan woke from a coma after being dumped near his village home.
Allan was able to identify his attackers, including a man called Awali. But the police say Allan's eyewitness account is unreliable.
Local people told us that Awali continues to be involved with child sacrifice.
For our own inquiries, we posed as local businessmen and asked around for a witch doctor that could bring prosperity to our local construction company. We were soon introduced to Awali. He led us into a courtyard behind his home, and as if to welcome us he and his helpers wrestled a goat to the ground and slit its throat.
"This animal has been sacrificed to bring luck to us all," Awali explained. He then demanded a fee of $390 (£250) for the ritual and asked us to return in a few days.
At our next meeting, Awali invited us into his shrine, which is traditionally built from mud bricks with a straw roof. Inside, the floor is littered with herbs, face masks, rattles and a machete.
The witch doctor explained that this meeting was to discuss the most powerful spell - the sacrifice of a child.
"There are two ways of doing this," he said. "We can bury the child alive on your construction site, or we cut them in different places and put their blood in a bottle of spiritual medicine."
Awali grabbed his throat. "If it's a male, the whole head is cut off and his genitals. We will dig a hole at your construction site, and also bury the feet and the hands and put them all together in the hole."
Awali boasted he had sacrificed children many times before and knew what he was doing. After this meeting, we withdrew from the negotiations.
We handed our notes to the police. Awali is still a free man.
Allan's father, Semwanga, has sold his home to pay for Allan's medical treatment, and moved to the slums near the capital.
Sitting on the steps of their makeshift house, built from corrugated sheets of metal, I showed the footage of our meeting with the witch doctor to Allan on my laptop. He pointed to the screen and shouted "Awali!" confirming he is the man who attacked him.
Pastor Sewakiryanga says without the full force of the law, there is little that can be done to protect Uganda's children from the belief in the power of human sacrifice.
"The children do not have voices, their voices have been silenced by the law and the police not acting, and the people who read the newspapers do nothing, so we have to make a stand and do whatever it takes to stamp out this evil, we can only pray that the government will listen."
Westwood, 43, tied second with Jordan Spieth last month, three shots behind fellow Englishman Danny Willett.
Westwood quit the PGA Tour last year following his divorce, dropping as low as 67th in the world before Augusta.
"Playing well at the Masters was a kick I really needed," he said before this week's PGA Championship at Wentworth.
The Nottinghamshire golfer won the Indonesian Masters in April 2015 but slipped down the rankings during the rest of the year.
He only qualified for the Masters by sneaking into the world's top 50, who are automatically invited to Augusta, ahead of the cut-off point at the end of last year.
But after missing the cut in three of his four warm-up events, Westwood found himself in contention for his first major before playing partner Willett pulled clear in the final three holes.
"When you haven't played well for a long time, then you do start to have doubts in your mind," said Westwood, who has moved back up to a ranking of 35.
"But it never takes long for golfers to snap out of it, really. We're only one good shot, really, from a comeback."
They have shared resources in areas such as police training, aviation, data protection and a joint Channel Islands office in Brussels.
It has also been suggested the health departments combine more services, and the two islands open a joint political office in London.
Jersey needs to save £65m by 2013, and Guernsey £31m by 2015.
Jersey's Foreign Affairs Minister, Senator Sir Philip Bailhache, has just returned from a trip to the Channel Islands Brussels Office.
He said: "[The office] gives us the opportunity to engage with movers and shakers in Brussels.
"For Jersey to do it on its own would be twice as expensive as doing it in cooperation with Guernsey, so there are clear advantages in terms of representing ourselves internationally and doing these things together."
Deputy Leon Gallienne, Guernsey's Public Accounts Committee chairman, said: "With the stormy waters that face us globally, the islands need to look to see if we can help each other out on a regular basis."
Nicholas Williams crashed into 60-year-old William Johnston on the M74 in South Lanarkshire in November 2014.
The 60-year-old year from Bristol admitted causing death by dangerous driving at the High Court in Glasgow.
Jailing Williams for 28 months, judge Johanna Johnston QC told him "only a custodial sentence" would do.
The court heard how self-employed delivery driver Williams had been working for 11 hours and had made stops in Milton Keynes and Chorley in Lancashire in the hours before he headed 200 miles north to Glasgow on 18 November 2014.
Mr Johnston, meanwhile, was heading to work along the M74 when he pulled onto the hard shoulder at about 06:00 after a problem with one of the tyres of his Fiat Punto.
He put on his hazard lights and was in the process of removing a wheel when he was hit by Williams.
The GPS tracker in Williams' van showed he was travelling at about 85 mph just before the crash.
The grandfather from Biggar was flung almost 200ft as a result of the impact of the crash and died of his injuries.
In a police interview, Williams said he had not been "tired or drowsy" and denied he could have "fallen asleep whilst driving".
He claimed he had heard a "loud bang" which resulted in him losing control of his steering wheel and swerving from his lane.
Barry Smith, defending, said Williams accepted he had not kept his van on the road that morning, but "cannot explain" how he failed to do so.
Sentencing Williams, the judge told him: "You bear the responsibility for the death of a man who was much loved by his family and friends.
"Mr Johnston died due to your dangerous driving."
Williams was also banned from the road for four years.
Among the massed ranks, a portrait of his late father held out in front of him, was President Vladimir Putin.
This surprise appearance amid crowds in Moscow honouring ordinary people who served in World War Two seems to be part of a change of image for the Russian president - portraying him more as a down-to-Earth man of the people, rather than the all-action hero TV viewers have become used to seeing.
For over 30 seconds, TV commentators made no reference to his surprise appearance. But then anchor Vladimir Solovyev supplied the meaning of what was undoubtedly a carefully choreographed media event.
"There were no loud announcements and no commotion. Why?" said Mr Solovyev. "Because this is an amazing event at which politics moves into the background. It is a day when all are equal."
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Not everything went completely smoothly.
As the president paused for a short interview surrounded by his security entourage, an old man button-holed him to ask about the benefits he was due as someone affected by the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl.
The cameras quickly moved away. But Solovyev continued in the same lyrical vein. "Victory Day - everyone is equal. People just come up to the president of the Russian Federation and talk to him."
The message of the people's president was reinforced in other parts of the media. "Putin acted like an ordinary man," proclaimed a headline on the popular news website Gazeta.ru.
Commentator Aleksey Malashenko described it as a political masterstroke.
"I would not be surprised if at that moment the president's rating had reached 100%. Yes, it was populism, but sincere populism," he blogged on the Ekho Moskvy radio station website.
Putin as man of the people was also one of the key themes of Prezident, a 150-minute film recently shown on official channel Rossiya 1 to mark the 15th anniversary of the beginning of his rule in 2000.
The film dwelt on the Russian leader's humble origins and his attachment to his late parents.
"He comes from a working family in the suburbs, just like millions of others, millions of his compatriots, same as me, same as you," popular singer Nikolay Rastorguyev said over footage of Putin discussing people's problems in the street.
In the film, President Putin himself stressed that he was not from an "elite background".
"This connection with the people and sense of closeness to them, to ordinary people, are hugely important and a great help to me in my work," he said.
Prezident also featured an episode from 2006 in which Putin visited a coffee shop in Dresden and stood in the corner with his coffee and cake, apparently unnoticed by other customers.
The sequence was shown without commentary as if its only purpose was to reinforce the idea of Putin as the "ordinary man".
This portrayal of Putin is in marked contrast to the image of the derring-do hero of the TV stunts for which he has become famous - the bare-chested hunting expeditions, the dive for Greek wine vats in the Black Sea and saving journalists by shooting a Siberian tiger with a tranquilizer, to name but a few.
But it has been some time since Russian TV viewers were treated to Putin in full-blown action-man mode and is a far cry from the image given by a film aired three years ago to mark his 60th birthday.
That NTV film showed the president working late at night, alone in his office, breakfasting on health foods and swimming and exercising in his private gym, watched over by his beloved black labrador Koni.
Media academic Anna Kachkayeva believes it portrayed a person who "for a long time has been living in the special dimension of power and has, of course, lost touch with reality".
The wish to show President Putin as an "ordinary man" may be related to the political imperatives of Russia's current economic difficulties. But there may also be a more personal element.
At the end of "Prezident", Vladimir Solovyev asks Mr Putin what he has had to give up as leader of his country.
The president sighs deeply, frowns and answers: "A normal, everyday life."
One journalist, Oleg Kashin, suggested the film may have been less about propaganda than psychotherapy.
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O'Connor announced in June that he would be leaving the BBC soap after a year in the job, in order to concentrate on his film career.
The Sun admitted a front page article "wrongly suggested" the producer had been sacked for bullying cast members.
The apology appeared online and on page two of the newspaper on Friday.
Referring to a front page article from 23 June, the paper said: "We wrongly suggested that Mr O'Connor had been sacked as a result of bullying the cast of the show, and to such an extent that the actors had complained to the BBC.
"We now accept that this was wrong. Mr O'Connor had not been accused of bullying anyone, none of the cast complained to the BBC about him bullying them, and his decision to leave the BBC had nothing to do with any claims of bullying.
"We apologise to Mr O'Connor for the distress caused, and have agreed to pay him substantial damages and legal costs."
Before joining the square in Walford, O'Connor was the editor of BBC Radio 4's The Archers, and was responsible for the domestic abuse story between Helen Archer and Rob Titchener.
Speaking of his decision to leave Eastenders, O'Connor said working with the cast and crew at Elstree had been "an absolute privilege".
He is now working with Sherlock writer Mark Gatiss on a big screen feature on the murderer Neville Heath.
Jimmy Spratt, the party's South Belfast assemblyman, has spoken publicly about his illness and is to retire on health grounds.
He was elected in 2007 and has been a member of the Policing Board and chair of the regional development committee.
DUP leader Peter Robinson said Mr Spratt had been a "vital part of the DUP team".
Mr Spratt said it had been an "honour and privilege" to represent his constituents.
"Whilst I am sad that the public representative chapter of my life is now closing, my health must take precedence over the unrelenting nature of an MLA's schedule," he said.
"To make a full recovery it is essential that my workload is lessened."
Mr Robinson added that he wished his "friend and colleague" well as he steps back from public life.
For a second time, the Queen has been a notable absentee.
Given her deep personal faith, it's a decision the Supreme Governor of the Church of England will not have taken lightly.
But at 90 - and on the advice of her doctor - she is exercising caution as she recovers from a heavy cold which she's had for at least 12 days, and which is bound to have left her feeling pretty miserable.
Officials insist the head of state is up and about; she has not been to hospital or had tests; and she continues to deal with the documents she receives in her government red box.
As well as missing church, the under-the-weather monarch has become a voluntary prisoner inside her own Sandringham home.
She hasn't yet had an opportunity to go outside and explore her 20,000 acre private Norfolk estate.
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It is the first time a woman, and a bisexual, has been placed at the top of the list, compiled by networking group OUTstanding and the Financial Times.
Alan Joyce, chief executive of Qantas, is in second, with HSBC's UK and European chief, Antonio Simoes, third.
The list aims to highlight positive lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender role models in business.
Suki Sandhu, chief executive of OUTstanding, said everyone on the list was helping to challenge the assumption that you cannot be both openly LGBT in business and be successful.
"Those featured are an inspiration to anyone who fears that they may have to be closeted at work, and waste valuable effort muting their authentic selves," he said.
Ms Beale, who became the Lloyd's chief in January 2014, said she was delighted and honoured to appear on the Top 100 list.
"I am proud of the commitment of Lloyd's and the London insurance market to celebrate diversity and ensure we are an attractive, globally relevant and inclusive sector," she said.
Mr Simoes, who topped the inaugural ist, said companies needed workforces that reflected modern society.
"We still have some way to go before everyone feels confident enough to express themselves in an authentic way at work. Initiatives like this are a powerful statement that attitudes are changing and we are making genuine progress," he said.
Martine Rothblatt, the transgender chief executive of United Therapeutics, is in fourth place, with Burberry boss Christopher Bailey in eighth place.
Those appearing on the Top 100 list were nominated by peers and colleagues. Nominations were reviewed by OUTstanding's judging panel, which included former BP chief executive Lord Browne and Dawn Airey, the former Channel 5 boss who is now chief executive of Getty Images.
Nominees were scored on the seniority and influence of their role, their impact on LGBT inclusion inside and outside the workplace and their business achievements.
All nominees agreed to be included on the list. Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, was nominated by many people, but OUTstanding said it was unable to secure his permission to be included and had therefore omitted him.
Mr Cook wrote in a Bloomberg article last year: "If hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is ... then it's worth the trade-off with my own privacy."
OUTstanding's full Top 100 list can be viewed here.
The organisation has also compiled an Allies list, with Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg in first place for his work championing LGBT diversity both within his company and globally.
Last year's winner, Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson, is in second place on the 2015 list.
The company said the development near Meadowhall in Sheffield would create a further 200 construction jobs.
Sheffield Council approved the plans at a meeting earlier. Ikea said it had been looking for many years for a "large enough" site in South Yorkshire.
The Swedish furniture retailer hopes to open the new store at junction 34 of the M1 in 2016.
Steve Pettyfer, from Ikea, said: "We are delighted that Sheffield City Council has supported our decision to come to Sheffield.
"It recognises the significant contribution an Ikea store will bring to the local economy and jobs market."
From a high of $260 (£169) for each Bitcoin, the value dropped to about $130 (£84) in just six hours.
The selling frenzy began as Bitcoin's main exchange, MTGox, struggled to keep up with the volume of trade in the virtual currency.
MTGox said it was working hard to improve the exchange to avoid future trading problems.
The high of $260 marked the end of a steep rise in value for Bitcoins, which were worth only $90 each two weeks ago. On Thursday, values recovered slightly to reach about $160 (£104).
In a statement explaining what happened, MTGox said the delays in trading had not been caused by a hack attack. In the past few weeks the exchange, and the bitcoin community, has been targeted by hackers looking to cash in.
Instead, said MTGox, the "rather astonishing" number of new accounts that had been opened in the past few days caused a bump in trading volumes that it was unprepared for. In one day, the number of trades in Bitcoins had tripled, it said.
This caused "lag" or delay, which meant that Bitcoins were not swapped between people as fast as needed.
"As expected in such situation people started to panic, started to sell Bitcoin in mass (panic sale) resulting in an increase of trade that ultimately froze the trade engine," it said. About 80% of all the trade in Bitcoins goes through MTGox.
Engineers were working to improve the MTGox trading engine to handle the huge number of transactions, it said. The exchange added that it was planning to shut down for a couple of hours to add servers to help cope with the load.
Tech news site Ars Technica linked the crash to the antics of an anonymous Bitcoin owner who gave away around $13,000 in Bitcoins via the Reddit social news site. The unnamed person, who used the alias Bitcoinbillionaire on Reddit, randomly picked 13 different people to receive the coins. One lucky Redditor got a gift of about $5,000 (£3,250).
The vast increase in interest in Bitcoins is also creating problems for some established members of the digital cash community.
Bitcoins are created, or mined, when computers complete a complicated mathematical problem. Many individuals have pooled their computer power to ensure this mathematical work is completed more quickly.
But the rising value has meant the MT Red mining pool, which is co-ordinated via Reddit, cannot keep up with its financial obligations to its pool members and is shutting down. The "soaring price" has made it impossible for MT Red to cover what it owes to members, an administrator said.
Vincent Sasso volleyed the Owls ahead before Danny Graham's header went in off Sam Hutchinson to put Rovers level.
Defender Sasso rose highest to head the hosts back ahead, but Blackburn went close when Marvin Emnes struck the bar.
In the closing stages, Akpan had a goal disallowed for handball and was given a straight red for his excessive protest.
The 25-year-old appeared to raise his arms to referee Duncan, prompting the official to dismiss the Rovers midfielder without hesitation.
Wednesday remain sixth in the Championship, but now have a four-point cushion in the final play-off place, while Blackburn are down to second-bottom.
Ross Wallace had already hit the bar with a free-kick before Sasso opened the scoring, the French defender netting his first league goals since November 2013.
Owen Coyle's side suffered a blow when Sam Gallagher was stretchered off after being caught by Hutchinson prior to half-time.
Before Emnes struck the underside of the crossbar, both he and Liam Feeney were denied by excellent saves from home goalkeeper Keiren Westwood.
Sheffield Wednesday head coach Carlos Carvalhal:
"In these type of games we need a goal to calm us down, we achieved this goal and thought we could then play our football.
"But we didn't have time to taste the goal because after two minutes Blackburn scored and it was 1-1.
"We can't always play opera when we are playing against gladiators, sometimes we must put clothes on like gladiators to achieve the points.
"We played efficiently and achieved the three points."
Blackburn manager Owen Coyle:
"We don't control what decisions are given and the stuff that went against Blackburn Rovers tonight was beyond belief.
"Sometimes you can take an odd decision here and there, but for three or four huge decisions to be given against the football club, I thought it was beyond belief.
"We have scored three good goals tonight, but that has resulted in only one being awarded.
"Followed on from the fact that young Sam Gallagher is sat in there with 12 stitches across a deep gash on his knee that was punished with a yellow card.
"It is hard to take because of how well the players played tonight and how much the players put into the game."
Match ends, Sheffield Wednesday 2, Blackburn Rovers 1.
Second Half ends, Sheffield Wednesday 2, Blackburn Rovers 1.
Attempt saved. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jordan Rhodes with a headed pass.
Attempt missed. Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Marvin Emnes (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by David Jones (Sheffield Wednesday).
Elliott Bennett (Blackburn Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Elliott Bennett (Blackburn Rovers).
Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Steven Fletcher.
Foul by Charlie Mulgrew (Blackburn Rovers).
Jordan Rhodes (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Adam Reach (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Marvin Emnes (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Reach (Sheffield Wednesday).
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Craig Conway.
Foul by Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers).
Jordan Rhodes (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Hope Akpan (Blackburn Rovers) is shown the red card for violent conduct.
Hand ball by Hope Akpan (Blackburn Rovers).
Marvin Emnes (Blackburn Rovers) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box. Assisted by Elliott Bennett.
Attempt saved. Liam Feeney (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Derrick Williams with a cross.
Attempt saved. Marvin Emnes (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Danny Graham with a headed pass.
Craig Conway (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ross Wallace (Sheffield Wednesday).
Attempt missed. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Barry Bannan.
Attempt saved. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ross Wallace.
Attempt missed. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Steven Fletcher.
Offside, Blackburn Rovers. Liam Feeney tries a through ball, but Marvin Emnes is caught offside.
Offside, Sheffield Wednesday. Barry Bannan tries a through ball, but Fernando Forestieri is caught offside.
Foul by Charlie Mulgrew (Blackburn Rovers).
Jordan Rhodes (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Jack Hunt.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. David Jones replaces Sam Hutchinson because of an injury.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Liam Feeney replaces Connor Mahoney.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Connor Mahoney.
Elliott Bennett (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Glenn Loovens (Sheffield Wednesday).
"It's been a tough season for us in a few ways so hopefully we can finish with some running rugby," said Gilroy.
"The Barbarians are going to throw the ball about. Hopefully we can do the same and have a bit of fun."
Thursday's match at Kingspan Stadium will be live on the BBC Red button and the BBC Sport website.
Former France star Thierry Dusautoir is captaining a strong Barbarians squad which also includes Australian star Adam Ashley-Cooper, England players Alex Goode and Steffon Armitage, Samoan trio Census Johnston, Joe Tekori and Kahn Fotuali'i plus Ireland fly-half Ian Madigan.
The Baa-Baas were beaten 28-14 by a young England side at Twickenham on Sunday.
Ireland winger Gilroy expects the visitors to Kingspan Stadium to play their traditional expansive game against an Ulster squad which is set to include the retiring Roger Wilson and the departing Ruan Pienaar.
"They are so unpredictable - I've played against them a few times now, we just have to keep talking because they could throw whatever at us.
"It's good to have the Baa-Baas game for Ruan and Roger. They had a good send-off against Leinster but they have one last chance to pull on the jersey.
"It was a disappointing season with no silverware but I think the guys we brought in did a great job for us and it was obviously good to finish with a win against Leinster.
"Ultimately we want to see some silverware as players. I think next season might be a bit different with the changes in personnel and coaches so that could maybe be seen as a bit of a fresh start."
The Ulster squad will return for pre-season training on 3 July, but Gilroy is preparing himself to play before then should he be called into action by Ireland.
"I was a bit disappointed not to be in the original squad but Joe (Schmidt) just said to me he knows what I can do and he wants to give some other guys a bit of an opportunity and that I'm still on standby.
"I just have to take what he said and keep ticking over. I have to bring my boots and my gum shield wherever I go in case I get the call.
"There are always injuries. There'll be injuries with the Lions and they'll have a knock-on effect on the national team as well so I'll keep myself ticking over and if the call comes I'll be ready.
"If not, I'll just enjoy a bit of time off and come back here and look forward to hitting the ground running for next season."
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The Gold Coast Games start on 4 April 2018, with the Welsh contingent aiming to top the 25 medals they won in Auckland 1990.
Chef de mission Phillips says it is a realistic target.
"We want to have more medals than we've ever had in an away Games," she told BBC Wales Sport.
She continued: "We've had some really good competition results since we entered the selection period. You can see the performances picking up."
Wales will take around 150 athletes to Queensland - down from the 228 who went to Glasgow in 2014.
It means the record 36 medals won in Scotland will be tough to match, but Phillips believes an overseas record of 26 would be a successful outcome.
"We know it's a massive task but the team are up for the challenge," she continued.
Phillips - a physiotherapist and Cardiff University professor - was Team Wales' chef de mission at the 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games in Samoa.
She has also worked at Olympics and previous Commonwealth Games, as well as in professional rugby and weightlifting.
"I think we're going to go there with a strong team," she added.
"You only have to look at how the national governing bodies and Sport Wales are preparing their athletes compared to 10 or 11 years ago.
"They're getting better support, they're training smarter and we've got really good youngsters coming through. So it all looks really positive and I'm very optimistic."
Wales is one of just six nations to have appeared at every Commonwealth Games since it began in Hamilton, Canada in 1930.
It is the only multi-sport event that athletes can compete for Wales, rather than Great Britain.
Phillips believes this brings added motivation.
"As proud as I am to be British, there is something special about being able to compete for Wales and the pride you have for your home country," she added.
"I've gone to a number of Games, mainly as a physio, and I've supported athletes all my life.
"But to be leading the team now is really special. I'm bursting with pride."
Barca's fifth victory in a row ensured they won the league by one point from Real, who beat Deportivo La Coruna 2-0.
Suarez tapped in, powered home a header and slotted Neymar's pass to give him La Liga's golden boot with 40 goals.
Barca, nine points clear on 1 April, will seal a second straight league and cup double if they beat Sevilla in the Copa del Rey final on Sunday, 22 May.
Barca could easily have felt tense during the final-day decider, especially when Cristiano Ronaldo scored early in La Coruna to give Real the advantage.
A Gerard Pique header and Lionel Messi shot were turned away by Granada keeper Andres Fernandez as Barca dominated the early stages.
Suarez, who started the day four clear of Ronaldo in the race for Trofeo Pichichi - La Liga's golden boot - eased any nerves when he was left unmarked to tap in Jordi Alba's cross in the 22nd minute.
Granada offered virtually no threat throughout and the game was as good as over when Dani Alves brilliantly hooked the ball across for Suarez to flash home a near-post header before half-time.
The Uruguayan completed his treble four minutes from the end when Neymar's unselflish flicked pass offered him an empty net.
Suarez's total of 40 is more than anybody has scored in a La Liga season other than Messi and Ronaldo.
Before the second El Clasico of the season on 2 April, Barcelona were unbeaten in 39 games, nine points clear at the top of the table and bidding to become the first team to successfully defend the Champions League title.
But a 2-1 defeat by Real Madrid at the Nou Camp sparked a dramatic fall for the Catalan club. Within 15 days they were out of Europe and only top of La Liga by virtue of head-to-head difference after three successive defeats.
However, they responded by winning five in a row, scoring 24 goals and conceding none.
While Suarez has taken on the mantle of Barca's talisman this season from Messi, the Argentine still contributed 26 league goals, and Neymar 24.
Between them, the 'MSN' scored 90 of their 112 La Liga goals.
A third of Barca's La Liga victories have come with Messi and captain Andres Iniesta in the team.
The Catalans won the title 16 times in the first 75 years of the competition, and have won eight more since Messi and Iniesta came into the side, starting with the 2004-05 crown.
Iniesta said: "We have suffered until the end but it is glorious, to win six league titles in eight years with the same style."
Match ends, Granada CF 0, Barcelona 3.
Second Half ends, Granada CF 0, Barcelona 3.
David Barral (Granada CF) hits the right post with a left footed shot from the left side of the box. Assisted by Isaac Cuenca with a through ball following a set piece situation.
Foul by Dani Alves (Barcelona).
Isaac Cuenca (Granada CF) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. David Barral (Granada CF) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fran Rico with a cross.
Jordi Alba (Barcelona).
Miguel Lopes (Granada CF) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) left footed shot from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Neymar.
Substitution, Barcelona. Sergi Roberto replaces Sergio Busquets.
Goal! Granada CF 0, Barcelona 3. Luis Suárez (Barcelona) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Neymar.
Offside, Barcelona. Lionel Messi tries a through ball, but Neymar is caught offside.
Substitution, Granada CF. Doria replaces Ricardo Costa.
Attempt blocked. Lombán (Granada CF) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Granada CF. Conceded by Dani Alves.
Substitution, Barcelona. Arda Turan replaces Ivan Rakitic.
Corner, Granada CF. Conceded by Jordi Alba.
Substitution, Granada CF. David Barral replaces Youssef El-Arabi.
Ricardo Costa (Granada CF) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Gerard Piqué (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ricardo Costa (Granada CF).
Foul by Jordi Alba (Barcelona).
Fran Rico (Granada CF) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Offside, Granada CF. Rubén Pérez tries a through ball, but Youssef El-Arabi is caught offside.
Substitution, Barcelona. Jeremy Mathieu replaces Javier Mascherano because of an injury.
Foul by Luis Suárez (Barcelona).
Ricardo Costa (Granada CF) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Gerard Piqué (Barcelona) is shown the yellow card.
Andrés Fernández (Granada CF) is shown the yellow card.
Offside, Granada CF. Fran Rico tries a through ball, but Youssef El-Arabi is caught offside.
Corner, Barcelona. Conceded by Miguel Lopes.
Corner, Granada CF. Conceded by Jordi Alba.
Attempt missed. Jean-Sylvain Babin (Granada CF) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Fran Rico with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Granada CF. Conceded by Sergio Busquets.
Fran Rico (Granada CF) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Fran Rico (Granada CF).
Offside, Barcelona. Lionel Messi tries a through ball, but Neymar is caught offside.
Rubén Pérez (Granada CF) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Neymar (Barcelona) wins a free kick on the left wing.
David Mundell told Holyrood's Europe committee that it was "absolutely wrong" to suggest individual areas or industries could win separate deals.
However, he said there could be "differential" arrangements within the single UK deal for some sectors, such as the financial services industry.
And he said Scotland's concerns would be "right at the heart of the process".
Nicola Sturgeon has voiced frustration at the Brexit talks so far, saying after a meeting in London that she "got the strong sense the UK government itself doesn't know what it is trying to achieve".
The Scottish government is studying its options around Brexit, and Ms Sturgeon has called for a "coalition" across the UK in support of single market membership.
MSPs on the Europe Committee pressed Mr Mundell on a range of matters relating to Brexit, from the single market to the issue of Scottish independence.
The Scottish secretary said the UK's Brexit goal was to "maximise involvement" with the single market, adding that the UK would seek a "bespoke" deal, dismissing labels of a "hard" or "soft" Brexit.
He said: "I wouldn't believe all the media speculation which exists around special deals. David Davis confirmed when we met businesses in Glasgow that there isn't currently a plan for a "special deal" for the City [of London] or the car industry.
"There will be issues that those industries have - we know that there are issues in relation to the financial services around passporting for example.
"So there are very specific issues to specific industries, but there won't be special deals and it's absolutely wrong to characterise a suggestion that certain areas of the country will get a special deal and Scotland will not.
"What will happen for Scotland is that we will get the deal that we need to meet our interests and concerns."
Mr Mundell also appeared to suggest that leaving the EU would mean Britain leaving the single market - but it would still enjoy tariff-free access to markets.
"I accept on one level, if we are leaving the EU then essentially we are leaving the single market but access to the single market can, I think, continue in a way that doesn't involve tariffs or barriers," he told MSPs.
A Downing Street spokesman later refused to endorse his remarks, insisting that Theresa May was committed to securing the "best possible deal for Britain" outside the EU.
"Clearly we haven't started the process of exiting the EU yet. We will be triggering Article 50 at some stage in the first quarter of next year.
"Clearly we will engage in a process with the EU. Issues like that will form part of the dialogue," the spokesman said.
Mr Mundell was also pressed on the issue of potential border controls at Scottish marinas post-Brexit.
He said he "can't envisage" there being controls at Stranraer due to Ireland remaining an EU member after the UK leaves, but added that "we have to ensure we don't have abuse of the system".
Committee convener Joan McAlpine said Mr Mundell's evidence had raised "a number of questions".
She said: "Will Scotland have full access to the Single Market after Brexit? What will be the position of EU citizens living in Scotland after Brexit? How many meetings of the Brexit sub-committee has he attended? We didn't get clear answers to those questions.
"The overwhelming view of those we have heard from so far has been supportive of Scotland remaining in the European single market.
"The committee will wish to hear from the secretary of state again in the near future, when he will hopefully be able to provide full answers to the many crucial questions on Scotland's future relationship with the EU."
Mayer Hersh was one of the longest-serving inmates of the extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, in which 1.1 million people were killed.
After the war Mr Hersh, who died on Saturday at a care home in Prestwich, Greater Manchester, worked as a tailor.
He was appointed MBE in 2013 for giving talks about the Holocaust to school and university students.
In 1940, at the age of 12, he was seized by the Nazis in his native Poland to work as a slave labourer with his brother Jakob, who also survived the war.
The rest of his immediate family - his mother, father, sister and three other brothers - all perished.
Mr Hersh survived eight concentration camps before being sent to Auschwitz at the height of the Holocaust, in which an estimated six million Jews died.
He encountered notorious SS doctor Josef Mengele, nicknamed the Angel of Death, who selected inmates to live or die.
Mr Hersh's friend and biographer David Arnold said: "He survived death marches and weighed just over four stones (about 25kg) at the end.
"It was a miracle he lived but was flown to Carlisle after the war in a British bomber."
Rabbi Arnold Saunders, of Higher Broughton and Higher Crumpsall Synagogue, said: "It must have taken a terrible toil on him to talk about his experiences.
"But he saw it as his duty to mankind so people would never forget.
About 150 people attended the funeral of Mr Hersh, who lived at the Heathfields Village care home, is survived by his wife Judith.
Two women were allegedly assaulted with an electrical stunning device during the incident at the Original Factory Shop last week.
James Irvine, 53, and Steven Modeste, 36, both from Newtown St Boswells, appeared at Selkirk Sheriff Court on charges of assault, robbery and possession of a prohibited weapon.
They made no plea and were remanded in custody during the private hearing.
The decision to cancel the three day strike from 22 December follows a consultation with its members.
The union said walkouts from 6-8 December and 31 December to 2 January remained in force.
RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said the decision was due to "daily feedback from passengers".
"Our guards on Southern are in daily contact with passengers and the support for our fight to defend safety remains phenomenal," he said.
"It is from that daily feedback from passengers that the union has taken the decision to alter the dates for action over Christmas."
An increasingly bitter dispute over plans to change the role of conductors on trains has caused months of disruption for passengers.
The RMT union is concerned about job losses and public safety, but Southern has said its plans are safe, no jobs are at risk and there will be fewer cancelled trains.
A Southern spokesman said: "We welcome the decision by the RMT to cancel these dates immediately before Christmas but by announcing new dates in the same week they will still be disrupting passengers' travel plans at this busy time.
"The new strikes on 19 and 20 December are clearly co-ordinated to follow the Aslef strikes and cause maximum disruption.
"If the unions are listening to passengers then they will call off all industrial action."
In a separate dispute, members of the train drivers' union, Aslef, have voted overwhelmingly to strike in a row over driver-only operated trains.
The union is accusing Southern railway of wanting to impose changes rather than reach an agreement.
Aslef is starting a work-to-rule next week and has announced its drivers will strike on 13-14 December, again on 16 December, and between 9-14 January.
The transport secretary, Chris Grayling, has said details of a compensation package for Southern passengers will be announced later this week,
In a letter to Brighton MP Simon Kirby, he said the industrial action on Southern was politically motivated and Aslef had accepted driver-only operated trains on the Brighton mainline.
He wrote: "We cannot allow the unions to dictate how or whether the railways should be modernised or not.
"They are seeking the right to determine when a train should be cancelled to inconvenience passengers, even in circumstances when this doesn't need to be the case."
00:01 Tuesday 6 December to 23:59 Thursday 8 December (RMT)
00:01: Tuesday 13 December to 23:59 Wednesday 14 December (Aslef)
00:01 Friday 16 December to 23:59: Friday 16 December (Aslef)
00:01 Monday 19 December to 23:59 Tuesday 20 December (RMT)
00:01 Saturday 31 December to 23:59 Monday 2 January (RMT)
00:01 Monday 9 January to 23:59: Saturday 14 January (Aslef)
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Johann Myburgh's 87 put the home side in the driving seat chasing 184, before Marchant de Lange bowled him and then conceded just six in the last over.
Glamorgan's 183-6 owed much to T20 rookie Nick Selman, who hit 66 off 42 balls.
Aneurin Donald (33), Colin Ingram (35) and Graham Wagg (28 not out) played valuable cameos.
Surrey's victory over Sussex meant that Glamorgan can finish no worse than fourth place.
But Glamorgan were pushed all the way by a fighting Somerset performance, with Myburgh's 87 off 51 balls putting Somerset in the driving seat.
De Lange's double strike, running out Jim Allenby before yorking Myburgh, dragged the visitors back into contention, but the South African paceman still needed to keep his cool in the final over.
He conceded two singles off the first five balls, with Peter Trego's four off the final delivery not quite enough to save Somerset, who remain in with a chance of a quarter-final place if they beat Hampshire at Southampton on Friday, 18 August.
Glamorgan fast bowler Marchant de Lange told BBC Wales Sport: "I was disappointed with my first two overs and you're always under pressure as a bowler then, but I like my death bowling - it's a good challenge especially in situations like today.
"In this situation I was really pleased, the wickets (in the 18th over) were important because it's a dot ball and it brings the flow of the game to a standstill, especially with a class player like Myburgh. It was important to get him out."
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Glamorgan pipped Somerset by one run in a dramatic finish to earn a last-eight place for the third time in four years.
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One of the first and most vivid pieces of footage, posted by Twitter user William Locke, recorded the entire explosion.
The person behind the camera was knocked over by the shockwave but not before they captured the scale of the blast, as the ensuing series of images from his video shows.
Others recorded the blast - a huge fireball rising above the port in Tianjin followed by a huge cloud of dust and ash rising into the sky.
In the aftermath of the explosion, thick smoke and dust could be seen in images taken on people's phones and uploaded to Weibo, the Chinese microblogging platform similar to Twitter.
The BBC's Paul Wood, who was embedded with the marines at the time, recalls the fierce fighting and asks what it can tell us about today's struggle against Islamic State.
We were on a rooftop in Falluja. A sniper was in a minaret a couple of hundred yards away.
The sound of battle was all around us but the roof seemed awfully still and quiet.
You couldn't see the bullets. It was more like feeling their presence. We all lay flat, an unseen force pressing down. That force was fear.
The military translator stood and shouted down to the street. A dozen civilians, men and women, were inching forward, waving a ragged white sheet.
"Raise your shirts", he shouted to the men. He was afraid they were hiding suicide belts. "OK. Move!" he yelled. "Get the hell away from here: it's dangerous."
We crawled off the roof and fell down the stairs, back into the noise and confusion of the building.
Two marines were at a window, one firing, one spotting. "Right there! Right there!" An hour later we heard that the last man off the roof had been killed. A bullet from the sniper hit him in the back, below his flak jacket, as he jumped into the stairwell.
That was Lt Dan Malcolm. He was 25. I remembered him as a quiet and thoughtful young officer who liked to play chess. Like us, he had left the roof, the danger all too apparent.
He went back because of a desperate call from another lieutenant, Elliot Ackerman, whose platoon was coming under friendly fire.
"We had these artillery rounds landing in the street in front of us," Lt Ackerman told the BBC last week.
"I could hear the steel slapping against the building we were in. So I got on the radio, screaming out, trying to figure out what was going on. Dan ran back up to that rooftop to see where the rounds were landing and call them off of us."
Ten years on, Elliot Ackerman, deeply affected, still wears a wristband to remember Lt Malcolm.
How was it that the biggest battle of the Iraq campaign was fought more than a year-and-a-half after the invasion - and after the now notorious declaration by President Bush of "Mission Accomplished"?
Falluja was never going to welcome the Americans as crowds of Shia Muslims did when US forces arrived in Iraq, in March 2003.
Falluja was Sunni - and it had done well under Saddam Hussein's Baath party rule. Its sons joined the army and the police. After March 2003, they were unemployed.
Some turned to crime: the highway near Falluja became notorious for armed hijackings. Some joined the "resistance".
On 31 March 2004, four American private security contractors were ambushed in the centre of Falluja. They were probably killed when their armoured four-wheel-drive vehicle was hit with a rocket-propelled grenade.
To make sure, small boys brought jugs of petrol and a crowd set the bodies alight. The men's charred bodies were hung from a bridge over the Euphrates.
The US Marines wanted to move into Falluja "like a soft mist" and quietly arrest the guilty, said the military historian Bing West, a former Marine Corps officer in Vietnam.
As the crisis unfolded, Mr West was at the headquarters of the marines' commander, Gen James "Mad Dog" Mattis.
"Ambassador [Paul] Bremer [former US administrator in Iraq] and President Bush got very angry and emotional and the order came down the chain of command, 'No, you are to seize the city,'" Mr West told me in an interview in 2006.
"And the marines said, in a polite way, 'Do you know what it takes to seize a city of 300,000?'"
But that was exactly what the US Marines were ordered to do. Their attack in April 2004 - the first battle of Falluja - quickly got bogged down. Marines I spoke to recalled being trapped, fired on from all sides as the young men of Falluja rose up to defend their city.
Civilian casualties were inevitable and anger spread across Iraq, leading to street protests and more attacks on coalition forces.
There was unrest among the Shia majority, not just among Sunnis. Members of the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council threatened to walk out. Iraq was boiling over. The marines were ordered to retreat.
After that, Falluja became a safe haven for al-Qaeda. Kidnap victims - Iraqi and foreign - disappeared there. Strict sharia [Islamic law] was enforced. Locals spoke of beheadings in the street.
Outside, a long, slow military build-up began. Civilians were warned that they should leave. A noose was thrown around the city. Anyone suspected of being an insurgent was arrested at checkpoints.
In October 2004, journalists came to Camp Falluja to "embed" with the force that would shortly try to retake the city.
During the first battle, in April, Muslim opinion had been outraged by US targeting of mosques. Fallujah has so many it is known as "the city of mosques".
They were being used as insurgent bases, the minarets sniper positions. The marines wanted journalists there to witness that.
I joined 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment - the 1/8 - led by Lt Col Gary Brandl.
Col Brandl told his men they were leaving behind the shadow war of insurgent ambushes and roadside bombs planted by a "faceless enemy".
"The enemy has got a face," he said. "He's called Satan. He's in Falluja. And we're going to destroy him."
Years later, that is still one of my most memorable quotes of the Iraq war. The unit's pastor said the "wrath of God" would be called down on the "terrorists, evildoers" in Falluja, with the US Marine Corps the instrument of that wrath.
The night before everyone "stepped-off", Col Brandl explained the battle plan to his officers, using a mock-up of Falluja laid out on the dusty floor of a barracks.
One rifle company would take the main road into Falluja. A second would go up that road to move into the complex of government buildings in the centre.
It was an old fashioned marine charge. "Hey diddle-diddle, straight up the f-ing middle," one of the officers said to me quietly.
So as the sun rose a couple of days later, the US forces in the city centre buildings found themselves under fire from all sides.
The fighting was at close quarters, with the two sides sometimes just a few yards apart
Meanwhile, Col Brandl strode around like a Hollywood version of what a Marine Corps officer should be, cigar stuck between his teeth as he dished out orders.
The bodies of insurgents lay in the streets for days, being gnawed at by dogs.
We moved to a house with one squad. The owners had left behind Baath party membership cards and pictures of Saddam Hussein.
Outside, insurgents were hiding behind a breeze block wall. As night fell, they fired rocket propelled grenades that made yellow streaks as they sailed over the house.
Marine snipers using thermal imagers could see the insurgents and shot them through the wall.
The marines lost a man in an intense firefight for another house that went on most of the morning. Inside, they found the bodies of two men and a boy aged about 10. The whole squad was very upset about that.
To me, it seemed to show that some of the menfolk of Falluja had stayed behind to fight the Americans.
The marines were not just facing the foreign jihadists whose passports - Saudi, Egyptian, Algerian - US commanders said had been found on insurgent bodies.
But most of the people had left Falluja. The only civilians we saw were on the first day, from the roof of the building where Lt Malcolm was killed.
That was the crucial difference with the first battle of Falluja. The image of a city packed with non-combatants being pounded with artillery and white phosphorous was wrong.
After a week of combat, the marines had taken back Falluja. The 1/8 alone had lost more than 20 men.
A year later, we went back to Falluja. A Marine Corp major showing us around stood embarrassed as a woman in black niqab screamed at him that her husband had been shot dead at a checkpoint.
As we found out later, the Iraqi Army, not the Americans, had killed him. But people were angry at the US.
That didn't change until the Sunni tribal "Awakening" - and only then because Sunnis feared genocide at the hands of Shia death squads.
Now the black flag of jihad flies over Falluja once again, the Islamic State in control.
Sunnis have turned to them because of hatred of the Shia-led government in Baghdad.
American military advisers are back in Iraq but the US is not about to refight the battle of Falluja.
The lesson of 10 years ago for Western governments battling the Islamic State today? It is that military force alone is not enough for lasting victory.
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is launching a public consultation on the plans for trains from the south of England to London, Bedford, Cambridge and Peterborough.
GTR's Southern services have been disrupted in a long-running dispute over the role of conductors.
The RMT union called the timetable plan "spin" to hide the "daily chaos".
GTR said there would be new direct routes between Brighton, Gatwick Airport and Cambridge, and from London Bridge to the Medway Towns.
A spokesman said the changes planned for 2018 would lead to greater reliability.
Direct trains between London Victoria and Seaford may no longer run with journey times between Victoria and Eastbourne and direct services between Brighton and Seaford reduced.
Services between Brighton and Eastbourne, and between Brighton and Hastings could be increased, GTR said.
Passengers travelling between Brighton and Ashford International may have change at either Eastbourne or Hastings, adding up to 27 minutes to the journey.
Phil Hutchinson, who is leading the public consultation on the plans, said: "We are proposing a complete redesign of the timetable by looking at which journeys are most important to passengers.
"We are creating more capacity and new cross-London routes with connections to Crossrail."
But Mick Cash, general secretary of the RMT union, said: "Passengers don't want to be consulted on how services may improve in almost two years' time.
"They want action now to end the daily chaos to their journeys.
"This can only raise suspicions that the Southern spin machine is at full tilt to obscure the reality of cancelled train services."
The UK health service was praised for its safety, affordability and efficiency, but fared less well on outcomes such as preventing early death and cancer survival.
The research by the Commonwealth Fund, a US think tank, looked at countries across the world, including the US, Canada, Australia, France and Germany.
The US came bottom.
It is the second time in a row that the UK has finished top.
Three years ago, when the survey was last done, the UK was also number one.
It comes despite the NHS being in the grip of the tightest financial squeeze in its history with lengthening waiting times.
The NHS was praised for the safety of its care, the systems in place to prevent ill-health, such as vaccinations and screening, the speed at which people get help and that there was equitable access regardless of income.
Only in one of the five themes looked at did the NHS perform poorly compared with the other nations - health outcomes. This covers general health of the population, early deaths and cancer survival among other measures.
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England's Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: "These outstanding results are a testament to the dedication of NHS staff, who despite pressure on the front line are delivering safer, more compassionate care than ever.
‎"Ranked the best healthcare system of 11 wealthy countries, the NHS has again showed why it is the single thing that makes us most proud to be British."
But others pointed out that in terms of quality of care - as shown by the health outcomes - the findings were more damning.
Kate Andrews, of the Institute of Economic Affairs, said the NHS was "far from being the envy of the world".
"The UK has one of the highest rates of avoidable deaths in western Europe, and tens of thousands of lives could be saved each year if NHS patients with serious conditions such as cancer were treated by social health insurance systems in neighbouring countries, such as Belgium and Germany.
"It is not just low-income earners who receive poor care, the NHS's provision of care is equally poor for everybody, irrespective of income."
The infection was related to the treatment he has had for prostate cancer over the past 18 years, his daughter, Rev Canon Mpho Tutu said.
Mr Tutu was readmitted on 28 July one week after being discharged. He will now continue his recovery at home.
Archbishop Tutu retired from public life in 2011 but continues to travel.
The 83-year-old Nobel Peace Laureate cancelled a planned trip to Rome in December following another infection.
The statement said Mr Tutu was happy with "the first-class" treatment he had received.
However, he told Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, that "most South Africans did not have access to decent health care".
The archbishop also celebrated Eucharist in the hospital with daughter Mpho, it added.
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The popular soap opera is watched in more than 60 countries, and has been running for 25 years.
The show's producers are planning a series of blockbuster storylines, including a fairytale wedding and the plotting of an attempted murder.
Neighbours tells the story of ordinary suburban folk in a fictional Australian city.
While it might not sound like gripping television, the show's simple formula of mixing family disputes with troublesome teenagers and romance has intrigued many millions of viewers around the world.
The producers have launched a series of festivities to mark the programme's extraordinary longevity with storylines that include the return of an old favourite and the appearance of the first openly gay male character.
The success of Neighbours owes a great deal to its international appeal.
Viewing figures in Australia have declined steadily in recent years but the daily dramas on Ramsay Street continue to thrill audiences overseas.
The soap opera is shown in Ireland, Norway and Belgium as well as Barbados and New Zealand.
Britain has been fixated with this legendary show for decades.
The marriage of characters Scott and Charlene, played by the actor Jason Donovan and the singer Kylie Minogue, was watched by more than 20m people in the United Kingdom.
Despite its fluffy reputation, Neighbours has occasionally tackled far more weighty issues, including drug trafficking, kidnapping and murder.
He is among several lawmakers to express frustration after three Republican senators opposed a bill to scale back parts of the US health law.
The so-called "skinny" repeal is the Senate's third failed attempt to roll back Obamacare.
It is considered a blow to Republicans who vowed for years to repeal the law.
The legislation fell apart during the early hours on Friday, when Arizona Senator John McCain cast the decisive vote to reject the bill by 51 to 49 in the Republican-dominated Senate.
He joined Senators Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins in opposing the plan.
An estimate from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found the "skinny" repeal would have resulted in 16 million people losing their health insurance by 2026, with insurance premiums increasing by 20%.
Mr Ryan said Republicans "should not give up" on the plan, but added that he would now turn his attention to overhauling the tax code.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, described the result as a "disappointing moment".
He continued: "It's time to move on."
Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks blamed Mr McConnell for the failure, telling CNN "the leadership at the top is responsible. The buck stops there".
"If Mitch McConnell cannot get the job done on this, how is he going to get the job done on the rest of President Trump's agenda over the next three and a half years?" he asked.
Mr Brooks added that Mr McConnell should pressure the Senate to pass a new version of former President Barack Obama's signature law - the Affordable Care act - or step down.
Iowa Congressman singled out Mrs Murkowski and Mr McCain for the loss.
He said Mrs Murkowski "was initially appointed to her position by her father" and that her write-in campaign in 2010 "was essentially a revolt" against Republican primary voters.
Mrs Murkowski was elected to her fourth term last year.
Congressman Paul Gosar, an Arizona Republican, was among several lawmakers to share his disappointment on Twitter.
Texas Senator John Cornyn tweeted it was up to Democrats now to protect Americans from a market collapse.
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst tweeted she was "disappointed" the Senate could not repeal the "flawed law" while Georgia Senator David Perdue blamed "an unworkable budget process and politicians who put their political self-interests ahead of national interest".
"The American people should be outraged and should demand real change now," he said in a statement. "It is extremely important that we get this fixed."
But Republican Ohio Governor John Kasich applauded Mr McCain, Mrs Murkowski and Mrs Collins in a tweet on Friday, saying "Courage is contagious".
President Trump lamented the failed vote during a speech at Suffolk County Community College in New York on Friday afternoon, but added "you can't have everything".
He told the crowd he said from the beginning to "let Obamacare implode" first and then repeal it.
"I turned out to be right," he added.
A spokesman for Mr Obama weighed in on the debate on Friday, praising those who "mobilised, organised and made their voices heard".
"President Obama still believes that it is possible for Congress to demonstrate the necessary bipartisanship and political courage to keep delivering on the promise of quality, affordable health insurance for Americans," Kevin Lewis said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer lauded the three senators who voted against the bill.
"I have not seen a senator who speaks truth to power as strongly as well as frequently as John McCain," he said at a news conference on Friday.
He also called Mrs Collins and Mrs Murkowksi tough women and said he spoke to Speaker Ryan on Friday about working on bipartisan legislation.
By Anthony Zurcher, BBC News, Washington
Instead of beating the drum for healthcare reform, the administration has been all over the map.
A hastily announced ban on transgender individuals in the armed forces, issued by presidential tweet. A press conference to herald efforts to combat gang violence. A campaign-style rally in Ohio with a focus on the threats of illegal immigration. A speech to a Boy Scouts gathering that was heavy on media bashing.
In case that wasn't enough, over the past week the administration has been beset by internecine warfare. Mr Trump publicly questioned the effectiveness of his former campaign confidant, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, subjecting him to an increasingly angry barrage of tweets.
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The bill - officially known as the Health Care Freedom Act - would have eliminated parts of Obamacare, including the individual mandate requiring all Americans to have health insurance coverage or pay a fine, and the employer mandate, which requires the same of companies with 50 employees or more.
It also would have temporarily repealed a tax on medical devices, defund the US women's group Planned Parenthood for a year and provide more money to community health centres, as well as given states more flexibility in complying with Obamacare regulations.
But the pared-down measure would have left much of Obamacare untouched, including the expansion of Medicaid, a government health programme for the poor that faced deep cuts in earlier proposals.
A requirement that all insurance plans cover essential health benefits, federal subsidies to help consumers pay for insurance as well as taxes on wealthy Americans also would have remained in place.
The stripped down bill came after earlier Senate defeats for proposals to replace Obamacare and then to partially repeal it.
Mr McCain said he had voted against the skinny repeal because it did not amount to meaningful reform and would not have improved care for Americans.
There are not thought to be any further plans for a new bill to repeal Obamacare because the skinny repeal was seen as the only measure Republicans could get through Congress.
However, lawmakers could revive the issue and take it up later in the year.
Following the vote, President Trump tweeted: "As I said from the beginning, let ObamaCare implode, then deal."
Mr Trump's position on healthcare reform has varied - he has spoken out at various points for Obamacare being repealed, repealed and replaced, or being allowed to collapse by itself.
In his statement, Mr McCain said Obamacare was in a state of "collapse", with healthcare premiums "skyrocketing" and providers "fleeing the marketplace".
He criticised the way Obamacare had been passed by Democrats using their Obama-era majority and called for senators to "return to the correct way of legislating" with input from both parties.
"We must do the hard work our citizens expect of us and deserve," he said.
But Texas Senator Ted Cruz insisted the fight was not over.
"Mark my words, this journey is not yet done," he said.
Writers including former national poet Gwyneth Lewis will present analysis and readings from the medieval Welsh text.
The Mabinogion Revisited can be heard at 22:45 GMT from 14 to 18 November.
Writer Jon Gower said: "It's wonderful to share a national treasure that not even everyone in Wales realises we've got."
The medieval tales include fabled beasts and monsters and one of the earliest-known references to King Arthur.
Some of the stories are more than 1,000 years old, but others are thought to date back even further.
They were popularised and caught the imagination of a new generation of readers when the 11 tales were translated in the mid-19th Century.
"It's one of the finest collections of European folk stories," said Gower.
"But they also have a relationship to the country in which we live today, as so many of the places on the map today connect with those stories told such a long time ago.
"They had been handed down orally from one storyteller to another, down the generations."
The other writers discussing the Mabinogion as part of The Essay series are Prof Sioned Davies, James Hawes and Horatio Clare.
The series is part of BBC Radio 3's 70th anniversary programming. It launched as the Third Programme in 1946, and featured contributions from Dylan Thomas in its early years.
Thomas's play Under Milk Wood premiered on the station shortly after his death in 1954, with Richard Burton playing the principal narrator.
As well as speech programming, it also broadcasts music and has a longstanding relationship with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
BBC Radio 3 controller Alan Davey, who studied the Mabinogion at university, said he welcomed the chance to broadcast the work.
"The Essay on Mabinogion forms part of BBC Radio 3's 70th anniversary, as part of our mission to connect audiences with remarkable music and culture," he said.
Jon Gower's essay will be on the role of nature in the tales and he said they remain relevant today.
"You can look for clues to elements of the landscape in Wales now, and how it's changed," he said.
"For instance in Culhwch and Olwen there's reference to the deforestation of the land.
"There are characters in the tales which have got universal appeal. For instance there's King Arthur, who is chasing the Twrch Trwyth [a wild boar] around Wales and which had him running everywhere, and defeated almost all of his bravest knights.
"It shows that we have possession of that folk character, who is a legend and an icon of Britain."
A New York appeals court unanimously rejected every Argentine argument against the payout.
The decision is the latest twist in the long-running legal saga.
Argentina refuses to pay anything to investors who declined to participate in a previous debt reduction deal involving most of the nation's lenders.
"What the consequences predicted by Argentina have in common is that they are speculative, hyperbolic and almost entirely of the Republic's own making," the judges said in their decision.
But the appeals court held off forcing Argentina to pay pending an appeal to the Supreme Court - which is considered unlikely to hear the case, but puts off any decision to 2014, well after Argentina's congressional elections in October.
The appeal came after a Manhattan court ruled last February that Argentina had violated its contractual obligation to treat all creditors equally. That meant the country would have to pay the bondholders, led by NML Capital and Aurelius Capital Management.
Argentina defaulted on some $100bn of debts in 2002, and has since restructured its debt twice, cancelling around 75% of the nominal value of the bonds.
Almost 92% of the country's bondholders agreed to write off most of the amount owed to them.
NML Capital and Aurelius are demanding 100% repayment of the $1.3bn, plus interest.
The investors were so determined to get their money that they went to court to have an Argentinean ship, the Libertad, impounded in Ghana last year. After several weeks, the ship returned home.
The 20-year old utility player, who can operate in midfield, spent last season at League Two side Wycombe Wanderers.
He has made one first team appearance for Southampton in 2014-15, when he also skippered the young Saints to the Under-21 Premier League title.
"I've been watching Jason for the last six months," said boss Jon Whitney.
"Wycombe's manager Gareth Ainsworth is a good friend of mine. He spoke really highly of him as a player and a person. He's a committed defender. Southampton think really highly of him."
Since being appointed manager on 1 June, Whitney has brought in four midfielders, Kacy Milan Butterfield, Peterborough United's Erhun Oztumer, Sheffield United's Florent Cuvelier and Colchester United's Joe Edwards.
The loan deal with Southampton will run until January 2017.
Since the end of last season, Walsall have lost of right-back Jason Demetriou, centre-half Paul Downing, winger Milan Lalkvovic and midfield link man Romaine Sawyers, who all turned down offers from the club.
Demteriou has since signed for Southend, while Downing has joined MK Dons, Lalkovic is to go to Portsmouth and Sawyers remains linked with former Saddlers boss Dean Smith at Championship side Brentford.
The Saddlers remain in negotiations with winger Anthony Forde, while they are still to determine the future of midfielder Sam Mantom, striker Jordan Cook and left-back Andy Taylor.
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The website will hold information for schools and parents to tackle the "spell of twisted ideologies".
There will also be a "tougher approach" to preventing illegal, unregistered schools.
Mrs Morgan says the aim is to protect "impressionable minds from radical views".
The measures will be announced at Bethnal Green Academy in east London, a school attended by three girls who ran away to Syria last February.
In her speech, Mrs Morgan will say that this is "absolutely not about shutting down debate in schools" or "wrapping young people in cotton wool".
The education secretary says there has to be a balance between preventing extremism and allowing an open debate with challenging ideas.
"That isn't easy, there's no hard and fast rule, age appropriateness matters, as do the motivations of the speakers," Mrs Morgan will say.
"It requires judgement - but just as we must be absolutely clear that we should never give those who peddle extremist ideologies' entry in to our schools or colleges, so too we must guard against inadvertently hiding young people from views which we simply think are wrong and disagree with."
The anti-radicalisation website promises to provide "practical advice to protect children from the dangers of extremism", with information from the government and groups such as the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
It will include information on:
NSPCC head Peter Wanless likened tackling the appeal of extremism to preventing grooming.
"We are contacted daily by worried parents and children themselves on all sorts of issues including radicalisation and dangers associated with extremism," said Mr Wanless.
"Spotting the signs of such abuse has never been more important if we are to help protect children from sexual exploitation, gang related activity or other hate crimes."
Mr Wanless added he wanted parents to be aware of "tell-tale signs of exploitation".
Bethnal Green Academy principal Mark Keary said the website would be a "vital tool" and "educators have a crucial role to play in protecting children from the threat of radical views".
The Department for Education is also promising a "significant escalation" of investigations into schools operating without any formal registration or oversight.
In November, Ofsted said it had found 15 unregistered, illegal schools, including some in Birmingham and London.
A further three schools were discovered a month later, with calls from inspectors for more urgent action to close them.
There will also be a consultation on making sure information is shared to track pupils leaving a school to move to another part of the country.
Mrs Morgan said the website would give teachers and families "the expertise they need to challenge radical views and keep their children safe".
She said "improving intelligence" on where pupils went when they moved away from a school would cut the risk of "young, promising children falling under the spell of twisted ideologies".
"There will be no single knockout blow against those who seek to corrupt young people - but the action we are taking to protect children, inform parents and support teachers will put us firmly on the front foot."
"Controversial slimming pill sweeps the UK", "15 inconveniences of being a woman", "Nine people you won't actually believe exist", "Danger! Don't watch this with your wife" - if you've ever seen any of these headlines screaming out at you, then you'll be familiar with the company's work.
Taboola is one of the main providers of sponsored stories on news and gossip websites.
When you scroll to the bottom of the page, there are picture and caption links to three, six or eight external stories, typically under the headings "More stories from around the web" or "You may like".
More often than not the captions hoping to tempt you to click on them are just a little lowbrow, and the photos accompanying them typically show celebrities or women in bikinis (or both).
Critics have described Taboola's (and its rivals') content as "spam", "click-bait", "degrading", "representing a race to the bottom" and many other derogatory terms.
Yet 400 million of us around the world click on Taboola's links every month, and the business - which was only founded in 2007 - now enjoys revenues of $250m (£154m) a year.
Taboola, which is essentially a hi-tech digital advertising company, was established in Israel by Adam Singolda, who had previously spent almost seven years as an officer in an elite encryption unit of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF).
While the technology the company uses is sophisticated, Taboola's business model is straightforward. News websites don't have to pay to carry its links, and instead they get a share of the advertising revenue that Taboola receives from the advertiser behind each promoted story.
For many newspaper groups who are continuing to see sales of physical newspapers plummet, Taboola provides them with a much appreciated new digital revenue stream, helping them to better monetise their websites.
Yet why is Taboola's content often so annoying?
A charming Mr Singolda, 32, who is the company's chief executive, jokes that we only have ourselves to blame.
"The problem is that for everyone who hates one piece of content, many others love it, and click on it," he says.
"So we register it as a popular story, and leave it up, so more people can see it. If no-one clicked on it, or tweeted about it, then we would remove it."
He adds: "A journalist once complained that he was always seeing stories about [reality TV star] Kim Kardashian on Taboola. So I asked him if he ever clicked on them, and he said yes. So I replied, 'What are you calling me for then?'"
Yet Taboola does seem to have taken the criticism on board, as a year ago it introduced a tool to enable people simply to click to remove stories they don't like.
And as long as a reader of a particular news website doesn't remove the cookies that recognise who they are, Taboola's software will remember their preferences.
So if someone clicks once to remove a link to a story on Kim Kardashian, that should be the last time they ever see her via Taboola.
And Mr Singolda insists that the company's software is getting ever more sophisticated in how it aims to provide people with the additional content they may want.
So to use one simple example, if someone often reads stories about wine, Taboola will aim to provide wine-related sponsored story links.
While Mr Singolda came up with the idea for Taboola after he left the army, he says his military service played a vital role, as it gave him a wealth of training and managerial experience.
A keen computer programmer, and maths whizz kid since he was a young child, upon starting his compulsory national service, he was chosen for the IDF's computer science training programme, before graduating first in his officers' training class.
At the age of just 20, he was leading a team of soldiers doing encryption work, such as allowing an Israeli general to use his mobile phone securely.
"There was no money in the world you could pay to get that experience," he says.
"I learned firsthand how to lead a team, and get everyone to work together. And being the army I couldn't give anyone any financial reward - the only way to get people to do stuff was to inspire them."
The army also enabled Mr Singolda to meet and get to know many people who would go on to join him at Taboola.
After leaving the army, he came up with the idea for Taboola while living back at home with his parents.
He managed to secure the backing of an angel investor, and with a handful of staff and no turnover for four years, developed the software before Taboola was eventually launched to customers.
Today it has 200 employees, and the news websites that use it include USA Today and the Huffington Post.
While Taboola's headquarters is now in New York, it maintains a large office in Tel Aviv, and is just one of a great many hi-tech firms based in Israel.
Mr Singolda says Israel is so strong in the technology field for a number of reasons, including the training that military service provides, and the fact the country has always had an entrepreneurial culture.
And while some Taboola employees are IDF reservists who were called up to serve during the recent conflict in Gaza, Mr Singolda says the company was otherwise unaffected.
Instead, Taboola is now looking to secure a fresh multi-million dollar injection of investment, as it plans to expand around the world - both with and without Kim Kardashian.
The US diplomat made the remarks on his Twitter account, saying a UK exit (Brexit) could also lead to political gridlock or "calls for partition".
His claims were dismissed as "nonsense" by Northern Ireland's first minister.
Arlene Foster said it was "disgraceful" that anyone would suggest that violence would be a consequence of a Brexit.
Mr Haass chaired multi-party negotiations about flags, parades and the legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in 2013, but the talks broke up without agreement.
In his tweet, he said it was "unlikely that those in NI unable to agree on past could agree on future".
The UK's EU referendum takes place on 23 June.
The mature cherry trees were attacked during the night in Cannon Hill Park, in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham by someone wielding an axe.
Birmingham City Council said the trees had been "felled with an axe" and the matter had been reported to the police.
The trees, including one that was about 50 years old, measured up to 30ft (9m) in height.
Darren Share, head of parks, said: "This has taken out a beautiful amenity that was there for everybody to enjoy.
"All the staff are devastated.
"It's not great for anybody to be walking round with an axe. Luckily nobody else was in the park. It's just mindless vandalism that is hopefully a one-off."
The council said it was "impossible" to put a price on the trees.
"They are effectively priceless, as these are mature specimens which cannot simply be replaced with full-size trees - they'd have to be replaced with saplings," it said.
Errington Cheese Ltd has previously been linked to an E. coli outbreak in which a three-year-old girl died.
The company has disputed the evidence and insists its cheese is safe.
In another development, a "small number" of children in Angus have fallen ill with E. coli. A playgroup had temporarily and voluntarily closed.
NHS Tayside said the Angus cases were linked and the children affected were receiving medical treatment, with advice also being issued to parents.
Food Standards Scotland has not linked the latest outbreak in Tayside to the ban on Errington Cheese.
The ban involves Dunsyre Blue, Dunsyre Baby, Lanark Blue, Lanark White, Maisie's Kebbuck and Cora Linn.
People have been advised not to eat the cheese, and to return it to the seller.
The watchdog has previously linked an outbreak of E. coli in July, in which 20 people were infected, including the child who died, with cheese produced by the firm.
Four product recalls have already been issued - three of them voluntary - for specific cheeses produced by Errington.
In a statement, the watchdog said: "FSS is advising all consumers who have purchased these products not to consume them, and to return the products to where they purchased them.
"Both O157 and non-O157 strains of E. coli have been detected in a number of different types of cheese produced by Errington Cheese Ltd.
"Symptoms caused by both O157 and non-O157 E. coli can include diarrhoea, abdominal pain, bloody diarrhoea, and haemolytic uremic syndrome, a serious condition that can lead to kidney failure.
"Given the potential severity of illness and the very low doses of this bacterium required to cause illness, FSS believes this action is in the best interests of consumers."
Speaking on the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, Sir Hugh Pennington, emeritus professor of bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen, questioned the decision by the FSS.
He told the programme: "Food Standards Scotland is behaving in a very precautionary manner because as I understand it, the scientific evidence that there's E. coli 157 in the cheese has not yet been produced.
"There is evidence that some people who ate the Dunsyre Blue cheese in July fell ill - a significant number of people who didn't eat it also fell ill as I understand it."
He added: "Food Standards Scotland has moved in a very, very heavy way and I think it raises the issue of proportionality. How dangerous are these cheeses and have they gone too far in saying none of these cheeses can be sold?"
Errington Cheese said on its website that it was restricted in what it could sell or say because of the "exercise of statutory powers by the authorities".
The company added: "We are pleased to see that FSS acknowledge that there is no microbiological link been found between Dunsyre Blue and the recent outbreak of illness.
"Our own detailed testing keeps us confident that all our cheese is safe to eat."
Speaking about the latest outbreak, Dr Jackie Hyland, consultant in public health medicine at NHS Tayside, said: "NHS Tayside and Angus Council are together investigating a small number of linked cases of E. coli O157 infection.
"The risk to the general public remains low and those affected have received appropriate medical treatment and advice."
There are no opinion polls, but the moderate Islamist Ennahda party is predicted to do well.
Turnout reached 65% an hour before the close of voting, state TV reported.
A series of democratic changes have taken place since the authoritarian leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was ousted in 2011.
Tunisia is seen as the birthplace of the Arab Spring - the pro-democracy movement which sought to replace autocratic governments in several Arab countries.
Tunisia is considered to have had the most successful outcome, with relatively low levels of violence.
At the scene: Naveena Kottoor, Tunis
Despite a rainy and damp start to the day, there were queues outside this polling station in the Tunis 2 district, with some carrying the Tunisian flag.
In this district, voters have a choice between 45 candidates. The entire process is being tightly observed by around 800 international, as well as more than 10,000 national, election monitors across the country.
The security presence is visible at the polling stations and on the streets.
Today marks the end of the political transition period from dictatorship to democracy. It's a milestone, the expectations are high, not just in Tunisia but abroad as well.
Ennahda's main rival is likely to be the liberal Nidaa Tounes (Tunisia's Call), although it has promised to seek a coalition government even if it wins the most seats.
Most of the major parties have vowed to tackle Tunisia's high unemployment and to reinvigorate its economy.
Polls opened at 07:00 (06:00 GMT) and closed at 18:00 (17:00 GMT). Results are expected on Wednesday.
More than 50,000 security personnel and nearly 20,000 soldiers were ordered to be deployed on Sunday to ensure safe voting.
Radical groups within Tunisia have threatened to disrupt the elections and on Thursday militants shot a policeman on the outskirts of the capital, Tunis.
Casting his vote on Sunday, Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa said "the whole world is watching Tunisia today".
Earlier Mr Jomaa warned that extremist groups could attempt to attack polling stations.
"We know that this [election] will be a target because it is unique in the region. It brings hope," he said, during an inspection of troops near Tunis.
Around five million Tunisians were registered to vote, with overseas residents having already cast their ballots on Friday.
Ennahda, which currently rules in coalition with other parties, has promised to pursue a unity government even if it wins the most seats.
Tunisia is set to hold a presidential election on 23 November, which will deliver the country's first directly elected leader since the removal of Ben Ali in 2011.
Protests which began in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid in late 2010 later gathered pace and spread across much of the Arab world the following year.
The businessman, 54, was convicted on Monday of five charges relating to HK$720m (£55m) passing through his bank accounts between 2001 and 2007.
He claimed he had accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars through stock trading, business ventures in mainland China, a hair salon and gambling.
Judge Douglas Yau said the sentence must be a deterrent to others.
The former hair stylist's trial was told he had lied about how he made his money and Yeung was described by Judge Yau as "not a witness of truth".
By Juliana LiuHong Kong correspondent, BBC News
His was a rags to riches and, now, back to rags story.
Carson Yeung's rise from humble hairdresser to wealthy owner of a British football club has attracted much media attention.
The international press pack bore witness to his fall from grace at the end of a three-year legal case.
His legal team has declined to say whether there will be an appeal. This has been a closely watched case, coming just two years after the city introduced new laws against money laundering and terrorist financing.
It is still unclear exactly how the sentence will affect Yeung's British football club, Birmingham City.
The businessman was unable to show where almost HK$100m (£7.7m) in his bank accounts had come from.
Sentencing Yeung at Hong Kong District Court, Judge Yau said: "The sentence must include an element of deterrence to discourage those who are in a position to exploit the system.
"The law will come down on them with full force.
"Maintaining the integrity of the banking system is of paramount importance if Hong Kong is to remain an international finance centre," he said.
Police investigators, who described the case as a difficult one involving analysis of financial records from as far back as 2001, welcomed the six-year sentence.
Gloria Yu, a police investigator, told reporters outside the courthouse: "We overcame a lot of hurdles to get this result.
"We are happy... and encouraged because fighting money laundering is a very arduous task."
The BBC's Andrew Wood in Hong Kong said it was a tough sentence, despite Yeung's lawyer asking for leniency.
"He'll be 60 years old [when released], assuming he doesn't come out with time for good behaviour."
Yeung worked in the UK as a teenager before becoming a hairstylist in Hong Kong. He made his fortune investing in Macau in the 1990s and is a prominent property developer in Hong Kong.
He bought Birmingham City in October 2009 for £81.5m from David Sullivan and David Gold, now the co-owners of West Ham.
The Hong Kong businessman was arrested and charged with money laundering two years later.
He is the majority shareholder but resigned in February as president of Birmingham City FC, director of Birmingham City plc and director and chairman of the club's parent company, Birmingham International Holdings Ltd (BIHL).
His son, Ryan, 20, and brother-in-law Shui Cheong Ma, 52, remain on the club's board of directors.
Acting chairman Peter Pannu said Yeung would not run the "club by proxy" from prison through family members on the board.
On Monday, the club said Yeung's conviction would have no impact on day-to-day operations.
The Football League has said it is satisfied with the action the club's holding company has taken since the commencement of criminal proceedings.
In a separate development, the sale of 12% of the club was cancelled on Friday as the buyer, a Chinese media firm, failed to meet the deadline set by the club.
BBC 5Live's Pat Murphy has estimated the value of the football club has dropped to about £30m as it struggles in the second tier.
Fans' organisation the Blues Trust has said Birmingham supporters are looking forward to a "new era" and want to put "this troubling period behind us as soon as possible".
It has called on BIHL to sell the club as soon as possible.
Since Yeung took charge, Blues have won the League Cup but have been relegated from the Barclays Premier League and are currently 17th in the Championship.
A 33-year-old and a 21-year-old were found dead on Sunday after getting into difficulty while swimming in Llanberis, Gwynedd.
Two others, aged 27 and 25, were treated in hospital before being released.
North Wales Police are continuing inquiries into what happened before the men died.
Paul Gray said reducing treatment rates was one of the "contingencies" the health board had raised with him.
NHS Tayside has a gap of just over £58m between expenditure and income this financial year, MSPs were told.
Mr Gray told a Holyrood committee the chair and chief executive of NHS Tayside have raised various options.
Audit Scotland warned last year that there was a risk NHS Tayside would need a Scottish government bailout, known as brokerage, despite receiving more than £24.3m from ministers since 2012.
Mr Gray told the Public Audit and Post Legislative Scrutiny Committee: "One of the contingencies a board can deploy would be to slow down the rate of treating people in some areas.
"That's what I want to discuss with them, whether and how they will deploy some of these contingencies.
"There may be some that are appropriate and some are not, I just want to be sure about that."
Committee convener Jenny Marra asked: "Does that mean longer waiting lists?"
Mr Gray replied: "Yes, let's not beat about the bush, of course it would.
"It would mean that somebody who might have been treated at the end of March might not be treated until April."
NHS Tayside management have been set the target of making savings of £46.75m in 2016-17 and £45.8m in 2017-18.
Christine McLaughlin, director of health finance at the Scottish government, said after the "board is back in financial balance" it will then look to "put in place a repayment profile for the brokerage they have incurred".
Some health boards have previously not been required to repay brokerage funding, but Mr Gray said the Government had already made a concession to NHS Tayside by allowing it to keep money it raises from the sale of any assets rather than returning this to central funds.
MSPs pressed Mr Gray when the financial problems had become apparent, with the SNP's Gail Ross asking: "Surely the alarm bells start ringing when you need to get bailed out by the Scottish government in consecutive years, time after time?"
Conservative MSP Ross Thomson said a specialist taskforce had been sent in to help 15 years ago in a bid to avoid the "very financial situation NHS Tayside has found itself in".
Mr Gray said: "I will reflect on that but it is difficult to hold to account people who are not there, and also to look back at decisions which were taken, for example about assets, in the light of today's economic circumstances which now turn out to be wrong.
"We would have to reflect whether they were wrong at the time they were taken."
The 24-year-old, capped 21 times, has agreed a two-year contract with the Murrayfield outfit.
"It was a very difficult decision to leave a club I've supported since I was a teenager," said Weir.
"It'll be a new challenge for me after six years at the Warriors and when the time comes I'll move on with a number of good memories."
Weir, who featured in two matches at last year's World Cup, made his 100th appearance for the Warriors in the 22-5 win over Racing 92 at Rugby Park on Saturday.
He was a second-half replacement when Glasgow beat Munster in the Pro12 final last May.
"The highlight has obviously been winning the Pro12 last season," he told the Warriors website. "But there is still a lot of rugby to be played this season and my aim is to end my time at Scotstoun on a high."
Weir has scored 55 points in the blue of Scotland, including a final minute drop-goal to secure a 21-20 win over Italy in the 2014 Six Nations and a late penalty in a 21-19 defeat of Argentina in the same year.
"He's had to go through some tough times with injuries but he always brings enthusiasm to training and he's playing some really good rugby," said Glasgow head coach Gregor Townsend.
"It'll be tough for us to go up against him next season, but he wants to fight for the stand-off position at Edinburgh and we wish him all the best when he leaves."
The analysis by Unicef UK said there was a "strong economic case" for supporting more women to breastfeed.
It said £11m every year could be saved by preventing infections and £31m by reducing the cases of breast cancer.
The Department of Health said it was "absolutely crucial" that new mothers received the support they needed.
The analysis, published in Archives of Diseases in Childhood, is part of a much larger report by Unicef on the health benefits of breast milk.
It found "good quality" evidence that breastfeeding was protective against gastrointestinal and lower respiratory tract and ear infections in infants.
The cost to the NHS of treating those infections was £89m every year, the team of researchers from across the UK calculated.
If the 21% of women who were exclusively breastfeeding at six weeks continued until their baby was at least four months old, it would save £4m a year in hospital and GP bills, the researchers said.
Increasing the figure to 45% would save £11m a year, they said.
Currently, 81% of new mothers start breastfeeding, but only 7% are still feeding with breast milk alone at four months.
Surveys had shown that most women stopped before they would like to because of problems, the researchers said.
Their analysis also indicated that if twice as many premature babies were fed breast milk, either from their mother or donor milk, while they were in hospital, the NHS would save £6m every year in treating the potentially deadly gut infection necrotising enterocolitis.
And if about a third of women breastfed one child or more for longer than seven months in total, the reduced rates of breast cancer could save £31m from the annual £960m spent in treating the disease in women who had given birth.
Norway 80%
Sweden 68%
Australia 60%
UK 34%
They said it was very important to note that the findings did not depend on persuading more women to breastfeed, but supporting those already breastfeeding to carry on for longer.
The findings should "reassure policymakers, service planners and commissioners that a rapid return on investment is realistic and feasible", they added.
Study leader, Dr Subhash Pokhrel from Brunel University, said they had selected 45% still breastfeeding at four months as it seemed a "realistic" achievement.
Rosemary Dodds, senior policy adviser at the charity NCT and co-author of the study, said there had been enormous improvements in the past 20 years in increasing rates of breastfeeding for newborns but support in the community for women to breastfeed longer was lacking and the government had failed to lead on the issue.
"The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence said women should be getting proactive support, but that is not happening all over the country, and one of the reasons is data collection - those working in the community do no know who has had a baby," she said.
Other strategies recommended by the NCT included breastfeeding cafe's where pregnant women could find out about the realities of breastfeeding to boost their confidence, she said.
Health minister Dr Dan Poulter said: "The health and economic benefits of breast feeding are clear and it is absolutely crucial that new mothers get support with breastfeeding.
"That's why the Government has trained thousands of extra NHS midwives and health visitors in order to provide personal care to every new mum, and to help give more mums breast feeding support and advice."
New tests were ordered more than a year after Gemma Wilks died because a report said she had a "normal" gallbladder, an organ she had actually had removed.
The 23-year-old's mother Carrie Wilks, from Lincoln, spoke after an inquest into her death on Thursday.
New tests showed Gemma's death, in July 2013, related to a therapeutic drugs overdose, the Lincoln inquest heard.
Coroner Stuart Fisher had ordered the exhumation, in September last year, after errors with initial post-mortem tests indicated Gemma's cause of death was heart disease.
Speaking about the exhumation, Ms Wilks said: "It was horrible - her coffin had collapsed so they had to move her into a body bag.
"It was just really eerie - even though the staff were lovely - it wasn't something any mum should have to go through."
Gemma's body was only exhumed after her mother questioned some of the details of the initial post-mortem report.
Ms Wilks said the family's grief had been made worse because they believed Gemma had "had a massive heart attack".
She said they were told "Gemma's heart was like that of a 60 year old," adding it was "really distressing to think she died on her own in agony".
Gemma had previously been diagnosed with chronic pain syndrome and a personality disorder, her mother said.
Agreeing with the findings of the second post-mortem examination, Mr Fisher said that in 20 years as a coroner, it was the only exhumation he had ever ordered.
He said it had been necessary in order to establish the facts.
Hallam Amos crossed less than a minute into his comeback, while tries from Nic Cudd and Lewis Evans gave the Dragons a 24-10 half-time lead.
The home side found it hard going despite a 58th minute red card for Alexandre Bias, before Ashton Hewitt scored the vital fourth try.
Dragons stay two points clear of Sale Sharks, who won 27-3 at Pau.
The top two face each other in the final round of matches on 21 January at Sale's AJ Bell Stadium, with the five pool winners and three best-placed runners-up qualifying for the quarter-finals.
The Dragons showed their intent from the start as a Castres knock-on allowed Sarel Pretorius to start a counter-attack and Jason Tovey to work Amos clear.
Cudd then smuggled his way over from a driving line-out maul and Evans crossed from close range. Tovey converted all three touchdowns.
David Smith shot over in the final minute of the first half for a converted score that seemed to turn the tide in favour of the French.
Lock Christophe Samson charged in after 50 minutes after some snappy handling and a Geoffrey Palis penalty on 56 had the home side rocking at 24-18.
Two minutes later, Castres were let down by their discipline as replacement lock Bias put in a reckless head and shoulder charge on Phil Price, and referee Peter Fitzgibbon brought out a red card.
French woes deepened as replacement prop Eric Sione saw yellow for a clumsy challenge, but the Dragons laboured to press home their advantage.
Eight minutes from time they finally cracked the Castres defence, with a Taulupe Faletau charge producing the chance for Hewitt to grab the loose ball for the crucial fourth.
Tovey converted for an 11-point haul to go with his man-of-the-match award.
Newport Gwent Dragons head coach Kingsley Jones told BBC Radio Wales:
"We wanted to play with ambition and not kick the ball too much.
"We had them under pressure and played good rugby. Our errors in the second half were 60% and we can't make that many errors, it was poor.
"We're still top of the group and hopefully we'll go to Sale on a positive note and have a go there."
Dragons: Meyer; Hewitt, Hughes, Warren, Amos; Tovey, Pretorius; Price, Dee, Harris, Hill, Landman (capt), Evans, Cudd, Faletau.
Replacements: T Rhys Thomas, Stankovich, Knight, Screech, Jackson, Davies, O'Brien, Scott.
Castres: Palis; Sivivatu, Combezou, Cabannes (capt), Smith; Fontaine, Seron; Diarra, Babillot, Caballero, Desroche, Samson, Martinez, Rallier, Taumoepeau.
Replacements: Sione, Beziat, Wihongi, Hannoyer, Bias, Wulf, Urdapilleta, Lamerat.
It is a copy by Quinn of his painted bronze and steel sculpture Planet, which is 30ft (9.2m) long.
On social media residents have likened it to the "marshmallow man" and talked of a "baby invasion" in Royston, Hertfordshire.
The artist's studio said the "editioned work" is at a depot for "maintenance".
Quinn's original six tonne "Planet" was commissioned by Chatsworth House in Derbyshire in 2008, where it was displayed in the grounds.
It was exhibited in 2012 at the Musée Océanographique de Monaco before moving to its permanent home in the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore in 2013.
The massive Royston baby might seem hard to miss, but it is usually covered with a marquee-like structure or tarpaulin.
However, it has been spotted in its full nakedness several times by people walking through the industrial estate.
"Anyone know why there is a giant baby wrapped in plastic on the industrial estate?" wrote a member on a local Facebook page, having spotted the structure earlier this week.
Others who spotted it were "intrigued" while one "screeched with laughter" at the sight.
It is being housed at an art storage and transportation company which was responsible for installing the original Planet at the Monaco exhibition.
A spokesman said he could not comment on what the sculpture was doing there, citing "client confidentiality".
A representative of Quinn said the Royston baby is an "editioned work by Marc Quinn", adding: "The work was undergoing maintenance... as is common to all painted bronze sculpture."
Emily Price, from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, moved to Aberystwyth in 2014 to study maths and physics.
She died just days after being elected as a Lib Dem town councillor in May.
Head of Maths Prof Simon Cox said: "With her quiet smile and enthusiasm, she will be fondly remembered and greatly missed by us all."
Ms Price, who was in the final year of the course, had submitted her dissertation shortly before the local elections and was planning to continue her studies at masters' level.
Her family and the university are discussing the idea of setting up a bursary in her memory.
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The Spaniard is upset with comments made by Roselyne Bachelot, who was formerly Minister for Health and Sport.
The 14-time Grand Slam winner, 29, says he will sue anyone else who alleges "something similar in the future".
Nadal says he is tired of the allegations and is no longer prepared to let them pass unchallenged.
"A minister of France should be serious," he said. "This time is the time to go against her. We are going to sue her.
"This is going to be the last one, because I'm going to sue her. I am tired about these things. I let it go a few times in the past. Not any more."
Bachelot, 69, served as Minister for Health and Sport from 2007 until 2010, under the government of former president Nicolas Sarkozy.
She made the allegations about Nadal last week, when addressing Maria Sharapova's failed drugs test.
"When you see a tennis player stopping for months, it's because there's been a positive control," said the French politician.
Nadal has already spoken out about the speculation surrounding him.
Following Sharapova's admission last week of a failed test, the former world number one said: "I am a completely clean guy.
"I have never had the temptation of doing something wrong."
Nadal has never failed a drugs test but has been the subject of speculation that he dopes.
In 2011, former French Open champion Yannick Noah wrote a newspaper article saying Spanish sporting success was due to doping.
A year later, a satirical French TV show featured a life-size likeness of Nadal filling up his car's gas tank from his own bladder before being pulled over by traffic police for speeding.
Then in 2013, Belgian former professional player Christophe Rochus questioned Nadal being able to dominate the 2012 French Open and then be injured two weeks later at Wimbledon.
A Scottish Labour backbencher was heard using "unparliamentary language" during the weekly question session.
Tricia Marwick said she would review the official report and would "take action" if the member responsible did not admit it and withdraw the remark.
Nicola Sturgeon said the "insults" showed how "desperate" Labour were.
The remark was made as Labour leader Kezia Dugdale questioned Ms Sturgeon about council cuts she said were imposed by the government's tax policy.
During a heated exchange, punctuated by Ms Marwick telling members to "stop heckling the first minister", the word "liar" was called out from the back benches, prompting an angry response from SNP members.
Calling for a "grown up debate", Ms Sturgeon said: "We know how desperate Labour are by the volume of the insults they have to sling across the chamber."
Following the exchange, Ms Marwick said she "didn't quite hear" the comment in question, but warned members against use of "clearly unparliamentary" language.
She said: "I will review the official report afterwards. If the member who used that word wished to admit it and withdraw it now that would be helpful, but if not I will take action this afternoon."
Crews were honoured for their work when one carriage of The Smiler ride collided with another on 2 June.
The carriages were eight metres up and the rescue took four and a half hours.
Daniel Thorpe, 27, who suffered a punctured lung and broken leg said: "Their presence was a huge comfort during a traumatic time."
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service crews from Leek, Stafford, Sandyford, Cheadle, Ipstones, Longton and Hanley received a Chief Fire Officer's certificate of commendation.
It is given to people who have placed their lives at reasonable risk whilst saving others or whose actions have saved lives.
Leah Washington, 18 from Barnsley, whose leg was amputated after the crash, said: "The crews have been amazing, they were really caring at the time and also visited me in hospital afterwards which was lovely of them."
She added: "They really deserve the award."
Mr Thorpe from Buxton and Ms Washington were joined at the ceremony by her boyfriend Joe Pugh, 18, also from Barnsley, and 20-year-old Vicky Balch from Leyland, Lancashire, who also had to have her leg amputated.
Chief Fire Officer Peter Dartford said: "The crews that dealt with the incident at Alton Towers did an absolutely amazing job in incredibly challenging circumstances."
He added: "I am extremely proud of the professionalism and sensitivity that our firefighters showed throughout the entire rescue operation and in the aftermath the incident."
Cheadle firefighter Helen Green, who was part of the rescue operation, said: "It is a real honour and it has been lovely to see the casualties again and to know that they are all doing so well."
New York Justice Gerald Lebovits set a full hearing for 6 September, banning auction house Gotta Have Rock and Roll from holding a sale in the meantime.
Madonna's underwear, a chequebook, a hairbrush, photos and a break-up letter from the late rapper Tupac Shakur had been among the scheduled lots.
The pop superstar said her possessions had been stolen by a former friend.
Tupac's letter, in which the rapper suggests he broke up with Madonna because of her race, was expected to fetch as much as $400,000 (£307,000).
The letter is dated 15 January 1995 and was penned while Tupac was serving a prison sentence for sexual assault, 18 months before he was shot dead. Both artists were then at the height of their fame.
Madonna, 58, confirmed two years ago that the pair had had a relationship, though it is unclear how long it lasted.
"For you to be seen with a black man wouldn't in any way jeopardise your career, if anything it would make you seem that much more open and exciting," Tupac, then 23, wrote from New York's Clinton Correctional Facility.
"But for me at least in my previous perception I felt due to my 'image' that I would be letting down half of the people who made me what I thought I was.
"Like you said, I haven't been the kind of friend I know I am capable of being," he wrote, adding: "I never meant to hurt you."
In court documents, Madonna said she had only learned from press reports that the letter from her former boyfriend - and many of the other items - were no longer in her possession.
Many of the lots were presented for sale by New York art dealer Darlene Lutz.
Madonna said Ms Lutz had access to them when she helped the singer pack up a house in Miami.
"It seems obvious that Defendant Lutz betrayed my trust in an outrageous effort to obtain my possessions without my knowledge or consent," Madonna told the court.
A spokesperson for Ms Lutz and the auction house said Madonna and "her legal army" had taken a "completely baseless" action to temporarily halt the sale, and vowed to challenge the allegations in court.
Objecting to the sale of her hairbrush, Madonna told the judge: "I understand that my DNA could be extracted from a piece of my hair. It is outrageous and grossly offensive that my DNA could be auctioned for sale to the general public."
The pop singer also sought to block the sale of a frank letter to another former lover, actor John Enos.
Writing in the early 1990s, Madonna said she envied the careers of singer Whitney Houston and actress Sharon Stone, saying they were "horribly mediocre" and had profited from her own success.
"Maybe this is what black people felt like when Elvis Presley got huge," she wrote.
Sharon Stone wrote in a Facebook post last week that she is friends with Madonna, adding: "I love and adore you; won't be pitted against you by any invasion of our personal journeys."
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The bank agreed to pay $5.1bn (£3.5bn) in civil penalties and consumer relief.
The tentative deal was reached with the US Department of Justice's Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force.
The task force has been investigating how banks advertised risky financial products before the financial crisis.
Goldman Sachs' chairman and chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein, said in a statement: "We are pleased to have reached an agreement in principle to resolve these matters."
The deal stems from an investigation into Goldman Sachs' securitisation, underwriting and sale of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) from 2005 to 2007.
Goldman Sachs is one of several banks that have been fined billions of dollars for marketing RMBS as a safe investment in the run-up to the financial crisis.
The sale of RMBS played a significant role in the 2008 crisis. US banks have taken much of the blame for granting mortgages to unqualified borrowers, then repackaging those loans as safe investments and selling the risk on to others.
The deal settles civil claims from the Justice Department, the New York and Illinois Attorneys General, the National Credit Union Administration and the Federal Home Loan Banks of Chicago and Seattle.
The agreement is still subject to negotiations over certain documentation.
Goldman Sachs has warned the deal will reduce its fourth-quarter earnings by $1.5bn.
Those fears were realised on Monday, when a lorry ploughed into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring 48.
During one week in July, 10 people had been killed and dozens more injured in separate gun, bomb, axe and machete attacks. Three were in Bavaria and one in Baden-Wuerttemberg.
The authorities said the July attacks were not linked to each other - but there were concerns about escalating insecurity in the country.
On 19 December, a man ploughed a lorry into a busy Christmas market in the heart of Berlin. The driver fled the scene but was arrested nearby.
On 18 July, a teenage Afghan refugee hacked at passengers on a train in Wuerzburg with an axe and knife, wounding five. He was shot dead by police.
On 22 July, a German teenager of Iranian heritage shot dead nine people in Munich before shooting himself dead.
On 24 July, a 21-year-old Syrian refugee killed a woman with a machete and wounded five other people as he fled before being arrested. Later that day, a 27-year-old Syrian whose refugee application had been refused blew himself up outside a bar in Ansbach. Fifteen people were wounded.
There were also deadly attacks in France in July, when a lorry killed over 80 people in Nice, and a priest had his throat slit after two jihadists burst into a church in Normandy.
The attack on the Christmas market in Breitscheidplatz is being investigated as a "probable terrorist attack", according to German police.
The attacker's name and nationality have not yet been confirmed by authorities.
The attack in Wurzburg was claimed by so-called Islamic State (IS), while the Ansbach bomber had videos on his phone showing him pledging allegiance to the group, Bavaria's interior minister said.
The attacker's bomb was packed with metal fragments and he had been attempting to gain entry to a music festival which more than 2,000 people were attending.
However, police ruled out a political motive for the killings in Munich.
Gunman David Ali Sonboly was inspired by other mass shootings that had no political motivation, such as a school massacre carried out by 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer in Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2009.
Sonboly carried out his attack on the fifth anniversary of the 77 murders by far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik in Norway.
Investigators in Reutlingen said the Syrian machete attacker knew his victim and the attack was probably to do with their relationship.
It is too early to know if the Berlin attack has any links to any of the others.
German government spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer said the July attacks were not connected and did not show a "consistent pattern".
Sonboly had a history of mental illness. He had spent two months as an inpatient at a mental care facility in 2015, was depressed and feared contact with others, the Munich prosecutor's office said.
The suicide bomber in Ansbach had also spent time living in a mental care facility and had twice attempted to take his own life, officials said.
In Reutlingen, the attacker also showed signs of being mentally disturbed.
He was also already known to police for assault, theft and drugs offences, police said.
Security sources cited by DPA news agency said that the Berlin attacker was either an Afghan or Pakistani asylum seeker.
The big influx of refugees to Germany is already controversial, and the fact that three of the July attackers were refugees heightened the polemic.
The anti-immigration AfD party has already blamed Chancellor Angela Merkel for the Berlin attack, linking the incident to her decision to allow more than one million migrants into Germany last year.
There has recently also been a lot of discussion about an Afghan youth who has been arrested over the October rape and murder of a German student.
After this, the government urged Germans not to scapegoat migrants.
The government had previously said the risk of someone being a perpetrator of terrorism was not greater among refugees than among the general population.
"Most of the terrorists who committed attacks in Europe in the past months were not refugees," said Ulrike Demmer.
Returning jihadists are known to have told investigators that so-called Islamic State was keen to recruit in Germany and the UK to boost its ability to carry out attacks in those countries.
"Their networks in these countries are not as close to criminal networks or as substantial as in francophone countries such as France and Belgium," said Raffaello Pantucci from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).
"Most Muslims in Germany are of Turkish origin and while there are Turkish jihadists present, it is more of an Arab story and has deeper roots in France and Belgium."
Ahead of the Berlin attack, prosecutors said a 12-year-old German-Iraqi boy had tried to blow up a Christmas market in the German town of Ludwigshafen in November.
The boy was arrested in December, and the German media reported concerns that he had been radicalised by IS.
After the Berlin killings, Roderich Kiesewetter, an MP from German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling party, said the government had taken measures to lower the risk of terrorism in the country.
A review of French intelligence found that attacks there this summer could have been prevented if different forces and agencies had communicated with one another.
After the July attacks, Mr Pantucci expressed concern about excessive bureaucracy in Germany, a country that has different police and intelligence agencies for each region as well as federal agencies. He said plots could "slip through" if intelligence was not shared effectively.
Efforts to disrupt plots could also be hobbled because of German legislation preventing agencies from eavesdropping on citizens in the same way as their counterparts in the UK and US routinely do, Mr Pantucci said.
The German government is currently attempting to broaden the scope of the intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst, to collect data, but a proposed new law has not yet been passed.
Motorsport bosses want to increase unpredictability amid criticism that race weekends can become too formulaic.
The plan was approved in principle, but teams have gone away to analyse the potential impact.
The rule-making F1 commission has also approved plans to introduce improved cockpit head protection in 2017.
The move is designed to help protect drivers from being hit by debris.
All the changes still need to be rubber-stamped by the FIA World Council.
Plans to make cars wider and faster with bigger tyres have also been confirmed.
Fans will also be able to vote for a driver of the day after each race.
The idea to change the format of qualifying came from the FIA and is an attempt to increase unpredictability.
A decision on whether to adopt it this year could be made in the next week or so after the idea has been fully analysed.
It was approved in principle, with the intention of introducing it this year, but the teams have gone away to analyse the potential impact.
There will still be a three-part qualifying session but the plan is to adapt it as follows:
It is worth noting that the final elimination in each session occurs when the relevant drivers pass the chequered flag, not when time is up.
The FIA told teams earlier this month that it wanted to introduce head protection in 2017.
A device called a 'halo' has been deemed the best compromise, given it has the fewest side-effects, such as compromised vision or extrication in the event of an accident.
The Grand Prix Drivers' Association made it clear it felt it was time for the device to be introduced after years of research into the project.
The halo features two arms protruding from behind the cockpit, forming an elliptical shape above the driver's head, and is supported by a narrow forward strut.
It will be a standard part, with all teams using the same design.
The FIA said it would continue to evaluate other options, such as a jet-fighter style canopy.
It is thought unlikely the halo would have prevented the injuries suffered by Frenchman Jules Bianchi, who died last July, nine months after his Marussia collided with a recovery vehicle during the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix.
But it might stop incidents such as the one that killed English IndyCar driver Justin Wilson, who was struck by debris from an earlier crash last year.
F1 bosses have been working for a year on making cars faster and more dramatic-looking for 2017.
It is all in response to a perceived waning interest in the sport, although agreeing the detail has proved problematic.
Nevertheless, bodywork dimensions have been defined after months of discussions:
Some details still need to be resolved and the deadline for doing so by a majority has been extended by two months to the end of April.
There was also "significant further progress" on plans to make engines cheaper, louder and closer in performance, with all teams supplied.
But beyond the enjoyment of elite-level competition, these events are equally important in providing inspiration and a legacy for grassroots sport.
Women's Sport Week (19-25 June) provides a platform for governing bodies to boost female participation across all age ranges and abilities, so here are seven ways you can get involved...
The Football Association's SSE Wildcats initiative has created 200 clubs throughout the UK aimed at girls aged 5-11 in its bid to double participation in football from that age group by 2020.
The clubs run weekly sessions with FA-qualified coaches at local facilities which can be searched for at www.thefa.com/forgirls.
Karen Carney, an ambassador for the scheme who played 128 times for England, said: "I attended a similar FA initiative as a child and that was when I first fell in love with football.
"Hopefully the girls will get the same enjoyment I did and stay involved in the game for years to come."
The Women's Cricket World Cup starts on 24 June, with hosts England taking on India in Derby.
Meanwhile, at grassroots level, governing body the ECB has organised a series of events for women this summer across the UK, introducing beginners to the game with 'soft ball' cricket (as opposed to softball the sport).
They are designed to be fun, fast, social games with no specialist equipment or clothing required and are a key part of the ECB's plans to continue to make the sport accessible for all.
Clubs can register to receive soft ball cricket kit, here, while you can search for a soft ball cricket festival near you with the ECB's club finder.
The Women's Rugby World Cup (9-26 August) is split between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, with the group stage taking place in Dublin and the knockout matches, including the final, all being played in Belfast.
Find out how to get into rugby union with our special guide.
In the build-up to the tournament, WISPA (Women in Sport and Physical Activity) and Ulster Rugby have teamed up to offer a Get Fit Women's Boot Camp at Girdwood Community Hub in Belfast.
The sessions - hosted by qualified fitness instructors - cost £1 and are open to women aged 16 and over. They focus on physical and rugby activities in a fun and positive environment and no experience of playing rugby is necessary.
To sign up for sessions on Monday 26 June and/or Monday 3 July (6-7pm), call WISPA on 02890 314298 or email [email protected]
Since 2010, more than 60,000 women have taken part in Back to Netball sessions, an initiative from English Netball to bring back women who may have played the game at school, or those who have never played but want to give it a go.
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The sessions are run by passionate and enthusiastic coaches, with sessions covering the basics of the game including passing, footwork and shooting and finishing with a friendly game to put the skills you have learned into practice.
To find a session near you, use the netball finder and you can also have a look at stories and testimonials from some of those involved.
Talking of throwbacks to your school days, how about a game of rounders? Governing body Rounders England has a map to find clubs and leagues near you. And if you don't live near any of these, all you need is a bat, ball, some friends to play with and a bit of open space and you can set up a game.
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You can read testimonials from some of those who got involved through Sport England's This Girl Can initiative here and then (if it's not raining - it is the UK summer, after all) get out there with your kids or mates and have a go!
Since the start of the year, former Fed Cup captain Judy Murray has been heavily involved in a Lawn Tennis Association initiative called She Rallies, which aims to increase the proportion of female coaches in the UK (previously only 30%), delivering sessions specifically for girls and women to drive up participation and retention in the sport.
If you want to join in, check out courses near you with She Rallies course finder.
The Get Inspired Activity Finder has a host of sports and activities specifically tailored for women, so go here to find sessions in your area.
And if you run activities yourself as part of a club or community groups, you can sign up as a partner and add activities to the list as you schedule them.
Use the hashtag #mysportingsummer. The official message for Women's Sport Week is to engage, experience and enjoy all the top women's sport events this summer, so share your experiences on social media.
A full list of our Get Inspired activity guides can be found here. If none of the sports above inspire you, you're bound to find something more to your taste and ways to get involved!
Mr Bendine was announcing almost eye-watering losses which the Brazilian oil giant has finally had to admit writing off against corruption.
These financial results, released several months behind schedule, may well mark the start of the way back for Petrobras as a company with which to do business, and in which to invest.
After months of speculation, we now know how much money exchanged hands or was "lost" in Brazil's biggest ever corruption scandal.
A total of $2bn, give or take the odd cent, as massive bribes were routinely paid for lucrative contracts with the company.
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff was chair of the Petrobras board while the worst of the excesses were taking place.
Now under threat of impeachment, Dilma Rousseff has at times appeared indecisive in the eye of the storm.
And although most commentators say the Petrobras scandal will not cost her the presidency, the aftermath will dominate and influence her government's direction and policies for much of the next year.
These Petrobras figures were approved by its auditors and the company's stock has recovered steeply after several months of steady decline.
But it is still a wounded giant, heavily indebted and - despite portraying itself as the victim of a complex crime - several former senior employees were at the apex of the scam.
One of the first major figures to be implicated in the scandal has now also become the first to be punished.
After his arrest, the former head of Petrobras' operations Paulo Roberto Costa quickly turned state's witness, naming names and giving detailed explanations of how contracts were inflated.
He was sentenced to seven years in jail but in return for his "absolute" co-operation he will serve just a year under house arrest.
However, such is the scope and complexity of the investigation, he may well face other charges.
Costa and with black-market currency dealer Alberto Youssef are among the first to be sentenced.
But they are unlikely to the be the last.
Dozens of politicians, senior business figures and middle men have been arrested.
They have been accused of running an elaborate scheme which benefited individuals, and also the governing Workers' Party, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Ever since the investigation began it "has unravelled like a ball of string," one insider told me.
He was speaking in the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba where the operation is still based, despite attempts by some defence lawyers to get the case taken away from the small but tenacious team of investigators.
Across Brazil tens of thousands of jobs have been lost as Petrobras and other big firms caught up in the scandal lay off workers and delay investments.
Putting things right will take time and this could still be a tough year for Brazil's wider economy.
Observers like Eurasia Group's Joao Augusto de Castro Neves say President Rousseff should now use what has been a damaging episode to implement long overdue reforms.
"The silver lining is that you'll see a better corporate governance structure for Petrobras and other companies that operate in Brazil," he says.
"Unfortunately there is no major solution to end corruption but I think it will lead to more transparency, more oversight and less corruption."
That may be an unrealistically optimistic take on the situation ahead.
Brazil's economy is still highly regulated and protective. Some sectors, if not all, are wary of change.
Of most concern is a fear that with so many senior business and political figures caught up in the Petrobras scandal, the country simply cannot afford to take everyone to task.
Despite the impressive tenacity and robustness of the Brazilian judiciary in this process, the overwhelming view on the street is that while individuals like Costa and Youssef will take the rap, politicians will look after each other, delaying or limiting the scope of any inquiry.
The many giant construction companies also implicated have been cornerstones of Brazil's economic growth over the last decade and may be seen as strategically too big to fail.
Petrobras as a company will survive: there is too much oil off Brazil's coast to keep the investors away for long.
The construction companies are needed to continue building venues for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro as well as the other ambitious projects that help keep Brazil's economy safely in the world's top 10.
But there have already been losers.
Thousands of laid-off oil workers are trying to recover money still owed to them, some by protesting in vain outside the Petrobras headquarters here in Rio.
The bottom line is that those who pay for the excess of corruption and greed at the top are those at the bottom of Brazilian society.
Dave King also warned of a possible police investigation into Craig Whyte's takeover of the club, which Mr Whyte bought in May 2011.
Mr Whyte is on trial at the High Court in Glasgow accused of a fraudulent acquisition of Rangers.
He denies a charge of fraud and another under the Companies Act.
Cross-examining former Rangers owner Sir David Murray, Donald Findlay QC, who is defending Whyte, read from a letter Mr King sent to a statutory takeover panel.
Mr King, who had referred to himself as Rangers' biggest minority shareholder after he invested £20m in the side, was appointed to the Rangers board in 2002.
He sent a note to the takeover panel in April 2011 about concerns he had about the source of Mr Whyte's funds to buy Rangers.
It said: "There is concern at a proposal by Mr Craig Whyte to acquire a controlling interest in Rangers Football Club by purchase of the total share hold currently owned by Murray Group.
"There are concerns about the sources of the funds that are available for the potential acquisition and that this may lead to formal investigation by the policing authorities responsible for these matters."
The note emerged during a second day of questioning of former Rangers owner Sir David Murray, who sold the club to Mr Whyte.
During cross-examination, defence QC Donald Findlay also showed Sir David an email addressed to him from then Rangers chairman Alastair Johnston.
In the email sent in March 2011, Mr Johnston wrote: "There has been, in my opinion, no credible opportunity for Craig Whyte in this process that would have allowed him to totally understand the issues that he will face as majority owner of Rangers Football Club."
These included the "shambles" of a playing squad, the upkeep of Ibrox stadium and health and safety-related maintenance.
The court has already heard that Sir David stepped down as chairman of Rangers in 2009 before selling his 85% share in the club to Mr Whyte for £1.
Defence QC Mr Findlay said: "In general terms, you entrusted the club to a board that you believed were capable of following the plan that you had left in place but they bring in no investment, their playing squad ends up as a shambles and this is two months before the deal with Mr Whyte.
"You were being let down by people who didn't have a clue what they were doing when running Rangers."
Sir David replied: "I don't agree about the squad being a shambles but the facts are there."
Mr Findlay also produced notes from David Horne, one of Sir David Murray's "closest advisors", dating from November 2010.
The note said: "Octopus discussion w/CW re £15m possible facility".
The lawyer said: "Octopus was Ticketus, so it would seem that one of your closest advisers, David Horne, was aware that Mr Whyte may be looking for a partner, a possibility of £15m by somebody called Octopus."
Sir David replied: "It appears by that note. I've never seen or heard of that."
He also told the court that he considered the idea of pre-pack administration for Rangers but dismissed it as not a viable option.
The court earlier heard how Sir David had "minimal" involvement at Rangers from 2009.
Mr Findlay said Sir David, at that point, went on to "entrust the club" to a "group of men" including Alastair Johnston.
Mr Findlay added they seemed to waiting on the "Sultan of Brunei" deciding to buy a Scottish football club.
The QC pointed out a number of apparently negative issues that arose at the club from 2009.
Concluding his questioning, Mr Findlay said: "From you stepping down as chairman and Craig Whyte taking over, what had these men done to your football club, Sir David?
"What had they done to our club?"
Sir David replied: "The football side was reasonable. They had not generated new funds and I don't think there was an alternative plan to raise new money.
"I think the club was stalling."
Mr Whyte is accused of pretending to former Rangers owner Sir David Murray, and others, that funds were available to make all required payments to acquire a "controlling and majority stake" in the club.
The funds included clearing the £18m bank debt, £2.8m for the "small tax case" liability, a £1.7m health-and-safety liability and £5m for the playing squad.
The Crown alleges Mr Whyte had only £4m available from two sources at the time but took out a £24m loan from Ticketus "which was held subject to an agreement or agreements being entered into between the club and Ticketus after said acquisition".
The second charge under the Companies Act centres on the £18m payment between Mr Whyte's Wavetower company and Rangers to clear a bank debt.
The trial before eight men and seven women continues.
More than 70,000 people have signed an online petition demanding "a revote counted by impartial international parties".
In a statement, the chief counting officer said all counts "were properly conducted and scrutinised".
Ten votes in Glasgow are already being investigated over a separate claim of multiple voting.
The change.org petition says: "Countless evidences of fraud during the recent Scottish Referendum have come to light, including two counts of votes being moved in bulk into a 'No' pile, 'Yes' votes clearly being seen in 'No' piles and strange occurrences with dual fire alarms and clear cut fraud in Glasgow.
"We demand a revote be taken of said referendum, where each vote shall be counted by two individuals, one of whom should be an international impartial party without a stake in the vote."
Former SNP deputy leader Jim Sillars has called for an official inquiry into the claims raised by the petition and in an online video.
Mr Sillars tweeted: "The vote rigging is disturbing. Enquiry required."
A group calling itself Elite NWO Agenda put the video online which, it claims, shows vote rigging at various counts around Scotland.
One clips claims to show a female member of the counting staff moving a large bundle of 'Yes' votes into a 'No' tray and replacing them with a single 'No' vote.
Another shows a pile of "Yes" ballot papers sitting on a table marked "No".
When complaints were first made to "Yes" campaigners on the night of the count, Yes Dundee tweeted: "To clarify, ballot papers have not yet been sorted into Yes/No and are just resting on a table where No will go once sorted. No need to worry".
A third clip claims to show a vote counter filling out ballot papers himself.
Referendum votes were counted in 32 local authority areas, with the final result announced at a central count in Ingliston, Edinburgh, by chief counting office Mary Pitcaithly, who is convener of the Electoral Management Board for Scotland.
In the statement, a spokesman responded: "The chief counting officer is satisfied that all counts throughout Scotland were properly conducted and scrutinised by thousands of people representing both the Yes Scotland and the Better Together campaigns, as well as international election observers, media and police.
"None of these people raised any concerns during the verification, counting and adjudication stages."
He added: "The Electoral Commission will write a full report on the referendum and concerns can also be directed to them."
"The only recourse now is to judicial review. The individual would have to persuade the courts that there had been issues at counts which had a chance of influencing the result.
"Each of the episodes in the video can be easily explained. However they are presented as a 'conspiracy' theory.
"It is most frustrating and does not recognise the immense work that so many people put into the planning and delivery of the count."
Responding to the first clip, he wrote: "The lady taking papers from one pile to another. I have no idea what is happening, where it is happening or even if it is part of this referendum.
"Clearly if looks like she has put some papers on a pile by mistake and is then putting them right. The video is looped so it is deceptive in its presentation."
Responding to the second and third clips: "This is not Clackmannanshire but Dundee. It was apparently explained live on TV what had happened.
"This was at the verification stage. The papers had not been split into Yes/No. They were briefly stored on the counted papers table. There is nothing to explain.
"Edinburgh element - the count assistant in the video is doing what is a standard element of any count process.
"He has counted papers into bundles of 50 and those leftover are bundled together and a slip of paper is placed on the top of the bundle saying how many are in the bundle.
"The count assistant is writing a number on a slip of paper and putting it under the elastic band on the bundle. This happens at every count."
In a separate incident, officials at the referendum count in Glasgow have been investigating 10 cases of suspected electoral fraud at polling stations.
It is thought to be related to possible cases of impersonation, where people pretend to be someone else and cast a vote, then the real person turns up.
The 10 suspect votes were cast at a variety of different polling stations across the city.
Glasgow City Council said police had been called earlier on Thursday.
Syriza's election victory raises some difficult questions for the other countries using the currency and for the European institutions.
The party's proposals represent a challenge to the austerity that has been a central feature of the eurozone's response to the financial crisis - bailout loans combined with spending cuts and tax rises to reduce borrowing needs and economic reforms to encourage growth.
For the architects of that response - especially the European Commission and Germany - the idea of renegotiating the terms and reducing the debt is an unpalatable one.
Germany and some other eurozone countries already have political problems with the bailouts - received by a total of five countries. Many voters resented the financial assistance, even though it was loans. Any suggestion that they won't be repaid in full will aggravate those concerns.
The key to the Greek burden does lie with the eurozone and its taxpayers.
Some 60% of the outstanding debt is bailout money provided either by the member states themselves or by the European Stability Mechanism, an official EU agency which gets its funds in the financial markets but is financially underpinned by the eurozone countries.
Another 10% is owed to the International Monetary Fund which is ultimately backed by global taxpayers. It doesn't generally do debt relief.
The European Central Bank accounts for 6%. It is banned from giving relief on that by EU law. The country's debt to private sector creditors has already heavily cut back in 2012. The remainder is a variety of creditors including banks, pension funds and other investors in Greece and abroad.
There is a fudge that could be used to ease the Greek debt burden, and it has already been used. That is to reduce the interest rate on its debts to the eurozone and extend the repayment period without actually cutting the nominal value of the debt to be repaid.
To give ground to Syriza could also be read as suggesting that the austerity approach was a fundamental mistake.
After all many economists argued that cutting government spending and raising taxes was exactly the wrong thing to do in economies that were already weak. Austerity aggravated the weakness, they argued, and so undermined tax revenue and exacerbated the government financial problems it was supposed to fix.
Another problem for Germany and those that share its view is that concessions to Syriza might embolden anti-austerity political forces in other countries.
Spain's Podemos party is a striking recent arrival on the political scene, but others will also be watching developments in Greece very closely.
That potential for political "contagion" from Greece to other countries is probably more of a worry for the eurozone than a repeat of the kind of financial and economic contagion we saw when the crisis was at its most intense, in 2011.
That's not to say that type of danger is absent. But the eurozone does have measures in place the reduce the risk.
The key one is European Central Bank proposals to buy the debts or bonds of governments whose borrowing costs go too high. This is NOT the policy of quantitative easing announced last week as a response to deflation or falling prices.
It is a proposal targeted at ensuring that countries such as Italy and Spain do not face unsustainably high borrowing costs as a result of fears they might end up leaving the euro. It's a policy announced by Mario Draghi in 2012. The mere announcement had the desired effect. It hasn't been used, but it is there if needed.
But even if the eurozone can keep the lid on any financial market fears of a wider break-up, the possibility of Greece leaving can't be discounted.
The Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras says he doesn't want it and nor does Greek public opinion. Even Germany doesn't want it, though there is a limit to the concessions that Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble are likely to make.
So the odds are that some sort of compromise will emerge. It may well be messy and be slow to take shape. But then did the eurozone ever do anything that's difficult quickly or easily?
Shane Marsden, 28, from Gloucester, has not been in contact with his family since Tuesday.
Gloucestershire Police said they were working with Interpol to try and find him.
Mr Marsden is believed to be in Thailand after travelling there from New Zealand.
Police are asking anyone who has been in contact with him since Tuesday or with any knowledge about his disappearance to call 101.
The cycle race begins in Leeds on 5 July and will travel through North Yorkshire and South Yorkshire.
RICS said the figures showed that £4.5m of the money had been taken from future council budgets.
Work includes resurfacing, road strengthening and installing signs.
The figures were obtained by RICS from councils in Yorkshire via Freedom of Information requests.
They show that North Yorkshire County Council has spent £4.2m.
In West Yorkshire, Kirklees Council, Bradford Metropolitan District Council and Leeds City Council have budgeted a combined total of up to £950,000.
Calderdale Council has undertaken £600,000 of work, entirely brought forward from future years.
The City of York Council made a £200,000 contribution to road maintenance from its Capital Contingency Fund.
In Sheffield, the city council has prioritised work on the route as part of its scheduled road maintenance programme.
Rob Hindle, chairman of RICS Yorkshire and Humber Regional Board, said he was concerned about the impact of Tour de France spending on future road maintenance.
"While we welcome the Tour de France coming to Yorkshire and all the economic benefits it will bring, we certainly hope that by bringing forward so much work on Yorkshire's roads to before the race, the region won't be left without adequate maintenance for years to come," he said.
"We don't want a feast today if it means a famine tomorrow."
North Yorkshire County Council said that the work carried out on its roads "would have been needed within the next five years anyway".
"We have just brought forward that work in preparation for the race," a spokeswoman said.
"We haven't reduced future highway maintenance budgets as a result and money hasn't been diverted from elsewhere."
Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said co-operation between police and the public was the "greatest advantage".
He cited anti-terrorist hotline calls and the reporting of suspicious online content as ways to keep the UK safe.
But he said with the terror threat ranked as "severe" since 2014, "even more public assistance" was needed.
The threat to the UK is at the second highest of five possible levels, meaning an attack is highly likely.
Mr Rowley said some were passing information to authorities about people behaving unusually in public places, while others were raising concerns about neighbours and friends becoming "more extreme".
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was "really important" for authorities to be able to intervene before people's beliefs become too extreme - saying about 60 to 70 cases a month were being resolved.
About one sixth of those came from public referrals, he added.
Asked if some of the referrals were stopping people being murdered or falling victim to acts of terrorism, he replied: "Yes."
He added: "We are drawing people back from a path towards extremism through partnership activity. Even if you take a view that 90% of those people may have self-treated or not gone on to become terrorists, that is still a massive effect."
In a blog post for the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC), Mr Rowley said: "Every call, every referral, every briefing is part of our joint fight against terrorism.
"The information we receive helps our investigations, intelligence-gathering and preventative work; they help us carry out significant protective security operations; they help us get the right support for vulnerable people, and they undermine the plans of terrorists."
Other examples of the "collective effort" referred to by Mr Rowley include people visiting police and government websites for advice on how to protect homes and businesses or stay safe in the event of an attack.
On Sunday, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe warned a terror attack in Britain is a case of "when, not if".
In his blog, Mr Rowley - a Met assistant commissioner and the NPCC lead for counter-terrorism policing - said officers were not complacent and he "couldn't agree more" with Sir Bernard's assessment.
He said the UK's tight gun laws and a close working relationship between police and the security services were an advantage.
Mr Rowley said: "But for me our greatest advantage is the co-operation between the public and the police.
"It has often been said that 'communities defeat terrorism' and now that's more important than ever before."
Printed in the Daily Telegraph, it says the coalition has kept the UK "open for business". It comes as David Cameron unveils a small firms manifesto.
Labour says the Tories "let down" small firms by failing to boost finance.
Business spokesman Chuka Umunna said the government had overseen an increase in business rates of around £1,500.
He said Labour would cut - then freeze - the rates.
In other election news:
Via the party website, the Conservatives have been encouraging firms to sign a letter - printed in Monday's Daily Telegraph - supporting the party's business policies. The 5,000 small and medium-sized firms who signed up employ a total of about 100,000 people. There are, at least, 5.2 million such businesses in the UK.
The text praises the coalition's efforts to "get the economy moving again by tackling the deficit, helping to keep interest rates low and inflation down".
It states: "We've been helped by their steps to lower taxes, reduce red tape, simplify employment law and get the banks lending."
This issue includes the wider economy and deficit reduction but also employment and the role of business.
Policy guide: Where the parties stand
After repeating the Conservatives' claim that small businesses have been creating 1,000 jobs a day, the letter adds: "We would like to see David Cameron and George Osborne given the chance to finish what they have started."
Its publication coincides with the launch of the Conservatives' small business manifesto, which aims to see 600,000 new firms created each year by 2020.
In a speech in north London, David Cameron will reiterate promises to keep taxes low, cut red tape, treble the number of start-up loans and invest in infrastructure like superfast broadband.
The document also includes a commitment to review the "disadvantages faced by the self-employed" - now 15% of the labour force - including accessing maternity pay and building up pensions.
Mr Cameron will pay tribute to small firms' job creation, calling small businesses "the backbone of our economy".
"We know it's the people who take risks, start out on their own, wake up at the crack of dawn to open up their shop and do their books on the kitchen table at midnight who create jobs," he's expected to say.
"We are the party of the grafters and the roofers and the retailers and the plumbers. We get them, we respect them, we understand them, we back them."
However, Chuka Umunna, Labour's shadow business secretary, said: "The Tories have spent five years letting down Britain's small businesses. Government scheme after government scheme designed to boost finance for small firms has failed, and small business lending has fallen by £500m in the last three months.
"With Labour, the tax burden on small firms will be lower than under the Tories," he said. His party would address late payments and "unfair treatment of small suppliers" and set up a British Investment Bank to back small businesses, Mr Umunna added.
About 200 people attended the service in Douglas which included a montage of childhood photographs set to his favourite Backstreet Boys song.
All those who attended the service at St Ninian's Church followed his family's wishes to wear blue.
The entrepreneur, from Plymouth, died following an asthma attack last month.
His mother Rosemary Baggs said: "We didn't want people to wear black - Stuart wouldn't have wanted that.
"His favourite colour was blue so it seemed fitting."
Baggs launched his company Bluewave Communications in 2007 and, days before his death at the age of 27, held a press conference to launch his latest product.
When he was aged 21 in 2010, he became the youngest ever candidate to appear on the BBC One show The Apprentice.
Baggs, who was fired in the semi-final, became famous for his one-liners, which included "Everything I touch turns to sold" and "I'm Stuart Baggs the brand".
Following his death, Lord Sugar was one of the first to pay tribute to the charismatic contestant, tweeting that Baggs was "one of the stand out characters".
Mrs Baggs told Manx Radio: "The Stuart we knew was so different to the Stuart in the public eye.
"He was a very loyal, caring and funny person, who was the life and soul of any party.
"Stuart was always the person someone would want as their plus one because you would be guaranteed a good night."
Friend Shelly Rourke said he never judged anyone because he felt so acutely aware that everyone judged him. "He didn't want anyone else to feel like that," she said.
"Stuart would do anything for you. Seeing everyone wearing blue today will be a testament to how much people loved him."
Another friend Jo Cutsforth said: "The guy was exceptionally hard-working and very, very passionate.
"He was a boy with a dream and for almost 10 years he made that dream come true."
Paul Moulton, who spoke at the funeral, said: "Everyone wore blue as it was his favourite colour and his company name.
"Anyone who knew Stuart would know that he would have laughed his socks off at the idea."
The technique decodes the infection history imprinted in our immune response.
The scientists hope that the test will eventually provide important insight into how viruses contribute to development of a range of diseases.
The work was published in the journal Science.
During a virus infection, your immune system generates antibodies designed to fight the virus. Each antibody recognises a tiny fragment of the virus and their interaction is very specific - they fit like a lock and key.
Virus-specific antibodies can be long-lived; often persisting many years after an infection has disappeared. So, your antibody repertoire represents a historical record of all of the viruses that have infected you.
This immunological catalogue has been used for years to identify past virus exposure, but the diagnostic tests routinely used have been limited to one, or at most a few, different virus strains.
Prof Stephen Elledge from the Harvard University Medical School US, who led the research team, told Science in Action that the new technique will overcome this limitation: "You can ask questions about all viruses rather than have to do things one at a time, so it allows you to discover connections between different populations or different diseases amongst groups of people.
"Now that we can look at all viruses, it's a complete game-changer."
Researchers have been working out the genetic sequence - the blueprint - of all human viruses for many years.
The team used this information to generate a pool of bacteriophage - viruses that grow easily in the laboratory - with each bacteriophage expressing a tiny fragment of this human-virus blueprint on its surface.
Antibodies present in a drop of human blood could then be used as bait to go fishing in this phage pool - only bacteriophage that express protein fragments recognised by the antibodies in the blood sample will be caught. Sequencing the bacteriophage DNA reveals the human viruses that an individual has been exposed to.
The team used their test to interrogate sera obtained from more than 500 people of different ages and living in different global locations.
The data showed that the number of virus infections detected in people increased during life.
The study also suggested that those living in the US were exposed to fewer infections than people living in South Africa, Thailand or Peru.
"We don't understand why that is. It could be something to do with the different strains of the virus and our inability to detect them, or it could be something to do with the structure of the population, the sensitivity of the population [to infection] or practices in the country", commented Prof Elledge.
The greatest number of virus infections that were detected in any single individual was around 25, but the average number was only 10.
Prof Elledge thought that this was because some individual virus protein fragments can represent many related viruses.
Commenting on the significance of the new technique Will Irving, professor of virology at the University of Nottingham said: "It is a technology which is probably best applied on a population-basis rather than an individual patient basis.
"Whilst its accuracy in defining who had HCV or HIV infection could be massaged up to very respectable levels, I'd be nervous about using it as a diagnostic test to see if an individual patient has HIV infection.
"However, it will be a fabulous tool for looking at virus-disease associations which are speculative, or even currently unknown. For example, primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) has been reported, controversially, to arise from viral infection, so it would be great to compare the virome of PBC patients with those without the disease. Maybe you'd identify a consistent pattern suggesting a specific viral cause.
"Indeed any other disease of unknown aetiology - identifying specific virome reactivity could give a major clue as to a causative agent."
And the technique might also shed light onto why new treatments - immunotherapies - that are being deployed in the fight against cancers work in some individuals and not in others.
Prof Elledge commented: "It's possible that the people that respond [to therapy] are responding because they are taking advantage of existing immune responses to viruses, so we are looking at correlation in these patients to previous viral exposures to see if exposure to a particular virus makes it more likely to respond."
The monarch is celebrating the occasion privately at Windsor Castle where she has been staying for the past month.
In her honour, the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery staged a 41-gun royal salute in full dress uniform.
The salute was followed by a selection of celebratory music from the Band of the Royal Artillery close to the firing position.
The King's Troop rode their horses and gun carriages past Buckingham Palace at midday en route to Hyde Park, where they staged their gun salute using six 13-pounder field guns dating from around the time of World War One.
An hour later, the Honourable Artillery Company fired a 62-gun royal salute from the river bank at the Tower of London, overlooking HMS Belfast.
Three L118 ceremonial light guns, similar to those used in Afghanistan in recent years, were used to fire the salute across the Thames.
Gun salutes were also scheduled at Edinburgh and Stirling Castles, Cardiff Castle, and Hillsborough Castle in County Down.
The basic royal salute is 21 rounds. A further 20 are fired at royal parks and royal palaces and fortresses and another 21 for being in the City of London.
The birthday comes as people begin to gather outside St Mary's Hospital in London in anticipation of the birth of the Queen's newest great-grandchild.
The Duchess of Cambridge is expected to give birth there to her and Prince William's second child later this month, with some fans already waiting as long as two weeks outside the hospital.
Kensington Palace said Prince William was now on unpaid leave until June after completing the first phase of his in-work air ambulance helicopter pilot training sooner than expected.
A palace spokesman said he would return to work after a period of pre-planned official royal engagements in late May.
Prince Harry will also briefly return to the UK this weekend, following the Gallipoli commemorations in Turkey, to attend the London Marathon as patron of the London Marathon Charitable Trust.
Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born on 21 April, 1926, at the Mayfair home of her mother's parents, the Earl and Countess of Strathmore.
Though the Queen's actual birthday is 21 April, her official birthday is held on a Saturday in June.
The tradition of two birthdays dates back to the time when, if monarchs were born in winter, the weather was deemed unsuitable for outdoor events.
In Britain the Queen's official birthday is traditionally marked by the Trooping the Colour ceremony in Horse Guards Parade.
Meanwhile, Clarence House said the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall are to visit the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in May.
Prince Charles and Camilla's four-day trip will reportedly take them to Mullaghmore, where the prince's great-uncle, Lord Mountbatten, was killed in an IRA bombing in August 1979.
Colin Pitchfork was given a life sentence in 1988 for the rape and murder of 15-year-old schoolgirls Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, from Leicestershire.
The mother of one of the girls said "life should mean life".
Barbara Ashworth said: "I think the key should have been thrown away long ago."
"No matter how he says that he feels that his character has been reformed you really don't know until he's out walking the streets," she said.
"He has no right to any freedom at all, because he took the lives of two girls... why should he be able to continue his life?"
The judge who sentenced Pitchfork described him as "a danger to young women" whose crimes were of a "particularly sadistic kind".
Pitchfork was caught after the world's first mass screening for DNA, in which 5,000 men were asked to volunteer blood or saliva samples. Initially, he evaded capture by getting a friend to take the test for him.
He was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 30 years.
The Lord Chief Justice at the time, Lord Lane, said: "From the point of view of the safety of the public I doubt if he should ever be released."
But in 2009, the Court of Appeal reduced the minimum term to 28 years to take into account the "exceptional progress" Pitchfork had made in custody.
The court said the former baker had sought to address the reasons for his offending, achieved "a high standard of education, to degree level", never been placed "on report" while in custody and was "trusted to help with the well-being" of fellow inmates.
It added that Pitchfork, who is now 55, had become a specialist in transcribing printed music into Braille, work which was used across the UK and internationally.
In September this year, Pitchfork will have served 28 years - including the time he spent on remand after his arrest in 1987.
The parole review process - which normally begins six months before a prisoner's earliest possible release date - involves gathering information from probation staff, prison officers and medical experts.
A Parole Board member decides whether an oral hearing is required, which is thought likely to happen in Pitchfork's case, probably in the summer or early autumn.
Before sanctioning a prisoner's release, the Parole Board has to be sure he or she no longer poses a risk to the public.
If Pitchfork is refused parole, his case will be reviewed within two years.
Parole Board figures for 2013-14 show that of 1,161 lifers who had oral hearings about one-third, 379, were released, 313 were refused parole and 469 were recommended for transfer to an open prison.
In the past five years, the organisation has spent almost £5m on four billion bands which are used to bundle letters together.
Keep Britain Tidy has called for their use to be reduced because they say wild animals can choke on them.
The Royal Mail says the bands are necessary and that they use biodegradable ones.
The figures were released to the Daily Telegraph under the Freedom of Information Act.
It said that the amount the postal organisation spends on bands has increased by 40% in five years.
Keep Britain Tidy has long campaigned against the use of rubber bands.
In 2009, about 13,000 discarded bands were collected by people and sent in to the charity who then delivered them to the Royal Mail's headquarters.
Dickie Felton, from Keep Britain Tidy, has previously said: "We accept that dropping an elastic band is hardly the worst littering offence in the world, but none-the-less it is litter.
"The bands look terrible strewn on the floor and pose a choking danger to pets and wildlife."
A Royal Mail spokesman said: "Royal Mail regularly reminds postmen and women about the importance of avoiding litter.
"The vast majority of rubber bands are re-used by our people in delivery offices and mail centres across the UK."
Gunners boss Arsene Wenger had to sacrifice an attacking player to bring on another defender when Per Mertesacker was sent off for a professional foul, but I think his choice shocked everyone.
The Arsenal fans and Giroud himself made it very clear what they thought of the decision, and I agreed with them.
I can honestly say I have never seen that happen in any game I've been involved in. If a team has a defender sent off, it is usually one of their 'luxury' players who gets dragged off - not the big striker.
Personally I would have taken off Joel Campbell, but I would also have chosen to lose Mesut Ozil or Theo Walcott rather than Giroud.
It was 0-0 when Wenger made the switch and it is possible he was already thinking he would take a draw, but he must surely have been thinking that he might need a goal at some stage.
If Campbell came off and Arsenal conceded quickly as they did, Wenger might have regretted his decision but he had another similar player in Alexis Sanchez on the bench who could have come on to try to rectify the error.
The main problem with taking Giroud off was that Arsenal did not have another striker like him. Once Wenger made that decision, then tactically he was totally committed to playing one way.
In effect, it meant Arsenal were playing without a centre-forward because Walcott stayed out on the left when Giroud went off.
Ozil was their most advanced player centrally from the 22nd minute onwards, and he only touched the ball in the Chelsea box twice - he was clearly not going to act as a focal point for their attack the same way Giroud would have done.
That was one of the reasons Arsenal had so few shots, and took until the 86th minute to get one on target, because the likes of Ozil and Aaron Ramsey were trying to get past defenders to shoot on the edge of the area rather than running on to something that Giroud had teed up for them.
Arsenal taking off Giroud was like Manchester City taking off Sergio Aguero in that situation - someone who is their main goal threat and their top scorer this season.
I would argue that, when you are down to 10 men, Giroud brings more to the table in every area than a striker like Aguero because, not only is he dangerous in open play, he is an asset at set-plays too.
Defensively, Arsenal had just lost Mertesacker, the tallest player on the pitch and Giroud would have given them additional cover in the air at the back.
Then there is what he offers Arsenal when they have corners or free-kicks in attacking areas, or when Mesut Ozil gets on the ball out wide and whips the ball across the goalkeeper for Giroud to get on the end of it.
A striker like Giroud allows your team to get up the pitch, sometimes regardless of the quality of the passes he is getting, because of his presence.
As a midfielder, it was always easier when I had someone of that stature to aim at when we were a man down, to hold the ball up and take fouls that give you set-pieces.
I could see Wenger's thinking when he explained afterwards that he wanted to use Theo Walcott's pace instead but, to me, that approach always seemed less likely to work.
Two of Chelsea's defenders, Kurt Zouma and Cesar Azpilicueta are very quick and to beat them that way takes the perfect pass. Walcott did get behind them, twice, but on both occasions he was offside.
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Arsenal's defeat means they have only taken two points from their last three games, but I do not see their recent form as real cause for concern for their title hopes.
Gunners fans will be worried, of course, because of their side's recent history of falling short in the latter stages of the season.
But I would focus on the performances they have put in against Liverpool, Stoke and now Chelsea, rather than the results.
Wenger will not be happy with the way they conceded on Sunday, but I think he will be proud of the way they responded and the effort his players put in. Chelsea were hanging on at times.
Yes, Arsenal's second home league defeat of the season was a set-back but they again showed the kind of character they will need over the next four months.
The way they have responded in tough situations, to draw at Anfield and the Britannia Stadium - and fight with 10 men against Chelsea - is a sign they have the mental strength to be champions, and I am standing by my prediction that they will win the league.
Jermaine Jenas was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Mary Boyle went missing on 18 March 1977 while visiting her grandparents near Ballyshannon.
Earlier this week, a crime review team from the Garda (Irish police) said it would scrutinise the case from when she was first reported missing.
The Garda have confirmed that the search has now ended.
Irish broadcaster RTE is reporting that no new evidence was uncovered, however, a Garda spokesman said they could not comment on that.
Irwin, known as the Crocodile Hunter after his wildlife television show, died in 2006 when a stingray's tail stabbed him in the heart.
The petition calls on citizens to pay their respects to the "all time greatest Australian bloke".
But it remains unclear whether the petition will have any impact.
"We started this petition because the newer generation barely knows who is representing our currency," Kyle Ryan, one of the founders of the petition told the BBC.
"We believed that having a childhood icon and conservationist like Steve would be a great idea for his 10th anniversary."
Steve Irwin's face has already appeared on Australian currency once, in a 2009 series of dollar coins commemorating Inspirational Australians.
The chief executive of the Royal Australian Mint said the petition "highlighted the passion throughout a sub-section of the Australian community to recognise Mr Irwin" and invited people to send in a formal proposal.
Mr McGuigan was shot dead last month and police said they believed members of the Provisional IRA were involved.
Bobby Storey, Eddie Copeland, Brian Gillen had been arrested in Belfast on Wednesday. The unnamed woman, who is 50, was detained on Thursday.
Mr Storey, a former IRA prisoner, is the northern chairman of Sinn Féin.
In a tweet, Mr Storey's lawyer John Finucane said: "After two days in Antrim, my client Bobby Storey has been freed. No evidence was put at any stage and my client will be suing for unlawful arrest."
The Police Service of Northern Ireland's Chief Constable George Hamilton said last month that detectives believe Provisional IRA members had a role in Mr McGuigan Sr's murder.
But he added there was no evidence at that stage that the killing had been sanctioned at a senior level of the organisation.
Sinn Féin said the IRA no longer exists after it ordered an end to its armed campaign in 2005.
A total of 17 people have been arrested in connection with Mr McGuigan Sr's murder.
The energy regulator, Ofgem, said the firm failed to treat its customers fairly, with inadequate call handling, complaint resolution and billing.
More than 300,000 customers across the UK received late bills. The £18m will go to vulnerable customers and charity.
Ofgem said Scottish Power had improved its customer service and co-operated during the 18 month investigation.
The penalty is the third-largest imposed by the regulator. In December, it ordered Npower to pay £26m for sending out inaccurate bills and failing to deal with complaints correctly.
Ofgem said that the issues with Scottish Power's customer service led to more than one million complaints between June 2013 and December 2015.
Ofgem chief executive Dermot Nolan said: "Scottish Power let its customers down during the implementation of a new IT system. When things went wrong, it didn't act quickly enough to fix them. This created frustration and worry for many customers, who also wasted a lot of time trying to contact the supplier by phone.
"The £18m payment sends a strong message to all energy companies about the importance of treating consumers well at all times, including while new systems are put in place."
Neil Clitheroe, Scottish Power's head of energy retail and generation, said: "Scottish Power has worked with Ofgem throughout this investigation. We apologise unreservedly to those customers affected.
"In order to upgrade our old IT systems, we invested £200m on new technology to allow us to deliver smarter digital products and services to benefit our customers.
"During the complex transition between systems we encountered a range of technical issues. This led to an unacceptable increase in complaints and reduced the quality of our customer service.
"I gave a guarantee that no customer would be left out of pocket by these issues and we continue to compensate customers who have been affected."
Following the problems with its IT systems, Scottish Power has already paid out at least £30m in compensation to its customers.
After the latest Ofgem penalty, its payments will now reach £48m.
Ofgem said that Scottish Power had improved its customer service since its investigation had begun.
It said the average call waiting time, the rate of abandoned calls and the number of Ombudsman cases had all more than halved. In addition, the number of late bills had fallen by three-quarters.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said staff would now form part of the new HM Coastguard National Network.
They will join operations in Milford Haven and the MCA claims this will allow coastguards to manage workload on a national basis.
Two workers from Swansea will transfer to Milford Haven, five will move to the Coastguard Rescue Service and 11 will take voluntary redundancy.
MCA said under the new way of working, coastguards would not have boundaries and would be moved wherever there is demand.
The Milford Haven-based crew will primarily cover from Marsland Mouth on the north Devon/Cornwall border to Friog in Gwynedd.
The closure comes four years after the UK government announced that Swansea would be one of nine stations around the UK to shut.
Campaigners had claimed the closure would put lives at risk off the Swansea and Gower coastlines and in the Bristol Channel.
A 110,000-signature petition failed to halt its closure, but Holyhead and Milford Haven stations, which were also under threat, were reprieved.
Third secretary Mohammad Zaki died of his injuries shortly after the attack, a spokesman for the consulate said.
The private security officer, who is an Afghan, is in custody. Police say he was the diplomat's personal bodyguard.
Officials say he opened fire following a dispute between the two men. What prompted the argument remains unclear.
"We were working at our office when we heard gunshots," consulate spokesman Haris Khan said, Associated Press reports. "Everybody was running in panic when I got out."
Afghanistan's ambassador to Pakistan Omar Zakhilwal confirmed the shooting.
"It seems to be a personal dispute related criminal act," he wrote on his official Facebook account.
Police and paramilitary forces were deployed to the Clifton district area around the consulate after the shooting broke out.
Karachi, Pakistan's largest city and commercial capital, has a history of political, sectarian and militant violence - and there have been a number of attacks on foreign missions based there.
Mr Kerry made the pledge while speaking at a news conference with his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung-se.
Pyongyang has taken a series of defiant measures in the wake of its third nuclear test in February.
On Wednesday, the North delayed the opening of the jointly-run Kaesong industrial zone, the South said.
Pyongyang has previously threatened to close the complex as part of its standoff with Washington and Seoul.
North Korea has been angered by UN sanctions imposed after its nuclear test and joint US-South Korea annual military drills.
Mr Kerry described recent rhetoric from the North Korean government as "unacceptable".
The Pentagon said two missile destroyers, the USS Decatur and the USS McCain, had been deployed to the region.
"They will be poised to respond to any missile threats to our allies or our territory," Pentagon spokesman George Little said.
On Tuesday Pyongyang announced plans to restart its main Yongbyon nuclear complex, which Mr Kerry said would be a "provocative and serious" move.
Earlier, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the crisis had "gone too far" and called for urgent talks with the North.
"Things must begin to calm down, there is no need for the DPRK [North Korea] to be on a collision course with the international community. Nuclear threats are not a game," Mr Ban said.
The US has urged China and Russia to apply pressure on Pyongyang to change its Yongbyon plans.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei called for restraint from all sides to resolve the "complex and sensitive" situation.
Russia's foreign ministry, meanwhile, warned against escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula.
"The main objective is to avoid the forceful military scenario. It is not acceptable to use the situation there (on the Korean peninsula) to try to reach someone's specific military and political aims," said ministry spokesman Grigoriy Logvinov.
By Kim GhattasBBC state department correspondent
North Korea - a vexing problem for the US
The BBC's Lucy Williamson in Seoul says Yongbyon has provided the North with successful leverage in the past.
The complex offers Pyongyang two ways of making nuclear bombs - a uranium enrichment facility, and a nuclear reactor, from which the spent fuel can be turned into plutonium.
Restarting it gives the regime several cards to play: it secures more material for its nuclear programme, and also re-focuses world attention on how to stop it, our correspondent says.
The reactor at Yongbyon - which was the source for plutonium for North Korea's nuclear weapons programme - was closed in July 2007 as part of a disarmament-for-aid deal.
The cooling tower at the facility was later destroyed, but then the disarmament deal stalled.
Part of the reason the agreement fell apart was because the US did not believe Pyongyang was fully disclosing all of its nuclear facilities - a suspicion later bolstered when North Korea unveiled a uranium enrichment facility at Yongbyon to US scientist Siegfried Hecker in 2010.
While it appeared to be for electricity generation purposes, Mr Hecker said the facility could be readily converted to produce highly-enriched uranium for bombs.
In a November 2010 report following his visit to Yongbyon, Mr Hecker said that based on what he saw, he believed North Korea could "resume all plutonium operations within approximately six months" at Yongbyon if so inclined.
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The car became wedged between the jetty and a pontoon on the seafront at Ramsgate, Kent, leaving the driver trapped inside, the fire service said.
She was rescued by fire crews, who used a winch to secure the car while they helped the woman to safety.
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The first public "flight" on the 531ft (161m) British Airways i360 tower on Brighton seafront is at 14:00 BST, with fireworks planned for 22:00 BST.
Fireworks were to have been set off on a boat off Brighton beach but it has been unable to get to the location.
Organisers blamed high seas caused by a storm off the Sussex coast.
Visitors to the i360 ascend 450ft (137m) in a 360-degree curved-glass pod on the site once occupied by the entrance to Brighton's ruined West Pier.
The attraction itself, which is fully booked on the opening day, will operate as planned.
The fireworks will be rearranged for another date, with tickets remaining valid.
The tower, which offers views of up to 26 miles of Sussex coastline, has divided local opinion.
Valerie Paynter, of the saveHove campaign, said it was "like something springing horribly out of the earth in a horror movie".
But Glynn Jones, chairman of the West Pier Trust, thought the "vertical pier in the sky" showed "the city is, once again, embracing and celebrating world-class, stunning architecture".
Those going on board can see from Bexhill in East Sussex to Chichester in West Sussex with the South Downs to the north.
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Images of volunteers' brains during nights spent in the lab showed the left side remained more responsive to sound.
This asymmetry, also found in marine animals and some birds, was observed only on the first night in a new place.
And Yuka Sasaki, from Brown University, Rhode Island, said it was possible people could learn to switch off their "nightwatchman" function.
"Human's brain are very flexible," she wrote in the journal Current Biology.
"Thus, people who are often in new places may not necessarily have poor sleep on a regular basis."
The first pair of Griffon 2000 hovercraft have begun operations with the navy deep in the rivers of the Amazon rainforest in Putumayo province that borders Peru and Ecuador. Colombian military commanders believe the craft could mark a breakthrough in Latin America's longest-running insurgency.
On the broad, sluggish surface of the Rio Putumayo nothing stirs in the noonday heat.
On the opposite bank stands an empty palm thatch hut, overshadowed by the towering jungle, and at the water's edge a row of rusting letters spells Ejercito del Peru - 'The Army of Peru'.
This is where Colombia meets Peru, the river forming a long, twisting and distinctly porous border between the two countries.
A few miles to the west lie Ecuador and the secret jungle supply routes used by both insurgents and drug traffickers. This is the beating heart of the world's coca-growing region, the epicentre of the multi-billion dollar illicit cocaine industry.
More than 200,000 people have been killed in the government's 50-year war with leftist insurgents and associated drug traffickers and there have been abuses committed on both sides.
Despite progress made at peace talks under way in Havana between the government and the Farc, there is no ceasefire until a deal is signed.
The main rebel group, the Farc, started out in 1964 as an ideological revolt against greedy landowners and the vast inequalities in wealth that still exist in Colombia.
But, in recent years the insurgency has become less and less political and ever more mired in the lucrative international drugs trade, financing its operations through kidnapping, extortion and cross-border trafficking in both raw coca paste and refined cocaine.
"The Farc has become the biggest cartel in Colombia," says one presidential adviser.
But their numbers are declining - down to an estimated 7,000 from a high of 21,000 - and peace talks in Havana are inching towards a final deal that aims to get most of its fighters demobilised and absorbed into the civilian population.
I put it to Colombia's defence minister, Juan Carlos Pinzon, that if this happens then surely many ex-fighters will be tempted simply to switch allegiance to smaller, criminal drug cartels.
"We have to be realistic" he admits. "And we should expect, as we have seen in the past, that some crimes and some criminal bands might pop up, might appear in some areas, trying to keep the crime business".
Until the ink is on the paper of a final peace deal, the fight goes on. So what difference will these hovercraft make?
Put simply, the Colombian Navy is hoping they will allow them to access parts of the river that have previously been beyond their reach for months at a time, giving the rebels free rein over whole swathes of territory.
"Up until now we've only been able to operate for half the year," says John Carlos Florez, commander of Colombia's Naval Force South. "From October to January we can't move because the river levels drop so far our boats hit the rocks.
"But these hovercraft don't need high water so now we can cut off the rebels' supply lines".
Not surprisingly, the navy pilots who drive them are brimming with enthusiasm. Most had never seen a hovercraft until they were sent up to Cartagena three months ago to begin their training.
As the early morning sun sparkled on the river, I perched on the running board of one of the craft, wincing as my arms were bitten repeatedly by tiny black sand flies, and asked a pilot, Lt Diego Palma, what they are like to drive.
"It's very exciting, sailing this. Because the hull lifts above the surface, you can go at an incredible speed over grass, sandbanks and shallow water," he told me.
"For me, it's my girl. I call her Carolina. I have to take good care of her, because she's my new toy".
These hovercraft are huge, green, noisy and fast. They also bristle with weaponry and can carry 14 sailors and marines at speeds of up to 35 knots.
Riding aboard one up a narrow creek, the jungle pressing in on both sides, I did notice a few dark looks from the local fishermen in their longboats.
Even at slow cruising speed the wash from the hovercraft threatened to tip over their narrow wooden dugouts and I can't imagine the fish are exactly thrilled either.
They will take some getting used to in this part of the Amazon. But the Colombian navy is no doubt: they see the British-made hovercraft as a new landmark towards their eventual goal of ending the long drawn-out insurgency.
Photographs by Frank Gardner
Earlier this month a US court ruled that Oculus had used ZeniMax's code without permission.
If the ban is granted, it could limit the number of games available for sale with the Oculus Rift VR headset.
A spokeswoman for Oculus said that the company was continuing with its appeal.
Tera Randall told Reuters that the original verdict was "legally flawed and factually unwarranted".
ZeniMax was awarded $500m (£398m) earlier in February when a jury found that Oculus, which Facebook bought in 2014, had violated a non-disclosure agreement.
The jury also ruled that Oculus had infringed some of Zenimax's copyrighted code - but did not agree that it had stolen its trade secrets.
Oculus has already made the disputed code available to companies that develop games and it is also embedded in many of the games available for use on the Oculus Rift headset and some on Samsung's Gear VR, a device developed in partnership with Oculus.
If the judge enforces the ban, it could be a blow to the nascent technology, which Facebook has big ambitions for, said intellectual property lawyer Matt Jones, a partner at law firm EIP.
"It could be a very big deal. If they are granted the injunction, it will stop Oculus from using the code. It could get around that by writing new code but that would be time-consuming and expensive.
"Will this push Facebook towards a settlement? Quite possibly, as often injunctions hurt businesses more than damage settlements."
Chris Bonney, who was attacked in February 2016, told Victoria Derbyshire the men had said: "Are you Chris? We're ever so sorry," before the attack.
Mr Bonney was left with scars across his face and body, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety.
Police had been unable to find a motive or any evidence, he said.
And officers had been able to tell him only that "the people who did it were clearly paid to do this job".
A recent acid attack at a London nightclub left two people each blinded in one eye and several others with severe burns.
Mr Bonney, from Weymouth, Dorset, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme he had been left in "excruciating pain".
The image below shows some of the injuries he received.
The acid, he said, had "melted the paint off my front door… burnt through radiators, destroyed everything it touched".
Its first impact was to the left side of his face, and then his left arm.
It left him in hospital for three weeks.
He said he would "cry myself to sleep at night" because of a fear of the dark emanating from the attack.
The cause, he said, had been in part the inability to "process what had happened to me", or the reasons why.
He has since received counselling.
Mr Bonney - who works as a college lecturer - has never been caught up in criminal activity.
He said he had "never seen" his two attackers before. "It was completely random."
Mr Bonney said the attack had caused "significant scarring, and made my skin susceptible to infections".
His vision was also impaired as his eyelid was fused to his eyebrow.
Mr Bonney hopes that one day the perpetrators will be caught, but worries how readily available the acid is to buy.
"There needs to be some sort of education," he said, "that it's not acceptable to use it as a weapon".
"We educate how bad knife crime is, but substance attacks are becoming more frequent now."
Figures from police forces across the UK suggest that the number of assaults involving corrosive substances has risen by 30% in two years.
Since 2010 there have been more than 1,800 reports of attacks involving corrosive fluids in London.
Mr Bonney, who has a newborn baby, said he was now "looking forwards - looking at the positives now, not the negatives".
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And a not dissimilar week in the Lords. It's the calm before George Osborne unleashes his Budget the following week.
There's a rare bit of high profile select committee action on Tuesday (4.10pm), when the House of Lords EU Committee asks the Europe Minister David Lidington who is overseeing the UK's EU renegotiation.
Will it be a transparent process? Will devolved governments have a say?
He will also be asked for updates on discussions on the Mediterranean migrant situation and the Greek crisis.
Elsewhere, the special committee yomping its way through the HS2 Bill (fresh from series of site visits in Mr Speaker's Buckingham constituency) hears evidence from the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson and his new West London neighbour Nick Hurd on the scheme's implications for their patch. That's on Wednesday from 9.30.
And a couple of other events to watch out for are the emergence of the remaining names of select committee members and, possibly, of the prime minister's nominations to the spooks' watchdog, the Intelligence and Security Committee.
Remember, this is not a select committee, but a committee of parliamentarians chosen by the PM. A number of senior figures are quietly angling for the chair of the ISC - previously held by Sir Malcolm Rifkind.
Former Attorney General Dominic Grieve is mentioned as the likely front-runner.
There were calls for the ISC to be reconstituted as a full-dress Commons Select Committee, with a chair elected by MPs. Either way, with some high powered law-making to do on interception powers for internet data, getting the committee up and running is probably creeping up the Downing Street to do list. As is the nomination of any special committee to scrutinise a draft bill on those powers - in the last Parliament the committee which eviscerated the Communications Data Bill, of blessed memory, was chaired by the former Home Office Minister Lord Blencathra (the artist formerly known as David Maclean). The choice for this exercise will be a particularly interesting one.....
Here's my rundown of the week ahead:
Monday
The Commons day begins (2.30pm) with Communities and Local Government Questions, and any urgent questions or ministerial statements would normally be taken from 3.30pm.
Then it's on to the second day of Committee Stage debate on the Scotland Bill - which is devoted to the section dealing with tax powers, with Treasury spokesman Stuart Hosie leading for the SNP - his party have a new clause on "Full Fiscal Autonomy!" down for debate, which calls for the UK government to enter into an "Economic Agreement" with the Scottish Government for the transfer of competence for taxation raised in Scotland as well as borrowing, and the level of public expenditure. Further SNP amendments assert Scottish control of Corporation Tax and Capital Gains Tax.
There are plenty more amendments including, interestingly, one from two Labour MPs Shadow Scottish Secretary Ian Murray and Wayne David, requiring the Secretary of State for Scotland to establish an independent commission of external experts, appointed in consultation with the Treasury Select Committee and Scottish Affairs Select Committee, to publish a report by 31 March, 2016 setting out an analysis of the policy of Full Fiscal Autonomy on the Scottish economy, labour market and public finances. It has attracted the signature of UKIP's Douglas Carswell, who sees it as a step in the direction of a full UK constitutional convention.
Mr Murray has another new clause calling for the creation of a Scottish Office of Budget Responsibility - to exercise fiscal and budgetary oversight over the Scottish Government competencies. He quotes the Smith Commission recommendation that independent scrutiny of Scotland's public finances needed to be strengthened. And yet another amendment calls for a review of the implementation of the Scottish basic rate and any other income tax rates
The adjournment debate at the end of the day will be particularly interesting. The Conservative Andrew Bridgen will lead a debate on Postmasters and postmistresses and the Horizon system - he will be calling for a full inquiry into the Post Office's handling of complaints about the computer system which, he believes, put sub-Postmasters into an impossible position in the handling of their accounts - and I'm told he expects to get a positive response from ministers.
In the Lords (from 2.30pm) the day's main event is the third Committee Stage day on the Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill - key issues are governance arrangements of local authorities in England, votes for over 16s in local government elections (there's a joint Lib-Lab amendment - see earlier blog) the effect of devolution on health and social care functions, where former Health Minister Lord Warner has an amendment to give combined big city authorities the NHS responsibilities provided for in the Health and Social Care Act 2012 - the new Health and Wellbeing Boards which bring key figures together to look at public health measures. Another hot topic is further devolution in London. There will also be a short debate on plans to assist the recovery of Sierra Leone from the Ebola outbreak.
Tuesday
The Commons meets at 11.30am for Business, Innovation and Skills Questions. And then it's on to the third Committee Stage day on the Scotland Bill - which will mainly focus on amendments on social security and benefits.
In Westminster Hall (9.30 - 11am) the Conservative - Kevin Hollinrake leads a debate on Shale Gas - he's pro-fracking, arguing that Shale Gas exploration will lead to greater energy independence and security at a time of significant international uncertainty while calling for tough safety and environmental rules around it.
In the afternoon session (2.30 - 4pm) the subject is the Future of the Human Rights Act 1998 - led by the former Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael. It is expected to be a broad debate, but one focus will be how the HRA is constitutionally hardwired into Scottish Parliament and also the peace process in Northern Ireland.
In the Lords (2.30pm) questions to ministers include an intriguing one on allowing passengers on the Eurostar to travel with pets - from the Conservative, Baroness Sharples.
Then the Committee Stage of the Psychoactive Substances Bill moves into its second day: the key issues include the ACMD, exemptions for prescriptions and medical research, alcohol, prohibition and premises notices. The dinner break business is a short debate on the recommendations of the Children and Young People's Mental Health Taskforce report 'Future in Mind'.
Wednesday
The Commons convenes at 11.30am for Cabinet Office Questions, followed, at Noon by Prime Minister's Question Time. The day's main debate is on an as yet unannounced Opposition Day motion.
Then Ed Miliband brings the day to an end with 30 minute adjournment debate on 'Hatfield Colliery and the low carbon transition'.
Over in Westminster Hall (9.30 - 11am) watch out for Albert Owen's debate on English votes for English laws and North Wales - he will be stressing the need for Welsh MPs to be able to vote on English NHS decisions, arguing that his constituents and family in North Wales have always relied on specialist NHS services in Liverpool and Manchester.
"The logical argument is when there is a big decision about the policy and direction of those hospitals which serve my constituents, then I should be entitled to have a say and a vote on it because it affects the people I represent," he says.
In the Lords (3pm) questions to ministers include an interesting one from the Lib Dem Lord Sharkey, on holding a review to examine all options for the future of the state-owned super-bank RBS, including alternatives to simple reprivatisation - he hopes to provoke a look at alternatives like breaking RBS up into several regional banks, which seem to work better with small and medium sized enterprises. And ministers will face yet another question on that hardy perennial, the publication date for the long awaited Chilcot Report into the Iraq War - from the Labour veteran and former Attorney General, Lord Morris of Aberavon.
Then Peers move on to the first Committee Stage day on the Childcare Bill, where the key issues include the definition of working parent, quality of childcare, and funding of childcare. The dinner break business is a short debate on the steps being taken to tackle litter in urban and rural areas.
Thursday
The Commons opens at 9.30am with questions to the Attorney General and the Minister for Women and Equalities - Education Secretary Nicky Morgan. That's followed by the Leader of the House and the weekly Commons Business Statement. And the main event is a general debate on Britain and International Security.
In the Lords (11am) questions to ministers range across the start date for building a new London airport runway and the prospects for establishing a Constitutional Convention.
The day's debates are on subjects chosen by the Lib Dem Peers - starting with Human rights and civil liberties in the UK and then moving on to the UK's role in a world threatened by terrorism, conflict, climate change and mass migration. There will also be a short debate on helping people with diabetes to educate themselves on disease management.
Neither House sits on Friday.
Much of the build-up to this tour was dominated by security concerns, but now everyone is focusing on the cricket - and in particular who will partner Alastair Cook at the top of the order in a game that will see the skipper become England's most-capped Test player.
It is almost certain Cook will begin his 134th Test alongside a new opening partner, with 19-year-old Lancashire batsman Haseeb Hameed in contention alongside Northants strokemaker Ben Duckett, who impressed in the one-day series.
I can see the argument for Duckett opening because he will play some shots against the harder ball and is more positive than Hameed and Cook might be together.
However, I don't see the point of bringing Hameed on this tour unless they play him. It's the perfect opportunity to see what he's made of.
It's going to be quite lively - the Bangladeshis are in your face and vociferous - but I don't think that will bother him. It will be a good experience for him.
He scored almost 1,200 first-class runs at an average of 50 during the summer and he has clearly got a very special temperament for a young man.
England have got to look long term. There's an Ashes tour of Australia next year and they have to get somebody in place for that who has matches under his belt and can play fast bowling well.
It's not going to be easy this winter, and it will get tougher in the second part of the tour in India, but it will be a waste if Hameed goes back home at Christmas and we haven't had a good look at him.
In subcontinent conditions, where the weather is oppressively hot and the pitches are conducive to spin bowling, I would veer towards selecting a solid middle order.
That means I'd pick Yorkshire's Gary Ballance instead of Duckett.
I'd dearly love to see Duckett coming in at number four and smacking the ball around - and his time will come - but England need a balanced team.
There's a lot of power beyond their top four - Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes and Moeen Ali are all strokemakers - and England need to make sure they are capable of batting for two days.
In the second innings of a Test in Bangladesh and India, it's easy to get bundled out quickly when the pitch begins to wear. It's crucial that England bat long. If they manage to post a big total, that will set them up nicely.
Bangladesh's bowling looks weak and, although they have some decent batsmen, I expect England to win.
Three! It's stinking hot out here so England won't be able to bowl their seamers for too long.
I'd pick Surrey's Gareth Batty because he can bring control, which is what England lacked during their series against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates last winter.
At 39, Batty is a wise old head who played the last of his seven Tests against the same opponents in 2005.
He can provide guidance for both Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid and also be a reliable option for Cook when the captain wants to keep an end tight and mix it up from the other.
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The security is as I expected it to be. There's less inside the hotel but there's lots outside it.
The journalists are staying in the same hotel as the players and everyone is free to move about freely within it, but if you want to go anywhere else you must have armed escorts.
I've only been across to the practice ground since I arrived on Monday, and even then I had four or five heavily armed soldiers accompanying me.
That's the way it's got to be done and everybody is very grateful for it.
I was working for the BBC during the Rio Olympics and there were tanks on street corners there, which I haven't seen here. Sometimes, unfortunately, sporting encounters have to be played like this.
Bangladesh just can't afford for something to go wrong because, if it did, I don't think anybody would come here again. It would be disastrous for the country.
Cook is back with the team after flying home for the birth of his second daughter.
He's clearly got a spring in his step from that and now he can throw himself into breaking Alec Stewart's record of 133 Test caps for England.
He has played an extraordinary number of Tests. The fact Cook has missed so few is remarkable.
I enjoyed watching him close up at practice on Tuesday. It was nice to see his footwork, the way he speaks to himself and the coach. In fact, it was enlightening to see somebody at the top of his game practising like that.
He's focused on one thing now: England winning the series and setting themselves up nicely for the five-Test tour of India.
Jonathan Agnew was speaking to BBC Sport's Marc Higginson.
Environmental charity Hubbub said the "pioneering" #1MoreShot campaign aimed to recycle 20,000 coffee cups into 15,000 plastic flower pot holders with new technology.
Only 1% of the 2.5bn paper coffee cups used in the UK each year is recycled.
The "wanton waste" of the cups was the topic of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's War on Waste programmes this year.
Gavin Ellis, co-founder of Hubbub, said most people in the UK were unaware so few of their coffee cups were being recycled but to make them waterproof the card is fused with polyethylene, a material that cannot be separated out again in a standard recycling mill.
Mr Ellis said his charity wanted to explore solutions to the coffee cup crisis and chef Fearnley-Whittingstall's BBC One show had "galvanised the industry into action".
The three-month pilot will see the addition of 11 giant bins in the shape of coffee cups on Oxford Road in Manchester.
Simply Cups, a partner in #1MoreShot, will then transform the disposed cups into plastic products.
The plastic flower pot holders will be donated to Groundwork and used in community gardens for the "people of Manchester to benefit from".
Major high street coffee chains Caffé Nero, Costa, Greggs, KFC, McDonald's, Nestle, Pret a Manger and Waitrose have all offered financial support to the project.
Jason Cotta, managing director of UK & Ireland Costa, said he was "delighted" to be part of the trial to recycle cups and "look at innovative ways to encourage consumers to separate and deposit their takeaway cups".
According to John Stewart, if Boris Johnson follows David Cameron as prime minister his opposition to Heathrow expansion leaves it "up in the air".
But Heathrow's boss John Holland-Kaye said its expansion "is the right choice for a stronger Britain".
The Department for Transport (DfT) said it was "committed" to the project.
The government was to decide on whether to expand Heathrow or Gatwick in July.
A statement from the DfT said: "The government remains fully committed to delivering the important infrastructure projects it has set out and will also continue to take forward important legislation put before Parliament in the Queen's Speech."
The Airport Commission had recommended last July for a third runway at Heathrow - a new 3,500m runway north of the two existing runways - at an estimated cost of £18.6bn.
But in December the government delayed its decision saying further work on noise, pollution and compensation needed to be carried out.
Many campaigners have cited traffic pollution from vehicles, noise pollution from flights and having to sell their homes as reasons to halt Heathrow's expansion.
Mr Stewart said: "Brexit must cast doubts on whether a third runway at Heathrow will ever be given the green light.
"The prime minister and the chancellor have lost the fight of their lives and 'outers' like Boris Johnson, who is fiercely opposed to Heathrow expansion, have won.
"At the very least, a decision on a new runway must now be up in the air."
Mr Stewart wants the new prime minister to "look again at its desirability, its deliverability and the cost".
"The government had pencilled in 7 or 8 July to announce its runway decision.
"It would be surprising if a lame-duck prime minister risked further splits within the Conservative party by making such a controversial decision just weeks before he leaves office."
But Heathrow Chief Executive John Holland-Kaye said: "Now more than ever, people across Britain are counting on the government to take bold decisions that show we are a confident outward looking trading nation.
"Heathrow is the right choice for a stronger Britain."
Some graduates at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich have been hurt by falling hats in recent years, student newspaper The Tab reported.
Students have been urged to mime the throwing action instead, and have hats added digitally to the photo after.
A university spokeswoman said injuries caused by falling mortarboards posed an "unacceptable risk".
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In each of the last two years, students had suffered facial injuries, and last year one person needed treatment in A&E, the spokeswoman said.
"We want to ensure no student's graduation day is ruined by the potential for avoidable injury," she said.
"This has been agreed by our academic dress suppliers who often receive back damaged mortarboards, and our photographers."
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The university said it had not introduced a specific policy banning the throwing of mortarboards, but instead had "asked our photography supplier not to encourage it during large group sessions".
A spokesperson said: "The university accepts some people may still throw their hats. This is their choice and nothing will happen if they do."
The Tab reported third and fourth-year students had been sent instructions from a photography company telling them hats could be added to the photo digitally for £8.
Louisa Baldwin, the Law Society president at UEA, told the newspaper: "If I've paid £45 to hire a bit of cloth and card for the day I should be able to chuck my hat in the air!"
Another student, Alice Cachia, said: "This is health and safety gone mad."
The Health and Safety Executive said the chance of being injured by a flying mortar board is "incredibly small".
"When the concern is actually about the hats being returned in good condition, it's time to stop blaming health and safety," the organisation said.
The finding could explain our attraction to dramatic works of fiction - even if they make us cry.
Experiments by an Oxford University team suggest tragic films and other dramatic works trigger a rush of feel-good chemicals known as endorphins.
This acts as a natural painkiller and helps us bond with the people around us, they report in the Royal Society journal Open Science.
The human fascination with story telling was forged in ancient times when we began to live in hunter gatherer communities, said Prof Robin Dunbar, who led the research.
Enjoying fiction is a hallmark of human society, but until now scientists have not investigated its evolutionary basis.
"Fiction is widely studied by humanities academics as it is an important feature of human society, common to all cultures," said Robin Dunbar, professor of evolutionary psychology at Oxford University.
"Yet the reasons why fiction can be so engrossing and the functions for this have not been widely studied by psychologists or behavioural biologists.
"There are good social reasons: folklore enables us to pass on wisdom or ingrain community values, bringing us together. While that is important, it does not fully explain why we are willing to return again and again to be entertained."
An Oxford team of scientists, psychologists and classicists decided to test whether drama triggers the release of endorphins - chemicals that act in the brain to dull pain.
They showed volunteers the film Stuart: A Life Backwards, the dramatised story of a homeless man with a troubled childhood.
A second group watched documentaries about neutral subjects.
The team tested changes in pain threshold before and after viewing the films as a measure for endorphin release using the wall-sit test.
This is where someone rests their back against the wall as if they were sitting on a chair and holds it for as long as possible.
"Those who had the greatest emotional response also had the greatest increase in pain threshold and the greater their sense of being bonded with their group," said Prof Dunbar.
He thinks our affinity for emotive fiction may have evolved in the context of cohesion of social groups, as the endorphin effect has also been seen in comedy, singing and dancing.
"This is not to say that this one chemical effect alone is the only reason for dramatic fiction - there are other aspects of human psychology at work - but we believe that it is an important reason for our enjoyment of fiction," he added.
The research was an unusual collaboration of researchers from the fields of arts and science.
Dr Sophie Duncan, a Shakespeare scholar, said they wanted to understand how and why fiction works and the meaning of ''getting lost in a book''.
The study shows ''you can give yourself an endorphin high through fiction'', she said.
''Watching tragic drama is good for you - it's good for our health,'' she told BBC News.
''It boosts endorphins which are our body's natural painkiller.''
He also told the BBC there would be no going back on "vows" to Scotland made during the independence campaign.
The prime minister promised tax-raising powers for Holyrood, alongside moves "in tandem" to restrict Scottish MPs from voting on English matters.
But Labour opposes that - favouring more devolution within England.
Mr Hague said options for legislating on laws that only affected England would be put forward in the coming weeks, either from the government, or the Conservative Party.
He dismissed the argument that it could create "second-class" MPs, who could not vote on all matters: "We already have two classes of Members of Parliament because the Scottish MPs are not voting on the health and education policies of Scotland [which are devolved to the Scottish Parliament], they are voting on what happens in Yorkshire, England, in my constituency."
"The question is how to be fair to the whole of the UK while meeting, by the way, all the vows to Scotland. Nobody is intending to go back on their vows to Scotland."
Earlier Scotland's first minister Alex Salmond - whose party, polls suggest, is set to take Westminster seats from Labour at the next general election - said any new SNP MPs would operate under a "prime requirement to see that the vow, that the promises, the commitment that were made to Scotland of near-federalism, of home rule, that were articulated by the three Westminster leaders... to see that that is implemented, delivered in full to Scotland."
Ahead of the 18 September independence referendum, the leaders of the three main pro-Union parties backed a timetable, set out by Gordon Brown, to deliver more powers for the Scottish Parliament in the event of a "No" vote.
Prime Minister David Cameron took Labour by surprise on 19 September when he announced plans to end the anomaly which allows 59 Scottish MPs to vote on England-only legislation in the UK Parliament, such as health and education.
Downing Street later insisted that "one is not conditional upon the other".
Labour is boycotting a body set up by the Conservatives to look into whether Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish MPs should be stopped from voting on matters exclusively affecting England or whether English MPs should be given an enhanced role in the legislative process
It favours more devolution within England. On Saturday, Labour leader Ed Miliband said he would replace the House of Lords with an elected senate with representatives from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the English regions, if he wins power at next year's general election.
The Conservatives' coalition partners, the Lib Dems, are not on board with plans to block Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish MPs voting on laws affecting England, calling them "Tory votes for English laws".
They favour new procedures in the Commons to allow English MPs to make their views known on 'England-only' issues..
Police said three cars were involved in the collision on Doncaster Road, Mexborough, at 10:20 GMT on Sunday.
The driver of one car, a man, died while being taken to hospital by air ambulance.
A 31-year-old man, who was driving a Audi, was also arrested for driving while unfit through drink and drugs
He suffered abdominal injuries and was taken to Doncaster Royal Infirmary.
One of his passengers a 34-year-old man, suffered serious spinal injuries. Another passenger, 18, was also injured.
The driver of the third car suffered slight injuries.
Police are appealing for witnesses.
The champions went ahead through a stunning Xabi Alonso volley before Lewandowski struck twice.
Captain Philipp Lahm and Franck Ribery also netted, and Lewandowski converted a penalty after Thiago was fouled.
Thomas Muller assisted with three of the six goals at the Allianz Arena.
Defender Mats Hummels, who joined from Borussia Dortmund in the summer, played the full 90 minutes, while 19-year-old midfielder Renato Sanches, a £27.5m signing from Benfica, was an unused substitute.
Ancelotti, who took charge following Pep Guardiola's summer departure for Manchester City, won the German Super Cup this month.
Bayern Munich boss Carlo Ancelotti: "Honestly, I didn't change very much. This is a very strong team.
"We started very strongly, we scored the early goals and we controlled the match. All is well."
Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski: "We played very well. We played our attacking game and we have the quality to dominate.
"I'm just happy I scored and that we got the win."
Match ends, FC Bayern München 6, SV Werder Bremen 0.
Second Half ends, FC Bayern München 6, SV Werder Bremen 0.
Attempt missed. Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Arturo Vidal.
Attempt missed. Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Sambou Yatabaré.
Substitution, SV Werder Bremen. Lennart Thy replaces Fin Bartels.
Janek Sternberg (SV Werder Bremen) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Rafinha (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Janek Sternberg (SV Werder Bremen).
Attempt saved. Fin Bartels (SV Werder Bremen) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fallou Diagne.
Attempt missed. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) header from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Joshua Kimmich.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Lamine Sané.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Theodor Gebre Selassie.
Attempt blocked. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Thiago Alcántara.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Maximilian Eggestein.
Attempt blocked. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Franck Ribéry.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Juan Bernat replaces David Alaba.
Goal! FC Bayern München 6, SV Werder Bremen 0. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty FC Bayern München. Rafinha draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Maximilian Eggestein (SV Werder Bremen) after a foul in the penalty area.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Rafinha replaces Philipp Lahm.
Substitution, SV Werder Bremen. Maximilian Eggestein replaces Florian Grillitsch.
Goal! FC Bayern München 5, SV Werder Bremen 0. Franck Ribéry (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Thomas Müller.
Attempt blocked. Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Thiago Alcántara.
Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sambou Yatabaré (SV Werder Bremen).
Attempt saved. Theodor Gebre Selassie (SV Werder Bremen) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fallou Diagne.
Foul by Thiago Alcántara (FC Bayern München).
Clemens Fritz (SV Werder Bremen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! FC Bayern München 4, SV Werder Bremen 0. Philipp Lahm (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Thomas Müller.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Joshua Kimmich replaces Xabi Alonso.
Substitution, SV Werder Bremen. Janek Sternberg replaces Aron Jóhannsson.
Attempt saved. Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Philipp Lahm.
Foul by Xabi Alonso (FC Bayern München).
Clemens Fritz (SV Werder Bremen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Theodor Gebre Selassie.
Attempt missed. Luca Caldirola (SV Werder Bremen) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Clemens Fritz with a cross following a corner.
Corner, SV Werder Bremen. Conceded by Mats Hummels.
Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Luca Caldirola (SV Werder Bremen).
Promising not to cheat.
Or more specifically, to sign up to an honour code - or "honor code" in the US spelling - in which they pledge to uphold values of academic integrity.
It means students at the prestigious US university have to commit themselves not to cheat in exams, make up figures or dishonestly claim other people's work as their own.
It's not just a one-off promise.
Brett Flehinger, Harvard's associate dean of academic integrity and student conduct, says students now write their own "personal response" to the pledge before starting term, reaffirm their commitment when registering and then again before taking exams.
The message is about "changing the culture", says Dr Flehinger, with a more overt assertion of the principles of academic honesty, rather than just chasing grades.
"Students are under a lot of pressure, not all of it healthy," he says. And the honour code is meant to re-balance this.
"What we're trying to say to students is that accuracy and honesty are the foundation of all academic work and knowledge, scientific, humanities and social sciences," says Dr Flehinger.
Members of the Harvard College community commit themselves to producing academic work of integrity - that is, work that adheres to the scholarly and intellectual standards of accurate attribution of sources, appropriate collection and use of data, and transparent acknowledgement of the contribution of others to their ideas, discoveries, interpretations, and conclusions.
Cheating on exams or problem sets, plagiarising or misrepresenting the ideas or language of someone else as one's own, falsifying data, or any other instance of academic dishonesty violates the standards of our community, as well as the standards of the wider world of learning and affairs.
Harvard's adoption of an honour code follows a high-profile cheating scandal in 2012. On one exam paper, more than a hundred students were investigated and about 70 subsequently faced sanctions.
What really rocked this institution was the scale. For a university used to coming top of global rankings, which had taught eight US presidents, it was a deeply uncomfortable question mark over its reputation.
The adoption of an honour code, already used by many other US universities, sends a message to new arrivals that the whole ethos of attending Harvard should be about honest endeavour.
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But what are the beliefs of Harvard's students?
In terms of moral, political and sexual attitudes, there must be more known about Harvard's annual intake than any other university's.
An annual survey by the student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, goes into remarkably granular detail:
But the survey, based on a sample of more than 70% of new students, also asked about cheating.
It found 9% admitted to having cheated in an exam, a figure consistent with previous years. There were others who had cheated on homework, assignments and other types of assessed work.
The survey found 23% of the students admitted to cheating in academic work before starting at Harvard.
So will students be deterred from cheating by a promise?
A study published in October by the US National Bureau of Economic Research suggests a persistent underlying level of cheating.
Ming-Jen Lin, from the National Taiwan University, and Stephen D Levitt, from the University of Chicago (and co-author of the best-selling Freakanomics), looked at science exams taken at an undisclosed "top American university".
This found "compelling evidence" of cheating from at least 10% of students. The type of evidence included candidates sitting near each other handing in exactly the same wrong answer.
This 10% level of cheating is consistent with other wider surveys, say the researchers.
"It is not surprising that students cheat - they have strong incentives to do so, and the likelihood of getting caught is low," concluded the study.
"What is perhaps more surprising, is that so little effort is devoted to catching cheating students."
Prof Levitt's study suggests cheats were often sharing information with someone else at the next desk.
And the researchers were able to experiment with a very low-tech response.
At short notice, they randomised the exam room seating to stop people knowing whom they would be near, and as a result "almost all evidence of cheating disappears".
Would an honour code make a difference?
Sir Cary Cooper, professor of organisational psychology and health at Manchester Business School, says: "I don't think it actually stops the cheating that much.
"A university will have it because it gives explicit ethical and moral guidance about what is inappropriate behaviour."
If anything goes wrong, and there is a cheating scandal, he says, it means universities can say they provided clear evidence about the rules.
It limits reputational damage - and the risk of law cases from students - rather than creates an "institutional value system", says Sir Cary.
But he also says that cheating has changed - with the internet opening up new uncertainties about copying and sharing - and that students themselves might not recognise their actions as dishonest.
This includes those high-flyers expecting to do "exceptionally well", he says. They will "rationalise" that "there's nothing wrong with it" that it is only what other students are doing.
"There are some people who are so motivated to do well, they will cross the line."
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Adams, 33, added the world title to her Olympic,Commonwealth and European crowns by beating Thailand's Peamwilai Laopeam on Friday.
The English fighter won the 51kg final in Astana by a split decision.
Adams, who has qualified for the Rio Olympics, had previously won silver three times at the World Championships.
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After a cagey opening round, Adams was consistently on the front foot and more aggressive than her Thai opponent.
She rocked Laopeam with a straight right in the second round and, despite being caught with a combination in the third, finished strongly in the fourth round.
"I've finally done it," she said. "And what better year to do it than in the year of the [Olympic] Games? I've cemented my place in history. The champ is here!"
One of the judges scored in favour of Laopeam throughout the fight, but Adams ascribed her hard-earned victory to high-quality preparation and greater desire.
"I stuck to the tactics, listened to the coaches, did all the training and left nothing to chance," she said.
"It was a touch-and-go fight. She's a really good opponent and deserved to be in the final, but I just gave a little bit more and wanted it that much more."
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The 21-year-old was held after footage was posted to YouTube and shared on Facebook and Twitter.
Israeli reports say that he has been put under five days of house arrest and the police have confiscated a drone and mobile phone while they carry out further investigations.
Israel's Transport Ministry described a "disturbing and serious incident".
The YouTube posting suggested the drone had been flying as close as 90ft (27m) to the passenger aircraft.
However, the suspect was later quoted on the Hebrew-language Israel Today news site as saying that the true distance had been more than three times that figure.
The video, which is still online, states a Mavic Pro drone was used to capture the footage of aeroplanes making their final descent to Sde Dov airport.
In some cases, the planes appear to be the same altitude as the drone. In others, the jets are closer to the sea.
The video also appears to show a man, filmed from above, controlling the drone while seated outside a bar.
The edited material was uploaded to YouTube on Thursday and shared on other social media the same day.
It has since clocked up more than 70,000 views, with many of the resulting comments criticising the film-maker's "stupidity" and saying that viewers had reported it to the local authorities.
DJI - the Chinese-maker of the Mavic Pro - has also condemned the filming.
"We stand ready to assist national aviation authorities as they investigate a recent wave of photos and videos showing clear and intentional lawbreaking in ways that pose real danger to manned air traffic," it said in a statement.
DJI said its drones came equipped with software that should prevent them flying within five miles (8km) of Sde Dov airport unless the feature had been disabled.
Consumer drones are an increasing headache for airport operators across the globe.
Earlier this month, Gatwick Airport, near London, had to close its runway and diverted flights after a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) was spotted close by.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is investigating a suspected midair collision between a drone and a light aircraft near to Adelaide.
Research by Cranfield University into aircraft-drone collisions indicates they need not be fatal but lithium-ion batteries used by UAVs mean they can pose a greater threat than bird strikes.
Students have also protested in the capital, Nairobi, ahead of a candle-lit vigil demanding more protection from the al-Qaeda-linked Somali militants.
The assault on Garissa University on Thursday killed 148 people.
Five Kenyans have appeared in court for suspected links with the attackers.
The court in Nairobi agreed to the prosecution's request to detain them for another 30 days, while police investigate whether they supplied weapons to the attackers, Kenya's Capital FM reports.
A sixth suspect, a Tanzanian, is being held in the north-eastern town of Garissa, which is about 150km (90 miles) from the border with Somalia.
Last Thursday's attack was the deadliest in Kenya by al-Shabab, which was formed in neighbouring Somalia about eight years ago.
The militants have promised a "long, gruesome war" against Kenya after Kenya sent troops to Somalia in 2011 to fight them.
The BBC's Bashkash Jugsooda'ay in Garissa says both Muslims and Christians took part in the march and promised to co-operate with the security forces to flush out militants who may be hiding in their community.
However, protesters were also critical of the security forces, saying they were slow in their response to the assault, he says.
They pointed out that both the army and police had bases in Garissa. Yet, four gunmen managed to storm the campus, taking students hostage in dormitories and killing them in a day-long attack.
Analysis: Anne Soy, BBC Africa, Nairobi
There is a hashtag trending on Twitter - #147notjustanumber in memory of the people killed in the Garissa attacks last week.
Kenyans are angry. They feel the government has not done enough to ensure security, especially as there had been material circulating on social media warning about attacks.
Unfortunately it looks like this is leading to profiling of Kenyans of Somali ethnicity - and there are many of them.
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The government says the security forces responded swiftly, and saved the lives of about 500 other students.
The security forces also came under heavy criticism at the protest in Nairobi by several hundred university students.
Protesters said they were no longer prepared to be "at the mercy of al-Shabab" and demanded that the government tighten security at universities and schools across Kenya.
Demonstrators also mourned the dead, holding placards which read "You remain in our hearts!".
There are emotional scenes at a mortuary in Nairobi, as relatives continue to identify the dead.
Garissa university campus
1. Militants enter the university grounds, two guards are shot dead
2. Shooting begins within the campus
3. Students attacked in their classrooms while preparing for exams
4. Gunmen believed isolated in the female dormitories
5. Some students make an escape through the fence
Kenya's stoic survivors defy al-Shabab
Survivors 'were too scared to scream'
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Hill was shown a red card six minutes into the second half of Sunday's 35-35 draw with the Premiership leaders.
The 22-year-old pleaded guilty to a charge of striking with the shoulder, and will miss games at Worcester and at home to Newcastle.
Chiefs are third in the Premiership and are unbeaten in six league games.
Elections, party reform and the UK constitution were discussed.
The spokesman added that the first minister "looked forward" to seeing Mr Corbyn in Wales "soon".
Before the meeting Mr Jones said MPs - including Mr Corbyn - were "welcome to help" in the 2016 assembly election.
Mr Jones said Labour's UK leader would "of course" be involved in the campaign.
Voters go to the polls in Wales, Scotland and London in May, in what will be the first electoral test for Labour since Mr Corbyn took over.
Mr Jones told BBC Wales: "In the elections of course I'll be, as leader of Welsh Labour, leading the campaign, with help of course from colleagues in London who are welcome to help.
"But it's a Welsh election, Welsh manifesto, Welsh Labour will produce, and that would be true whoever was the leader here in London and has been true in years gone by."
It is understood Mr Jones was keen to discuss the prospect of greater autonomy for Welsh Labour.
The first minister has described Mr Corbyn's win as "incredible", but previously called him an "unusual choice" for leader.
Mr Corbyn praised Welsh Labour during the leadership campaign and in his victory speech for its record in office, in particular for ending the internal market in the NHS.
He was the only one of the four leadership contenders not to meet the first minister during the campaign, although it was said to be a matter of availability.
Political commentators have asked whether Mr Corbyn becoming UK Labour leader will help or hinder the party's chances of winning the assembly election.
Prof Richard Wyn Jones of Cardiff University has said Labour could find it harder to hold onto key marginals such as Gower and Vale of Clwyd, which the Tories captured at the general election.
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies has said the assembly election will now take on an "even greater significance", accusing Labour of "abandoning mainstream politics in favour of a hard left agenda".
Bailey, 16, was stabbed during a fight with a fellow pupil at Cults Academy.
His killer is serving nine years for culpable homicide.
Mr Swinney said on Tuesday the Scottish government is to push for a UK-wide crackdown on the sale of knives online. However it has emerged the report provided to him was redacted.
A review of the death made a series of recommendations, one of which was for the government to seek "further legislative controls" on the sale of weapons online.
The review, by child welfare professional Andrew Lowe, made 21 recommendations.
The review found the pupil's death was "potentially avoidable" and said the Scottish government should consider legal changes to give teachers more power to search pupils and to crack down on online knife sales.
The heavily-redacted report into the killing was published last year.
This was said to be on the grounds of "data protection laws and respect the wishes of the individuals and families involved".
The Scottish government said on Thursday: "We have not been provided with an unredacted copy of the report by Aberdeen City Council and have focused on the recommendations directed to us.
"Officials sought views and advice from a key range of stakeholders including all teaching unions in Scotland, the Association of Directors of Education in Scotland and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities.
"Feedback was also sought from a range of other stakeholders including Police Scotland, the national Violence Reduction Unit, Medics Against Violence and the National Parent Forum of Scotland."
A spokesperson for Aberdeen City Council said: "We have worked closely with the Scottish government following the publication of the report and have provided everything requested, including the full findings."
Mr Swinney rejected another recommendation to give teachers a statutory power to search pupils without permission.
Mr Swinney said this would "place teachers on the same footing as police officers" and "radically change the pupil-teacher relationship".
The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) welcomed the announcement.
Klopp's side moved above City and into second place in the Premier League with Tuesday's 4-1 win over Stoke.
City boss Pep Guardiola, whose side beat Hull 3-0 on Monday, was at Anfield to see the Reds' emphatic victory.
"I respect them a lot, but I have not been to City's stadium this season or last to watch games," said Klopp.
"We are already looking forward. It's a difficult game for both teams, but an exciting one. The best news for us is that it's at Anfield.
"They're an outstanding side, we are not too bad. It'll be a nice game.
"Whatever I say tonight, we cannot win it tonight. But maybe I could say a few things that make it more difficult for us. It's probably best I shut my mouth."
Liverpool fell behind on Tuesday as Jonathan Walters gave Stoke the lead, but goals from Adam Lallana and Roberto Firmino swung the game in the home side's favour.
Giannelli Imbula's own goal and Daniel Sturridge's first strike of the season ensured the win, which keeps Liverpool six points behind league-leaders Chelsea.
"The start of the game was really difficult because the plan of Stoke was to press really high, especially with the two strikers," added Klopp. "We were not patient enough in our passing game, we could have done more.
"It became a wild game and when they had the ball it was immediately in the air.
"Peter Crouch did outstanding work, he was really difficult to defend, and Joe Allen was brilliant with the second balls in the beginning.
"At 2-1 we could adjust at half-time, we spoke about a few things. We scored a wonderful third goal and then Daniel closed the game. That was really important."
"Confidence is not a problem of the team at the moment. We know about our quality, but obviously we don't show it all the time."
The Redditch skater, 25, secured her first medal on the World Cup circuit in her debut World Cup A final appearance.
Fellow Briton Elise Christie, 25, won the B final on Saturday morning to finish fifth overall in the 1000m.
Gilmartin competes again in the 1500m on Sunday, while Christie is seeking a fourth World Cup medal of the season in the 500m at the Oriental Sports Centre.
The Scot followed up her gold and silver medals in Toronto with a silver in the 500m at the third ISU World Cup event in Nagoya, Japan last weekend.
In the men's competition, Murray Cochrane is through to Sunday's 1500m quarter-final after recording a time of two minutes 13.278 seconds in Friday's heats.
The Dundee-born skater, 22, beat the previous British record of 2:14.091 achieved by Jack Whelbourne in the first round at the 2014 Sochi Olympics en route to becoming the first Briton to reach an Olympic 1500m short track final.
The body of Gillian Hiney, 48, was discovered in Cardwell Street early on Wednesday when police were called.
A 58-year-old man from the city was arrested by Staffordshire Police on suspicion of murder. He has been released without charge.
Police said investigations are continuing to establish the cause of Ms Hiney's death.
Det Ch Insp Dave Giles said: "A detailed investigation will continue in an effort to establish whether Gillian's death was caused by another person or whether it was as a result of a medical condition."
Police said a post-mortem examination took place on Wednesday afternoon, but did not establish a clear cause of death.
Forensic investigators will continue with a detailed examination of the property over the next 24 hours.
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In 2016 there was an unemployment rate of 18% for black male graduates aged 16 to 24 in the capital.
According to the data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the rate for their white counterparts was 10%.
A government spokesperson said the employment rate for ethnic minorities was "at a record high".
More than 83,000 young men in London are from black and mixed black ethnic groups, making up about one in five of young men in the capital.
Research by the National Audit Office (NAO) has found that along with Pakistani and Bangladeshi women, black men consistently have the lowest employment rates in the UK.
Gary Chimuzinga was initially unsuccessful getting a place on a graduate scheme at a bank after studying Financial Economics with Econometrics at the University of Kent.
He then went through Rare, a recruitment company which focuses on placing people from ethnic minorities and working-class backgrounds, and got an internship at Barclays and later got on their graduate scheme.
The 23-year-old said he faced "a lot of struggles" during his search for a job.
He believes there are several things which hold back young black men in London but "ultimately it comes down to confidence".
"We don't have many role models which can give us a bit of confidence, that it is doable," he added.
BBC London contacted 50 of London's 500 top graduate employers last year across the banking, accounting, medical, legal and retail sectors.
Eleven were able to provide data relating to their employment of black men specifically.
Those 11 organisations recruited 1,803 graduates in 2016. Of those, 30 were black men.
The NHS leadership academy, for trainee managers, was among those which did not recruit any among its intake of 112 graduates.
National director Stephen Hart said the scheme was "hugely popular".
"We know more work needs to be done across the system to improve the under-representation of black, Asian and minority ethnic background (BAME) colleagues at a senior level in the NHS," he said.
Barclays was one of the organisations which employed the highest percentage of black men. Of 320 recruits, nine were black men.
The figures from the Annual Population Survey cover the 12 months ending October 2016.
They do show the gap is closing with a decrease from the previous year when the unemployment rate for young black men with a degree in London was 27%.
A spokesperson for the Department for Work and Pensions said: "The employment rate for ethnic minorities is at a record high, with 80,000 more people in London finding work in the last year alone.
"We've set a target to increase BAME employment by 20% by 2020, and remain firmly committed to that," they said.
Mr Singh told the BBC that he took the action because he felt "Lord Ram was unjust to his wife Sita", and he wanted a court in the eastern state of Bihar to "acknowledge this fact".
The court wasn't convinced with his argument and rejected his plea last week, saying it wasn't a "practical case".
And to add to Mr Singh's woes, a group of his colleagues have accused him of "seeking publicity", and one of them has sued him for defamation.
Ram is the hero of the Ramayana, the Sanskrit epic of 24,000 stanzas.
He is revered by millions in India and around the world.
Mr Singh is undeterred by the criticism, and believes strongly that he has a valid case.
He quotes from religious scriptures to support his argument.
"It's well known that Ram asked Sita to prove that she was pure after he rescued her from the clutches of the demon king Ravana. He did not trust Sita," Mr Singh told the BBC.
"Ram's treatment of Sita shows that women were not respected even in ancient times. I am aware that the case may sound ridiculous to many, but we have to discuss this part of our ancient religious history. I will file a case again because I really believe that Indians have to acknowledge that Ram mistreated Sita."
Mr Singh also rejected allegations that he was merely seeking publicity.
"I filed the case because we cannot talk about respecting women in modern day India when we know that one of our most revered gods did not treat his own wife with respect," he said.
But he admits the reactions have taken him by surprise.
"I expected some objection but did not anticipate that my colleagues would turn against me. I was only talking about justice and had no intention of hurting anybody's religious sentiments," he said.
"Is it wrong to seek justice for women? The court's acceptance of my plea would have sent a good message that respecting women was important to Indians."
But his colleagues are not convinced.
Lawyer Ranjan Kumar Singh told the BBC that the plea "insulted Hindus".
"He has a history of filing publicity-seeking pleas. But this time he has gone too far. He has hurt our sentiments," he said.
Ranjan Kumar Singh has also filed a defamation case against his colleague.
"We have also requested the bar council to cancel his licence to practice law. All lawyers are united against Chandan, he needs to learn a lesson," he told the BBC.
"We see Ram and Sita as one and worship them as a couple, there is no question of us believing that Ram mistreated Sita," Ranjan Kumar Singh added.
But Chandan Kumar Singh insists that "his fight isn't against Ram".
"I too worship Ram. I am a practising Hindu. I apologise to people if they feel hurt, but I cannot ignore the fact that Sita wasn't respected," he said.
Deputy assistant commissioner Neil Basu said: "We must all accept that there is a possibility we will never understand why he did this."
Four people died and 50 were injured when Masood drove his car into people before stabbing a police officer.
The family of PC Keith Palmer said his bravery will be remembered.
Detectives confirmed the attack was over within 82 seconds.
Mr Basu said: "We still believe that Masood acted alone on the day and there is no information or intelligence to suggest there are further attacks planned.
"Even if he acted alone in the preparation, we need to establish with absolute clarity why he did these unspeakable acts to bring reassurance to Londoners, and to provide answers and closure for the families of those killed and the victims and survivors of this atrocity.
"Nevertheless, we are determined to understand if Masood was a lone actor inspired by terrorist propaganda or if others have encouraged, supported or directed him.
"If the latter proves to be the case, they will face justice."
He urged those who knew Masood to speak to police.
In a statement released on Saturday, the family of PC Palmer addressed those who tried to save his life.
"There was nothing more you could have done," it said.
"You did your best and we are just grateful he was not alone.
"We care about him being remembered for his selfless bravery and loving nature. We miss him so much, but we are also incredibly proud of Keith."
The family said they had been "overwhelmed by the love and support" shown for them and for PC Palmer and they praised the support from the police.
David Lord, from Westerham, denied causing Valerie Deakin's death by dangerous driving following the crash in Westerham, Kent, on Christmas Eve.
Ms Deakin, 74, of Udimore, East Sussex, died when Mr Lord's Audi crashed into the town centre branch of Costa.
Mr Lord was given unconditional bail at Maidstone Crown Court but no date has yet been set for his trial.
Two men and two women were taken to hospital after the crash. Another woman was treated for minor injuries.
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It will see French firm Total take control Denmark's Maersk's assets in the UK sector of the North Sea, including the Culzean gas field.
Total said an "exceptional overlap" of businesses would increase its competitiveness through growing assets and annual cost-savings.
The deal will require the approval of regulators.
Total chairman and chief executive Patrick Pouyanne said: "The combination of Maersk Oil's North Western Europe businesses with our existing portfolio will position Total as the second operator in the North Sea with strong production profiles in UK, Norway and Denmark."
Oceanic Properties wants to build the manufacturing plant on the former Vosper Thornycroft shipyard site at Woolston, Southampton.
The site, next to the 1,600-home Centenary Quay development, would see wind turbine blades made within the building, then loaded on to ships.
Southampton City Council approved the application at a meeting on Tuesday.
The proposed 13m (42.6ft) tall 3,147 sq m building would be used for manufacturing 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Under the plans the site's external yard and its cranes can also be used between 07:00 and 19:00, seven days a week and up to 23:00 for some works.
The site's proposed working hours raised concerns from residents about noise.
Dr Ian White, who lives across the water from the site in Ocean Village, said residents could face "enormous disruption on the noise issue".
Robert Sanders director of Blade Dynamics, which is earmarked to move into the the plant, said: "Most of the time the activities will be inside with the doors closed and are generally quiet, residents outside would not generally notice us."
The proposals include a 3m-high acoustic fence along Keswick Road to reduce noise from the site.
The announcement follows reports that Paddington author Michael Bond, 88, was "totally amazed" at the BBFC's advice.
After an approach from the film's distributor the BBFC altered the term "mild sex references" to "innuendo".
The film, out in the UK on 28 November, is rated a PG.
Ben Whishaw voices the marmalade-loving bear from Darkest Peru in the live-action film, which also stars Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Peter Capaldi and Nicole Kidman as a villainous taxidermist.
Bonneville, who plays Mr Brown, told the BBC on Tuesday that he thought it "hilarious" that the BBFC had mentioned "mild sex references" in relation to a scene in which he disguises himself as a cleaning woman and is flirted with by a security guard.
"I was scratching my head thinking 'what are the censors talking about?" he said. "There were four and five year olds watching it the other day laughing uproariously, so I don't think it's going to damage any young children - or indeed any 75 year olds."
The film's director Paul King said he had expected the BBFC to issue a PG rating.
"I'm not surprised about that but I don't think it's a PG for sexiness. That I would find very odd," he said.
On Monday, the BBFC classified Paddington a PG with advice the film contained "dangerous behaviour, mild threat, mild sex references, [and] mild bad language".
When the decision was published, the film's distributor requested a reconsideration of the description "mild sex references" and more clarity to the frequency of mild bad language.
The BBFC said on Tuesday it had revised its wording to "dangerous behaviour, mild threat, innuendo, [and] infrequent mild bad language."
It said the mild innuendo included "a comic sequence in which a man disguised as a woman is flirted with by another man". On the language issue it refers to "a single mumbled use of 'bloody'."
Michael Bond, who has a cameo appearance in the film, had earlier told the Daily Mail: "I can't imagine what the sex references are. It doesn't enter into it with the books, certainly."
Bond's Paddington books have sold 35 million copies worldwide since they were first published in 1958.
John McCafferty, 73, died on Tuesday, 33 years after his operation.
Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub performed Mr McCafferty's transplant at Harefield Hospital, west London, on 20 October 1982.
Sir Magdi said surgeons did not know at the time "how long patients [could] survive after transplantation".
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Mr McCafferty lived in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, but was originally from Shotts in North Lanarkshire.
He had been diagnosed at 39 with dilated cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle.
He was told he had five years to live when he received the transplant.
But in 2013 he was recognised as the world's longest surviving heart transplant patient by Guinness World Records.
Sir Magdi said the five-year prognosis had been estimated.
"John showed quite clearly that people can survive in excess of 30 years... so that's remarkable," Sir Magdi said.
"It shows how transplantation can give life and that's entirely due to the generosity of the British public, the donor family that is."
The British Heart Foundation said more than three-quarters of heart transplant patients lived for more than five years.
Mr McCafferty's widow Ann said the years they had together after his heart transplant were "brilliant".
But she said: "He was in pain for the last three years of his life and was taken to hospital in Milton Keynes on 27 January. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to return home."
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Judges said German company TUV Rheinland, which certified the implants, must pay 3,000 euros (£2,470) in interim damages to each claimant.
Last year, the firm was found jointly liable with France's PIP (Poly Implant Prothese) over the global health scare.
The scandal broke in 2010 after many of the implants ruptured.
Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of PIP, was handed a four-year jail sentence and fined 75,000 euros in December.
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The court ruled that his company had used sub-standard silicone gel - rather than medical-grade silicone - causing many of the implants to split.
Apart from Mas, four other former PIP executives were convicted and given lesser sentences, in one of the biggest trials in French legal history.
Throughout his hearing, Mas had denied the silicone used was harmful, while all but one of the other defendants said they had not been aware of the risks.
Tuesday's ruling will be significant for thousands of women worldwide who cannot afford to have their PIP implants removed, the BBC's Christian Fraser reports.
TUV had appealed against having to pay interim damages to victims, until its appeal against the ruling that it shared responsibility with PIP was heard later this year.
Last year, six implant distributors and 1,700 women brought a class action against TUV Rheinland, arguing that anything but a cursory inspection would have found problems.
TUV Rheinland rejected the ruling on the grounds that it was itself a victim of fraud.
If TUV Rheinland loses its appeal later in the year, as many as 400,000 women worldwide could join the case.
Lawyers are seeking a total compensation of 16,000 euros per victim, opening the company to a potential bill of some 6bn euros.
The health scare came to public attention when the French government recommended that women have PIP implants removed due to an abnormally high rupture rate.
There was confusion as British health authorities said there was no need for routine removal. However, they later agreed to remove the implants to put women's minds at rest.
France's Health Products Agency (ANSM) has to date registered more than 7,500 implant ruptures and 3,000 cases of undesirable effects, mainly inflammations, among the 30,000 women using PIP products in France.
In a report released last June, the ANSM said such incidents tended to be under-reported, and so "the number of women actually explanted may be greater than the number of cases reported to the agency".
When an implant ruptures, the silicone gel filling can leak into the body. Some women will not notice anything at all, and there is no evidence of an increased cancer risk.
He had been in a coma since Sunday after being admitted to the cardiac surgery unit of a hospital in Rome, according to the reports.
His 1974 work A Special Day, which he wrote and directed, received Best Foreign Film and Best Actor nominations for star Marcello Mastroianni.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said Scola was a screen "master".
His death left a "huge void in Italian culture", Mr Renzi tweeted (in Italian).
Scola directed 41 films and wrote the screenplay for almost 90, according to the Internet Movie Database.
He performed both roles in A Special Day, which saw Mastroianni and Sophia Loren develop a relationship against the backdrop of fascist 1930s Italy.
Other works include We All Loved Each Other So Much, The Family and Ugly, Dirty and Bad - for which he won best director at the Cannes film festival in 1976.
The Storyhouse was completed following a two-and-a-half-year project to transform the city's former Odeon cinema.
It has opened its doors after the Gateway Theatre closed in 2007 leaving no other dedicated venue for performances in the city.
The new theatre retains the character of the Grade II listed building.
As well as the 800-capacity auditorium, it features a library, independent cinema, restaurant and rooftop bar.
Funded by Cheshire West and Chester Council and Arts Council England, it has become the largest public building in the city, next to the cathedral and town hall.
Chief executive Andrew Bentley said: "We're thrilled to finally bring back a theatre to Chester after a decade-long absence.
"We've retained all the beautiful art deco features of the original building and also added a brilliant extension."
The shooting took place as masked men raided the premises in Digbeth, central Birmingham, on Wednesday evening, said police.
Akhtar Javeed, aged 56, was found lying in the road. He was taken to hospital but pronounced dead a short time later.
Police believe two men were involved. The robbery was at a business premises in Rea Street, near the junction with MacDonald Street.
BBC correspondent Peter Wilson said Mr Javeed was believed to be a company director at Direct Source 3 and was found by police after he had been shot.
Other staff are thought to have been on the premises at the time of the raid.
Police said they did not yet know what type of a firearm was used.
Mr Javeed's family have been informed.
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Act Det Ch Insp Martin Slevin said the raid took place at 18:40 GMT, at a time when people may have been leaving work and could have seen what happened.
"If you have any information that could help our investigation, please get in touch as soon as possible," he said.
Direct Source 3 is a fast food, retail and catering business.
A post-mortem examination is being arranged.
There has been a spike in gun crime in Birmingham in recent weeks . Police have said it is of "great concern".
So far this year there have been 41 arrests for gun-related crime and 19 firearms have been seized.
This is the third gun-related death investigated by West Midlands Police since October.
The bus was returning from the Amarnath Cave pilgrimage site in the Anantnag district when the attack took place.
Police told the BBC the target appeared to be a nearby counter-insurgency base.
The attack, which also left 19 injured, is likely to heighten tensions in the disputed region.
Hardline Hindu groups linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party have long wanted to see tough action against the armed revolt against Indian rule in the Muslim-majority region.
Amid emotional scenes at the police line in Anantnag, many pilgrims who survived the attack say they are lucky to be alive.
The district hospital was full of injured survivors.
The owner of the bus, Harsh Desai, was among the injured.
"I saw five to six gunmen right in front of our bus. They were firing indiscriminately and throwing stones at our bus. I told the driver not to stop and just keep driving," he told the BBC.
Nearly all the survivors praised the driver, who did not stop the vehicle and got them to safety, only stopping near an army convoy 2km (1.24 miles) away. Many say that without him, the death toll would have been much higher.
An elderly woman said her sister who was sitting next to her and a man behind her both died in the attack, though she did not suffer any injuries.
News of the attack has already sparked anger with people demanding immediate retaliation on behalf of the pilgrims, most of whom came from Gujarat, Mr Modi's home state.
Mr Modi tweeted he was "pained beyond words", adding: "India will never get bogged down by such cowardly attacks and the evil designs of hate."
The attack has also been condemned by separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani, whose spokesman called it "an act of terror", while outlawed armed group Lashkar-e-Toiba distanced itself from the attack, saying "it was aimed at bringing a bad name to the Kashmiri movement".
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, who stayed overnight with the wounded, all of whom were out of danger, promised that her forces "would not spare" those involved.
The attack comes after some hardline separatist leaders said they welcomed the pilgrims - about 100,000 of whom have already completed the journey - as their fight is not with ordinary Indians.
One police source told the BBC the bus was not properly registered, and should have been off the road by the time of the attack, at 20:20 local time (14:50 GMT) on Monday.
Wales and Iceland have excelled in the competition despite this being the first time they have qualified.
Wales face Portugal on Wednesday in the semi-final, while hosts France eliminated Iceland in the last eight.
"I think there will be a boom in those countries and we will see more kids there playing football," said Kallen.
Northern Ireland, Albania and Slovakia also appeared in the competition for the first time.
"People were anxious the format might not work but it has worked," Kallen said. "We have seen two teams going further than anybody believed they would and that's positive."
Some have criticised the new format and the defensive approach taken by teams relying on draws to get through the group stage as a best third-paced side.
However, that also contributed to the exciting conclusion to the group stages with most teams needing points to qualify, typified by Iceland's thrilling late victory against Austria.
The new format will be in place for Euro 2020, which will be hosted throughout Europe, and Kallen said it could also be adopted beyond that.
Owen Newbury, 18, admitted racially aggravated harassment following Everton's first goal in the fourth round tie at Brunton Park in January.
Newbury, of Skinburness Drive, Silloth, was given a five-year banning order at Carlisle Magistrates' Court.
He was also ordered to carry out 140 hours of community service.
She is accused of directing the artillery fire in which the two journalists died.
It was initially thought the judge had found her guilty, but journalists say a final verdict has not yet been delivered.
Ukraine and some Western countries have condemned the case as a show trial.
The two Russian state TV journalists Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin were killed in mortar fire in June 2014, at the height of fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels.
On the same day, Ms Savchenko, 34, was captured by rebels.
Ms Savchenko, a pilot by training, is accused of having acted as an artillery spotter on the ground.
She denies the charges. Her has argued phone records prove she was captured by rebels before the attack.
Ms Savchenko had arrived in the area a few days previously to join the volunteer Aidar battalion, loyal to the Ukrainian government.
According to her lawyers, she was captured by rebel militants on the morning of 17 June whilst trying to reach several Aidar fighters who had been wounded in an ambush.
Ms Savchenko says her captors then took her into Russia, but prosecutors say she secretly crossed into Russian territory herself.
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Reading the verdict, the judge in the Russian town of Donetsk quoted prosecutors as saying Ms Savchenko had been driven by "political hatred".
The prosecution has called for Ms Savchenko - who was elected as a Ukrainian MP in her absence following her capture - to be jailed for 23 years.
Any sentence will be delivered by the court on Tuesday, after an eventual verdict has been handed down.
Earlier, one of her lawyers said there was "no doubt" that the court would find Ms Savchenko guilty and sentence her to a "few dozen years".
"A propaganda machine is at work here, absent of justice and freedom," said Mark Feigin on Twitter.
Western politicians have called for her release.
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has said she should be freed "immediately and unconditionally" while the US envoy to the UN, Samantha Power, described the trial as "farcical".
Relations between Russia and Ukraine - along with its Western allies - have deteriorated since the events of 2014 in Ukraine.
Moscow annexed the Crimean peninsula that March after an unrecognised referendum on self-determination, and is accused of covertly supporting the rebels in the bloody conflict which later divided eastern Ukraine.
The Archbishop of Canterbury made the comments as he defended the decision to restrict a liberal US branch of the Church for allowing same-sex marriage.
He said it was not for Anglican leaders to "divide the Church" and that union would be "painful as well as joyful".
But he added it was a "constant source of deep sadness that people are persecuted for their sexuality".
His comments followed an agreement between Anglican leaders on measures to curb the US Episcopal Church, including barring it from decision-making for three years.
The agreement - made at a four-day meeting of 39 Anglican primates in Canterbury - also upheld a "traditional doctrine" of marriage as being between a man and a woman.
Episcopal leaders and campaigners have criticised the decision, with people gathering to protest at Canterbury Cathedral.
The head of the Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, told BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight, the experience of the gay and lesbian community was similar to that of African-Americans, adding: "Even after emancipation there were those who were excluded and segregated."
Anglicans have been divided on the issue of homosexuality and same-sex marriage since the US Episcopal Church ordained an openly gay bishop in 2003.
Leaders said that stance was a "fundamental departure" from the faith of the majority in what is the world's third largest Christian denomination.
Speaking at the Primates 2016 conference, Archbishop Welby said facing protesters, particularly those from Africa, was a reminder of the "pain and suffering of many LGBTI (Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex) people around the world".
He said: "For me it's a constant source of deep sadness, the number of people who are persecuted for their sexuality.
"I don't have the right to speak for everyone. I wanted to take this opportunity to say how sorry I am for the hurt and pain, in the past and present, the Church has caused."
But defending the decision to curb the US Episcopal Church, he said the "unity shown by the primates" was "going to be painful as well as joyful and remarkable".
"It is not for us to divide the body of Christ, it is not for us to divide the Church," he said.
The rift over the US Episcopal Church's stance on same-sex marriage and homosexuality dates back to the ordination of openly gay Canon Gene Robinson.
He was made a bishop of the Episcopal Church's New Hampshire diocese in 2003.
More than 100 senior Anglicans had used an open letter less than a week ago to urge the Church of England to repent for "discriminating" against lesbian and gay Christians.
However, the Anglican leaders in Canterbury said the Episcopal Church's approval of gay marriage was "a fundamental departure from the faith and teaching" of the majority of Anglicans.
The Anglican leader denied suggestions the US Church was being sanctioned but said it was facing "consequences" and said the decision was supported by the "overwhelming majority" of Anglican primates.
Asked if the Church's position made it look outdated, he admitted it would in some parts of the world but not others.
He said: "It makes us look out of line in the US and UK, yes, but not in many other parts of the world, no.
"We are a global Church and that means that there are different views in different places."
He also said the mistreatment of gay people in some countries, especially those where homosexuality is criminalised, remained a "major concern".
BBC religious affairs correspondent Caroline Wyatt
There was an atmosphere of significant mistrust at this meeting, perhaps hardly surprising given the animosity of the past years between the most traditionalist of the provinces and the most liberal.
The disagreement over Anglican doctrine regarding same sex marriage is probably a more fundamental one than the divisions that raged over female priests.
But the subtext of the meeting has been the power struggle just beneath the surface over who should lead the Anglican communion in the future - the countries of the global south, where congregations are growing, represented in part by Global Anglican Future (GAFCON) or Canterbury, its traditional leadership based in an increasingly secular global north where congregations have been in decline for many years.
Through diplomacy and negotiation - and a tight media blackout which succeeded until almost the last day - the Anglican Communion has pulled through as one, for now.
The careful wording of the resolution agreed by the majority of primates ensured there was no mention of the words "sanction" or "punishment", although the strength of feeling about the Episcopal Church's unilateral action was abundantly clear.
Nonetheless, even as GAFCON welcomed the deal, its leadership added that: "This action must not be seen as an end, but as a beginning."
So even though the Anglican Communion has not "moved into separate bedrooms", as some had expected, it is continuing to live in a deeply divided household.
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The Global Anglican Future Conference (Gafcon), which represents conservative Anglican leaders worldwide, said it was pleased by the outcome but said "this action must not be seen as an end, but as a beginning".
But Presiding Bishop Michael Curry told BBC Radio 4's World Tonight that the decision would bring "great pain" to gay and lesbian members of the Anglican Communion.
He said: "Those who are baptised followers of Jesus - whether they are straight gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered - if they're committed to following the way of Jesus, they should have equal access to all of the services and sacraments in the life of the Church."
He also defended the decision of the Episcopal Church to change the canon to allow for same-sex couples to be married in church.
"Obviously it's a serious disagreement. We believe the decision we've taken is the right one and they've expressed their displeasure and disagreement and we respect that."
Other gay Christians and supporters of equal marriage were critical of the decision.
Labour MP and former Anglican minister Chris Bryant, who is gay, said: "I've finally given up on Anglican church today after its love-empty decision on sexuality.
"One day it will seem wrong as supporting slavery."
Archbishop Welby is to appoint a task group to rebuild trust in the Anglican Communion.
Anglicans, whose roots are in the missionary work of the Church of England, are the third-largest grouping of Christians in the world, behind Roman Catholics and the Orthodox.
Streets are being newly paved in Havana and the cathedral is being renovated.
On the city's iconic Revolution Square, where Pope Francis will celebrate a Mass on Sunday, workers have been building a huge altar and stands for the congregation and choir.
Pope Francis will spend four days in Cuba before flying to the US, on his first visits to both countries.
Similar makeovers are taking place in other Cuban cities on the Pope's itinerary.
Workers in Havana have re-laid the cobbled streets where the Pope mobile will pass and have upgraded the traffic lights.
The airport terminal where the Pope will arrive has also been renovated.
In the city of Holguin where the pope will celebrate Mass on Monday, the cathedral has been repaired and repainted.
Officials say nearly 1,000 Cuban and foreign journalists are expected to cover the visit.
On Thursday the Vatican said it hoped Pope Francis's visit would help bring to an end the 53-year-old US embargo and lead to more freedom and human rights on the island.
The Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin said the Vatican hoped for "a flowering of these fundamental aspects for the life of persons and peoples".
The Pope himself praised Cubans' "spirit" in the face of adversity.
"It does me a lot of good and helps me to think of your faith in the Lord, of the spirit with which you confront the difficulties of each day," he said in a message relayed on Cuban state television.
Pope Francis's trip will also take him to the US. The thaw in relations between Cuba and the US in recent months is partly due to his crucial mediation between Havana and Washington - something Mr Castro thanked the Pope for during a visit to the Vatican in May.
On Friday the US announced eased restrictions on business and travel with Cuba, the latest move by President Barack Obama to improve relations with the country.
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If convicted, the men could face the death penalty. A sixth suspect, who is thought to be 17, is expected to be tried by a juvenile court.
The case has shocked India and sparked a debate about the treatment of women.
On Sunday, the victim's mother condemned public figures who implied her daughter had brought it on herself.
In an interview with the BBC, she said those who criticised Indian women for adopting Western dress and lifestyles were "sexist and irresponsible" and were in effect condoning rape.
The physiotherapy student, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and a male friend were attacked on a bus in south Delhi on 16 December.
Police said the assailants beat both of them, and then raped the woman. She suffered massive internal injuries and died nearly two weeks later.
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The start of the trial at the Saket court complex in Delhi was delayed for more than an hour as defence lawyers argued that it should be open to the media. The judge rejected their request and said it should be held behind closed doors.
After receiving the charge sheet, the judge adjourned the trial until 24 January, when opening arguments will be heard.
The defendants have been named as Ram Singh and his brother Mukesh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur. The sixth suspect claims to be a juvenile and his case is being handled separately.
Lawyers for two of the suspects have said they will plead not guilty. It is unclear how the other three accused will plead.
Prosecutors say they have extensive forensic evidence linking all six men to the crime. It is supported by the suspects' mobile-phone records and the testimony of the dying woman and her friend, they add.
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However, defence lawyers told the Reuters news agency that they were preparing to argue that the forensic evidence had been fabricated.
They also said the trial was unsafe because police had rushed the investigation into the crime as a result of the public outrage.
Two of the four defence lawyers had said their clients were beaten in custody and forced to make confessions which were suspiciously similar. Officials have declined to comment, citing legal restrictions.
The defence is also expected to argue that the men were denied legal aid for several weeks. The lawyer for Ram Singh, VK Anand, said he would ask to move the trial out of the capital because of the media attention.
"We are sure we will not get justice in Delhi," he added.
The brutal assault on the 23-year-old student has led to nationwide protests against the treatment of women in India.
Campaigners have called for tougher rape laws and reforms to the police have been accused of too often failing to file charges against attackers.
The government has promised to fast-track future rape cases. Legal proceedings in India sometimes involve years of delays.
As well as the one sitting at Saket, five other fast-track courts are being set up in Delhi to allow crimes against women to be dealt with swiftly. There are believed to be about 95,000 rape cases pending nationwide, according to Ranjana Kumari, a women's activist and director of the Centre for Social Research.
"'We need a system in which women can get justice quickly. Otherwise, in the normal course of things, it can take 10 or 12 or 14 years for cases to be taken up by the court. That is tantamount to denying justice to the victim," she told the Associated Press.
The government has also said that it will bring in stronger sexual assault laws and has established several committees to recommend changes.
Jamie Hodson, from Wigan, was fatally injured in the Dundrod 150 on 10 August after an incident at the Joey's Windmill section.
The 35-year-old Englishman won the Supertwins MGP race in 2016 which is held on the Isle of Man TT course.
A service will be held at St Ninian's Church in Douglas on 23 August.
A church spokesman said it is being held with the "kind permission of the Hodson family" and conducted by the Rev John Coldwell.
He added that a "celebration of Jamie's life" will also be held in his home town of Wigan and all are welcome at both.
Jamie's brother Rob Hodson was also involved in the crash but not seriously hurt.
The National race was immediately red-flagged and the Hodson brothers were taken to hospital after being treated at the scene.
Jamie Hodson's death was later announced shortly after 22:00 BST.
The opening practice session for the 2017 Festival of Motorcycling, which includes the Manx Grand Prix and Classic TT, will be held on Saturday.
The train drivers' union Aslef said its 24-hour action would start at 21:30 BST on Wednesday.
London Underground (LU) had offered four unions a deal aimed at improving work-life balance.
BBC London correspondent Karl Mercer said all four unions had rejected the offer as talks continued.
The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union has also rejected the deal while Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) is yet to make official its response to the offer.
Unite previously said its action "would go ahead". Talks are being held at conciliatory service Acas.
LU said the new offer included an extra £200 per night Tube shift for drivers and a £500 bonus for station staff by next February as well as a further guarantees for a 32-hour, four-day week.
After a short transition period while the service is introduced, drivers will have the choice whether to work nights, said LU, and everyone will be entitled to two days off in seven.
But Aslef said LU should postpone the planned launch of the all-night Tube on 12 September so further negotiations could be held.
It said the new deal was "completely inflexible", leaving it with "no other choice" than to walk out.
Finn Brennan from the union said the main concern was the "complete lack of firm commitments on work life balance for train drivers" and the number of weekend rest days they would get.
The RMT said it had also rejected the "re-packaged" offer, saying its reps were "furious" when they examined details of the proposed deal.
It said: "They are a re-hash of previous plans and would continue along the course of smashing up long-standing agreements and destroying work-life balance."
LU's managing director Nick Brown said he was "hugely disappointed" the unions had rejected the "very fair" offer for "pretty thin" reasons, but that LU remained open to further talks.
Transport for London (TfL) has warned that Tube services will stop running at 18:30 BST on Wednesday, with services "exceptionally busy" from 16:30 BST.
There will be no Tube services all day on Thursday.
The action follows a strike that closed the entire network at the beginning of July after the unions rejected an offer which included a 2% rise this year and £2,000 for drivers on the weekend night Tube service.
A judge granted the Law Society and Bar Council leave to seek a judicial review of Justice Minister David Ford's rules.
The hearing is scheduled to take place in September.
A barrister representing the two bodies said the reduced payments did not give lawyers fair reward for their work to ensure defendants got a fair trial.
"They will have a devastating impact on the criminal justice system both now and in the future," said Karen Quinlivan QC.
"Our concern is it will lead to an erosion in due course of advocacy and representation."
She added: "If we are successful we will be seeking to quash retrospectively the unlawful rules."
Mr Ford, who is facing cuts to his departmental budget along with other Northern Ireland Executive ministers, introduced new rules this month that reduce the legal aid payments available to lawyers who undertake criminal case work.
Earlier this week, barristers who are part of the Criminal Bar Association withdrew from all new criminal cases requiring legal aid, in protest against the reduced payments.
A barrister for the minister told the court he had received 2,000 pages of legal exhibits as part of the challenge, with further documentation from a forensic accountant's report still to come.
Seeking six weeks to assess the material, Tony McGleenan QC said: "We have quite a substantial body of work in responding to this."
Granting leave to seek a judicial review, the judge agreed to list the case for a full, week-long hearing in September.
In a statement, Mr Ford said he would be "robustly defending the legal challenge".
"The levels of remuneration were set following detailed analysis; adjusted following consultation; and have been through the legislative process," he said.
"Given that this challenge is now before the courts, I will not be making any further public comment on the issue until the legal process is completed.
"However, my department will monitor the impact the withdrawal of services will have on the courts and they will engage with all sectors of the justice system to try to mitigate any impact on defendants, victims and witnesses."
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He is just one of the many visually impaired tennis players benefitting from people helping put on their regular sessions in Finsbury Park in London.
Jessica Bavington, who started volunteering in the role about six years ago, is one of those.
"I was just absolutely fascinated by how it was even possible that someone could play tennis with potentially someone who's blind," she said. "It was just profoundly inspiring.
"Some people will see barriers in volunteering and actually there are not that many."
Do you know a local sports volunteer who deserves some much-needed recognition?
Nominate your local BBC Unsung Hero here - but hurry as entries close on Sunday, 23 October!
The 2016 Visually Impaired and Blind National Tennis Championships take place at the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton on 15-16 October.
The away team took the lead two minutes after half-time when Luke Leahy was able to slot home a James Wilson cross.
The lead was cancelled out when Pitman's powerful penalty beat the outstretching arms of Mark Gillespie.
Walsall captain Adam Chambers was lucky to stay on the pitch after his reckless tackle on Portsmouth's Adam May in the second minute and had the home fans calling for a red card.
Referee Brett Huxtable disagreed and only awarded a yellow. Both teams were attacking but both failed to break the deadlock.
Walsall could have taken an early lead but Leahy saw his 30-yard powerful shot fly wide of the goal.
Pompey had to wait until the 31st minute for their best effort of the first half.
The home side could have won it in the dying moments but Pitman failed to get his chance on target, sending the ball just over.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Portsmouth 1, Walsall 1.
Second Half ends, Portsmouth 1, Walsall 1.
Brett Pitman (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Florent Cuvelier (Walsall).
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Gareth Evans.
Foul by Jack Whatmough (Portsmouth).
Nicky Devlin (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Brett Pitman (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Brett Pitman (Portsmouth).
Luke Leahy (Walsall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Brett Pitman (Portsmouth) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Brandon Haunstrup (Portsmouth).
Nicky Devlin (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Adam May (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nicky Devlin (Walsall).
Attempt blocked. Adam May (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Luke Leahy.
Attempt missed. Brett Pitman (Portsmouth) right footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Walsall. Simeon Jackson replaces Amadou Bakayoko.
Attempt missed. Adam Chambers (Walsall) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Goal! Portsmouth 1, Walsall 1. Brett Pitman (Portsmouth) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty Portsmouth. Nicke Kabamba draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Mark Gillespie (Walsall) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt missed. Brett Pitman (Portsmouth) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by James Wilson.
Substitution, Walsall. Florent Cuvelier replaces Kieron Morris.
Attempt blocked. Amadou Bakayoko (Walsall) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Amadou Bakayoko (Walsall) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Amadou Bakayoko (Walsall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Christian Burgess (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Amadou Bakayoko (Walsall).
Substitution, Portsmouth. Curtis Main replaces Milan Lalkovic.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Nicke Kabamba replaces Kal Naismith.
Attempt missed. Adam May (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Jack Whatmough (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Nicky Devlin (Walsall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Nicky Devlin (Walsall).
Attempt missed. Kyle Bennett (Portsmouth) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Jon Guthrie (Walsall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Milan Lalkovic (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Inspectors who visited Leicester City Council found children were "at risk of harm" with managers "ineffective" in making improvements.
Earlier this month, the department boss was sacked and the assistant mayor resigned after problems came to light.
A new director has since been appointed and an independent improvement board established to monitor progress.
During an inspection in January, Ofsted found areas including children leaving care and children in need of help and protection were inadequate.
The Leicester Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) was also rated inadequate for failing to spot the authority's problems.
Inspectors said failures in leadership and a poorly managed restructure led to services deteriorating and a backlog of 293 cases.
The report said: "Too many children have experienced delay because of numerous changes of social worker or because they have not had a social worker allocated to them in a timely manner.
"As a result, children remain in potentially harmful and unsafe situations, at risk of neglect and emotional abuse for too long before plans are put in place to reduce the harm they may experience.
"Weak and inconsistent management oversight leaves poor practice unchallenged and children's needs unmet."
Problems began after a departmental reorganisation in May during which 30 out of 62 social workers left. That lead to increased workloads for those remaining and cases left unallocated.
City mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby said he only became aware of "the crisis" in December and, after an internal review, sacked department head Elaine McHale.
Assistant mayor, Vi Dempster, who had overall responsibility for the department, then stepped down.
She previously said: "As far as I was concerned the situation was fragile but it was being managed.
"Somebody must have known somewhere in the organisation that there was a backlog ..... and the situation was not as I was being told."
Ofcom said customers could avoid an awkward and long call to their operator and instead send a text. In turn, they will be sent switching codes.
The proposal means Ofcom's previously preferred option - a more simple one-stage process - is being dropped.
That system was more expensive and could have raised bills, it said.
The change of preferred plan marks a victory for mobile operators who would have faced higher costs under the alternative system. Ofcom said its research suggested customers would also prefer the new planned system.
At present, anyone who wishes to switch to a different mobile provider must contact their current supplier to tell them they are leaving.
Ofcom research suggests that, of those who have switched, some 38% have been hit by one major problem during the process. One in five of them temporarily lost their service, while one in 10 had difficulties contacting their current supplier or keeping their phone number.
Under previous plans, Ofcom wanted responsibility for the switch being placed entirely in the hands of the new provider. That would mean one call to a new provider by the customer.
The regulator has now concluded that such a system would be twice as expensive as its newly-preferred option of texting to switch.
They would text, then receive a text back, which includes a unique code to pass on to their new provider who could arrange the switch within one working day. Customers would be able to follow this process whether they were taking their mobile number with them or not.
Under the proposed rules, mobile providers would be banned from charging for notice periods running after the switch date. That would mean customers would no longer have to pay for their old and new service at the same time after they have switched.
A final decision will be made in the autumn.
Latest figures published last year showed that there were an estimated 47 million mobile phone contracts in the UK, and approximately 5.9 million people had never switched provider at all, nor considered switching in the previous year.
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Hill's 1996 season was by far his most successful. He managed eight race wins and was never off the front row of the grid in qualifying on his way to his first World Championship, ahead of team-mate Jacques Villeneuve.
Along with fellow racing driver Nigel Mansell and boxer Sir Henry Cooper, Hill became the third person to win Sports Personality of the Year twice.
He retired from competitive racing after the 1999 season.
BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2015 is broadcast live from Belfast on Sunday, 20 December from 19:00 GMT on BBC One. Further coverage on BBC Sport's online platforms and Radio 5 live.
The painting, Odalisque in Red Pants, was recovered in Miami Beach in an undercover operation two years ago.
An American and a Mexican citizen were both arrested and convicted of theft.
The painting, which used to be on display in a museum in Caracas, was replaced by a fake but the switch took years to discover.
It was exchanged for a bad copy sometime between 1999 and 2002 but it was not until 2003 that officials at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas realised what had happened.
The original was found by US undercover agents in a hotel room in Miami.
"The work is in extraordinary condition, with only slight imperfections on the edges, but it is fine," said Joel Espinoza, an official with Venezuela's attorney general's office.
The painting was flown back and arrived in Venezuela on Monday where it will go on public display in two weeks time.
Painted in 1925, Odalisque in Red Pants has been valued at more than $3m.
It was bought by the Venezuelan government from a gallery in New York in 1981.
US based McCormick & Co is paying $4.2bn for the business, which includes French's mustard.
Royal Mail was the biggest loser on the FTSE 100, falling 2.75%. Shares were up strongly on Tuesday after the company released a trading update.
The FTSE 100 rose steadily in afternoon trade, ending the day up 40.69 points or 0.55% at 7,430.91.
Aviva rose 0.4% after saying it would sell Friends Provident International, an insurance business focused on the Middle East and Asia.
The pound was little changed. Against the dollar, it was down 0.05% at $1.3034, while against the euro, it was 0.25% higher at 1.1315 euros.
They're not your average men's best friends, but medical alert dogs.
Strutting their stuff were seven golden retrievers training to be diabetes alert dogs and a Spanish water dog set to become an allergy alert dog.
They were given the opportunity to familiarise themselves with an airport and its surroundings.
The dogs, aged between one and two-and-a-half years old, were walked through every area of the airport, from check-in, through security and onto an aircraft.
Diabetes alert dogs are trained to warn their owners when their blood sugar is low and if a hypo or hyper glycaemic episode is imminent.
This is important for owners who have lost their hypo-awareness and cannot feel an episode coming on.
Shortly after check-in, one of the dogs, Beau, did exactly as she was trained to do. She alerted her owner, Debbie Trimble, that her blood sugar level was low.
"I was sitting down. I wasn't feeling the best," said Debbie.
"She came over to me and put her paw on my knee several times and that was to let me know to check my blood sugars."
Debbie hadn't been aware that there was such a thing as a diabetes alert dog until she saw an advert in a magazine. But it has changed her life.
"I live by myself and I have very unstable diabetes," she said.
"I was reading an advertisement in the Assisi animal sanctuary magazine saying that there are diabetic alert dogs available, so I applied and about a year-and-a half later I got Beau.
"Beau and I went into training together and now she is a fully fledged alert dog.
"She lets me know when my blood sugars are going low and will alert me to that before they get dangerously low and she's been a great companion to me."
Debbie said she finds flying stressful.
"Stress does tend to make my blood sugars go low, so to have a dog gives me extra confidence and would enable me to do things that I wouldn't do without her," she said.
Northern Ireland Assistance Dogs train and provide medical alert dogs to adults with medical conditions such as diabetes.
One of the trainers, Judith Byrne, said a medical alert dog helps give their owners more independence.
"It allows them to have a normal life," said Ms Byrne.
"Diabetes, especially type-1, is a very difficult condition to live with.
"It means they can have their holiday without worrying about 'am I going to go low'? Especially if they are used to having a dog around and that dog gives them that security."
Tuesday's exercise was a chance for the animals to learn about airports and air travel, intended to help them acclimatise to the processes involved with taking a flight.
"The dog's partners want to go on holidays, their condition goes with them on holiday so the dog needs to go with them on holiday," said Mrs Byrne.
"It's a dry run; it familiarises the dog with everything that's happening, from checking in, to bags around the place, going through the machines at security, right through out on to the plane."
While many people may never have seen a medical alert dog on an aeroplane, Judith said it was becoming more common.
"Northern Ireland is a bit behind other places in that we're only starting to have assistance dogs here," she said.
"There have always been guide dogs but the other types of dogs are becoming more common here now.
The dogs are trained to alert their owner by nudging them in a way that would not be obtrusive - for example during a meeting.
"They're trained to nudge the person's leg, then they'll use their paw if they don't get a response.
"Then they'll maybe jump on the person and then they'll bark and alert other people.
"With diabetes in particular, you can lose consciousness and it can be very, very dangerous to go low."
"There is no rhyme, there is no reason to why it happens," said Judith.
"It's stress.
"Even the stress of going on holiday, stress of going on a flight can cause a hypo."
The papers, which date back to the mid-1500s, were discovered at the Dunham Massey estate near Altrincham.
They were found by a steward in a folio of letters kept in one of Dunham's picture stores.
An expert from the John Rylands Library confirmed the authenticity of both documents.
Both are addressed to George Booth Esq, the grandfather of Sir George Booth who built the first house at the National Trust site in 1600.
The letter from King Henry is dated 1543 and is a call to arms to landlords to recruit troops from their tenants to go into battle against the Scots.
Jane Seymour's document announces the birth of a son, the future King Edward VI, in 1537.
Queen Jane, Henry's third wife, died of complications from childbirth less than two weeks after Edward was born.
Katie Taylor, who made the discovery, said: "I was going through the letters in the folio, and these two signatures jumped out at me.
"I was almost sure that one was signed by King Henry VIII, and the other written on behalf of Queen Jane Seymour.
"Each of the letters is written on very thick and robust paper, and both have been kept flat and stored carefully away.
"These documents are older than any of our buildings at Dunham and almost the oldest things in our collection."
The letters are part of an exhibition to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee year.
Det Garda Adrian Donohoe, was shot at the Lordship Credit Union in Bellurgan at about 21:30 GMT on Friday.
Irish police said he did not produce his weapon before he was shot.
The 41-year-old was one of two detectives on escort duty when an attempted robbery took place.
His colleague, Det Joe Ryan, has been severely traumatised but is otherwise unhurt.
Police are looking for four men in a dark-coloured Volkswagen Passat.
The area has been sealed off while police attempt to establish the circumstances surrounding the shooting and the Police Service of Northern Ireland has been informed.
Det Garda Donohue, who was married with two children, is the first member of the force to be shot dead on duty since the murder of Det Garda Jerry McCabe in 1996.
Det McCabe was also shot dead on escort duty outside a post office in Adare, County Limerick.
Speaking at a press conference on Saturday afternoon, Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan said everyone in the police force was "deeply shocked and saddened by the murder of our colleague".
"My thoughts, and the thoughts of everyone in An Garda Siochana, and I'm sure the wider community are with the Donohue family," he said.
"We will be doing everything in our power to catch the perpetrators of this terrible murder."
The garda commissioner added that his wife Caroline and two of his brothers were also police officers and that Det Donohue was a "very popular, effective and efficient" member of the force.
Irish President Michael D Higgins said all Irish people "will be truly appalled" by this "dreadful crime".
Ireland's Minister for Justice Alan Shatter said people had respect for those working in the Irish police force.
"They will share my revulsion and horror that a garda (Irish police officer) has so tragically lost his life in the course of his duties."
Stormont Justice Minister David Ford said he and Mr Shatter had reinforced their commitment to work together against criminal gangs.
"I condemn this brutal murder of Garda Donohoe and offer my deepest sympathies to his family and fellow Garda officers," he said.
"Anyone with information should pass it to the appropriate authorities so these dangerous people can be brought before the courts."
The Garda Representative Association President John Parker said it was in "deep shock" following the killing.
"This dreadful news is what every police family fears," he said.
"At this time the wider garda family will be doing everything possible to support the late garda's relatives and loved ones, friends and colleagues."
The augmented reality game has been downloaded by millions of players, who are encouraged to venture into real-life places to hunt down virtual monsters.
But the game has proved controversial - with some users disregarding safety warnings, leading to car crashes, muggings, injury and even death.
Saudi Arabian clerics have called the game "un-Islamic". Indonesia has banned its military from playing the game, and a Cossack leader has said it "smacks of Satanism".
Police around the world have issued warnings to players in the hope of preventing further incidents.
So what do we know of the incidents so far?
On July 20, Jerson Lopez de Leon, 18, and his cousin Daniel Moises Picen, 17, were ambushed while playing the game south-east of Guatemala City.
Mr Lopez de Leon was killed and his cousin was seriously injured. Police found nearly 20 bullet casings at the scene but are unsure of the motive behind the killing.
On July 18, a man crashed into a parked police car in Baltimore, US, kept driving, and finally stopped at the end of the road after the police ran after him. Police say he admitted he was playing Pokemon Go at the time.
Baltimore Police say there were two other Pokemon Go related incidents just this week.
On July 19, a group of 20 teenagers stole a boat in efforts to catch Pokemon characters on a lake in Liverpool, UK.
The group abandoned the boat in the middle of the lake after the coastguard was called to investigate. The rescue team said users should take care not to put themselves and rescue services at risk.
A woman in New Jersey, US, had to be rescued by firemen after getting stuck in a cemetery tree while playing the game.
The fire chief issued a public safety warning, but saved the woman further embarrassment by not releasing her name.
On July 14, two men in California, US, fell up to 33m (108 ft) off a cliff after ignoring "no trespassing" signs while playing Pokemon Go.
Firefighters rescued the men and took them to a nearby hospital. They have not been charged with trespassing.
The draft Wales Bill offers more say over energy, transport and elections.
But Prof Richard Wyn Jones of Cardiff University said there were still uncertainties which could lead to court battles between Wales and Westminster.
He warned against "legislating in haste" for another failed settlement.
Prof Jones is one of the authors of a report assessing the UK government's devolution plans, to be published by Cardiff University and University College London on Monday.
In 2015, the same team warned proposals for a so-called "reserved powers" model of devolution for Wales were unlikely to be workable.
Reserved powers is a change in approach to devolution, by which responsibility is assumed to be devolved in all matters except those specified as staying at Westminster.
There have been complaints the list of powers kept back by the UK government is too long, but Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb has already said he is open to changes.
Speaking to BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme, Prof Jones said there were "some really big changes from the White Paper to the draft legislation".
"We think that these add to the problems and further undermine the aims associated with the reserved powers model which is to make things clearer, more robust and more stable.
"It creates lots of uncertainty and arguably lots of scope for Supreme Court challenges - we've had three of those of course since 2011.
Prof Jones said Wales "craved stability" but claimed the draft bill failed to deliver it.
"It would actually be good not to talk about the constitution for a few years but that's not going to happen if there's real uncertainty about the powers of the assembly.
"The idea of legislating in haste to establish another dispensation which we know will also fail seems like a waste of everybody's time."
Welsh Conservatives leader Andrew RT Davies said: "This is our opportunity to get devolution right and takes us towards a lasting settlement."
16 September 2015 Last updated at 06:56 BST
Manar moved to Britain just three weeks ago, when her family was relocated to Bradford in West Yorkshire, from a camp in Lebanon.
Her mum, Mariam, decided that Manar and her four sisters had no choice but to leave Syria after their neighbour's house was destroyed by a falling plane as war and fighting in the country got worse and worse.
But it's taken three years for them to begin their new life in the UK.
Speaking to Newsround reporter Ricky, Manar has been explaining how the war turned the country she loved upside down.
Higher income from taxes and relatively low growth will combine to create this effect, according to the the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Austerity will continue into the 2020s, after Chancellor Philip Hammond's decision to scrap a target of balancing the nation's books, it said.
The Treasury said it was committed to repairing Britain's finances.
Forecasts by Oxford Economics, which contributed to the report, estimate the UK economy will grow by 1.6% in 2017.
In 2018, growth in gross domestic product will slow to 1.3%, Oxford Economics said. Growth is expected to be dulled as a result of inflation prompted by the decline of the value of the pound after the EU referendum.
While a weaker pound is likely to improve the performance of manufacturers and exporters, higher costs for consumers will more than erase this gain, said the report.
Ahmed: Public finances and the shadow of Osborne
"Though the UK economy has continued to achieve solid growth, it has been almost entirely reliant on the consumer," said Andrew Goodwin, lead UK Economist at Oxford Economics and co-author of part of the report.
"With spending power set to come under significant pressure from higher inflation and the welfare squeeze, the consumer will not be able to keep contributing more than its fair share. Exports should be a bright spot, but overall a slowdown in GDP growth appears likely."
The UK's economy could be 3% smaller by 2030 than if Britain had voted Remain, according to forecasts in the IFS's annual Green Budget.
This annual analysis, ahead of next month's Budget, says spending on health, social care and benefits for sick or disabled people represents a particular risk to the public finances because it accounts for almost one third of government expenditure.
The report confirms that the period between 2009 and 2014 saw the slowest rate of growth in health spending in England since the mid-1950s.
And it argues that health budgets by the end of this decade will be over a billion pounds less than what is needed to cope with England's growing and ageing population, regardless of what are likely to be significant rises in demand for NHS care.
In a statement, the Treasury said: "The government is committed to repairing the public finances and living within our means so that we can build an economy that works for all.
"That has required some difficult decisions on spending, but we are determined to deliver efficient public services which provide maximum value for every pound of taxpayers' money."
Spending on public services dropped by 10% since 2010, the report said, after adjusting the figures for inflation.
To meet his target of eliminating the deficit during the next parliament, which is from 2020 to 2025, Mr Hammond will probably have to find a further £34bn in tax rises and spending cuts, extending austerity.
The report said £17bn of tax rises could be needed to contribute to closing the gap for government between outgoings and income.
The services unit was what one analyst described as a "shining light", while sales were robust for Apple's hardware, including iPhones and iPads.
Quarterly profit rose 12% to $8.7bn (£6.6bn). Revenues grew by 7% year-on-year to $45.4bn.
The news sent its stock surging more than 5% in after-hours trade.
Apple, which also forecast strong sales, is expected to release new and updated iPhones next month.
Apple chief executive Tim Cook was tight-lipped when it came to details on the new launch and said reports about the new phones may have caused some people to "pause" their purchases of the existing phones.
But "while that affects us in the short-term, it probably bodes well", he added.
Even with some people waiting for the new models, Apple said the number of iPhones sold in the quarter increased a solid 2% year-on-year, driven by strong demand in markets such as Latin America and the Middle East.
The growth lifted revenue from iPhones, which account for the bulk of the company's sales, by 3% to $24.8bn.
Apple also said the number of iPads sold climbed 15% year-on-year, while revenues from the product increased 2%. The rise follows the introduction of new models, as well as increased efforts to incorporate the tablets into operations at schools and in businesses.
Revenue from other devices, such as the Apple Watch, Apple TV and Beats products, jumped 23% year-on-year.
The one blemish on its results is China, where the company's revenues slipped 9.5% from a year earlier to slightly more than $8bn (£6.1bn).
Apple's flagship iPhone is losing market share to a slew of local competitors, while the company also faces challenges in dealing with China's strict internet censorship regime.
Mr Cook stressed the success of its services unit, which includes Apple Pay, the App Store and Apple Music. The division had sales of nearly $7.3bn during the three months to the end of June, a rise of 22% on the same period last year.
Apple Pay now accounts for almost 90% of mobile payment transactions around the world, said chief financial officer Luca Maestri. Paying accounts on the App Store are also on the rise, he said.
Geoff Blaber of CCS Insight described the services business as "the shining light".
"Not only is $7.3bn in revenue hugely significant in its own right, it underlines the ecosystem advantage it has over its competitors outside of China," he said.
Mr Cook also addressed the firm's decision to remove some products from its App Store in China, saying Apple had to abide by the law.
"We would obviously rather not remove the apps," he said. "We're hopeful that over time the restrictions we're seeing are loosened."
One of the big worries for investors - and Apple fans, you'd imagine - is that concern that the next iPhone, due in September, could be delayed due to production issues.
But judging by Apple's revenue forecasts for the rest of the year, it seems this will not be the case. It means we can expect anticipation for a big upgrade to the iPhone to step into overdrive, what with it being the device's 10th anniversary year.
In those 10 years, 1.2 billion iPhones have been sold, Mr Cook told investors today.
Apple relies on it heavily for its revenue, which some see as being a weakness in the company - but this quarter has also provided good news for investors when it comes to generating big profits in other areas.
For example, sales of the iPad range - which has been refreshed with a new Pro model - and better software - have grown for the first time in more than three years. The tablet, thought by many to be facing extinction, is stronger than ever: eight of the 10 best selling tablets in the world are made by Apple.
And Apple's services department - the App Store and Apple Music, mostly - had revenues of more than $7.2bn in this last quarter. That makes it, as Apple was delighted to point out today, the size of a Fortune 100 company in its own right.
The big blip, and it's been a blip for a while, was Apple's performance in China.
Mr Cook said the company's performance was in "a trough" and that they were headed to better performance in the region. He tried to put a positive spin by pointing out that the Mac, iPad and services had grown in the country - but acknowledged that performance in Hong Kong was dragging down its numbers.
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The device was discovered by Bernard Houston at his home in Glencar Park, Letterkenny on Saturday.
CJ McGinley, from the Donegal News, spoke to Mr Houston after the operation.
"He said he went into the house and told his wife he had to stop gardening because he found a bomb. She told him to get back out and finish it."
Nearby homes were evacuated during a seven-hour operation.
The device, which still had its pin attached, was taken to Finner Army camp in Ballyshannon for examination but it is not believed to be sinister.
Mr McGinley said: "Bernard was doing a little bit of digging in his garden and he told me that he was clearing some bushes.
"His spade struck what he thought was a stone, but on closer inspection discovered it was a hand grenade. Obviously he was very concerned.
"His nine-year-old son was with at the time and he shouted for him to run away.
"It's crazy stuff. From talking to some Gardaí (Irish police) it may well be that the topsoil in the garden was transported from another area when the houses were built."
Mr McGinley said he was told by army experts that it was a 'pineapple' type of hand grenade that may date back to World War Two.
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A series of roadworks in Stoke Poges Lane, Slough, have begun ahead of the removal of Horlicks Bridge.
Lane restrictions and temporary traffic lights are in place on the north side of the bridge at the junction of Simpsons Way.
This will allow BT and Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) to work on cables on behalf of Crossrail.
Horlicks Bridge will be removed at the end of November 2014, with a replacement due to be installed in April 2015.
The first Crossrail services through central London will start in late 2018.
Slough Borough Council said some delays were expected, but it was working with Crossrail and the utility companies involved to minimise disruption.
The 43-year-old took over following Jurgen Klopp's departure in 2015.
Dortmund beat Eintracht Frankfurt to win the German Cup on Saturday and finished third in the Bundesliga to qualify for the Champions League.
Relations between Tuchel and chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke have been strained since Dortmund's team bus was damaged by an explosion on 11 April.
In a statement, Dortmund said Tuchel's departure was "in no way" related to a "disagreement between two people."
The announcement came after talks between Tuchel and Watzke on Tuesday.
Tuchel claims neither he nor his players were consulted about whether they should play the Champions League quarter-final home tie against Monaco less than 24 hours after three explosions in the area of the team bus.
Watzke denied that was the case and said the claim had annoyed him.
On an official Twitter accounted created on Tuesday, Tuchel said: "I am grateful for two exciting, beautiful and eventful years. It's a pity to not go on.
"Thank you to the fans, the team, the staff and to all who have supported us."
Arsenal denied they had approached Dortmund about appointing Tuchel as a replacement for manager Arsene Wenger in March.
Former Borussia Monchengladbach boss Lucien Favre, 59, has been linked with Dortmund after steering Nice to a third-placed finish in Ligue 1.
The race was held over three days in May, with starts or finishes at Bridlington, Leeds, Scarborough, Selby, York and Wakefield.
The tourism body said the event was seen by more than 1.2 million people.
In 2016, the three-day men's race is to start on 29 April, with a women's race on 30 April.
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There were one million spectators at the race with about one in five from outside Yorkshire, said Welcome to Yorkshire. Some of those attended more than one day of the event, boosting the overall figure.
The new race was set up after the successful Tour de France Grand Depart was held in Yorkshire during 2014.
Those scenes prompted the tour's race director Christian Prudhomme to describe 2014 as the "grandest Grand Depart".
Spending by all spectators at the Tour de Yorkshire amounted to £49,711,436 and the average stay for visitors from outside the county was two and half nights, according to the survey of the race.
The total included accommodation costs and spending on items such as food, drink, transport and souvenirs.
The survey was conducted by independent research agency GRASP, using 1,500 respondents who were questioned at a race stage or online.
The data was analysed by Leeds Beckett University.
The 35-year-old, who played 297 times for the Sky Blues between 2003 and 2011, also captained the club.
Doyle left City for a four-year spell with Sheffield United before joining Portsmouth in July 2015.
He scored three goals in 96 games in his time at Fratton Park, captaining Pompey to this term's League Two title.
Doyle will be the only member of the City playing staff who has experience of playing for City at their former home at Highfield Road.
Coventry will play in the fourth tier at the Ricoh Arena next season after being relegated from League One.
City's first summer signing increases the club's number of contracted players to 15, following the end-of-season release of nine men - Nathan Clarke, Kevin Foley, Vladimir Gadzhev, Andy Rose, Ruben Lameiras, Marcus Tudgay and three of their Under-23 squad, Kyle Spence, Jack Finch and Jacob Whitmore.
Defender Jordan Turnbull and striker Stuart Beavon have the option to leave the club before 31 July, due to existing clauses in their current contracts.
City are also in talks over new deals with seven players - goalkeeper Lee Burge, defenders Chris Stokes, Ryan Haynes, Dion Kelly-Evans and Devon Kelly-Evans, midfielder Gael Bigirimana and top scorer George Thomas.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
The show, featuring performances from Coldplay and Take That, had a lower audience than the Brits, which was seen by 4.2 million people in February.
That figure marked a fall of nearly 2 million from 2013, making it the least-watched Brit Awards since 2006.
Ed Sheeran and Pharrell Williams were the main winners at the BBC event.
Pharrell was named best international artist and won song of the year for his exuberant, gospel-inspired single Happy.
Sheeran was named British act of the year, and played a rousing version of his Pharrell-produced single, Sing, using just a guitar and loop pedal.
The ceremony also saw performances from One Direction, Clean Bandit and US jazz singer Gregory Porter.
However, it was beaten in the ratings by ITV soap opera Emmerdale, which attracted 5.6 million viewers between 20:00 GMT and 20:30 GMT.
Later in the show, more people turned to BBC One - with a peak audience of 4.7 million watching Pharrell accept his song of the year award at 2100 GMT.
Joining the ceremony via satellite, the singer-producer described Happy's global success as "weird" and "not something I can determine".
Paying tribute to the people who watched, streamed or downloaded the song, he said: "Songwriters are beholden to what the audience thinks.
"When you say 'song of the year' it's not really my award, it's your award."
Accepting his prize from singer Sir Tom Jones, Sheeran said: "A massive thank you to everyone who's bought a record, bought a ticket, streamed on YouTube or listened to my music."
"I always thought my career would stop at one album," he added, "[but] even if people stop listening to the music I'm still going to make it."
Chris Martin opened the show from the dressing rooms, performing the opening lines of Sky Full of Stars, before emerging into Earls Court in London in a shower of confetti and screams.
Many of the other artists were backed by the BBC Concert Orchestra - including Clean Bandit, who played their classical-dance mash-up Mozart's House before segueing into the number one single Rather Be.
While Tom Jones and Paloma Faith sang the Beach Boys' God Only Knows - the song that was used to launch the BBC Music brand earlier this year.
Newcomers Catfish and the Bottlemen also played to their biggest-ever audience, after winning the BBC Introducing award for best new act.
The Welsh rock band have been championed by BBC's Introducing strand, which champions emerging talent.
"They've looked after us since we were 15," said singer Van McCann.
"Two years ago, I could only buy a McDonalds and a pack of fags. Now, I can afford to go large."
One Direction drew the biggest cheers of the night as they performed their single Steal My Girl.
But the volume of their fans caused a slight technical problem. As event co-host Fearne Cotton tried to interview the quintet on stage, band member Louis Tomlinson replied: "To be honest, I didn't hear what you said. It's too loud and I've not got you in my ears."
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Prior to the ceremony, there had been criticism the best British artist prize excluded female acts - despite the success of Ella Henderson, Ellie Goulding and Cheryl Cole over the last 12 months.
BBC Music boss Bob Shennan denied there had been a "carve-up", telling Radio 1's Newsbeat the "six [acts] who were nominated were the six who got the most number of votes".
Hosted by Chris Evans and Fearne Cotton, the show was broadcast live on BBC One, BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2.
It was also screened in Denmark, Japan, Ireland and North America.
He died at his home in Connecticut of natural causes, his family said.
Frank Gifford won the 1956 NFL title with the New York Giants and was inducted into the American Football Hall of Fame in 1977.
After his playing career he moved into TV commentary, working for ABC's Monday Night Football from 1971 to 1997.
"Frank Gifford was the ultimate Giant. He was the face of our franchise for so many years," Giants President John Mara said.
Bob Iger, chairman of ABC's owner, the Walt Disney Company, described Gifford as "an exceptional man who will be missed by everyone who had the joy of seeing his talent on the field, the pleasure of watching his broadcasts, or the honour of knowing him".
Gifford made 367 catches for 5,434 yards with 43 touchdowns, whilst also running for 3,609 yards and 34 touchdowns.
He was the MVP in 1956 and was an eight-time selection to the Pro Bowl.
In a statement released to NBC News, the Gifford family said: "We ask that our privacy be respected at this difficult time and we thank you for your prayers."
Gifford married Kathie Lee Gifford, a host on NBC's Today show, in 1986.
In a Twitter post, she said: "Deeply grateful to all 4 ur outpouring of grace. We r steadfast in our faith and finding comfort in knowing where Frank is."
Storm Abigail will mainly impact Scotland but parts of the north and west coast of Ireland are being hit with heavy rain and strong winds.
The storm is bringing colder air, so after a recent mild spell Friday is likely to be quite chilly.
Abigail will move away, but ex-hurricane Kate will hit on Saturday bringing wet, windy weather.
Driving conditions are being affected by the storm conditions, and in the Republic of Ireland flights at Dublin airport have been disrupted due to the strong winds.
Passengers on one flight from Rome to Dublin were kept on a holding pattern above the airport before being diverted to Shannon airport in the west of the country.
One couple, George and Gwen, said: "It's caused a bit of disruption because we're from Kilkenny and can't get to our car.
"But we're quite philosophical. It's a lot worse for those on connecting flights who don't know what's happening."
Karen Griffin and her family from Boston in the United States were planning to stop in Dublin on their way home from a holiday in Italy.
She said a lack of communication had been a problem for them.
"We were on the runway for quite some time and then told buses would take us to Dublin," she said.
"There's still no buses and we've been waiting over an hour.
"We had hoped to sightsee in Dublin but now we think we'll just head straight to the pub."
It first acknowledged the problem with Outlook and Hotmail on Tuesday evening.
"Some users may be receiving excessive spam mail," a service page update stated.
The company later said it had managed to put in place two sets of fixes to protect users' inboxes and its own infrastructure.
Many affected users had complained about the issue on social media.
"Getting a spam/junk email about every minute into my main inbox," tweeted Ben Nelson.
"Drowning in junk mail," added Jennifer Roseblade.
But one Reddit user was able to see a funny side.
"Look at all of these great deals I've been missing out on for years," Peck Ed wrote.
"Now if you chaps will excuse me, I'm off to become a... millionaire getting a great deal on my car insurance with my new Russian bride at the Casino with my free bets."
Microsoft has not disclosed what had caused the issue.
The Independent MP criticised the move which creates new stages in the legislative process.
The Speaker now declares whether a Bill, or clause within a Bill, is English or English and Welsh only.
'English Votes for English Laws' known as EVEL was voted through last year.
It is in operation in Westminster but is currently being reviewed.
If a law is certified as English or Welsh then as it makes its way through Parliament, only English and Welsh MPs are given the chance to consent to or veto it.
The Commons Leader Chris Grayling defended the votes move to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee and faced questions from Northern Ireland MPs.
Lady Hermon said she could not find any reference to the plan in the manifesto of the Northern Ireland Conservatives and said: "this procedure has zero mandate in Northern Ireland".
However, Chris Grayling told the committee that the move had been contained in the nationwide manifesto for the 2015 General Election.
The Commons Leader said he believed the EVEL plan was working and said that there were "no reports back from Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales that this came up as an issue in the election".
SDLP MP Alasdair McDonnell said he was worried the English votes move "could prejudice more deprived regions" and he was concerned changes to the Barnett Formula could become "an English matter".
The Barnett formula is a system of grants which dictates the level of public spending in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Chris Grayling said any changes to the Barnett Formula would not be an English matter only and would be a vote for the "UK parliament".
DUP MP Ian Paisley queried if the EVEL move made for "good politics" and he questioned whether the general public were "confused by procedure here".
UUP Danny Kinahan wondered what effects the move would have on the Union and also raised concerns about the way Northern Ireland Question Time was organised in the Commons.
He said it was often difficult to catch for MPs from Northern Ireland to actually get to ask questions.
Mr Kinahan said: "it is still very hard for many of us from Northern Ireland to get in".
He suggested ways should be found to allow Northern Ireland MPs to be allowed to ask more questions.
Those sentiments were endorsed by the DUP MP Gavin Robinson who said he and other local MPs had a sense of "frustration" when many Labour and Conservative MPs got the lion's share of questions at the expense of Northern Ireland representatives.
The East Belfast MP said many Labour and Conservative MPs asked the same questions routinely at Northern Ireland Question Time and they provided no "new information". He said the current way Northern Ireland Questions was organised "really doesn't make it a valuable part of parliamentary procedure".
Chris Grayling told MPs that the review of 'English Votes for English Laws' would look at how it had operated over the past few months and this was an opportunity to "road test" the policy but it was the government's intention to continue with it.
Polls were due to close at 17:00 (14:00 GMT) but officials said those in queues at that time would be allowed to vote.
There has been violence around the port town of Mombasa, with at least five police officers killed in one attack.
Early provisional results suggested the two main presidential candidates were far ahead of the rest of the field.
Partial preliminary results from areas where polling ended on time gave Uhuru Kenyatta a lead over Prime Minister Raila Odinga, although analysts cautioned that these results came from Kenyatta strongholds.
The two front-runners were well ahead of the other presidential candidates,
Mr Kenyatta is due to face trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) next month in connection with the widespread bloodshed that followed the disputed 2007 election - he denies organising attacks.
Mr Odinga says he was cheated of victory last time.
Authorities had urged Kenyans to avoid a repeat of the 2007 ethnic and political violence that killed more than 1,000 people amid claims the poll had been rigged.
As thousands continued to queue to cast their ballots, voting was extended by up to seven hours to cope with long queues at polling stations.
Kenya's Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) issued a notice via social media saying: "We wish to inform members of the public that all Voters on the queue by 5:00pm will be allowed to vote.
By Wanyama ChebusiriBBC News, Eldoret
At a polling station close to the church where more than 40 people who had sought shelter there on 1 January 2008 were burnt alive most voters were happy to have cast their ballots in peace. "This vote is a new beginning," said a man who lost relatives in the fire.
By Gabriel GatehouseBBC News, Nairobi
The queues in some places stretched for more than a kilometre, as voters in Kibera slum stood patiently in line. As the sun grew hotter and the umbrellas came out, the mood was upbeat. "Peace, peace," one crowd shouted as a truck of paramilitary police trundled past.
Kenya: Vote around the country
"Polling Stations that opened late will also close late to compensate for lost time."
The electoral commission said some delays were caused by a new system intended to reduce fraud, which observers hope will prevent the kind of widespread ethnic violence that followed the last poll in 2007.
After he cast his ballot, Mr Odinga said he would accept defeat - but added that he was confident of victory in the first round.
"I will congratulate the winner," he said.
Mr Kenyatta also sounded a conciliatory note, saying the president would represent the whole country and that any disputes should be taken to court.
Reports from around the country suggested long queues of voters had formed even before polling stations opened - and some voters, such as those in Eldoret, were waiting up to 10 hours to cast their ballots.
Some technical difficulties were reported with newly instituted biometric voting kits - designed to counter claims of vote-rigging and long delays in announcing poll results that were partly blamed for the violence in 2007.
In places, electoral officials are having to use the manual voter registers, delaying voting. But Lilian Mahiri-Zaja, vice-chair of Kenya's independent electoral commission, said the registers were complete and there was no reason why the election should not be credible.
Five police officers and at least six other people - including several attackers - died in the assault in the early hours in Changamwe, half an hour's drive inland from the centre of Mombasa.
There have been further disturbances in the town of Kilifi, north of Mombasa, where six civilians were killed, but details of the incident remain sketchy.
Police pointed the finger at Kenya's coastal separatist group, the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC), but it denied responsibility, saying the group only sought change through peaceful means.
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It was unclear whether the deaths around Mombasa were election-related, but the Kenyan police chief said one of the attacks involved over 200 gang members, and in response he was sending an additional 400 officers to the area.
Some blamed a separatist group, the Mombasa Revolutionary Council (MRC) - which has called for an election boycott - for the incident in Changamwe, but others suggested it was just a convenient scapegoat.
Waiting in line outside polling stations in Nairobi hours before polls opened, the atmosphere was calm and people chanted "peace", reports the BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse.
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In Garissa, frustration grew in the long queues as the heat beat down, our correspondent reports. Some used umbrellas to shelter from the sun and others bought water to pour over their heads.
Kenyans are choosing a president, members of parliament and senators, county governors and members of 47 county assemblies.
However, our correspondent in the capital says all eyes are on the presidency.
Eight candidates are standing but it is essentially a two-horse race pitting Mr Odinga against Mr Kenyatta, he says.
Some observers say they are particularly concerned about violence erupting should neither of the two frontrunners poll more than 50% - in which case the vote will go to a run-off, probably on 11 April.
Mr Kenyatta, son of Kenya's founding father Jomo Kenyatta, is due to stand trial at the ICC in April for his alleged role in orchestrating the violence five years ago.
Mr Kenyatta's running mate, William Ruto, has also been indicted. Both men deny any wrongdoing.
The 2007 violence broke out after Mr Odinga claimed he had been cheated of victory by supporters of President Mwai Kibaki.
Supporters of the rival candidates, from different ethnic groups, took up arms against each other. Mr Odinga later joined a government of national unity under a peace deal.
The underlying sources of tension in the 2007-8 election remain, and in some parts have escalated, with the risk of violence "perilously high", warns Human Rights Watch.
It says the "near total impunity" of the perpetrators of violence has left them free to rape and kill again.
Some 99,000 police officers have been deployed around the country.
Presidential candidates must secure support from across the country to be declared the winner, so they cannot just rely on support from their ethnic groups, as has been the case in previous elections.
Official results will be announced by 11 March by the electoral commission.
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24 teams will compete to be crowned European Champions, starting with hosts France playing Romania on Friday evening.
Newsround has been speaking to some local kids in Bordeaux in the build up to the big opening match.
Map Maker allowed users to draw features, adding roads, rivers, green spaces and local businesses.
But some edits, such as an image of its Android mascot urinating on an Apple logo, were not as welcome.
Google said that the shutdown is "temporary" but admitted that it will take more than a few days to fix.
Last month, it was forced to apologise for the Android graffiti but since then, several other Map Maker hacks have been spotted.
The service had relied on a mixture of Google reviewers and trusted users to moderate Map Maker contributions, a system which, the search giant now admits, has not been adequate.
Map Maker team member Pavirthra Kanakarajan explained the decision to suspend the service in a post, linked to from the Map Maker page.
"We have been experiencing escalated attacks to spam Google Maps over the past few months... As a consequence, we suspended auto-approval and user moderation across the globe," she said.
"The most recent incident was particularly troubling and unfortunate - a strong user in our community chose to go and create a large scale prank on the map," she added.
Following the Android graffiti, Google decided that all its edits would go through a manual review process but that quickly led to a large backlog.
"Given the current state of the system, we have come to the conclusion that it is not fair to any of our users to let them continue to spend time editing. Every edit you make is essentially going to a backlog that is growing very fast," said Ms Kanakarajan.
"We believe that it is more fair to only say that if we do not have the capacity to review edits at roughly the rate they come in, we have to take a pause."
Google introduced Map Maker in 2008 as a tool to allow users to edit the information on the service, similar to the way Wikipedia allows users to edit its pages.
Another high profile recent hack saw ex-National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden placed in the White House, via a new business called Edward's Snow Den.
"That wasn't a Map Maker issue but rather a problem with how Google deals with local listings," explained Ms Kanakarajan.
Last year the league promised to improve stadium facilities for disabled fans, stating that clubs would comply with official guidance by August 2017.
That followed a 2014 BBC investigation that found 17 of the 20 clubs failed to provide enough wheelchair spaces.
Joyce Cook, chair of Level Playing Field, called the delay "unacceptable".
"We think up to a third of clubs are not going to meet this pledge," Cook added.
"This is a promise that they made themselves, they set their own deadline."
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It is understood Liverpool are among those set to miss the deadline, despite recently spending £100m to redevelop Anfield's Main Stand.
The club has upgraded its facilities for disabled fans but the improvements do not yet go far enough to meet requirements. Liverpool did not comment on the claims when contacted.
Chelsea are also expected to fail to meet the pledge.
A spokesperson for the club said: "This is an issue we take very seriously, however we are constrained by an old stadium.
We have the richest, the most profitable league on the planet. That has to be the most inclusive league as well otherwise it is morally bankrupt
"A planning application for a redeveloped ground at Stamford Bridge has been lodged with the local council which, if approved, will see the construction of a new stadium that will exceed the Accessible Stadia Guidelines."
Pressure on the Premier League has been building, with Lord Holmes from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission raising the threat of legal action if its clubs did not comply with the official guidance.
"There are clear sanctions in the equality act which Premier League clubs may find themselves on the end of," he said.
"HD cameras, extensions to hospitality areas, that's done in a heartbeat.
"I think anyone out there would understand that it's perfectly reasonable for a Premier League club to be accessible. We have the richest, the most profitable league on the planet. That has to be the most inclusive league as well otherwise it is morally bankrupt."
Level Playing Field campaigns so all fans can enjoy an equal experience at live sports events and Cook also believes clubs that fail to comply should be punished.
"We certainly look at sanctions when it comes to things like financial fair play, and this should have the same impact," she said.
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When BBC Sport took these claims to the Premier League, it insisted it was working hard to improve disabled access.
"The commitments made in this area are wide-ranging and will set new standards for sport and other sectors," a statement read.
"All clubs are working towards making their grounds meet the appropriate standards in the agreed timescale."
That statement was underlined by Watford, who said they were "very confident" of being fully compliant by August 2017, while Crystal Palace have "met with architects" and are "working diligently on all aspects of the Accessible Stadia Guidelines and will continue to do so over the coming months".
New boss Mourinho has begun a recruitment drive that has brought defender Eric Bailly, striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic and midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan to Old Trafford.
"We're in a very good spot now, we think we can challenge for the Premier League," said 30-year-old Rooney.
"I think the players feel this is more like the old Manchester United."
In an interview with the Daily Mail, he added that the new signings would complement a squad that featured the talents of rising stars like Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford, who "made such an impact" last season.
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Rooney also praised the "great work ethic" of Ibrahimovic and said United would be making a "big statement" if they managed to capture Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba.
United, FA Cup winners in Louis Van Gaal's last game in May, kick off the new domestic season against Premier League champions Leicester in next weekend's Community Shield at Wembley.
Rooney admits United "want to put a marker down" in that match.
"I know it's a one-off game, but we want to show we can win a trophy early on," he said. "We feel that's an important event for us."
He also reflected on England's desperate display at Euro 2016.
Beaten in the last 16 by Iceland, Rooney criticised manager Roy Hodgson's decision to make a raft of changes for their final group game with Slovakia.
"No, I wouldn't have rested six players... it's more than half the team," said Rooney. "It was a gamble and it didn't pay off."
The England skipper was one of the six shuffled out of the side after a last-gasp win over Wales and was unable to make an impact when he finally came on.
"It was difficult to change the game, impossible really," he said. "I was running around just trying to get the energy back into the team.
"It was Roy's decision to make those changes against Slovakia and, either way, the team he put out should have been able to win."
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Hodgson quit straight after the loss to Iceland, leaving Rooney, England's record goalscorer with 53, to reflect on what might have been.
"I felt we had a good squad, a lot of ability, a lot of talent," he said. "To then go out as we did, and against Iceland, was beyond disappointing.
"We had lost momentum from the Slovakia game and tournament football is about confidence. You get that from winning."
Liverpool City Council has put together the plan to tackle "voids" across the city.
The project will see an expansion of the Homes for a Pound scheme and action taken to acquire rundown properties from owners.
The plans will go before the council's cabinet next Friday.
The proposals include the introduction of an "Interested Developer" list for small investors, local builders and landlords interested in buying and refurbishing empty homes.
They will be connected with owners looking to sell up.
Some poorly maintained properties could be repaired by the council - with the owners then footing the bill.
More money will also be made available for compulsorily purchasing neglected properties.
Mayor Joe Anderson said: "Empty homes are a blight on our communities and are a huge deterrent to people wanting to live in an area.
"We want to send out a strong message to the owners of empty properties that it is simply not acceptable to allow their homes to be a magnet for fly tipping, anti-social behaviour and general blight.
"They owe it to the city and their neighbours to keep their homes in good condition, and if they don't then we will take enforcement against them."
Malaki Leo Boadu Hughes, from Saltney, Flintshire, was fatally injured in the incident at his grandmother's house on 12 September last year.
The hearing was told Carole Hughes left him on a sofa to go upstairs before she heard an "almighty crash".
Coroner John Gittins recorded an accidental conclusion at the hearing in Ruthin.
In a statement read to the court Mrs Hughes said: "It [the crash] was so loud that I was immediately in a panic."
She ran downstairs to find the fire surround on top of Malaki and managed to move it off him but he was not responding.
He was given CPR until an ambulance crew took over on arrival.
Malaki was taken to the Countess of Chester hospital where his death was confirmed.
A post mortem examination found he died from a traumatic rupture of the heart.
The three-year-old was the first of the offspring to win a top-level race at December's Hanshin Juvenile Fillies.
Legendary racehorse Frankel, trained by Sir Henry Cecil, retired unbeaten in 2012 after 14 wins from 14 starts.
He is due to have offspring in next week's Epsom Classics, including Derby hopes Cracksman and Eminent.
Future Motion's complaint led to Changzhou First International Trade's products being seized at the CES tech trade show in January.
But the Chinese firm is now seeking $100,000 (£69,900) in damages plus reimbursement of its legal fees after the Californian firm dropped its claim.
Changzhou said there had been no reasonable basis for its rival's case.
Both Future Motion and Changzhou make electric-powered hoverboards that are unusual for having a single central wheel rather than one at each end.
In January, Future Motion's chief executive Kyle Doerkson told the BBC that Changzhou's Trotter product was a "knock-off" of its own more expensive Surfing Electric Scooters.
"We have design and utility patents that cover our invention," he added.
US marshals enforced a restraining order after receiving a complaint from the US firm, which led to the closure of Changzhou's stall at the CES tech show on 7 January.
Footage of the incident was posted online by the news agency Bloomberg and it was widely reported elsewhere.
Changzhou subsequently rejected the allegations, saying a side-by-side comparison of the two firms' products demonstrated that the platform, footpad and tyres designs were "plainly dissimilar to the ordinary observer".
Furthermore, Changzhou said that the actual scope of Future Motion's patents were much narrower than had been indicated and that US firm could in no way could claim the rights to "all one-wheeled, self-balancing vehicles".
Future Motion maintains its claims, dismissing the first of the points as "legal puffery" and insisting that it still believes its intellectual property was infringed.
However, on 4 February it told the court that it wanted to voluntarily dismiss the case.
"We had achieved our goal of preventing [Changzhou's] exhibition at CES," Mr Doerkson told the BBC.
"Looking forward at the cost-benefit of continued litigation to seek an injunction, we decided that that cost benefit did not pencil out for us and that our intellectual property budget would be better spent in other ways."
But Changzhou has since petitioned the judge to re-open the case saying it wants to be reimbursed for "business expenses incurred, lost sales suffered, and reputational damage".
Moreover, the Chinese firm is also demanding Future Motion be forced to issue a press release notifying the public that it had dismissed its original claims.
Future Motion's lawyer told the BBC it plans to formally oppose these demands once Changzhou's legal team has filed some additional paperwork.
The 46-year-old was found at Restalrig Circus at about 01:00 BST after officers were called to a disturbance.
He was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary but was later pronounced dead.
Police Scotland said a murder investigation was now under way. They are keen to trace three men seen in the area at the time.
Det Ch Inspector Keith Hardie added: "We believe the victim had been in the Tor public house prior to the murder.
"Anyone who believes they heard or saw anything that could help with this investigation should contact police on 101."
A 1-0 second-leg win ensured Accies retained their top-flight status.
United had to come through two two-legged ties to reach the final, at which point Hamilton, 11th in the Premiership, entered the play-offs.
"The six games has taken its toll - it was an evenly contested game but I felt we ran out of steam," McKinnon said.
"I'm not making that an excuse, it's just a fact. You could see the legs were gone in the second half. We didn't have the same intensity to our play or our pressing."
McKinnon's side, who finished third in the Championship, overcame Morton 5-1 on aggregate in the play-off quarter-final and beat Falkirk 4-3 on aggregate in the semi-final.
But following a 0-0 draw with Hamilton at Tannadice in the final first-leg, Greg Docherty's goal on Sunday was enough to consign United to a first defeat in 12 games and at least another season in the second tier.
"We were running on empty and I'm really disappointed for the players because they wanted it so much," McKinnon added.
"We came down here with high hopes considering the form we're in, but unfortunately we've just come up short at the final hurdle.
"We've been using the same players regularly over the last six to 10 weeks and that's taken its toll today. They've given everything, they tried everything to get back into the game but just didn't have the legs at the end."
McKinnon said the staff and players were left "feeling flat" by the result but he is already hopeful that his side will be better equipped for another promotion push next season.
"We have to work hard over the close season to identify people we can attract to the club, better quality than what we've got - we need to improve that," he said.
"We're going to work hard to put a really good squad together. We've started the recruitment process well with James Keatings and Billy King (already signed). If we can maintain that kind of standard, we'll give ourselves a great chance next season."
Voodoo is completely normal in Benin.
People across West Africa, especially Togo, Ghana and Nigeria hold similar beliefs but in Benin it is recognised as an official religion, followed by some 40% of the population.
Voodoo Day is a public holiday and there is a national Voodoo museum.
It has none of the negative connotations it has in the West and many of those who are officially Christian or Muslim also incorporate some Voodoo elements into their beliefs, especially in times of crisis.
In pictures: Voodoo priestess
But Voodoo is more than a belief system, it is a complete way of life, including culture, philosophy, language, art, dance, music and medicine.
The Voodoo spiritual world consists of Mahou, the supreme being and about 100 divinities - or Voodoos - who represent different phenomena, such as war and blacksmiths (Gou), illness, healing and earth (Sakpata), storms, lightning and justice (Heviosso) or water (Mami Wata).
Voodoo priests ask these gods to intervene on behalf of ordinary people but local adherents stress that they have nothing to do with sorcery or black magic.
People here do not stick needles into dolls to cause misfortune to their enemies, as you see in some Western films - this image may have arisen from the icons of a particular god which a priest may have in their shrine.
Some Voodoo priests use herbs to cure the sick - and possibly to poison enemies.
They also sometimes ask for offerings, such as a chicken or a sheep, which is then sacrificed to the divinity, or some alcohol is poured onto the floor.
This can happen when asking for help or when you wish has been granted.
People seek help on a variety of issues - to be cured of a disease, find a job, complete a business deal, find a spouse or have a child.
The situation has got so bad staff are carrying out what have been dubbed "safari rounds", where consultants go searching for their lost patients.
Figures show it is common for patients, particularly elderly ones, to get moved four or five times during their stay.
One nursing union representative said it was a "constant juggle" of patients.
Nurses at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) conference in Liverpool said the issue was created by pressures on A&E.
Latest data in England shows the number of patients waiting more than four hours is rising.
In the week ending 17 March more than 27,000 patients waited longer than four hours in accident and emergency - double the number from the same week the year before.
The RCN said the problems have been building for years and exacerbated by problems with the rollout of the new non-emergency 111 number, although the bad weather is also likely to have been a factor.
Delays are also being experienced discharging patients from hospital because of the lack of social care support, it said.
In turn staff have to move patients from ward to ward so patients waiting in A&E units can be admitted, nurses said.
Karen Webb, the RCN East of England representative, said it has resulted in what has become known as "safari rounds" in her region.
"The pressure leads staff to move people off the A&E department. They then get lost in the hospital.
"Consultants aren't sure where they are so they have to go looking for their lost patients. It is widespread."
Other delegates described how some hospitals had started creating jobs known as "queue nurses" solely to look after people waiting to get seen.
RCN general secretary Peter Carter said: "This is where you get chaos in the system.
"It takes time [finding them] and is very concerning for patients. It is the system not working."
Neil Evans, an A&E nurse from south Wales, broke down as he described how he had seen patients left waiting on trolleys for 24 hours at a time.
"It is heart-breaking seeing what our patients are putting up with."
Norman Provan, the RCN's associate director for Scotland, added: "This is happening everywhere up-and-down the country."
Mark Drakeford, health minister for Wales, said he recognised hospitals were under pressure with steep rises in A&E demand coupled with the need for older patients, with more complex conditions, needing to stay in hospital for longer.
"All parts of the UK are experiencing these pressures but Wales has the highest proportion of people over 85."
Meanwhile, NHS England has already announced a review of emergency and urgent care.
Janet Youd, the RCN's emergency care association chairman, said it was a "constant juggle" to accommodate patients appropriately.
"Because of the pressures we have to move them out of the MAU [medical assessment unit], they can get put on an inappropriate ward and then when there is more time they will get transferred to somewhere better.
"But after a while there could be more pressures to move them as more patients get admitted."
Research by the Royal College of Physicians suggests it is common for a patient, particularly an elderly one, to be moved four or five times during their stay.
"No-one comes to work wanting this to happen, we all want to do our best but that is not always possible," said Ms Youd.
A Department of Health spokeswoman said: "The NHS needs to ensure it has proper plans in place to deal with high demand on A&E.
"But it's obvious that this isn't just about A&E services in isolation, it's also about how the NHS works as a whole and how it works with other areas such as social care."
Lancashire Police said the baby, from Shannon Street, was taken to Blackpool Victoria Hospital at 08:30 BST on Wednesday where he later died.
Officers are treating his death as "unexplained" and are examining the circumstances surrounding it.
A post-mortem examination to establish the precise cause of his death will take place later.
Det Insp Nick Connaughton said: "At this moment we are treating the sudden death of this baby boy as unexplained.
"I would like to stress that we are in the very early stages of our inquiries and we have not made any arrests."
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In a five-year deal with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), more than 100 hours of cricket will be broadcast each summer.
The contract includes live TV coverage of England men and women's Twenty20 internationals and the ECB's new men's domestic T20 tournament.
TV highlights of England men's home Tests, one-day internationals and T20s will also be shown.
The BBC, which this year celebrates Test Match Special's 60th birthday, also retained radio rights and digital clips for English cricket.
Digital clips mean in-play video action clips and short-form highlights on the BBC Sport website and app for all England internationals and domestic games.
The BBC last broadcast live televised cricket in 1999 and the sport has not been available on free-to-air TV since the 2005 Ashes series, shown on Channel 4.
"It's long been our ambition to bring live cricket back to BBC television," said BBC director general Tony Hall. "I'm thrilled to see that ambition realised.
"Cricket is an integral part of the British summer and the BBC will be putting its full weight behind the nation's favourite summer sport.
"Our aim will be to make the new T20 competition a huge success."
Each summer from 2020 to 2024, the BBC will broadcast live TV coverage of:
The BBC will also show:
Barbara Slater, director of BBC Sport, said: "This will lead to a step change in the BBC's coverage of cricket across TV, radio and digital platforms.
"We are extremely excited about what we have to offer by taking cricket to the widest possible audience and inspiring the next generation to pick up bat and ball.
"With 97% of the UK population using the BBC every week, the potential for growing the game further is huge."
The ECB's deal with the BBC and Sky is worth £1.1bn.
Sky will broadcast live TV coverage of Tests, England men's and women's internationals, plus the One-Day Cup and the County Championship.
ECB chief executive Tom Harrison said: "Together, these new deals will deliver the partnership, distribution and investment that will fuel the future of our game, driving recreational, professional and international cricket for years to come.
"BBC are valuable long-term partners, bringing cricket to listeners, viewers and a new digital audience.
"We are delighted they will go to another level with live coverage of international and domestic T20 - men's and women's - alongside prime-time highlights shows and a commitment to taking the game to even wider audiences."
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew on Radio 5 live
The ECB has recognised the need to show free-to-air cricket - the game urgently needs it.
When Channel 4 lost the rights in 2005, there is no doubt participation levels and awareness of the game slumped dramatically.
That, and the fact it has a new tournament starting in 2020, is what prompted the ECB to bring this deal forward.
The new tournament needs this coverage and exposure - this is why the ECB was keen to get it on terrestrial television.
This deal has raised over a billion pounds, which is a huge amount for English cricket.
Importantly, the BBC will show highlights of all England home internationals at prime time, which is a significant change from the usual late-night schedule.
Former England bowler Ryan Sidebottom called the deal "fantastic" news.
Speaking on the 5 live Friday Sports Panel, Sidebottom said: "I think it's much-needed. After the 2005 Ashes, the intake of children taking up cricket has slowly gone downhill so I think it's amazing for cricket.
"It's great for the players, it's great for international cricket, the fans. It's great for county cricket that players will get to showcase their talents on free-to-air TV, which is fantastic.
"It is difficult in modern society with mortgages and the cost of living.
"I grew up watching Test matches and one-day games on television - hopefully it'll grow more and more popular with the younger generation watching it on television."
Keith Brown said the firm agreed to "consider" his request to pay a "living wage" of £8.45 an hour.
He said they would have another meeting in two or three months' time.
The minister had previously said he was concerned by reports that staff at the Dunfermline site could be sacked for being off sick.
The Sunday Times claimed that workers could be dismissed for taking four days off, even if they had a sick note from a doctor.
The issue was raised in the Scottish Parliament, with North East Fife MSP Willie Rennie saying he had been contacted by constituents who reported "intolerable" working conditions.
Speaking after his visit to the Dunfermline "fulfilment centre" on Monday, Mr Brown said: "I had a productive meeting with senior members of Amazon's management team this afternoon and I asked them a series of questions around personnel and transport related-issues, which had been the subject of recent media reports.
"I then made a series of requests of the senior management team including in relation to becoming involved in our Fair Work agenda through the fair work convention, paying the real living wage and trade union activity in the workplace
"They have agreed to consider these requests and to a further meeting in the course of the next two to three months.
"These jobs are important to Scotland's economy - 4,500 at its current peak and 1,800 permanent employees - and so it's crucial that we continue to work with Amazon to help deliver fair work practices."
Amazon said all permanent and temporary Amazon workers started on £7.35 an hour or above, regardless of age, and £11 an hour and above for overtime.
A company spokeswoman said: "Amazon provides a safe and positive workplace with competitive pay and benefits from day one. We are proud to have been able to create several thousand new permanent roles in our UK fulfilment centres over the last five years.
"One of the reasons we've been able to attract so many people to join us is that we offer great jobs and a positive work environment with opportunities for growth."
A general election gives adults in the UK the chance to have a say on who runs the country.
They do this by voting for an MP to represent them and be their voice in Parliament (in the picture above).
You can find out more about how MPs get their jobs - and how a general election works - here.
But to find out more about what MPs do once they've got the job, read on below.
MP stands for Member of Parliament. He or she is a person who represents a particular area of the country in parliament.
The UK is divided into 650 of these areas, called constituencies - and there is an MP for each one. So that makes 650 MPs in Parliament in total.
They meet together in the House of Commons, which is part of the Houses of Parliament in London.
MPs split their time between working in Parliament and working in their constituency.
When they are working in Parliament, they can suggest and consider new laws, and take part in important votes on how the country is run.
Most MPs belong to groups called political parties - for example, the Conservative Party or the Labour Party
They can also bring up issues that matter to people in their constituency with important members of the government.
They might do this by asking a question to a politician on one person's behalf or they might bring up a topic in the House of Commons that is important to people who live in their constituency.
Sometimes, if the members of their constituency want something different to what their own political party wants, MPs may have to choose between upsetting their constituents or upsetting their party!
Some MPs who belong to the party (or parties) in power at the time will be given special jobs in the government, on top of their role as an MP.
They will be made government ministers and asked to look after particular areas of how the country is run - for example, health or education.
When MPs are working in their constituency, they will often hold special meetings called surgeries, at which members of the public can go to meet them if they have something they want to talk to their local MP about.
They will go along to public events, and visit local schools and businesses, so they can better understand what matters most to the people they represent. It also helps local people to get to know their MP.
Currently, if MPs want to have another paid job on top of their job as an MP, they can, but they have to officially register it.
Some people think it is a good thing if MPs have another job too, as it keeps them in touch with members of the public, and means they have more skills and knowledge to bring to their job in Parliament.
Others think that MPs shouldn't be allowed to have another job, as they should be fully committed to their job in Parliament and should focus all of their time on this.
There is a report currently being put together about what should be allowed with MPs having second jobs. The results will be presented in June.
When MPs come together in the House of Commons, they will debate and vote on issues that are important to the country.
This might be to do with rules in schools or how much money your parents have to spend on things, so these things can affect you.
Currently, there aren't any MPs as Parliament has been "dissolved" ahead of the election. Click on the link to find out more about what this means, but it's a bit like the end of term has happened.
All over the UK, the people who want to be MPs - called candidates - are currently working very hard to convince people to vote for them on 8 June.
While you cannot vote yet, when you turn 18, you will be able to vote in the general election to choose who you want to be your MP.
Some (78%) of those surveyed by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers say the work they do when covering a class is the same as that of a teacher.
The union said schools did not have enough funds to replace staff when they leave because of tightening budgets.
The government said schools should not use support staff to replace teachers.
Support staff who act as cover supervisors are only supposed to supervise the pupils not to teach them.
The ATL survey of nearly 1,000 members working as support staff suggested there had been a rise in such staff covering lessons in a more formal way.
A similar survey by the union the previous year suggested less than two-thirds were teaching lessons.
And just over seven in 10 (72.5%) of those who responded to the question said it had not been possible to supervise a class without effectively delivering a lesson.
One primary school teaching assistant in Buckinghamshire told the union: "We are expected to deliver high-quality lessons not just supervise the class."
And a higher-level teaching assistant (HTLA) working in a secondary school in Durham said: "We are told sometimes with only five minutes or less notice that we are covering lessons.
"We are expected to teach students."
ATL general secretary Dr Mary Bousted, said: "As these results show, support staff are feeling the pressure to actually teach lessons and to plug the gap in staff shortages when teachers leave and do not get replaced.
"As the government continues to squeeze school budgets, there simply aren't enough funds to replace staff.
"It is worrying that this year more support staff feel the work they do when acting as cover supervisor is identical to that done by supply teachers, with an increase of 14%."
Rob Webster, who has overseen a project on maximising the impact of teaching assistants at the Institute of Education, said: "The survey results suggest TAs, cover supervisors and other support staff are being deployed to backfill teaching staff shortages on top of covering their existing demands, all at the same time as overall staffing numbers are in decline."
The warning comes amid continuing concerns about a growing teacher shortage in England, especially in disadvantaged schools and subjects such as physics.
A major report published last year found that UK schools are more hindered by staff shortages than many of their international counterparts.
The Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) study, which covers 72 countries and economies, found a "relatively large share" of UK head teachers reported that their school was affected by staff shortages.
A Department for Education spokesman said that while teaching assistants were allowed to teach classes "we are absolutely clear that schools should use them to add value to what teachers do, not replace them.
"It is up to individual schools to decide how to train, develop and use their teaching assistants effectively."
The spokesman added that the core schools budget had been protected in real terms with so that "in 2016-17 schools have more funding than ever before".
The world's biggest fast-food chain said it would drop the ketchup after Bernardo Hees, the former head of rival Burger King, took over as Heinz's chief executive.
"We have decided to transition our business to other suppliers over time," McDonald's said.
In February, Heinz was purchased in a $28bn (??17.3bn) takeover.
McDonald's said that it would work with Heinz "to ensure a smooth and orderly transition of the McDonald's restaurant business", which has 34,000 restaurants around the world.
Mr Hees took over after Heinz was bought by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and Brazilian investment fund 3G Capital. Burger King is controlled by 3G Capital.
McDonald's uses the ketchup at many stores around the world, though only in Pittsburgh and Minneapolis inside the US.
"As a matter of policy, Heinz does not comment on relationships with customers," the ketchup-maker said.
Those displaced are headed towards the city of Samarra, the UN said, but many families are stranded at checkpoints.
Aid convoys carrying relief supplies are being sent to the area by UN agencies to help those affected.
The operation to retake Tikrit, involving some 30,000 soldiers and Shia militiamen, is now in its fourth day.
They are trying to encircle the IS fighters, but their advance has been slow due to the roadside bombs and booby traps planted since the city was overrun last June, says the BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut.
Iraqi jets and helicopters are supporting the ground troops but US-led coalition aircraft are not involved.
Militants also set fire to oil wells outside the city on Thursday, officials said, creating clouds of smoke in an apparent bid to obscure targets from air strikes.
Iraqi Gen Abdul Wahhab al-Saadi told state TV that the burning oil wells would not affect the operation.
But as the fighting continues, concerns for the civilian population are growing.
A UN statement said: "Military operations in and around Tikrit have precipitated displacement of an estimated 28,000 people to Samarra.
"Field reports indicate that additional displacements are under way and that yet more families remain stuck at checkpoints."
The White House and human rights organisations have also warned against the danger of sectarian reprisals by the Shia militia in the predominantly Sunni area.
Militia leaders have vowed to seek revenge for the massacre of hundreds of soldiers, most of them Shia, at Camp Speicher near Tikrit in June.
On Wednesday, a Iraqi army source told the BBC that government forces had taken control of the village of al-Maibdi, on the road between Tikrit and the Kurdish-controlled city of Kirkuk, as well as the nearby Ajil and Alas oilfields.
The road was a key supply route for IS between Salahuddin and Diyala provinces, the source said.
Another official told All Iraq News that the villages of Siha and Mazraat al-Rahim, just to the north of Tikrit in al-Alam district, had also been retaken.
However, the soldiers and militiamen have not breached IS defences around Tikrit and al-Dour, a town 19km (12 miles) to the south, which officials say is another stronghold of the jihadist group.
Tikrit, the hometown of former president Saddam Hussein, is a key target for the Iraqi government if it wants to retake Mosul, Iraq's second city, which was also seized by IS last year.
It may never have opened at all but for the hard work of journalist Tom Stephenson, a prominent member of the Ramblers Association.
Today the association considers it one of the best trails in the country, crossing three national parks.
Chief executive Benedict Southworth says it remains a "national treasure" five decades on.
"It's just an amazing trail to walk, both if you try to do it in one go, which gives you one type of challenge, or the ability to dip in and out of it," he says.
The traditional start point is Edale in the Derbyshire Peak District, close to Kinder Scout, the location of the famous mass trespass in 1932.
On 24 April - exactly 33 years before the official opening of the Pennine Way - hundreds of ramblers protested there for their right to roam the countryside.
Mr Southworth says for this reason it is one of the most important sections of the entire 268 miles (431km) of the trail.
"It has come to represent the spirit of all those ramblers and what their enthusiasm achieved."
In 1935, Tom Stephenson received a letter from two American women on a walking holiday in England enquiring whether there was a similar route to the 2,500-mile (4,020-km) Appalachian Trail.
While the answer was no, it got him thinking. Attitudes towards access to the countryside were changing following the mass trespass, three years earlier.
But it took another 30 years before his campaigning paid off and a UK long distance route came to fruition.
"It was the first - it pioneered the development of those long distance routes which have gone on to make the UK an absolute magnet across the world," Mr Southworth says.
The trail continues north to the Yorkshire Dales where it takes in the majestic peaks of Pen Y Ghent and Fountains Fell and the dramatic limestone of Malham Cove.
"I was born the year it opened - 1965 - and as a kid and a teenager I have walked stretches of it," says Mr Southworth
"It's brought me different things at different stages in my life. The last time I was there was with the Ramblers but I have been there with my teenage daughter.
"There's such a diversity to it, such a range of experiences."
But it is not just the breathtaking landscape that draws visitors in.
"There's a wonderful changing landscape but there are also huge cultural icons along the route like Hadrian's Wall," he says.
"You can be in the wilderness but see great culture and heritage along the way."
The highest point in England outside the Lake District - Cross Fell in Cumbria - is another highlight of the route.
There are now 15 national trails in the UK. They are designated by the government and managed by the local authorities they pass through.
"What's happened since World War Two is we have embraced as a country getting outdoors," says Mr Southworth.
"What the Pennine Way shows is we have a fabulous network in England of routes which bring benefit to those involved and the communities - pubs, bed and breakfasts, and so on - along the trails."
As the trail reaches County Durham, the sights include the waterfalls of Low Force and High Force in Teesdale.
It moves on into Northumberland before the final stage - 27 miles (43km) without passing through a single human settlement.
The trail ends just over the Scottish border at Kirk Yetholm.
The "granddaughter of the Pennine Way", says Mr Southworth, will be the England Coastal Path, which is opening in sections around the English coast and will also, perhaps perversely, take in landlocked sections such as the Offa's Dyke path at the Welsh border and along the Scottish border.
"We're working as hard to achieve it as we did with the Pennine Way - the campaigning and the optimism has not gone away," says Mr Southworth.
Work is due to be complete by 2020.
Three days of events are planned to celebrate the milestone anniversary, including walks, talks and even a singalong of folk song The Manchester Rambler, about the mass trespass.
Colin Horner, 35, was shot dead in front of his three-year-old son on Sunday 28 May.
The man has also been charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life.
He is due to appear in court on Monday.
The talks were called in a bid to resolve an industrial dispute which has hit Sunday services.
They follow moves by Aslef to ballot its members for industrial action from next month.
The dispute centres around plans by ScotRail franchise holders Abellio to introduce a seven-day rota for drivers.
Currently drivers work a six-day week, with Sundays classed as overtime.
The union has said it does not object to the plans, but wants to see drivers given a pay rise for the extra work.
About a third of ScotRail's trains were cancelled on Sunday after drivers refused to work overtime.
Aslef has warned that industrial action could start as early as 17 August, if no settlement can be reached and members back action.
The talks are due to continue on Wednesday.
The BBC understands the government will take over the Medway Secure Training Centre, which was run by G4S.
A source said a report, commissioned by ministers to examine improvements at the centre in Rochester, would make "uncomfortable" reading for the firm.
The government said it was looking at options. G4S has declined to comment.
Police began investigating staff after the BBC's Panorama programme in January revealed assault claims at the unit.
Four men were arrested on suspicion of child neglect while a fifth was held on suspicion of assault.
All have been released on police bail.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) will start operating the centre through its National Offender Management Service (Noms) by the end of July, according to the source.
A new director is expected to be appointed, but staff at Medway are likely to transfer to Noms.
It will be the first time the government has run a secure training centre.
An MoJ spokesman said it would announce the next steps in due course.
He said: "Our priority will always be the safety and welfare of young people in custody - that is why the Justice Secretary set up an Independent Improvement Board to examine the running of Medway STC.
"This sits alongside a wider review of youth justice."
The Panorama programme included footage apparently showing staff mistreating and abusing inmates.
Allegations relating to 10 boys, aged 14 to 17, included use of unnecessary force, foul language and a cover-up at the centre.
Five members of staff were sacked and three more suspended, while the unit's director, Ralph Marchant, stood down.
The unit takes youths aged 12 to 17 both on remand and after conviction.
In April, it emerged further allegations had been made by a young person who had been placed at the centre since the documentary was aired.
Minneapolis officer Matthew Harrity has reportedly said they were startled by a "loud sound" before last Saturday night's shooting of Justine Damond.
Police have released the transcript of her call to police, in which the 40-year-old reports a suspected rape.
She was fatally shot in the abdomen by one of the officers she had called.
Officer Mohamed Noor, who fired the fatal shot in Ms Damond's upmarket neighbourhood, has refused to be interviewed by investigators, as is his legal right.
Fred Bruno, a lawyer for Officer Harrity, said on Wednesday: "It is reasonable to assume an officer in that situation would be concerned about a possible ambush.
"It was only a few weeks ago when a female NYPD cop and mother of twins was executed in her car in a very similar scenario."
He was referring to the 5 July shooting of a 48-year-old police officer as she sat in her patrol car in the Bronx borough of New York City.
The attorney's comments come a day after Officer Harrity spoke to investigators with the state's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which is leading the investigation.
During the interview, he described seeing a young person on a bicycle pass by moments before Ms Damond pounded on the door of the police car, according to KSTP-TV.
Detectives have appealed to the cyclist to come forward with any information he may have.
On Wednesday police released the transcript of her two separate 911 calls, which she 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.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is appealing to the US for an explanation.
"It is a shocking killing, and yes, we are demanding answers on behalf of her family," he told Australian TV on Wednesday.
Hundreds of friends and family of Ms Damond held a vigil on Sydney's Freshwater beach on Wednesday morning.
The slain yoga instructor and spiritual healer was engaged to marry an American man.
Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton told reporters he has been in touch with the Australian embassy, adding the state may need to review rules covering police use of body cameras.
Cole, 35, is free to join former England team-mate Steven Gerrard after his contract with the Italian club was terminated by mutual consent.
The ex-Chelsea and Arsenal left-back joined the Serie A side in July 2014 and made 16 appearances.
Capped 107 times, Cole has won three Premier Leagues, seven FA Cups, one Champions League and one Europa League.
Roma sacked manager Rudi Garcia on 13 January after a poor run of just one win since the beginning of November.
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The boy was given an overdose of anaesthetic during the operation at Leicester Royal Infirmary in 2011.
His mother said her son's life was "turned upside down" by what happened.
Liability was admitted by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and an apology was made on its behalf at the High Court in London.
The Leicestershire teenager, who cannot be identified, suffers from severe physical and mental difficulties as a result of the injury.
He also needs a wheelchair and is unable to feed himself independently.
An internal investigation by the trust revealed there was a failure to flush a tube used during the surgery with saline solution.
This resulted in an overdose of anaesthetic causing him to suffer a cardio-respiratory arrest, cutting off oxygen to the brain.
He had to be resuscitated but there was a delay before an attempt was made, the family's lawyers said.
The teenager was transferred to intensive care and given artificial breathing support and ventilation.
He was then put into an induced coma for several days.
His mother said: "My son's life and ours have been turned upside down impacting heavily on him and on us as a family."
She said the money will support his needs for the rest of his life and added that the case was a chance to highlight the error so "lessons can be learned".
Mr Justice Goss said the financial settlement, which remains confidential, was "appropriate and just" and would provide financial security for the family and allow the teenager to have the "best possible life".
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A teenager who suffered a severe brain injury during an operation to remove his appendix is set to receive a seven-figure sum in damages from the NHS.
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The rebels had abducted the policemen after stopping a bus carrying security personnel in Bijapur on Monday.
The Maoists say they are fighting for communist rule and greater rights for tribal people and the rural poor.
Their insurgency began in West Bengal in the late 1960s, spreading to more than a third of India's 676 districts.
Senior Bijapur official KL Dhruv told BBC Hindi that the bodies had been recovered near Kutru [a village in Bijapur district] early on Wednesday.
Kutru is a rebel dominated area, some 525km (326 miles) south of the state capital, Raipur.
Chhattisgarh is often hit by Maoist violence. At least 14 policemen were killed in an ambush in the state in December.
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described India's Maoist insurgency as its "greatest internal security challenge".
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The bodies of four policemen who were abducted by Maoist rebels have been recovered in India's Chhattisgarh state.
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She told BBC Scotland: "Not every drug will be approved and no system will approve every single drug.
"What this will do will make, particularly those really ultra-orphan drugs that are for very rare conditions, will make it fairer and have more equitable access to those drugs."
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Scotland's Health Secretary Shona Robison said changes to the way drugs for rare health conditions are approved will be fairer in the future.
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Those who have spoken publicly include Andy Woodward, Chris Unsworth, Jason Dunford and Steve Walters.
Andy Woodward, 43, was the first player to go public when he revealed he was abused by coach Barry Bennell, 62, who has served three jail sentences for child sex offences.
It happened between the ages of 11 and 15 while he was a member of Crewe Alexandra's youth team.
"I kept it locked away in the back of my head," he told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.
Bennell had threatened to take his career away from him, he alleged, adding: "It was that control - that all I wanted to do was be a footballer."
Mr Woodward, who played for Bury and Sheffield United, retired from the game in 2002, aged 29, after suffering a series of panic attacks.
He said he wanted to encourage more victims to speak out and would "die a happy man" if he could prevent more children from being abused.
Ex-Manchester City youth player Chris Unsworth, 44, claimed he was abused by Bennell from the age of nine.
"It started in the car - he used to touch, play games on the way to training," he said, and later got "more serious" during sleepovers at Bennell's house where, Mr Unsworth claimed, "there was penetration".
He said although he had been "raped between 50 and 100 times", no-one ever spoke about it.
Mr Unsworth moved to Crewe with Bennell at the age of 12 when, he says, Bennell began to lose interest.
"Your body changes and that's when your time is up - he moves on to fresh blood."
Mr Unsworth said he "turned away from football" at the age of 16 because he had "had enough", adding: "I kept it locked away right in the back of my head, but I am still re-living it."
At the age of 13, Jason Dunford was a budding footballer when, he claims, Bennell tried to abuse him at a Butlin's holiday camp.
"I told him to get off me. I remember physically hitting him," he said. "After that he detached me from the group, saying he'd drop me."
A period of "isolation" and "mind games" followed, Mr Dunford said, where he was prevented from playing and accused of stealing money.
"He fabricated stories about me amongst my team-mates," he said, adding that Bennell told him: "Do you really want to tell your parents you'd been accused of being a thief?"
Mr Dunford, who never turned professional, pointed to a culture of silence in the 1980s and said his dream "would've burst" if he had tried to expose a coach like Bennell.
And he added: "For those parents out there kicking themselves, do not feel guilty. This man wasn't just playing games with the children's heads."
Steve Walters broke three decades of silence to reveal what he called "absolutely petrifying" abuse.
The ex-Crewe player, now 44, alleged the abuse began at the age of 12, when he would stay at Bennell's house in the town during the school holidays.
"Back in that day and age if you came out with accusations, would anybody believe you?" he said.
Bennell would "teach you these tricks and flicks, he could do things with a football we'd never seen before", he said, "but it was all just grooming, wasn't it?".
One of England's most promising young players, Mr Walters was diagnosed with a blood disorder at the age of 17, but continued to play at a lower level.
"I had problems with relationships because I've always thought, 'Am I gay?'" he said. "What's happened to us has made us feel like that - it's not right."
Former Tottenham and England player Paul Stewart, who began his professional career playing for Blackpool aged 17, told the BBC he was abused by a coach - not Bennell - for four years as a child.
"I was told that I had to do these things if I wanted to be a footballer," he said.
"He was threatening that he would kill my parents and my two brothers if I ever spoke out. I was just absolutely frightened.
"I do believe, in the days it was happening to me, it was a taboo subject, nobody spoke about it. It was brushed under the carpet if it was happening. I don't think there was anywhere to turn in those days."
On coming forward now, Mr Stewart said: "I felt that I needed to do this so other people will come out and with the hope that it may stop anyone who may be thinking of doing it again, in any walk of life - not just football."
He added: "The access to children at sport level is very easy and it is the perfect ground for them to prey."
Former Manchester City and England player David White also claims he was abused by Bennell - whom he "hero-worshipped" - and "kept the ordeal secret" from family and friends for almost two decades.
Mr White, now 49, says he was targeted in 1979, at the age of 11, when he played for Whitehill FC junior team in Manchester.
"I now realise the effects of Bennell's actions were much more far-reaching than I knew then," he said, adding the alleged abuse "influenced almost every event and relationship in my life".
"I would like to say that I do not feel brave... I feel like one of the lucky ones," he added.
"I salute Andy Woodward, Steve Walters, and Paul Stewart for so bravely revealing their personal tragedies.
"The physical abuse they and others suffered was certainly more extreme and prolonged than my ordeal, and I cannot be sure that I would have their courage."
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Officers were called to the reception area of Marischal College at about 15:20 on Tuesday.
A Police Scotland spokesman said a 38-year-old man was taken into custody.
The force said no-one was injured, and its inquiries were at an early stage. It was understood no threats were made during the incident.
Joe Pugh and Vicky Balch spoke on the eve of the ride reopening for the new season at Alton Towers.
They suffered life-changing injuries when the carriage smashed into another car at the Staffordshire theme park last June. Miss Balch, along with another passenger, Leah Washington, had to have a leg amputated.
In total 16 people were hurt.
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Speaking to ITV's Good Morning Britain, Mr Pugh, of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, said: "I think it would have been a bit unrealistic if we had both said 'I don't think it's ever going to reopen again' because it always was going to, but if people choose to go on it, that's up to them.
"Seeing it go round, it's not something that I want to see. I would have preferred for it to be closed."
Miss Balch, from Lancashire, told ITV News she felt Alton Towers was putting money before people.
"I've never wanted it to reopen, that's just the obvious reaction," she said.
"I understand it's a business and it's what they have to do. I just didn't think it'd be so soon. It's only nine months, it's not a very long time.
"But at the end of the day it feels like the money comes before the people on the ride."
Daniel Thorpe, from Buxton, Derbyshire, and Chandaben Chauhan, from Wednesbury, West Midlands, were also seriously injured in the incident, which park owner Merlin Entertainments said was due to human error.
The Health and Safety Executive is prosecuting Merlin over the crash and the company is due in court in April.
Uruguayan defender Miguel Britos was shown a first-half red card for a high and reckless challenge on Brighton's Anthony Knockaert, who was lucky to escape injury.
In a game of few clear-cut chances, Brighton came closest to making the breakthrough as they twice hit the post through Knockaert and Tomer Hemed.
But Watford's 10 men held firm to claim a battling point that extends their unbeaten start to the season, as the Seagulls' wait for a first Premier League goal since promotion goes on.
The hosts started brightly, with Nathaniel Chalobah seeing a goal-bound header blocked by Lewis Dunk and record signing Andre Gray missing from a Nordin Amrabat pull back.
Amrabat, who had looked dangerous for the hosts, was soon replaced by Craig Cathcart as head coach Marco Silva patched up his defence after Britos' dismissal.
Brighton appealed for a penalty when Abdoulaye Doucoure put in a high foot while competing for a loose ball with Knockaert, but referee Graham Scott instead awarded an indirect free-kick.
Both sides pushed for the win in the final 10 minutes as Watford introduced club captain Troy Deeney and Albion threw on record signing Jose Izquierdo for his debut, but neither could make a telling contribution.
Britos protested his 24th-minute dismissal, but in truth there was little defending what was a dangerous two-footed tackle on Frenchman Knockaert.
Describing the challenge on Final Score, BBC Sport pundit Garth Crooks said: "I have no doubt in my mind that is a red card. I have not seen a tackle like that in 40 years."
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On Twitter, Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker described it as "the most horrendous tackle".
Speaking after the game, Watford goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes said Britos had apologised to his team-mates, adding "we need to apologise to the Brighton players as well".
"He knows what he did and I don't think he did it intentionally," Gomes continued. "He always goes for the ball and he goes fair, but he lost timing and caught the player."
Britos - also sent off twice last season - is the second Watford player to be sent off in a week, after Jose Holebas saw red in the 3-2 EFL Cup defeat to Bristol City.
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Watford manager Marco Silva: "It was a difficult match, it started really well for us, we had chances to score. After the first chance they created we lost emotional balance. We need to continue what we did before.
"The red card changed everything. But after that our players showed good spirit and attitude.
"I didn't see it, but the information I have is that it [the decision to send Britos off] looked fair. I have spoken with the player and we need to be calm to think what we will do."
Brighton manager Chris Hughton: "It is a concern [that Brighton are yet to score], yes, because on the balance of play and getting in areas we are, we should do better.
"We need to find a way to win these games, we hit the post twice and feel it is coming.
"I hope we are successful in this transfer window to get a bit more attacking threat. I hope I'll be busy, can't guarantee it, but we are trying as hard as we can. It is a difficult market."
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Brighton winger Anthony Knockaert: "We are glad to get our first point but we're also disappointed not to get a win because we were playing against 10 men. We had a few chances but couldn't find a goal.
"We showed better character today and there are some good signs for the future. We have two weeks to work hard during the international break.
"We knew it would not be easy because they kept good shape and in the end I think they were happy with a draw."
After the international break, Brighton play host to West Brom in the Premier League on 9 September, while Watford travel to Southampton on the same day (both 15:00 BST).
Match ends, Watford 0, Brighton and Hove Albion 0.
Second Half ends, Watford 0, Brighton and Hove Albion 0.
Attempt missed. Kiko Femenía (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Abdoulaye Doucouré following a set piece situation.
Foul by Dale Stephens (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Nathaniel Chalobah (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Markus Suttner (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Solly March.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Jamie Murphy replaces Pascal Groß.
Attempt missed. André Carrillo (Watford) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Kiko Femenía with a cross.
Foul by Davy Pröpper (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Troy Deeney (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. José Izquierdo (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Markus Suttner.
Foul by Shane Duffy (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Troy Deeney (Watford) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Solly March (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Kiko Femenía (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Watford. Troy Deeney replaces Andre Gray.
Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Liam Rosenior tries a through ball, but José Izquierdo is caught offside.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. José Izquierdo replaces Anthony Knockaert.
Attempt missed. Andre Gray (Watford) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left misses to the left. Assisted by Richarlison.
Tomer Hemed (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Sebastian Prödl (Watford).
Attempt missed. Shane Duffy (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Pascal Groß with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Sebastian Prödl.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Nathaniel Chalobah.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Heurelho Gomes.
Attempt saved. Anthony Knockaert (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from long range on the left is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Davy Pröpper with a headed pass.
Attempt blocked. Richarlison (Watford) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kiko Femenía.
Corner, Watford. Conceded by Davy Pröpper.
Foul by Pascal Groß (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Abdoulaye Doucouré (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Dale Stephens tries a through ball, but Tomer Hemed is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Richarlison (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Sebastian Prödl.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Sebastian Prödl.
Attempt missed. Anthony Knockaert (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Solly March with a cross.
Foul by Dale Stephens (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Richarlison (Watford) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Liam Rosenior (Brighton and Hove Albion) because of an injury.
Foul by Shane Duffy (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Nathaniel Chalobah (Watford) wins a free kick on the left wing.
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Figures suggest that in 2012, more than 200 young people across both Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent were "at risk" of exploitation.
BBC Midlands Today's Liz Copper has this special report.
Former Scottish Secretary Lord Lang of Monkton, who is chairing the inquiry, said devolution had significantly changed the way the UK was governed.
But the Conservative peer said the process had not been undertaken in a coherent or considered way.
The inquiry will seek to identify what binds the constituent parts of the UK and the ways in which it might be strengthened and reinforced.
Lord Lang, who was the Tory MP in south west Scotland in the 1980 and 90s and a cabinet minister in John Major's government, is chairman of the House of Lords Constitution Committee.
He said: "Since 1998, devolution has significantly changed the way the United Kingdom is governed, and there are proposals for the further devolution of power both to nations within the UK and to English cities and regions in the very near future.
"We are concerned, however, that this process has not been undertaken in a coherent or considered way; the devolution of powers to each nation has been considered separately with little or no reflection on the impact on the Union as a whole."
He added: "Our inquiry will span a broad range of constitutional issues and will give witnesses the opportunity to put their views on record on an issue that will profoundly affect the whole of the UK. I would encourage interested parties to send us their evidence by 2 October."
Zenga, 56, is embarking on his first job in England after replacing Kenny Jackett at the end of July.
"Since the gaffer's come in, it's been fantastic," Coady, 23, told BBC WM.
"It's been relentless, he's been trying to get his point across to us and his attention to detail is brilliant."
Zenga was appointed shortly after the Championship club were taken over by Chinese investors Fosun International.
"His passion's amazing," said Coady, who scored his first goal for Wolves in their EFL Cup first-round win over League Two Crawley. "He's only been here a couple of weeks so it's going to take a bit of time.
"The fans are going to see a very passionate team - he wants us to get the ball back as quickly as possible and counter attack.
"We need to make Molineux a fortress, he's been big on that. We want teams to be frightened to play here."
Wolves' new owners have already funded moves for Portuguese trio Helder Costa, Silvio and Joao Teixeira, as well as Iceland international Jon Dadi Bodvarsson, who scored his first goal in Saturday's draw at Rotherham.
"They bring great quality - they like to run with the ball and it's up to us to help them along," said Coady. "The Championship's a tough league but they'll adapt and they're strong minded.
"You know when you give them the ball, something's going to happen and they'll get the crowd off their feet and will win us games."
Wolves have also been linked with a club-record £20m move for Benfica midfielder Anderson Talisca.
Experts are learning more about how to contain the virus that has infected around 7,500 people in West Africa.
The race is on to stop this deadly disease that kills more than half of those it infects.
Here's what is known.
Ebola is spread by direct contact with contaminated body fluids. Blood, vomit and saliva can all carry and spread the deadly virus.
The relatives of sick patients and the healthcare workers who care for them are at highest risk of infection, but anyone who comes into close proximity potentially puts themselves at risk.
For that reason, contact should only be for essential medical care and always under the full protection of the right clothing.
The virus can't breach protective gear, such as gloves, mask/face shield, a full body suit and tough rubber wellington boots, but too few have access to state-of-the-art kit.
Those who do get to wear it should keep changing it every 40 minutes to be safe. Inside the suit it can get up to about 40C. Getting into the kit takes about five minutes. Taking it off again takes the wearer and a designated helper "buddy" about 15 minutes.
This is one of the most dangerous times for contamination and people are sprayed with chlorine as this happens.
Surgical cap
Goggles
Medical mask
Scrubs
Overalls
Apron
Double gloves
Boots
Respirator
The cap forms part of a protective hood covering the head and neck. It offers medical workers an added layer of protection, ensuring that they cannot touch any part of their face whilst in the treatment centre.
Goggles, or eye visors, are used to provide cover to the eyes, protecting them from splashes. The goggles are sprayed with an anti-fogging solution before being worn. On October 21, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced stringent new guidelines for healthcare personnel who may be dealing with Ebola patients. In the new guidelines, health workers are advised to use a single use disposable full face shield as goggles may not provide complete skin coverage.
Covers the mouth to protect from sprays of blood or body fluids from patients. When wearing a respirator, the medical worker must tear this outer mask to allow the respirator through.
A respirator is worn to protect the wearer from a patient's coughs. According to guidelines from the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), the respirator should be put on second, right after donning the overalls.
A surgical scrub suit, durable hospital clothing that absorbs liquid and is easily cleaned, is worn as a baselayer underneath the overalls. It is normally tucked into rubber boots to ensure no skin is exposed.
The overalls are placed on top of the scrubs. These suits are similar to hazardous material (hazmat) suits worn in toxic environments. The team member supervising the process should check that the equipment is not damaged.
A minimum two sets of gloves are required, covering the suit cuff. When putting on the gloves, care must be taken to ensure that no skin is exposed and that they are worn in such a way that any fluid on the sleeve will run off the suit and glove. Medical workers must change gloves between patients, performing thorough hand hygiene before donning a new pair. Heavy duty gloves are used whenever workers need to handle infectious waste.
A waterproof apron is placed on top of the overalls as a final layer of protective clothing.
Ebola health workers typically wear rubber boots, with the scrubs tucked into the footwear. If boots are unavailable, workers must wear closed, puncture and fluid-resistant shoes.
If an infected droplet does get on to your skin, it can be washed away immediately with soap and water or an alcohol-based hand sanitiser.
The eyes are a different matter. A spray of droplets from a sneeze directly into the eye, for example, could let the virus in.
Similarly, the mucous membranes of the mouth and inside of the nose are vulnerable areas, as is broken skin.
One of the most shocking symptoms of Ebola is bleeding. Patients can bleed from the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and rectum. Diarrhoea and vomit may also be tainted with blood.
A big infection risk is cleaning up. Any laundry or other clinical waste should be incinerated. Any medical equipment that needs to be kept should be decontaminated.
Without adequate sterilisation, virus transmission can continue and amplify.
Minute droplets on a surface that hasn't been adequately cleaned could, in theory, pose a risk. And it's unclear how long the virus could sit there and remain a threat. Flu viruses and other germs can live two hours or longer on hard environmental surfaces like tables, doorknobs, and desks.
The nurse who recently became infected while caring for two Ebola patients in Spain had twice gone into the room where one of the the patients was being treated - to be directly involved in his care and to disinfect the room after his death. Both times she was wearing protective clothing.
Soap and water or alcohol-based hand sanitisers readily disrupt the envelope of this single-stranded RNA virus, and decontamination with dilute bleach is effective and readily available even in remote settings.
Generally, once someone recovers from Ebola and they have the all-clear, they can no longer spread the virus.
But according to the World Health Organization Ebola can be found in semen for seven weeks and some studies suggest it can be present for up to three months.
For this reason, doctors say that people who recover from Ebola should abstain from sex or use condoms for three months.
*In all cases but two, first in Madrid and later in Dallas, the patient was infected with Ebola while in West Africa.
Members of the GMB union working for services firm Mitie, who scan luggage, walked out in the early hours and will not return until after 23:59 BST.
The GMB said its workers at the airport had voted by 87%, in a turnout of 80%, to strike over a rejected claim for a 3% pay rise.
The airport said operations were as normal with no disruption.
Neil Banks, head of customer services at the airport, said the previous strike by scanning staff had "no impact on our operation".
Gary Pearce, of the GMB union, said staff had been left with no option but to take industrial action.
The company had rejected two offers to go to the arbitration service ACAS.
"We are confident we have have the right resources in place and right plans in place to meet all the requirements of the weekend," he said.
A spokeswoman for Mitie said the company was "committed to treating employees fairly with regards to pay and terms and conditions and will continue to do so".
The strikers have rejected a 1.5% offer from the company, whose chief executive Ruby McGregor-Smith was included in the list of new peers nominated by the Conservatives last week.
Hamilton striker Christian Nade's sister was caught up in the violence, in which 130 people were killed in the French capital on 13 November.
The Scottish Premiership club said they wanted to show "sympathy and solidarity with the people of France".
Hamilton said the kit would be sent to French clubs to be sold for charity.
Accies player-manager Martin Canning told BBC Radio Scotland before kick-off: "Obviously that was upstairs that decided to do that and as players and staff we fully support it.
"But I said all week to the players our main focus is on the pitch and going and doing our job.
"We show our solidarity with what happened and we fully support it, but our main focus is to go and get three points."
Canning also has a Frenchman, former Hibernian and Coventry City midfielder Guillaume Beuzelin, as his assistant.
The club said discussions regarding the use of the French jerseys were sparked due to Aberdeen's first and second strips clashing with Hamilton's home kit, depriving its first-choice sponsor exposure in a "prestigious, home live TV fixture".
With Nade and Beuzelin in mind, it sought, and was granted, permission from the SPFL to utilise the French kit, complete with its home sponsors.
Accies could not source France's home kit in the requisite sizes, opting instead for the all-white away kit, and battling a "race against time to get them all badged, named, numbered, sponsored front and back and sleeve-badged" before the match.
The club intends to send the jerseys to each of the French Ligue 1 clubs for auctioning to charities.
On Friday, the English Premier League announced that the French national anthem - La Marseillaise - would be played before all of its matches this weekend.
Fans had united to sing La Marseillaise before England's win over France in an international friendly at Wembley on Tuesday.
And what difference will the new Stormont opposition make in practice?
It is early days, but we now have a few initial indicators.
During the first formal debates in the Northern Ireland Assembly since the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin-led executive was formed, we saw opposition MLAs called upon to respond directly to ministers.
First the Ulster Unionist Party's (UUP) Jo-Anne Dobson got the opportunity to put her points about hospital waiting lists immediately after Health Minister Michelle O'Neill set out her stall.
Then UUP leader Mike Nesbitt was called to follow First Minister Arlene Foster.
Mrs Foster believes this is the start of a new era, promising that ministers will no longer work in "silos".
Instead, the nine new departments, she hopes, will work together to achieve common goals.
Mr Nesbitt, the leader of the opposition, said that, even at this early stage, the executive has failed to keep to the timetable for a programme for government set out in last year's Fresh Start Agreement.
He again derided the content of the executive's framework programme as vague "motherhood and apple pie".
Others as far apart as Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader Jim Allister and People Before Profit Alliance (PBPA) MLA Gerry Carroll agreed with that assessment, with the latter describing the executive document as "114 pages of concentrated waffle".
But just as observers were beginning to get used to this government-opposition ding-dong, along came the Alliance Party's Naomi Long to prove the dynamics in the new assembly will be more complex.
She launched an assault, not on the government, but on the Ulster Unionists, suggesting they had been "delusional" to believe a full draft programme for government could ever have been negotiated in the two weeks after the assembly election.
Not surprisingly, Mr Nesbitt begged to differ.
Although the speaking rights and practices in the chamber are already reflecting the new dispensation, anyone who thinks Stormont will mimic Westminster is likely to be mistaken.
Mr Nesbitt said on Sunday that he wants to work together with Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader Colum Eastwood as "co-equals" in opposition.
But that does not mean their two parties will coalesce into a single opposition.
One can imagine that, on certain issues, the UUP and SDLP will be able to share a common platform.
But there are many others, such as parading, the legacy of Northern Ireland's Troubles, or even the relocation of public sector jobs, where their parties will pull in different directions.
Mr Eastwood has already said that he's "no-one's deputy".
With the Green Party, PBPA and the TUV all coming at the executive from their own distinct angles, the voices of opposition will make themselves heard, but they will not always sing off the same hymn sheet.
In comparison, the DUP and Sinn Féin have sought to portray a cohesive image.
Martin McGuinness's trip to the Somme, Peter Weir's visit to an Irish language school and the consensus over Mrs O'Neill's decision to lift the ban on blood donations from gay men constitute a reasonable start.
So, will a cohesive government run rings around a divided opposition?
Maybe, but all governments, power sharing or not, are vulnerable to the passage of events.
Already we have had a row over council funding for a community centre in the Glens of Antrim, and a difference of opinion over Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir thinking out loud about extra borrowing and fiscal powers.
No doubt there will be much more to come.
Perhaps the latest batch of Stormont ministers will climb out of their silos.
But those with long memories may recall that, back in 2011, the DUP manifesto promised to "seek to break down the silo mentality in government departments through incentivising cross-departmental collaboration".
How did that work out?
Whatever happens, it was heartening that on day one a number of our new MLAs proved they can make their points fluently and concisely.
On that score, at least, let's hope the assembly continues just as it began.
The incident happened on Neath Road, Tonna, at about 03:30 GMT on Tuesday.
Four people were injured in the one-vehicle crash and taken to Morriston Hospital, Swansea.
A 15-year-old girl is serious but stable after being transferred to University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.
A man, 20 and woman, 17 have been discharged from hospital and another man, 21 is being treated for non life-threatening injuries.
Police appealed for witnesses who may have seen the Ford Ka being driven before the collision.
The Bank of Scotland's new happiness index attempts to quantify how happy people are in the communities in which they live.
The study found that women were far more content with their lives than men.
The survey results also revealed that those aged 18 to 24 were the unhappiest age group, with a score below the Scotland average.
According to the index, people's happiness increased in the 25-34 age bracket, but then dipped slightly during the 35-44s, before rising sharply for the 45-54 age group.
But it is the retirement age of over 65 when people were happiest in life, the survey found.
Of those living in the Highlands and Islands, two-fifths reportedly confessed to being "very happy" with their lives there.
Just under a third (30%) of Dundonians said the same which put Dundee in second place.
Aberdeen, Fife and Central Scotland appeared to be the least happy regions, having happiness scores four points below the Scottish average.
The index found that 5% of respondents in both Fife and Central said they were "very unhappy" with life in their community.
When it comes to money, those with the highest happiness score had a personal income of more than £60,000 while those with a household income of up to £14,999 had the lowest score.
Second happiest were those in the £40,000-£59,999 bracket for both personal and household income.
Scots with a personal income of £25,000-£39,999 rank third, although this is not the case for household income.
Third in this category were those with a household income of £15,000-£24,999, while those earning a bit more - the £25,000- £39,999 category - were considered to be less happy.
Robin Bulloch, managing director at Bank of Scotland Community Bank, said: "The happiness index has highlighted some fairly obvious points, like the more money people have the happier they tend to be.
"But it's also raised some intriguing questions about why the happiness score dips for the 35-44 age group and why women, in general, are happier than men."
The findings are based on 3,215 online interviews, conducted by YouGov, with a nationally representative sample of adults aged 18 and over living in Scotland.
The index was created by assigning a score between 100 and -100 to people's responses to the question: "Taking everything into account, how happy or unhappy would you say you are living in your community?"
The average happiness score was then calculated using the values: -100 for a response of "Very unhappy", -50 for "Somewhat unhappy", a score of zero for "Neither happy nor unhappy", +50 for "Somewhat happy" and +100 for a response of "Very happy".
Happiest by region
Average across Scotland: 39.02
Happiest by age
Happiest by income
The information was gathered between 12 December 2014 and 5 January 2015.
The National Grid's IFA2 project would see a convertor station built at Daedalus airfield in Fareham, linked to a facility in Normandy.
The former navy base is owned by Fareham Borough Council.
A National Grid statement said it would enhance "security, affordability and sustainability" of energy supply.
The new high voltage direct current (HVDC) project would be the second interconnector to France.
It would be capable of transferring 1000MW of electricity between Britain and France, enough to power a million homes, according to the National Grid.
More than 120 miles (200km) of undersea cables would be laid between the two countries as part of the project.
Project director Morris Bray said: "Interconnectors have an increasingly important role to play in providing alternative sources of electricity for this country and keeping supplies safe, secure and affordable."
Councillor Seán Woodward, the leader of Fareham Borough Council, said the authority had pressed for the Daedalus site to be used, rather than the network connection point at nearby Chilling, to protect the coastal landscape.
"This will mean large buildings and the council will seek very high quality designs. I am sure that residents in the immediate area of both facilities will want to have their say on any proposals in the future," he said.
The council is due to decide on whether to sell the land to the National Grid, subject to planning permission.
Plans for the infrastructure project are to go on display at a series of public events in the Fareham and Gosport area during December.
The National Grid said it was aiming for IFA2 to be operational by 2020.
Ibrahim Halawa, who is the son of the most senior Muslim cleric in Ireland, has been held without trial in an Egyptian prison for the last 18 months.
He was arrested during the Al-Fath mosque siege in Cairo in August 2013.
The Irish minister for foreign affairs said he was disappointed the trial was postponed for a fourth time on Sunday.
Mr Halawa is facing a mass trial, alongside almost 500 other people, who were arrested by Egyptian security forces during a crackdown on protests in Cairo.
The Dublin-born teenager was on a family holiday to his parents' homeland when he and three of his sisters were arrested in the mosque. He was 17 at the time.
They family said they had taken refuge in the building during violent clashes between supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi and the security forces.
The sisters were allowed to return to Dublin after a few months, but their now 19-year-old younger brother remains in Tora prison, where up until recently, he shared a cell with the now freed Australian journalist, Peter Greste.
In a statement on Sunday, Irish minister for foreign affairs Charlie Flanagan said: "I am disappointed to learn of the further delay today and concerned that the Egyptian authorities continue to consider Ibrahim's case as part of a group trial.
"I have personally raised the government's concerns about this case with my Egyptian counterpart on a number of occasions.
"Officials in Dublin and Cairo have been working actively on this case, and have been in ongoing and sustained contact with the Egyptian authorities and international partners, since Ibrahim Halawa was initially imprisoned."
Mr Flanagan added: "My department will continue to take all appropriate action to ensure Ibrahim's welfare, and to seek a review of his case, his release and return to his family and his studies.
"In the meantime, we will continue to provide all possible consular assistance to Ibrahim Halawa and his family.
The firm's Australian copper mine in Cobar, New South Wales, and its Lomas Bayas copper mine in the Atacama desert in Chile are for sale.
Glencore is attempting to reduce $30bn (??19.5bn) of debt created by its 2013 takeover of Xstrata.
Its Hong Kong-listed shares have also fallen some 55% this year.
Trading of the firm's Hong Kong-listed shares were halted earlier on Monday ahead of the announcement.
"The sale process is in response to Glencore receiving a number of unsolicited expressions of interest for these mines from various potential buyers," the firm said in an email.
"This will allow potential buyers to bid to purchase either one or both of the mines and may or may not result in a sale," it added.
The Cobar operation is a high-grade underground mine and plant, while the Lomas Bayas operation is a low-cost, open pit mine.
In Australia, Glencore has 19 mining complexes across the country, including coal, copper, nickel and zinc operations, port facilities, offices and agricultural businesses, among others. It is one of the biggest exporters of Australian grain.
In Chile, Glencore owns and has stakes in several mines, as well as a hydro-power project.
Last week, the firm announced it would dramatically cut its zinc production.
The move comes amid a 30% fall in the price of zinc in recent months. The company said it would cut 500,000 tonnes of zinc production - or 4% of the world's total supply.
Most of the zinc-related cutbacks will be in Australia, where more than 500 jobs will be lost, as well as South America and Kazakhstan.
As it attempts to reduce its debt, the firm has also cut copper production and suspended dividend payments to shareholders. It is also issuing new shares to raise money.
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Only a few years ago, China's growth was consistently in the double-digits, but now the pace of expansion has slowed substantially.
China's economic strength is crucial to the health of the global economy.
So, in order to gauge that impact, we have asked our correspondents around the region - in South Korea, Australia, and Malaysia - what it means in their countries if lower Chinese growth becomes the new normal.
Watch more reports on Asia Business Report's website.
The 22-year-old has impressed this season as a rival to James Davies, an Olympic silver medallist with Great Britain's sevens squad at Rio 2016.
Scarlets have not specified the length of the deal signed by Boyde, who came through the region's academy.
"I believe it's going to be the best place for me to continue my development," said Boyde, who has made 29 appearances since his debut in 2014.
"The region has brought me through the age grade and it is my home.
"I've been a part of the squad for three years and, despite a frustrating time with injuries, I feel I've made the most of the opportunity the coaches have given me this year."
Scarlets general manager Jon Daniels said: "Will is a great example of a talented young rugby player who through hard work, dedication and commitment has made his breakthrough."
Wing Steff Evans and fly-half Dan Jones have recently signed contract extensions at Scarlets.
According to the senior military official, the operation to recapture the northern city will probably take place in April or May.
Iraq's second largest city is currently being held by 1,000 to 2,000 IS militants, the official added.
Mosul was home to more than a million people before it fell to IS last June.
The unnamed official told reporters that no decision had been made on whether a small group of US military advisers would be needed on the ground to direct air support.
All of the fighters in the force will have gone through US training by the time of the operation, the official added.
He said the operation would be needed by May, otherwise it would be compromised by the summer heat, although he added that it could be delayed if the Iraqi forces were not ready.
Mosul residents recently described their life under IS rule. Here are some excerpts:
The Mosul diaries
The BBC's Gary O'Donoghue in Washington says that telegraphing the timing of the attack is unusual, but the US insists that IS forces are now in retreat and Washington needs to show that its efforts to rebuild Iraqi military capacity are bearing fruit.
Earlier in the week, Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi confirmed that his forces were "planning an offensive on Mosul".
In an interview with BBC World Affairs editor John Simpson, Mr Abadi said he hoped Mosul would be liberated in a few months' time, with a minimum of casualties.
He said the US-led coalition against IS had stepped up its operations in the past four or five weeks.
"I think the air campaign has increased in its quality and intensity," he said.
Meanwhile, military chiefs from more than 20 countries gathered in Saudi Arabia to discuss how to strengthen the Iraqi army against IS.
An official told AFP news agency that a "firm plan" was being looked at to empower the Iraqi army.
The US administration has been criticised by Iraqi politicians for lacking a clear-cut strategy in the fight against Islamic State (IS).
By announcing a large-scale military offensive to oust the group from Iraq's second-largest city of Mosul, Washington wants to send a strong message of support to thousands of Iraqi army troops.
But it also wants to signal to arch-enemy Iran that it will not let it dictate the military endgame in Iraq.
Spring is seen by military experts as an opportune moment to retake Mosul and perhaps other towns and cities.
The Americans also want to win more time to train thousands of Iraqi army troops on guerrilla warfare, capitalising on the strong determination from heavyweight countries in the region like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan to take on the common enemy of Islamist jihadists.
On Thursday, an opposition news service, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said bombing raids by US-led coalition aircraft in Syria had played a key role in the recapture of 19 villages from IS in Raqqa province.
Fighters from the Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG) and three other rebel groups have advanced steadily into IS-held territory since securing control of Kobane on 26 January.
The YPG and its allies are also now in control of about 35km (22 miles) of the motorway connecting the cities of Aleppo and Hassakeh, the Observatory added.
Ain Issa and the motorway are 56km from the city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the "caliphate" declared by IS in June.
The funding for services in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Bangor and south Wales will help conserve items subject to restricted access due to their condition.
It will also see them digitised and made available online.
The work is funded by the Welsh government and the National Manuscripts Conservation Trust.
Bangor University Archives will use the money to safeguard maps from the Penrhyn Estate.
As well as documenting the estate and its owners, some of the maps detail the social history of Bangor, and include letters from Florence Nightingale detailing her concern about the re-occurring outbreaks of cholera in the slums in 1882.
Denbighshire Archives will protect borough charter documents issued by monarchs between 1290 and 1662, which give details of the early-mid medieval period to the administration under Charles II.
The designs for coal mine pumping engines for the UK and abroad made by Neath Abbey Ironworks, which contributed to south Wales' part in Britain's industrial revolution, will be restored by West Glamorgan Archives Service.
Wrexham Archives will preserve medicinal recipe and prescription books of chemists L. Rowland and Son Ltd (Numark).
They evidence the early development of a business, which has since become the national brand Numark, and members of the family, many of who went on to become members of the town council.
The MPs are members of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has roots in political Islam.
Last month, Turkey lifted the headscarf ban in a number of state institutions.
The ban was one of the most contentious laws in Turkey, pitting backers of the secular constitution against those who favour Islamic rights.
"I will no longer take off my headscarf," Gonul Bekin Sahkulubey, one of the four MPs, was quoted as saying by Turkey's Milliyet newspaper.
"I expect everyone to respect my decision."
A number of fellow MPs gathered around their colleague to take pictures.
Supporters of the women said their move was yet another step towards normalising the wearing of headscarves.
But the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) accused the governing party of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of undermining the country's secular traditions.
The CHP also said the move was an election gimmick ahead of municipal polls next March.
This is the first time MPs have worn the headscarf in parliament since an abortive attempt in 1999.
Back then, lawmaker Merve Kavakci arrived in the assembly in a headscarf for her swearing-in ceremony - only to be booed out of the building.
The reversal of the ban was part of major political reforms - including new Kurdish rights - announced last month by Mr Erdogan.
He described the move as "a historic moment".
However, the headscarf ban remains for judges, prosecutors, police officers and members of the armed forces.
William Kerr, 53, absconded from a bail hostel in Hull following his release on 23 January.
He was jailed for life in 1998 for the murder of Maureen Comfort in Leeds.
North Yorkshire Police said Kerr, who speaks with a Scottish accent, needed to be arrested and returned to prison "as a matter of urgency".
A spokesperson said he was known to have links to Humberside, as well as West Yorkshire and London.
Ms Comfort, 43, was strangled to death at her flat at Cromwell Heights, where she had lived alone, in 1996.
Her body was found in a cupboard in her bedroom by her family after they became concerned they had not heard from her.
Two years later Kerr was found guilty of her murder at Leeds Crown Court.
Police issued a recent photo of Kerr and urged people to "keep an eye out for him".
Det Insp Eamonn Clarke said: "To assist our already extensive efforts to trace William Kerr, I am urging people to keep an eye out for the man in the photographs.
"We believe he is now in the London area and he may be trying to book into a hostel or other accommodation using a false name as he has done previously.
"We ask that you do not approach Kerr, as he is considered dangerous."
Det Insp Clarke urged Kerr "to do the right thing and hand yourself in to the police".
North Yorkshire Police said it was leading the hunt for Kerr as his probation officer was based in Selby but there was "no evidence at this time to suggest that he is currently in North Yorkshire".
It will see one of the world's largest floating cranes moored at Peterhead and several barges that will transport the 11 foundations.
The 11 turbines will make up the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) off Aberdeen.
Energy firm Vattenfall is behind the project.
Peterhead will support the installation operations for at least four months.
Energy Minister Paul Wheelhouse welcomed the announcement.
He said: "This is great news for business in Peterhead, and an indication of the port's growing reputation as a place which can accommodate some of the most challenging and cutting-edge offshore construction requirements."
The number of non-EU migrants who come to the UK to study but remain five years later could be about half that ministers claim, say researchers.
The "current self-destructive policy is deterring genuine international students", says the Institute for Public Policy Research.
Ministers say it is crucial to crack down on immigration abuse.
Ministers say official statistics suggest that each year about 91,000 non-EU students do not leave the UK at the end of their studies.
This figure is an extrapolation of data from the International Passenger Survey (IPS) carried out annually by the Home Office on a sample of travellers at UK ports, says the IPPR.
Arrivals who plan to stay more than a year are asked their main reason for coming to the UK - and people who leave after more than a year are asked what they were doing while they were in the UK.
For students, the difference between the two figures is about 90,000 - so reducing this figure would help the government in its objective of cutting overall net migration.
But this approach is based on "dubious evidence", says the report.
Other ways of counting international students put the figure at less than half that suggested by the passenger survey, say the researchers:
"The large discrepancy between the other sources' figures and that of the IPS suggest that the latter's 90,000 figure is not reliable enough to be used as a guide for policy," says the report.
"While it is certainly right to root out abuse and tackle bogus colleges where there is robust evidence of wrongdoing, these rules have adversely affected genuine students and institutions, and have undermined the UK's reputation as a desirable destination for international students," it adds.
"Our research suggests that many of the students they are targeting may be phantom students who are no longer in the country," said report author Marley Morris.
The report urges the government to:
Seamus Nevin, head of employment and skills policy at the Institute of Directors, agreed it was time for the government to re-evaluate its approach to international students.
"Restrictive student and post-study visa rules undermine the UK's claim to be an open, outward facing, trading nation," he said.
"Most students who come to the UK to study are not permanent migrants."
And the umbrella group Universities UK urged the government to view international students as "valuable temporary visitors".
A Home Office spokesman said: "We continue to welcome the brightest and best to our world-class institutions. We are also committed to bringing net migration down to sustainable levels as soon as possible and are looking at all visa routes as part of that work."
The mammal's body was discovered on Red Rock beach near Dawlish Warren on Thursday morning.
Coastguards had been tracking the 30ft (9.1m) whale as it drifted down the coast, after it was mistaken for an upturned boat.
Initially thought to be a sperm whale, it has since been confirmed as a fin whale by Rob Deaville of the Zoological Society of London.
Teignbridge Council, which has begun work to remove the whale, has advised members of the public not to approach the badly-decomposed carcass.
More on the washed up whale, and other Devon and Cornwall news
The whale has been attracting a crowd throughout the day, with people describing it as a "magnificent beast" and saying it "deserved respect".
"It's so beautiful", described one onlooker. "It's the closest I'm ever going to get to a whale, so I feel very, very sad."
A government drive to resurrect dwindling numbers of entries in chemistry, biology and physics from the late 1990s has yielded massive growth in the past few years.
Numbers have doubled since 2007, but still only 16% of students take triple science.
The push follows concerns that the combined science courses, which squeezed all three subjects into one or two GCSE options, did not prepare students properly for A-level and beyond.
The Labour government set a target that 90% of schools should offer triple science. In early 2010, it was estimated that 70% of state schools offered it - though in 2009 only 32% entered pupils in single-science GCSEs.
Schools describing themselves as having a science specialism have only recently become obliged to offer triple science.
Meanwhile, a wave of competitions and events have attempted to interest pupils.
And the courses themselves have been updated to make them more engaging, challenging and related to current scientific issues in the media such as climate change.
What were previously "double" and "single" award science have been revamped into "science" and "additional science" - with the latter designed to be more academic and challenging.
The Campaign for Science and Engineering says there are still problems, particularly shortages of suitable teachers - 25% of schools do not have a specialist physics teacher, for example.
"The increase is fantastic," said its assistant director, Hilary Leevers, "but the figures have risen because they started in such a low place".
The number of students taking French and German this year are both just more than half the number in 1999.
AQA exam board head Andrew Hall said this year's drop of 5.9% had pushed French out of the top 10 subjects "for the first time in living memory".
Full GCSE results by subject and gender
It continues a steady decline since 2004, when it stopped being compulsory for 14-year-olds to take a language.
Ziggy Liaquat, managing director of the Edexcel exam board, said the decrease in languages was "disappointing".
"There is a conversation to be had about how we do make languages more engaging, more interesting, more relevant for young people," he said.
But John Dunford, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said pupils were avoiding languages because they are harder than other GCSEs.
"The pressure on young people to pass means they do not want to do harder subjects," he said.
CILT, the national centre for language learning, agreed with this analysis, saying the trend was "less to do with student disaffection" and more to do with "performance table pressures".
It said the system was "letting down" young people by allowing them to opt out of languages.
Spanish has bucked the trend, however, with a slight increase. And there has been a rise over the past decade in students studying a range of other languages spoken in the UK.
It is assumed that the majority of the growing numbers of students taking languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Polish and Urdu have some personal connection to the language - and many will already be fluent in it.
Boys continue to lag behind girls in most subjects, a trend of more than two decades.
The gender gap was at its widest in the early 2000s for A*-Cs, and in the middle of the decade for A*-As.
Explanations for the gap vary, although it is widely thought that girls perform better than boys in continued assessment and coursework. Other reasons given for the gap in GCSE performance are maturity and motivation.
However, a higher percentage of boys get A and A* grades in economics and additional maths than of girls. Boys also pulled ahead of girls at these top grades in maths last year, and in physics at A grade - and managed to maintain the edge in both in 2010.
Northern Ireland's teenagers consistently bag a higher proportion of top grades than those in England and Wales.
NI GCSE students score top marks
Wales lags in best GCSE results
Northern Ireland still has a system of selective schools, where pupils are tested at the age of 11, with the brighter ones going on to grammar schools.
In Wales, however, the percentage of entries gaining A*-C grades has slipped from being higher than in the rest of the UK, to lagging 2.6 percentage points behind.
One suggested reason is a funding gap, with the National Union of Teachers saying £500 less is spent per pupil in Wales than in England.
There is also speculation that more pupils in Wales, where there are no school league tables, may be entered for exams they might not perform well in, in comparison to elsewhere.
Across the UK regions, south-east England and south-west England tend to perform the best at grades A and C, but in the past two years the north-east England and London have shown the most improvement.
Some subjects confound popular perceptions. While many assume the UK is becoming more secular, the number of entries in religious studies has risen for the twelfth year running.
The subject is now in the top ten most popular subjects, with entries increasing more than 60% since 1999.
The Church of England believes "young people are clamouring for a deeper understanding of religious perspectives on issues of the day and how moral and ethical questions are considered by the major faiths".
Exam boards have rejected claims by the Campaign for Real Education that the GCSE is "pathetically easy".
Grades in religious studies are fairly similar to history, ICT, geography - although the percentage of good grades in a subject does not necessarily indicate how hard or easy it is.
One reason for the rise may be that it is compulsory for schools to provide some form of religious studies education for students, so some schools and students may decide that they want the time and effort it takes to count towards a GCSE.
Conversely, the iPod generation has continued to turn its back on information and communications technology (ICT), with the number of entries dropping by nearly a third over the past decade.
Exam boards suggest the drop in the last couple of years may be because, with more students taking triple science, ICT is often abandoned to enable students to keep more breadth in their choices.
But this does not explain the longer-term trend.
The Royal Society has suggested that courses are "poorly conceived" and the way the subject is taught "turns off" pupils.
Richardson hit an unbeaten 83 off 91 balls, and shared a stand of 121 with skipper Keaton Jennings (79).
After an earlier shower, the rain set in with Durham 194-2 after 34 overs.
Derbyshire were eventually set a revised target of 243 from 34 but the weather closed in again before the teams could return to the middle.
Stephen Cook and Jennings had launched Durham's innings by putting on 47 before the latter played across the line to the final ball of the eighth over, bowled by Ben Cotton, and was lbw for 18.
Jennings reached his half-century off 49 balls, with the help of seven fours, but was stumped in the 29th over after going down the pitch to spinner Jeevan Mendis.
Technical issues at St George's in Tooting, south London, were reported at about 17:00 BST and resolved by 19:40.
A spokeswoman said the cause was not yet known and that an investigation had been launched.
One woman described it as "chaos", adding: "We have been here for eight hours. We still have not got a bed and we are waiting for X-ray results."
The patient, who did not want to be named, added: "I did hear a doctor say, 'I have never worked in a hospital before where all the computers have gone down'.
The hospital said the emergency department remained open and provided a "full service".
Using advanced MRI nearly doubles the number of aggressive tumours that are caught.
And the trial on 576 men, published in the Lancet, showed more than a quarter could be spared invasive biopsies, which can lead to severe side-effects.
The NHS is already reviewing whether the scans can be introduced widely.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in British men, and yet testing for it is far from perfect.
If men have high prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels in the blood, they go for a biopsy.
Twelve needles then take random samples from the whole of the prostate.
It can miss a cancer that is there, fail to spot whether it is aggressive, and cause side-effects including bleeding, serious infections and erectile dysfunction.
"Taking a random biopsy from the breast would not be accepted, but we accept that in prostate," said Dr Hashim Ahmed, a consultant and one of the researchers.
Around 100,000 to 120,000 men go through this every year in the UK.
The trial, at 11 hospitals in the UK, used multi-parametric MRI on men with high PSA levels.
It showed 27% of the men did not need a biopsy at all.
And 93% of aggressive cancers were detected by using the MRI scan to guide the biopsy compared with just 48% when the biopsy was done at random.
Dr Ahmed, who works at University College London Hospitals, told the BBC News website: "This is a significant step-change in the way we diagnose prostate cancer.
"We have to look at the long-term survival, but in my opinion by improving the detection of important cancers that are currently missed we could see a considerable impact.
"But that will need to be evaluated in future studies, and we may have to wait 10 to 15 years."
Chris first noticed the symptoms at the theatre a decade ago, when he needed to go to the toilet repeatedly.
Doctors found his prostate was enlarged.
In May last year, Chris needed to see his doctor again, as he was feeling tired a lot of the time.
Prostate cancer was suspected, and he was offered an MRI scan as part of the trial.
He says: "I'd heard from a friend that a prostate biopsy could be extremely painful and uncomfortable, so was pleased to know that I wouldn't be sent for one unless the doctors were confident I needed it."
In the end, he still needed a biopsy, and he was diagnosed with a cancer that had not spread out of the tumour.
He is now considering what to do about treatment.
Angela Culhane, the chief executive at Prostate Cancer UK, described the current system of testing as "notoriously imperfect".
She added: "This is the biggest leap forward in prostate cancer diagnosis in decades."
The study, led by the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit, is already being considered by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
It will decide whether the NHS can afford multi-parametric MRI for prostate cancer.
Each scan costs between £350 and £450 pounds per patient - so introducing them for all patients across the UK would have a bill around the £40m mark.
But each biopsy costs the NHS £450 so reducing the number would deliver savings. Catching aggressive cancers earlier could also deliver savings as could not treating patients with very low-risk cancers.
A full cost-effectiveness analysis is being carried out.
Prof Ros Eeles, from the Institute of Cancer Research in London, said the study was "very important" and "provides ground breaking data".
The chairman of the British Society of Urogenital Radiology, Dr Philip Haslam, said: "Today's findings represent a huge leap forward in prostate cancer diagnosis."
However, he warned the biggest issue could be the number of scanners and training people to interpret the results.
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The creator of iTrump first clashed with the Trump Organization in January 2011, when the billionaire's lawyers alleged the trumpet simulator's name falsely suggested a link to the tycoon.
After defeating this claim, the developer then went on the attack.
And this resulted in the company losing a key trademark of its own last week.
On 11 August, the US Trademark Trial and Appeal Board cancelled the New York-headquartered company's exclusive right to use "Trump" in relation to entertainment services, including reality TV shows.
The ruling followed earlier victories by San Francisco-based Tom Scharfeld, in which he prevented the Trump Organization from owning the exclusive right to use "Trump" in connection with computer games, golf-related mobile apps and music streaming.
Trademarks are the distinctive name or symbol used to identity a product made by a manufacturer or a good distributed by a dealer.
Trademark law is generally concerned with avoiding consumer confusion regarding the origin or manufacturer of a product.
To trademark an existing word, the applicant needs to demonstrate they have given it new meaning and that there would not be grounds for confusion with other marks.
The Bloomberg news agency was first to report last week's development.
It brings to an end the legal action between Mr Scharfeld's company Spoonjack and the US president's conglomerate, assuming neither side launches a fresh claim.
Mr Scharfeld had represented himself, which required teaching himself about trademark law.
He told Bloomberg that he believed Mr Trump's legal team "didn't seem to respect that I could do this".
"I just wanted to be treated fairly," he said.
He added that he now planned to spend more of his time marketing his music apps rather than defending them.
Cardiff City Stadium will host the final on Thursday, 1 June 2017, with the men's final held at the Principality Stadium two days later.
Ludlow won the competition with Arsenal Ladies in 2007.
"It provides us with a massive opportunity to increase participation numbers and interest in Wales' national teams and domestic leagues," she said.
"Our younger national team players will be inspired seeing first-hand the pinnacle of women's club football."
Wales women's manager Ludlow and former Wales and Liverpool striker Ian Rush have been named as ambassadors for the 2017 finals.
Ludlow, who succeeded Jarmo Matikainen in October 2014, captained Arsenal to a 1-0 aggregate win over Swedish side Umea in the 2007 final when the competition was known as the Uefa Women's Cup.
"This competition, and the women's game in general, has changed massively since my trophy win in 2007," Ludlow added.
"Women's football is a growing sport and the standard is improving all the time. It will be an interesting final, and a real football spectacle when the final comes to Wales next year."
The Loons are, however, eight points clear of second-top Arbroath, who drew 1-1 at home to Stirling Albion.
Clyde were hammered 4-1 away to Elgin City and Annan Athletic won 1-0 away to bottom-of-the-table Cowdenbeath.
Edinburgh City and Montrose fought out a 1-1 draw in the capital, a result that gives the former a four-point lead over Cowdenbeath.
Darren Lavery opened the scoring for Berwick with a low dig from outside the box, but goals from David Cox and Josh Peters made it 2-1 to Forfar.
The Loons' Danny Denholm was sent off for a second yellow card before Jamie Bain's own goal made it 2-2.
Gary Phillips grabbed the winner at the death before Berwick had a trialist sent off.
Stirling hit the front against Arbroath thanks to Darren Smith's close-range strike, but Steven Doris squared it.
Clyde had a day to forget in Elgin, with Mark Nicolson notching the opener and Shane Sutherland scoring from the penalty spot before Ross Perry's own goal made it 3-0.
Sean Higgins pulled one back with a header, but Craig Gunn scored again for City and Clyde had Jordan McMillan sent off late on for a second yellow card.
Daren Ramsay scored the only goal as Annan won at Cowdenbeath.
Edinburgh took the lead through Josh Walker at home to Montrose, but Cammy Ballantyne drew the visitors level late on.
The 90cm-long bunny was found dead in the hold when the flight it was on arrived in Chicago from London Heathrow.
Out of the many animals that travel each year, most are put in with the cargo, where the pressure and temperature is controlled.
In 2016, the Animal Reception Centre at Heathrow Airport handled 17,500 cats and dogs and a whopping 786.6 million invertebrates.
But here are a few examples of pets who have been given first class treatment in the sky.
Earlier this year, 80 falcons boarded a flight to Saudi Arabia.
Turkey-based businessman Ahmet Yasar posted the image on social media and said: "It is quite common for airlines in the Middle East to transport birds for hunting purposes. In this case each falcon is estimated to be worth about $8,000 (£6,435)".
Edinburgh Zoo's pandas, Tian Tian and Yang Guang, are on loan from the Ya'an reserve in Chengdu, China.
The pair's nine-hour flight in 2011 required 21 months of planning with three teams in three different countries. They were put in a FedEx Express carrier and settled in very well apart from the jet lag.
Easter the turkey travelled with its owner Jodie Smalley from Seattle, who was flying to Salt Lake City.
She said: "The flight we went on was only an hour and a half long. During the flight she was quiet and well behaved. She had a diaper on from a site that specialises in bird diapers and it works really well!"
Jodie had recently been through a separation and bereavement, she struggled mentally and emotionally but found Easter a source of comfort.
Before getting on the plane, meeting Lilou could calm your nerves.
She is one of the therapy animals at San Francisco International Airport and part of the Wag Brigade. The group, who are mostly dogs, wear vests that read "Pet Me!" and roam the terminals helping anxious passengers have a relaxing flight.
Arthritis Research UK has warned the worsening situation across England is particularly affecting the elderly.
Patients needing orthopaedic care, such as knee and hip replacements, face the longest hospital waits in the NHS.
One in six now waits for longer than the 18-week target - the highest of any speciality, official data shows.
A significant minority - about 5% - even wait beyond six months.
Dr Benjamin Ellis, of Arthritis Research UK, said: "More and more NHS hospitals are trying to save money by making people wait for their joint replacement operations.
"This decline in quality of NHS services is condemning large numbers of people to months of unnecessary pain and disability.
"Depriving people of timely treatment, many of them older people, is unfair and risks going back to the days when people waited months and years to receive their new joint."
Orthopaedic treatment is the most common type of non-emergency care carried out by hospitals.
Some 55,000 of the 300,000 patients undergoing elective treatment each month are seen by orthopaedic specialists.
But of those, more than 16% were not seen within 18 weeks in May, the latest month for which figures are available, up from just over 13% last year.
This is despite the fact that under the NHS Constitution, patients have a right to be seen within that time frame.
The situation is twice as bad as that faced by people who need help for eye problems where 8% wait longer than 18 weeks.
For dermatology, less than 3% of patients wait longer than 18 weeks.
It comes after a report published last week by the regulator Monitor predicted a number of foundation trusts - the group of top-performing hospitals in the NHS - would face difficulties keeping waiting times down in the coming year.
Peter Kay, president of the British Orthopaedic Association and a former adviser to the Department of Health, said problems were most acute in orthopaedics because of the ageing population and the fact that the NHS has never properly got on top of the issue.
"We are a victim of our own success really. Hip and knee replacements have such good outcomes and as people are living longer, their joints wear out and they need these operations.
"But even when we were getting waiting lists down we never really tackle the issue. We have relied on temporary theatres, Saturday surgeries and the private sector. The NHS has not expanded enough to create sustainable capacity and with money tight we are seeing things squeezed.
"I am seeing more and more patients coming to me who are on powerful pain-killers like morphine. That should not be happening on such a scale, but they are getting stuck in the system, not getting referred straight away, and waiting longer than they should."
The Department of Health pointed out that some of the longest waits could be because people were choosing to wait beyond 18 weeks for valid personal or medical reasons.
A spokesman said waiting times for orthopaedic care were still "low and stable", while the average wait was 12 weeks.
"This is against a backdrop of rising demand for NHS services, so the low waiting times are a testimony to the hard work of NHS staff."
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Sales of VW brand cars fell 4.8% in 2015 to 5.82 million cars from 6.12 million a year earlier.
Falling demand in China and US added to the losses as orders fell in December.
VW has promised it will have a fix in the coming weeks for the millions of US cars with defeat devices that disguised emission levels in diesel cars.
Sales began declining after the scandal came to light in September. Deliveries fell 5.3% in October, 2.4% in November and 7.9% in December compared with those months the previous year.
The underperformance at VW's largest division by sales and revenue pulled down annual group deliveries by 2% to 9.93 million cars, the first drop in 13 years, VW said.
However, speaking on Wednesday, Volkswagen chief executive Herbert Diess said he was "optimistic" the company would find a solution soon.
"We will bring a package together which satisfies our customers first and foremost and then also the regulators," said Mr Diess.
Regulators appear been less confident. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which uncovered the scandal, said on Monday that VW had not yet "not produced an acceptable way forward".
The company will meet US regulators in Washington next week to discuss its plan.
On Monday, the US Justice Department filed a lawsuit against VW for the use of the emissions devices, which involve computer software that can detect when cars are being tested.
The Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen said on Friday that the company was not cooperating with the investigation.
Volkswagen has been withholding corporate emails between executive related to the emissions scandal, using German law as the basis for the refusal.
"I find it frustrating that, despite public statements professing cooperation and an expressed desire to resolve the various investigations that it faces following its calculated deception, Volkswagen is, in fact, resisting cooperation by citing German law," Mr Jepsen said in a statement.
In 2015, a record 17.47 million cars were sold, according to Autodata. The car data firm has been keeping records since 1980.
General Motors, one of the biggest US car firms, had an 8% increase in sales.
Mercedes-Benz USA had its most successful year since entering the country, with sales rising 3.8%.
The UK also had a record year for car sales. According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, 2.63 million cars were registered, beating the previous record from 2003.
Peter Logan, 45, from Glasgow, committed the rapes over 18 years at addresses in Glasgow and Carnoustie.
He was found guilty of two rape charges, one of indecent assault and two of assault at the High Court in Glasgow.
Logan was finally brought to justice after the daughter told her mother that Logan had raped her when she was aged between 15 and 18.
The mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, confronted Logan and both women went to the police.
Logan, whose science fiction novel Pen was published in 2015, claimed the women were liars and denied all the charges against him.
Defence counsel John Scullion said: "He was convicted of very serious offences.
"It is fair to say the jury also acquitted him of very significant aspects of the indictment.
"Given the nature of the convictions, the accused accepts your lordship must impose a significant sentence of imprisonment."
Judge Lord Kinclaven said: "As was rightly said there is no alternative to a significant custodial sentence."
A spokesman for children's charity NSPCC Scotland said: "Logan has been proven to be a sexual monster who inflicted pain, fear and misery on a mother and daughter over a prolonged period of time.
"The seriousness of his crimes is reflected in the lengthy prison sentence handed down and we now hope that his victims are given the help and support needed to recover from what has happened to them."
This week ex-Hearts skippers Michael Stewart and Gary Mackay said the team looked like one put together by the director of football, Craig Levein.
"It's my team," Neilson asserted.
"I pick the tactics, I pick the team selection, the recruitment is down to me as well, so ultimately if the team is not performing it comes back to me."
On BBC Scotland's Sportscene programme on Sunday, Stewart, referring to the Jambos' tally of 16 yellow cards in a week, said: "The problem is that Hearts' style of football is becoming a bit industrial.
"Robbie took over and it was very attractive football; now it's starting to morph, for me, into a style that's more akin with the director of football."
Neilson, however, spoke positively about his "fantastic" working relationship with Levein and said the infrastructure at Tynecastle is all geared towards leading the club to success.
"Craig's role is to be a soundboard for me," he continued.
"I will go and ask him what his thoughts are on things but ultimately it's down to me to make a decision.
"It's the way football is going at the moment.
"It's a huge club and it's part of football that we have to move with the times. Other people in Scotland might wonder what goes on but if you look down in England and Europe they have been doing this for 20 or 30 years."
Bradford Crown Court heard how "drug dealer" Arif Choudhury, who is not on trial, arranged meetings in Keighley in 2011 between the men and the girl.
The group, all from Keighley and Bradford, are said to have committed many offences in an underground car park in Keighley.
All deny the charges.
The jury heard the "vulnerable" girl, aged 13 and 14 at the time, lived a "chaotic existence".
She was exploited and used for sex which - as well as the underground car park - took place on a lane, behind a container and in parks in Keighley.
She was first raped in May 2011 after telling Mr Choudhury she wanted to stop delivering drugs.
He physically assaulted her and raped her in a churchyard, the court was told.
Michelle Colborne QC, prosecuting, said he then introduced her to other men who had sex with her.
"Some were equally nasty in their treatment," Ms Colborne said.
"One or two seemed to be ashamed after the event, but used her nevertheless."
Police found graffiti on the car park wall with her name and some defendants' names.
The court heard she began truanting from school and staying out at night at around the age of 12.
She was officially reported missing from home 71 times over two years and denied to police spending time with Asian men.
At one point she reported being raped but withdrew the allegation.
Ms Colborne said: "At times the girl said 'no', at times she struggled and at times she gave in without saying anything at all. At no times was she consenting to the act."
Ms Colborne said she was "out of her depth" but "too naive" to do anything about it.
Bradford Crown Court heard that on one occasion, aged 14, she was raped by five men.
The group deny 28 offences altogether.
Yasser Kabir, 25, of Belgrave Road, Keighley, denies four counts of rape.
Nazir Khan, 23, of Buxton Street, Keighley and Tauqeer Hussain, 23, of Belgrave Road, Keighley, deny three counts of rape.
Israr Ali, 19, of Devonshire Street West, Keighley, and Hussain Sardar, 19, and Saqib Younis, 29, both of Bradford Street, Lawkholme, Keighley, all deny two charges of rape.
Bilal Ziarab, 21, of Sedgwick Close, Manningham, Bradford, Sufyan Ziarab, 22, of Kendal Mellor Court, Keighley, and Zain Ali, 20, and Faisal Khan, 27, both of Buxton Street, Keighley, also all deny two charges of rape.
Rohail Iqbal, 22, of Skipton Road, Beechcliffe, Keighley, Rohail Hussain, 18, of Hawk Street, Lawkholme, Keighley and a 17-year-old youth all deny one count of rape.
Mohammed Akram, 62, of Holker Street, Keighley, denies one charge of sexual activity with a child under 16.
The trial continues.
Ashley Yates, 45, has been suspended from The Tynings Primary School in Staple Hill, South Gloucestershire.
Mr Yates, from Filton, was remanded in custody after appearing at Bristol Magistrates' Court
He is charged with three counts of making indecent photos and two counts of voyeurism.
In a statement on the school website, Sarah Warren, chair of governors, said: "While the investigation is under way I am legally bound not to comment further.
"I hope you will understand that, despite your obvious concerns, we cannot go into any further detail at the moment and we will remain guided by police in terms of our comments as we do not want to jeopardise their work."
She also asked parents not to speculate on social media about the case.
A South Gloucestershire Council spokesperson said: "We can confirm head teacher Ashley Yates has been charged with making indecent images of children and voyeurism, which is subject to a police investigation.
"We are working closely with the school to ensure that parents and staff are being supported."
Mr Yates is due before Bristol Crown Court on 19 July.
The tournament, which will run from 2014 to 2016, will double up as a qualifier for the 2017 World Cup.
Australia, England, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Indies, South Africa and New Zealand will play three one-day games against each other.
Points will be awarded for each game, with the top four gaining automatic qualification for the World Cup.
The bottom four face six qualifying teams for the remaining four places.
First-round fixtures will pit reigning world champions Australia against Pakistan on home soil, while three-time World Cup winners England will host India at Scarborough and Lord's.
Scarborough Cricket Club will stage the first two matches on 21 and 23 August, with the series culminating at Lord's on 25 August.
England, who will host the 2017 World Cup, start their international summer by taking on India in a Test match at Wormsley Cricket Ground from 13-16 August, which will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and the BBC website.
The remaining Women's Championships first round games see Sri Lanka at home to South Africa and the West Indies hosting New Zealand.
Former England captain Clare Connor said the Championship was a "significant step in the continued development of women's cricket".
Army bomb officers were called to examine suspicious objects in the Waterside on Thursday.
At about 10:25 GMT, police discovered what turned out to be a pipe bomb in the front garden of a home in Trafalgar Court.
A second bomb was discovered at Jeffrey Avenue, also in the Waterside area of Derry.
Army bomb experts were at the scene of both alerts.
Area Commander for Derry, Chf Insp Tony Callaghan, said: "Two viable devices have now been recovered for forensic examination and all cordons have been lifted.
"Residents who were evacuated earlier are now returning home. I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their co-operation and understanding."
DUP councillor Drew Thompson said up to 20 homes had been evacuated at Trafalgar Court.
Community centres were opened for those who had to leave their homes.
From Sydney and Los Angeles to Hong Kong, artist Joshua Smith's small models depict the buildings of big cities. Everything in them is reduced to scale, down to worn posters and discarded cigarette stubs.
This model is based on a building found on Willow Street, in the Tenderloin neighbourhood of San Francisco.
This shipping container was originally located in Haymarket in Sydney, before Smith shrunk it down to size.
This building is also based on one found in Sydney's Chinatown, and contains LED lights to keep it illuminated at night. Smith has even recreated the bin bags left on the street.
Smith's work features in New Realities, a group show that runs until 25 March 2017 at the Muriel Guepin Gallery in New York.
The gang of burglars threatened Subramaniam Vijayaratnam, ripping a telephone cord from the wall when he tried to call police.
The three men, described as white, also tore a gold chain from his neck before ransacking the property and making off with a "large amount of jewellery".
Thames Valley Police is appealing for witnesses to the crime on 4 April.
Mr Vijayaratnam was alone in the house in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, when he noticed the men in the rear of his property at about 20:00 BST, officers said.
"I cannot imagine how frightened the victim must have been as the three offenders ransacked his home for about 20 minutes, during which time they stole a gold chain from his neck and his wedding ring from his finger," PC Christopher Bigg said.
"Thankfully, the victim was not injured during the incident but he has lost a number of items of jewellery that have great sentimental value."
"Physically, fortunately, I've not been affected," Mr Vijayaratnam said.
"But I think that mentally, well, you can't describe it. I never thought it would happen to me."
Detectives are looking for the three men who they believe left the property via Cornwall Grove, where a getaway vehicle may have been parked.
Clough was granted permission to speak to Forest, for whom he played more than 300 games and scored 131 goals, and who his father Brian Clough also managed.
But the 50-year-old has chosen to stay at the side he helped reach the second tier for the first time last season.
"Staying is the right thing to do," Clough said, with his 20th-placed Burton just one position behind Forest.
"Having started this historic season in the Championship it is only right that we should stay and continue the job of trying to achieve the miracle of keeping Burton Albion in the Championship."
Forest are looking to replace Philippe Montanier, who was sacked on 14 January.
Clough is in his second spell as Brewers boss and, like his father and Forest legend Brian, has also managed Derby County.
The Brewers climbed out of the Championship relegation zone with Saturday's 2-1 victory over QPR, a day after Clough met with his chairman Ben Robinson to discuss Forest's approach.
He said it would be a "difficult" decision, but added to BBC Radio Derby: "It would be naive for me to suggest there is no interest in a club I have had such a long association with."
Robinson confirmed on Monday that there was an agreement between the club and Clough that if Forest made an approach, Burton would allow the parties to talk.
"Now we are happy to report that he will be staying at the Pirelli Stadium," said Robinson.
"Nigel and his backroom team have been fully focused on the job of keeping Burton Albion in the Championship.
"I have always said that job was as difficult as a featherweight taking on a super heavyweight but I know Nigel, his backroom team and the players will give everything to keep Burton Albion in the Championship."
Her grandfather was a coal miner, she learned the art of defending by watching John Terry videos and she is the archetypal no-nonsense centre-half.
And while that inner strength means she has been at ease in England's run to the semi-finals of Euro 2017, it has not been quite such plain sailing for her family.
Bright, a 23-year-old Chelsea player who two years ago was a midfielder, is the only member of the England squad to have started every game at the European Championship in the Netherlands.
That has been both a blessing and a curse for her family.
Because while Arthur Bramall, who used to work at the Rossington colliery in Doncaster, has kept his cool in the stands like his granddaughter on the field, it has been far more nervy for other members of the Bright entourage.
They have been at every game, and will return on Thursday to watch the semi-final against the Netherlands.
"The nerves really kick in when the anthems are playing and you want the team to win, but as a parent you just don't want your daughter to feel that pain of disappointment if they lose," said Bright's mum Nicola.
"That's the feeling you hang on to during the game, and against France in the quarter-final I had to leave my seat and go outside.
"My heart felt like it was coming out of my chest, and the guys in the burger van were laughing at me because I was pacing around. I thought I was going to have a heart attack.
"But when that final whistle came, it was just pure euphoria and pride."
She need not have worried.
Bright's calmness in defence helped England win 1-0 against France - a team who had beaten them in the previous three tournaments - and has also helped her family cope with what they call a "surreal" European Championship.
Bright and her mum speak every day via FaceTime.
But Nicola says she has to "pinch herself" that she and her family are at a major international tournament watching their daughter, who only made her debut in September.
"This is just little Millie from Killamarsh," she told BBC Sport. "She has always dreamed of this, and we've gone along with it because as a parent you have to. But did we ever think it was going to be a reality? Maybe not."
It all hit the family, which also includes dad Steve, grandma Margaret and uncle Andrew, when Millie stepped off the bus for the opening game against Scotland.
"You see the police escorts, then the bus and when they got out, I was gone," said Margaret. "It was so emotional and something I'll never forget. That's when you realise she's made this."
Bright has 14 caps and, if she gets to 16 on Sunday, she could be a European champion.
"I'd like to say it has been a rollercoaster of emotions but the rollercoaster has only being going one way so far," said Nicola. "Up!"
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Had things worked out differently, Bright could have been competing on a horse rather than a football pitch.
Her parents own a stable in their home village in Derbyshire, and she was a talented rider before football came calling when she was nine.
Participating in both sports at weekends led to a crossroads, and Bright opted for football, deciding she could go back into equestrianism when she retires.
"With football, I had to either give it everything now or I miss my opportunity," she said. "So I'm glad I took this chance."
Bright started her career at Sheffield United's academy at 12, before signing for Doncaster Rovers Belles at 16, and played with some distinction in Women's Super League 2 before Chelsea signed her in 2013.
She initially turned them down, preferring to stay close to her family, but a year later the draw was too strong.
Bright has since won the FA Cup, the WSL 1 title and the recent Spring Series. That decision to move to the capital has proved the right one.
"I was devastated when Millie left home," said Nicola. "It was one of the saddest days of my life. Millie walked out the door with tears streaming down her face, but it was the best thing she ever did. It's down to Chelsea that she is where she is today.
"It's a massive family there and she loves it."
A comparison with John Terry is an obvious one - plays for Chelsea and England, centre-back, two-footed and a winning mentality you can see in the eyes.
Bright describes the former captain of England men's team and Chelsea - now at Aston Villa - as a "rock" - and watching videos of him helped refine her game.
"I want to win my battles and I never hesitate to go in for a challenge," she said. "You have to make the strikers fear you."
Sound familiar?
But there is another rock who has helped her over the years - grandfather Arthur, whose no-nonsense feedback has been an important part of Bright's development.
"He gives me an honest opinion on the games and my performance and I really respect him for that," she said. "He's really helped me develop as a person and a player.
"When a lot of people doubted me, he's always been the one to pick me up."
And what is his message to the England centre-back before a game?
Nicola says: "'100%.' He doesn't have to add anything else."
Additional reporting by Katie Gornall
First Minister Arlene Foster had asked the Northern Ireland Secretary for extra funding for the PSNI.
She believes more money is needed by police for legacy investigations.
Mr Ford said it was time the government "lived up to its responsibilities".
He said he had told Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers "several times" since the Fresh Start deal that Northern Ireland's Justice system is "not funded to deal with the past".
"Failure to provide the funds earmarked by the Treasury as long ago as December 2014 is simply punishing the Justice system for the failings of others," he said.
"Theresa Villiers made a deal with the Irish government, Sinn Féin and the DUP without including the suggested institutions on the past.
"There was not even any way proposed to deal with the past, and victims were badly let down. Now the NIO seems to be using that failure as an excuse to refuse to fund essential work being done on the past.
"If legacy issues are not dealt with properly, it will be the British Government, not the Department of Justice, that has to answer questions in Strasbourg.
"The Justice system is carrying out its duties. It is time that the government lived up to its responsibilities and no longer let down the Justice system and, more important, victims."
Mrs Foster believes more financial support is needed by police for legacy investigations.
These include cases such as the activities of the Army agent known as Stakeknife. That case alone could cost £35m. Earlier this month, Mr Ford said this investigation must be funded centrally by the government.
The inquiry, which is expected to be the largest ever in Northern Ireland into the activities of a single individual, is re-examining about 50 Troubles related murders.
Chief Constable George Hamilton told the BBC's The View that it is likely to cost in the region of £7m per annum "when it gets up and running at full tilt."
In a statement, an NIO spokesperson made clear no extra funding would be provided.
It said that any such investigation "is a matter for the PSNI", adding: "It is the Department of Justice and the wider Northern Ireland Executive who have the responsibility for funding the PSNI."
The statement stressed a need for political consensus to deal with all aspects of Northern Ireland's past.
It said the government "has made it clear that there is an additional £150m available over five years to support new bodies to be set up to investigate the past".
Google said it had taken the step to help web pages load faster and preserve battery life on mobile devices.
It has introduced tools that help people convert Flash adverts to ones that use an alternative technology.
Many technology companies have turned against Flash in recent months, saying it slowed down web-browsing and was a security risk.
The option to block or pause Flash-based adverts was added to a test version of Chrome earlier this year.
The change was aimed at all add-ons for the Chrome browser that were hogging resources.
Many of these handle content, such as adverts or browsing aids, not directly connected to the main page being viewed.
This option has now been switched on by default and could mean that many adverts built with Flash do not run. Clicking on the advert will make it run.
Anyone who wants Flash adverts to run by default will be able to turn off the option.
The change could mean many organisations have to rework their advertising content if it is not served up to web pages using Google's AdWords system that automatically converts Flash adverts to HTML5.
HTML is the basic language of the web and is used to describe how web browsers should display text, images and video.
In early July, security problems with Flash led to it being blocked by default by Mozilla - the organisation that develops the Firefox browser.
Flash has been used to make many online banner adverts, pop-ups and video ads since the early days of the web.
However, the technology industry has steadily been turning against Flash, especially as many criminal hackers target it or create malicious ads to hijack victims' computers.
Apple was one of the first to block the software on portable devices in 2010.
Now three new acts are vying for the title as the prize marks its 10th anniversary.
Pop diva Dua Lipa, blues singer Rag N Bone Man and dance vocalist Anne-Marie all make the shortlist, which is voted for by music industry experts.
The winner is announced on 8 December, ahead of next year's Brit Awards.
Unusually, all of this year's nominees have already tasted chart success in the last 12 months.
Anne-Marie is currently number one as the featured performer on Clean Bandit's hit Rockabye.
Dua Lipa, who was on the BBC's Sound Of 2016 list earlier this year, has scored hits with her singles Hotter Than Hell and Blow Your Mind (Mwah).
Rag N Bone Man, meanwhile, has been number one for nine weeks in Germany with his soul-stirring ballad Human. The song is set to enter the UK chart for the first time this week after being performed by X Factor contestant Emily Middlemas.
The nominees were chosen by a panel of music industry experts - from critics and record label employees to heads of the UK's biggest radio stations.
The winner will receive a statue designed by late architect Zaha Hadid, and will get to perform on the Brit Awards launch show live on ITV on 14 January.
Before they become ubiquitous, brush up on the nominees below.
Anne-Marie
After two stints in Les Miserables as a child actress, Anne-Marie was hired as a touring vocalist for dance collective Rudimental. They liked her so much they signed her to their label. Her solo single Alarm hit number 16 earlier this year and has been streamed more than 100 million times.
Age: 25
From: Essex
Inspired by: Eminem, 50 Cent, Prince, Lauryn Hill and... S Club 7
For fans of: Rihanna, Jess Glynne, Jessie Ware
Did you know? Anne-Marie is a three-time world karate champion.
She says: "I actually can't believe I am nominated for this amazing award. This is so sick. To everyone who voted for me I am so grateful and humbled, here's to 2017!"
Dua Lipa
Born in London but with an Albanian heritage, Dua Lipa attended the Sylvia Young stage school until, aged 13, her parents returned to Kosovo. She lasted two years before fleeing to London, where she worked in nightclubs to pay for her singing career. Possessed of a smoky voice and a hip-hop sensibility, she is due to release her debut album in February.
Age: 21
From: London
Inspired by: Chance The Rapper, David Bowie, Nelly Furtado, Pink
For fans of: Destiny's Child, Lana Del Rey, Charli XCX
Did you know? She once got in trouble for throwing bubble bath at a policeman.
She says: "This is the highlight of my year. I've hit a lot of milestones this year, from performing at Glastonbury, to doing my own European tour... [and] this is the icing on the cake."
Rag N Bone Man
Born Rory Graham, singer-songwriter Rag N Bone Man is the unlikely missing link between blues giants like Robert Johnson and the soulful pop of Sam Smith and John Newman. His gruff, emotive voice brings his tales of love, loss and redemption vividly to life - something his huge European fanbase have cottoned on to before the UK.
Age: 31
From: Uckfield, near Brighton
Inspired by: John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Roots Manuva, D'Angelo
For fans of: Joe Cocker, Sam Smith, Plan B, Ray LaMontagne
Did You Know? The singer's chose his stage name because he's a fan of the sitcom Steptoe and Son.
He says: "It's bonkers that I've been nominated for Critics' Choice. Absolutely bonkers. I've been grafting, I built a strong fanbase over the years with help from good people that put their faith in me. And now this! I'm very grateful."
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The Orfordness lighthouse, in Suffolk, is 10m (32ft) from the sea after the gap halved over the past four years.
Nicholas Gold, of the Orfordness Lighthouse Trust, said a £10,000 appeal had been set up for urgent repairs.
Storms forecast for this week pose a "real risk" of causing "significant damage" to the lighthouse, he said.
The trust said strong winds and high tides had eroded the shore around the Grade II-listed building, built in 1792.
"If the work is not carried out in the next few weeks, the lighthouse will, in all likelihood, not be standing in a year's time," said Mr Gold.
"It's perilously close to falling in the sea."
The appeal hopes to raise cash to shore up the beach with bags of shingle.
The lighthouse was purchased by Mr Gold in 2013 from Trinity House, the country's general lighthouse authority.
The trust has spent £20,000 bolstering the sea defences over the past two years.
But it said a long-term solution was necessary involving building a steel wall around the around the front of the lighthouse and its outbuildings - at a cost of about £190,000.
The beach around the lighthouse is owned by the trust and is on a nature reserve owned by the National Trust.
Solskjaer stepped down as Bluebirds boss on Thursday after less than nine months in the role.
Asked if he would take the Cardiff job if owner Vincent Tan called him, ex-Bluebirds forward Bellamy said: "No, certainly not."
Pulis meanwhile is not being considered for the role.
The former Stoke and Crystal Palace boss was favourite with bookmakers and many fans to take over from Solskjaer, but he is not an option that appeals to Tan, reports BBC Sport's David Ornstein.
The Malaysian businessman is unlikely to opt for a big name - with former Bluebirds boss Dave Jones also understood to be out of the running.
Tan is keen for the next appointment to help create a new culture at the Championship club and assume a head coach role, in a more continental set-up, that sees areas such as transfers left to the Cardiff hierarchy.
He is also keen to avoid paying significant compensation to lure an in-work manager out of their current job and will expect the new man to work with the players at his disposal, rather than make substantial changes in January.
He plans to consider younger candidates and coaches already working for the club.
It is not known whether these include veteran defender Danny Gabbidon and Scott Young, who are in temporary charge, and will take control of the team for the visit to Derby on Saturday.
Bellamy, 35, ruled himself out of the running on Thursday.
He made 90 league appearances in two spells with Cardiff City, scoring 17 goals.
The 78-times capped Wales international claimed to have turned down the role before Solskjaer was appointed to replace Malky Mackay in January.
"Look, I had the opportunity at Christmas to do it when Malky left," Bellamy told BT Sport.
"They offered it to me then; whether it was part-time I didn't really give them a chance to get into so much of a conversation.
"It was that simple, I'm not right for the club at this present moment.
"They need to go in a different direction and the club's not right for me at this present moment."
Bellamy retired as a player at the end of the 2013-14 season, and has previously said his ambitions include managing Wales and Cardiff City.
Born and raised in Cardiff, Bellamy secured a place in the club's folklore by helping them secure promotion to the Premier League under Malky Mackay in 2013, and scoring the winning goal in a south Wales derby against Swansea City in 2011.
The announcement of Solskjaer's departure was made after the 41-year-old former Manchester United striker held talks with Cardiff chairman Mehmet Dalman.
The Bluebirds are 17th in the Championship after three losses in seven games, including Tuesday's 1-0 home defeat by Middlesbrough and a 4-2 capitulation against Norwich.
Straight lines make uncomplicated borders. Most probably that was the reason why most of the lines that Mark Sykes, representing the British government, and Francois Georges-Picot, from the French government, agreed upon in 1916 were straight ones.
Sykes and Picot were quintessential "empire men". Both were aristocrats, seasoned in colonial administration, and crucially believers in the notion that the people of the region would be better off under the European empires.
Both men also had intimate knowledge of the Middle East.
The key tenets of the agreement they had negotiated in relative haste amidst the turmoil of the World War One continue to influence the region to this day. But while Sykes-Picot's straight lines had proved significantly helpful to Britain and France in the first half of the twentieth century, their impact on the region's peoples was quite different.
The map that the two men drew divided the land that had been under Ottoman rule since the early 16th Century into new countries - and relegated these political entities to two spheres of influence:
The two men were not mandated to redraw the borders of the Arab countries in North Africa, but the division of influence existed there as well, with Egypt under British rule, and France controlling the Maghreb.
But there were three problems with the geo-political order that emerged from the Sykes-Picot agreement.
First, it was secret without any Arabic knowledge, and it negated the main promise that Britain had made to the Arabs in the 1910s - that if they rebelled against the Ottomans, the fall of that empire would bring them independence.
When that independence did not materialise after World War One, and as these colonial powers, in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, continued to exert immense influence over the Arab world, the thrust of Arab politics - in North Africa and in the eastern Mediterranean - gradually but decisively shifted from building liberal constitutional governance systems (as Egypt, Syria, and Iraq had witnessed in the early decades of the 20th Century) to assertive nationalism whose main objective was getting rid of the colonialists and the ruling systems that worked with them.
This was a key factor behind the rise of the militarist regimes that had come to dominate many Arab countries from the 1950s until the 2011 Arab uprisings.
The second problem lay in the tendency to draw straight lines.
Sykes-Picot intended to divide the Levant on a sectarian basis:
Geography helped.
For the period from the end of the Crusades up until the arrival of the European powers in the 19th Century, and despite the region's vibrant trading culture, the different sects effectively lived separately from each other.
But the thinking behind Sykes-Picot did not translate into practice. That meant the newly created borders did not correspond to the actual sectarian, tribal, or ethnic distinctions on the ground.
Aiming to change the outcome of WWI
These differences were buried, first under the Arabs' struggle to eject the European powers, and later by the sweeping wave of Arab nationalism.
In the period from the late 1950s to the late 1970s, and especially during the heydays of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser (from the Suez Crisis in 1956 to the end of the 1960s) Arab nationalism gave immense momentum to the idea that a united Arab world would dilute the socio-demographic differences between its populations.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the Arab world's strong men - for example, Hafez Assad and Saddam Hussein in the Levant and Col Muammar Gaddafi in North Africa - suppressed the differences, often using immense brutality.
But the tensions and aspirations that these differences gave rise to neither disappeared nor were diluted. When cracks started to appear in these countries - first by the gradual disappearance of these strong men, later by several Arab republics gradually becoming hereditary fiefdoms controlled by small groups of economic interests, and most recently after the 2011 uprisings - the old frictions, frustrations, and hopes that had been concealed for decades, came to the fore.
The third problem was that the state system that was created after the World War One has exacerbated the Arabs' failure to address the crucial dilemma they have faced over the past century and half - the identity struggle between, on one hand nationalism and secularism, and on the other, Islamism (and in some cases Christianism).
The founders of the Arab liberal age - from the late 19th Century to the 1940s - created state institutions (for example a secular constitution in Tunisia in 1861 and the beginnings of a liberal democracy in Egypt in the inter-war period), and put forward a narrative that many social groups (especially in the middle classes) supported - but failed to weave the piousness, conservatism, and religious frame of reference of their societies into the ambitious social modernisation they had led.
And despite major advancements in industrialisation, the dramatic inequity between the upper middle classes and the vast majority of the populations continued. The strong men of Arab nationalism championed - with immense popular support - a different (socialist, and at times militarist) narrative, but at the expense of civil and political freedoms.
And for the past four decades, the Arab world has lacked any national project or serious attempt at confronting the contradictions in its social fabric.
That state structure was poised for explosion, and the changing demographics proved to be the trigger. Over the past four decades, the Arab world has doubled its population, to over 330 million people, two-thirds of them are under 35 years old.
This is a generation that has inherited acute socio-economic and political problems that it did not contribute to, and yet has been living its consequences - from education quality, job availability, economic prospects, to the perception of the future.
At core, the wave of Arab uprisings that commenced in 2011 is this generation's attempt at changing the consequences of the state order that began in the aftermath of World War One.
This currently unfolding transformation entails the promise of a new generation searching for a better future, and the peril of a wave of chaos that could engulf the region for several years.
The Making of the Arab World, presented by Tarek Osman, can be found on the BBC Radio 4 website
The writer is the author of Egypt on the Brink.
Up to 100 firefighters tackled the blaze at Ansell Garden Centre on Holloway Lane, Sipson, which broke out just after 16:30 GMT.
A 300m (1,000ft) cordon was put in place to prevent an explosion after crews discovered cylinders and fireworks, London Fire Brigade said.
The cause of the fire is being investigated.
Heathrow flights were not affected and no-one was injured.
Station manager Sanjay Prasad said: "A number of cylinders were in the garden centre, which is why a 300-metre hazard zone was set up as cylinders can explode when exposed to heat.
"Quick-thinking firefighters were able to drag the majority of the cylinders away from the fire which prevented a possible explosion."
The cause of the blaze is not yet known.
The garden centre is an independent, family run business just north of Heathrow Airport.
Local resident Ed Attwell, who was at the scene, said: "I've used the centre many a time. It's a family run centre and this must be devastating for them."
Rome is where a much bigger game with national repercussions is being played out, in the wake of a major corruption scandal.
The personal office of the Mayor of Rome, which has been vacant for more than six months, overlooks the ruins of the Imperial Fora - a reminder of the city's grandiose past, as the heart of a civilisation that extended over continents.
Whoever occupies it after elections will have more mundane, local problems to deal with.
Rome's next mayor will find a city mired in debt of more than €13bn (£10bn; $15bn) - twice its annual budget. Romans are frustrated by potholes, piles of rubbish and serious deficiencies in public transport and housing.
The first round is pitching five main candidates against each other to replace Ignazio Marino, the former mayor forced to quit last year after losing his party's support.
Leading the opinion polls is Virginia Raggi, a 37-year-old lawyer who is running on the populist Five Star Movement's anti-politics platform.
Her prominence in the campaign - and the widespread perception that she could indeed nail the job in a likely second round - is seen as a sign that this election could reward those who intend to make a clean break with the city's turbulent political history.
"Political parties have eaten Rome," Ms Raggi said in her closing statement during a televised debate.
"We either change everything, or everything remains as it has always been," she added in a dramatic tone, urging Romans to vote for transparency.
Ms Raggi has been criticised since her own political movement has been accused of a lack of transparency in some of the cities they govern around Italy.
But her message strikes a particular chord with many Romans - especially if you look at what is happening at a maximum security, fortified courtroom on the capital's northern outskirts.
There, since November, dozens of former city officials and business leaders have been on trial, accused of corruption and malfeasance that siphoned off millions of euros from the administration - a case known as "Mafia Capitale".
Prosecutors believe that most activities related to running the city - from the management of migrant centres to the handling of rubbish collection - were tainted by a system of influence-peddling, entrenched across all levels of the city's administration.
The revelations sent shockwaves across the political spectrum, indirectly triggered Mr Marino's resignation, and left the mayor's chair empty for the last half year.
Centre-left Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has gambled on Roberto Giachetti, a respected career politician who embodies his hopes to fend off the challenge from the Five Star Movement.
"He [Giachetti] knows the city hall machine, knows politics and the value of good administration," Mr Renzi said during a final campaign rally.
A win in Rome for Five Star, a protest movement founded by comedian Beppe Grillo, would deliver a huge blow to Mr Renzi.
The campaign has also had its share of controversial moments.
The right-wing candidate Giorgia Meloni - who in the past belonged to groups accused of defending Italy's Fascist era - was harshly criticised by her former boss, Silvio Berlusconi, for running despite being in the late stages of her first pregnancy.
"A mother cannot dedicate herself to such a terrible job," the ageing former prime minister was quoted as saying.
Then Berlusconi threw his political weight behind Alfio Marchini - a local property mogul who had until then branded himself as independent, free of party influences.
Fighting from the left-wing corner is Stefano Fassina, an economist who has put the city's housing crisis at the heart of his campaign.
It is not only Rome that is going to the polls - so are affluent Milan, traditionally left-wing Bologna, Turin and Naples, along with hundreds of smaller municipalities.
Many of those races are expected to go to a second round on 19 June.
The "rebirth" of Rome that several candidates have promised will possibly have to wait another two weeks - a minuscule delay in a city that in April turned 2,769.
But for Romans who have seen their city descend into decay, that new beginning can't come soon enough.
Karen and Jade Hales, aged 53 and 28, were found at the property in Cathedral Road, Anfield, on Monday.
Post-mortem examinations found they died from severe blunt force head injuries, police said.
Anthony Showers, 42, of Clarendon Road, Anfield, appeared before magistrates in Sefton and was remanded to appear at Liverpool Crown Court on 20 June.
Neighbours said that Jade looked after her mother as her full-time carer and was regularly seen walking her dog, Tyson, a Staffordshire bull terrier, that was also found dead.
Bland, 43, who was tied for the lead overnight, carded a one-under-par 69 in round three to go 10 under, with Sweden's Alex Noren second on 12 under.
Englishman Andrew "Beef" Johnston is in a four-way tie for fourth, while Scotland's David Drysdale is eight under after the day's best round of 64.
Defending champion Danny Willett is 10 shots behind Hend after a par 70.
Bland, searching for his first European Tour title, managed just two birdies on Saturday and had a bogey on the par-five 14th.
Englishman Lee Westwood, one of three wildcard picks for Europe's Ryder Cup team for this month's tournament, is eight shots off the pace after four birdies in a three-under-par 67.
His Europe team-mate Matt Fitzpatrick recovered from an early bogey to post a four-under 66 and go four under overall.
Injured and exhausted from clashes with thousands of government supporters, they say they are more determined than ever to hold their ground.
"We have been through hell," says Ahmed Zain. "They started throwing stones, and before dawn they were shooting at us. I swear to God we could not sleep until six in the morning and then we fell down unconscious."
"Mubarak should know we will never leave this place. After he tried to take our blood, we will never leave".
The mood has changed significantly from the carnival atmosphere earlier in the week. There are now mainly men in the square, not families.
In the grassy centre of the square, there are small rallies going on, the protesters chanting anti-Mubarak slogans.
Here, tea is served, people take a quick wash using bottles of water, and volunteers are cleaning up.
But the road leading north, past the pink neo-classical facade of the Egyptian Museum looks like a battleground.
Metal barricades have been erected and are being reinforced with sacks of stones.
The army now occupies a buffer zone close to 6 October bridge, just beyond the museum, and tries to keep back a pro-Mubarak group throwing stones. I see one soldier hit in the eye.
While the military is trying to keep order, the soldiers do not have the correct equipment or sufficient numbers on the ground.
Tanks remain parked at all the entrances to the square.
Anyone who enters needs to be checked by soldiers. They then pass through human chains of demonstrators who apologetically inspect bags and identity cards.
"There are many police officers outside the square who are wearing plain clothes, but they have knives and weapons," says Mohamed. "They are trying to come here. There are others paid by Mubarak's party."
The interior ministry's official denial that it was behind attacks on the protesters and the new prime minister's televised apology are rejected outright here.
People believe the assault was the police state fighting back using familiar dirty tactics.
Many now wear bandages on wounds they have sustained in fighting.
Makeshift clinics continue to operate at the northern edge of the square, near the museum. Volunteer doctors treat cuts, burns and broken bones.
"We have seen people by the hundreds at least. We treat whoever we find because we are all Egyptians," says Dr Murad Mohsen.
Hopes that this could remain a peaceful uprising now look unrealistic, but one woman said she was prepared to pay the cost.
"This is a revolution. I want to play a part in the revolution. We are still so proud of it and I want to be part of it. I know every revolution has a price and we will pay the price."
AfD deputy chief Alexander Gauland told a newspaper that Germans would not like to have Boateng, whose father is Ghanaian, as a neighbour.
Boateng, 27, is a defender for German champions Bayern Munich and the national team.
The remark drew immediate condemnation.
Mr Gauland later denied it reflected his own views.
The leader of the AfD, Frauke Petry, apologised for the "impression that has arisen".
The comment was carried by the Sunday newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
Under the headline "Gauland insults Boateng", the article quotes the politician as saying: "People find him good as a footballer, but they don't want to have Boateng as a neighbour."
Germany manager Oliver Bierhoff said people who made such comments "are simply discrediting themselves".
Justice Minister Heiko Maas called them "unacceptable and shabby".
Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said the comment showed "that Gauland is not just against foreigners but against the good things about Germany".
Mr Gauland said that he had "never insulted Mr Boateng", whom he did not know. He added that he had only "described some people's attitudes'' in a background conversation with the journalists.
AfD leader Frauke Petry told the Bild newspaper that her deputy could not remember making the comment, saying: "Independently of that. I apologise to Mr Boateng for the impression that has arisen."
She later tweeted: "Jerome Boateng is a super footballer who is rightly a member of the German national team. I'm looking forward to the European Championship."
The AfD was started three years ago with a Eurosceptic message and has attracted many voters who are angered by an influx of migrants and by Chancellor Angela Merkel's pro-refugee approach.
Since 2003, the film deal has meant cheaper first dates or seeing the latest blockbuster with your mates for less.
Under a new name, the same offer will be back from 7 April and it will be available on Tuesdays too.
Cinema-goers will have to be Compare the Market customers to use the deal.
The offer lasts for a year and is in partnership with Cinema First.
The deal will be available from 7 April via a code on the Meerkat Movies app.
It can be given away to friends or family as you could with Orange Wednesdays.
Chief Executive of Cinema First, Phil Clapp, told Newsbeat: "This is the biggest promotion that cinema has ever seen.
"People look for value and we are very hopeful this exciting new promotion will offer a significant incentive to people who otherwise wouldn't go to the cinema.
"Orange Wednesdays was hugely popular but this offers extra flexibility with a choice of two days rather than one."
Karen Stacey, CEO at Digital Cinema Media (DCM), said: "It's an extremely exciting time to be in cinema.
"The medium is more flexible and targeted than ever and is experiencing huge growth and innovation, with admissions expected to cross the 170m mark in 2015, the highest number in years.
"Comparethemarket has recognised the power of the big screen and their huge commitment is testament to the strength of our compatible audiences, which are early-adopting, socially connected and first in the queue when a new film is released.
"We're really looking forward to working closely together to shape the growth of the industry."
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The Northern Ireland Executive is exploring options on the future of the harbour.
It is run by publicly-appointed commissioners.
The harbour's commercial director, Joe O'Neill, told the BBC's Inside Business programme that its thriving trade was set to continue.
As well as port activities, the harbour controls a huge land bank on both sides of Belfast Lough.
Mr O'Neill said: "We run the business very much in a private sector mode today.
"We are incredibly robust in terms of our commercial approach, our commercial policies and our financial policies.
"At that trading level, I don't believe there would be a substantial difference to the business in how we perform it on a day and daily basis."
"On today's trading performance, we think the model today works very well and has worked very well," he added.
In February, it was announced that a panel would be set up to advise on the way forward.
Under legislation, the Stormont executive could get as much as £400m from a 50% split of the proceeds.
Inside Business with Wendy Austin airs on BBC Radio Ulster on Sundays at 13:30 BST
An examination of 60 cases revealed a pattern of arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances, according to a new report by the human rights group.
Politicians, journalists, academics and activists have been among those held.
The Houthis, who control the capital Sanaa, are waging a war against Yemen's government and a Saudi-led coalition.
At least 6,200 people, half of them civilians, have been killed and almost three million others have been displaced since March 2015.
The conflict has also pushed the Arab world's poorest country to the brink of famine and left 82% of the population in need of humanitarian assistance.
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Amnesty's report documented what it described as a "chilling campaign to quash dissent" in areas of Yemen under the control of the Houthis and allied security forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh since December 2014.
Those held had frequently been tortured and denied access to a lawyer or their family, with some detentions lasting for up to 18 months, it said.
Many had been kept in secret, makeshift detention centres, including private homes, and then transferred multiple times between locations, it added.
In the vast majority of cases no reason for arrests were given.
Eighteen individuals featured in the report are still being held, including 21-year-old student Abdul Ilah Saylan, who was arrested outside a Sanaa cafe last August.
Members of his family told Amnesty how members of the security forces had tortured him in front of them when they visited him in detention in February.
"The guard began to beat him. Three other guards joined in and we watched... as the four guards beat him viciously," one relative was quoted as saying.
"They dragged him back inside when he fainted and told us to go home."
Earlier this month, Houthi officials told Amnesty that people had been detained "because they gave GPS co-ordinates to the Saudi Arabia-led coalition".
The UN said in March that the coalition was responsible for twice as many civilian casualties as any other party to the conflict, virtually all as a result of air strikes.
But Amnesty said it had obtained documents showing that prosecuting authorities in Sanaa had found that the detention of dozens of those held was without legal basis and had ordered their release.
"Instead of incarcerating opponents for weeks or months on end, the Houthi armed group should release anyone who has been arbitrarily detained, implement safeguards to ensure detainees are treated humanely, and issue clear instructions that anyone under their command committing abuses will be held accountable," said Amnesty's Middle East deputy director James Lynch.
Mr Atta Mills said the UK could not impose its values on Ghana and he would never legalise homosexuality.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron said at the weekend that aid would be cut to countries which failed to respect gay rights.
Uganda also rejected the threat, with an official accusing the UK of showing a "bullying mentality".
Most Africans argue that homosexuality violates their religious and cultural beliefs.
Mr Atta Mills said Mr Cameron was entitled to his views, but he did not have the right to "direct to other sovereign nations as to what they should do".
He said Ghana's "societal norms" were different from those in the UK.
"I, as president, will never initiate or support any attempt to legalise homosexuality in Ghana," Mr Atta Mills said.
On Monday, Ugandan presidential adviser John Nagenda said Mr Cameron was showing a "bullying mentality" and Ugandans would not tolerate being treated like "children".
"If they must take their money, so be it," Mr Nagenda said.
Mr Cameron said he had raised the issue of gay rights at last week's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, Australia.
Ending the bans on homosexuality was one of the recommendations of an internal report into the future relevance of the Commonwealth.
Mr Cameron's threat applies only to one type of bilateral aid known as general budget support, and would not reduce the overall amount of aid to any one country, correspondents say.
Ghana received bilateral aid from the UK of about £90m ($144m) during the last financial year, of which about £36m was as general budget support.
Mr Atta Mills' communications chief Koku Anyidoho told the BBC the government would not compromise its morals for money.
"If that aid is going to be tied to things that will destroy the moral fibre of society, do you really want that?" he told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.
Mr Cameron said he had spoken with "a number of African countries" and that more pressure had been applied by UK Foreign Secretary William Hague, who deputised for him during parts of the Commonwealth summit.
Some 41 nations within the 54-member Commonwealth have laws banning homosexual acts.
Many of these laws are a legacy of British colonial rule, correspondents say.
Temperatures in the city of Lulea, in the north-east of the country, make it the perfect location for the social media giant's first non-US data centre.
It means it can use outside air for cooling its servers for up to 10 months of the year.
The facility will process data from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. It will cover 30,000 square metres.
That is the equivalent of around 11 football pitches.
The social network needs to ramp up its computing power as it continues to grow. It currently has more than 800 million users.
Up until 2009 Facebook leased space in data centres but then made the decision to design and build its own.
The new centre will be powered primarily by renewable energy and will require 70% less generator power.
It will also benefit from Lulea's electricity prices which are some of the cheapest in Europe.
Gaining a global brand like Facebook will be a big coup for the city and it hopes others will follow.
More companies are placing their data centres in Northern Europe because the climate works well for the cooling systems necessitated by racks of huge servers.
Facebook prides itself on the fact that its engineers have built its infrastructure from scratch - including the design of the servers themselves.
"Assembling the servers is like building a Lego model, the parts snap together. The servers slot in and out of their racks by flipping a couple of catches," the firm explained.
The design of the fans mean they consume far less energy than a traditional server, it added.
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Karl Jensen, 27, who was outside the jail, tied the goods to a fishing line that was pulled into a cell.
He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison.
The man, Hector Arboleda Albeidis Buitrago, had been working as a nurse in Madrid, the authorities said.
Colombia is seeking his extradition.
On Friday, Colombia announced it was investigating at least 150 cases of former fighters who said they were made to terminate their pregnancies.
Mr Albeidis Buitrago, known as "The Nurse," has been accused of taking part in most of those abortions.
Female rebels were compelled to have abortions so as not to undermine their fighting ability, Attorney General Eduardo Montealegre told reporters on Friday.
"We have evidence to prove that forced abortion was a policy of the Farc that was based on forcing a female fighter to abort so as not to lose her as an instrument of war," he said.
The left-wing rebels have denied this in the past, saying contraception was readily available.
One woman who left the rebel group told the BBC's Natalio Cosoy in Bogota that she had been forced to have five abortions.
Women in the organisation were expected to fight, she told our correspondent. The fighters who were allowed to have babies considered themselves lucky.
The Farc has fought a five-decade insurgency in Colombia but peace talks in Cuba have made significant progress since they were launched in November 2012.
Agreement has been reached in four broad areas during three years of talks with the Colombian government.
These include how the justice system deals with crimes committed by the rebels and government forces.
Colombian government negotiators and Farc delegates have said that they are hoping to sign a final peace agreement in March 2016.
If the deal is approved by the Colombian people in a referendum, the rebel group will give up its armed struggle and join the legal political process.
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The Farc, which was formed in 1964 with a vow to install a Marxist regime, once controlled a swathe of Colombian territory the size of Switzerland.
But the group has suffered a number of setbacks in recent years and has become increasingly involved in the drug trade.
More than 220,000 people have been killed in the conflict, the majority of them civilians.
Scottish champions Celtic will meet Israeli side Hapoel Beer Sheva while Irish champions Dundalk have been drawn against Poland's Legia Warsaw.
Celtic beat Kazakh side FC Astana in the third qualifying round, while Dundalk were 3-1 aggregate victors over Belarusian side Bate Borisov.
The two-legged play-off ties will be held on the 16/17 and 23/24 August.
New City boss Pep Guardiola has won the Champions League twice as a manager - with Barcelona in 2009 and 2011.
The Spaniard has lost in the semi-finals of the competition in each of the past four seasons, once with Barca and three times with Bayern Munich.
City are looking to compete in the group stages of the competition for the sixth successive season.
Steaua, who won the European Cup in 1986 and were runners-up in 1989, finished second to Astra Giurgiu in the Romanian top flight.
City sporting director Txiki Begiristain said: "It's going to be a difficult tie because Steaua are on the up again in Europe and have a lot of talent."
Elsewhere, 2004 winners Porto face a tough tie against Italian side Roma, and 1995 winners Ajax will play Russian side Rostov.
The winners of the ties will progress to the Champions League group stage while the losers will drop into the Europa League.
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Celtic (Scotland) v Hapoel Beer-Sheva (Israel)
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Dundalk (Republic of Ireland) v Legia Warsaw (Poland)
Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) v FC Salzburg (Austria)
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Young Boys (Switzerland) v Borussia Monchengladbach (Germany)
Villarreal (Spain) v Monaco (France)
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Constantino Banda-Acosta, 38, drove his truck through a stop sign and hit a car carrying a family of three on their way home from a trip to Disneyland.
They said they were one block from home when the collision occurred.
The six-year-old boy suffered brain trauma and is said to be in a serious condition.
The suspect fled but was arrested.
The truck hit the rear passenger door of the car on Saturday night in the San Ysidro district of San Diego, close to the US-Mexico border, said the family.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said the suspect had been "repatriated to Mexico at least 15 times since 2002, most recently in January 2017".
"[ICE] has lodged a detainer against Mr Banda seeking to take him into custody if and when he is released by local authorities to pursue additional immigration enforcement action and/or criminal prosecution," a statement quoted by local broadcaster KGTV added.
He was charged with driving under influence, hit-and-run and driving without a licence.
Another man was also arrested in connection with the crash.
The boy is being treated at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego.
His father told CBS8 broadcaster of his son: "Right now he's got a lot of swelling.
"He can't open one of his eyes, so he's kind of scared about why he can't see."
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Mr Morrison also announced education savings which will see students pay a greater share of the cost of degrees.
Infrastructure projects, health and housing affordability were also high on the government's agenda.
The main opposition Labor party accused him of using a healthcare levy increase to fund tax cuts for big business.
But Labor supported the tax on the banks.
Mr Morrison said $6.2bn ($4.6bn; £3.5) would be raised over the next four years by the new levy on the big five - ANZ Bank, Westpac, National Australia Bank, Commonwealth Bank and Macquarie.
The head of the Australian Bankers' Association called the levy "a direct attack on jobs and growth".
It was a textbook manoeuvre by Mr Morrison - disarm your opponents by grabbing some of their ideas.
The surprise tax on Australia's big banks and a thaw on healthcare rebates could all have come from a Labor manifesto.
Throw in a promise to spend big on infrastructure, and, according to one Australian commentator, Mr Morrison didn't just steal the opposition's clothing - he took the whole wardrobe.
In reality, this was more about steering to centre ground rather than swerving to the left.
It moves the government away from austerity measures it introduced in 2014, but remains tough on key issues like welfare payments.
Mr Morrison and PM Malcolm Turnbull will hope that is enough to keep their party room content, and ensure the government's slim majority remains intact.
"It is a tax that will hit Australians by hurting investment and could have unintended consequences... it will affect the entire banking system," said Anna Bligh, the former Queensland premier.
"This new tax is not a well thought-out policy response to a public interest issue, it is a political tax grab to cover a budget black hole."
The budget was the first since PM Malcolm Turnbull's government was re-elected on a tiny majority last year.
In it Mr Morrison outlined higher education reforms aimed at savings of A$3.8bn by June 2021.
But the government had already announced key aspects of the budget, including building a second Sydney airport, increasing university fees by 7.5% by 2021, and lowering the salary threshold for university debt repayments from A$55,000 to A$42,000.
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A photo of Ken Farlow, 95, staring at Spitfires through the fence of Gloucestershire Airport became an internet hit in July.
The airport tweeted: "With sadness we report the passing of Ken Farlow yesterday. His story touched hearts."
Mr Farlow, who had bowel cancer, was an electrical engineer in the war and worked on Spitfires and Hurricanes.
After hearing his story airport bosses treated Mr Farlow to a flight in a two-seater training plane.
He was also invited to RAF Coningsby and the Royal International Air Tattoo.
Mr Farlow's daughter Helen Nock, who took the photo of him staring through the fence, said her father, who lived in Painswick, Gloucestershire, spent time in Syria and Palestine during the war working on the airplanes.
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The former Strathclyde Police in Scotland linked it to nearly 6,500 crime reports in the last three years.
But in his first interview on the subject, Abbot David Charlesworth of Buckfast Abbey says the monastery's tonic wine "is not made to be abused".
The monastery, which has been brewing Buckfast for nearly 100 years, opened a new production plant two years ago.
The abbey first started producing Buckfast Tonic Wine in the 1920s, selling it direct to the public with the message: "Three small glasses a day for good health and lively blood."
By Glenn CampbellBBC Scotland news
Buckfast has become a by-word for Scotland's hard drinking culture and the violence and vandalism that is linked to this culture.
Not only does it regularly feature in police crime reports but the name is never far from the lips of concerned Scottish politicians.
Successive government ministers including the current Scottish Justice Secretary, Kenny MacAskill, have highlighted it as a "problem" drink.
Buckfast's distributor, J Chandler & Co, has always argued that it is not the drink but those drinkers that consume it to excess that are irresponsible.
The Scottish Parliament has heard calls for "Buckie" - as it has become known - to be banned and for the caffeine content to be reduced.
One bottle contains as much caffeine as eight cans of Coke as well as 15% alcohol - a cocktail that some experts suggest makes Buckfast particularly potent.
It certainly attracts far more attention than any other drink with less than 1% of sales in Scotland.
Perhaps the hype that surrounds it has helped to make Buckfast the brand of choice for some of those who drink to get drunk.
But in a Freedom of Information answer from Strathclyde Police - which became Police Scotland in April - Buckfast, also known as Buckie, was mentioned in 6,496 crime reports from 2010 to 2012.
Hampshire-based J Chandler and Co, which bottles and sells Buckfast, is taking legal action to stop the force adding its own anti-crime labels to bottles of the tonic wine.
Police Scotland declined to comment on the social impact of the drink because of the ongoing legal action.
Abbot David Charlesworth told BBC News: "We don't make a product for it to be abused. That's not the idea.
"We make a product which is a tonic wine.
"It annoys me to think that these problems, all the social deprivation of an area of Scotland, is being put on our doorstep.
"That's not fair. I'm not producing drugs, which I know are going to be used abusively."
He said the abbey had attempted to address problems, for example employing a youth worker in an area where the problems with the tonic wine were occurring.
Abbot Charlesworth said: "If I say I don't feel any responsibility that makes me sound like a heartless so and so. That's not the case.
"Am I upset about how tonic wine is used? Of course I am. It would be ridiculous to say otherwise."
"I don't want Buckfast Abbey to be associated with broken bottles and drunks.
"But is the product bad? No."
He added: "I've heard people say we should ban Buckfast.
"If you ban Buckfast, ban Scottish whisky. It's alcohol, much stronger. But oh no they wouldn't do that.
"So they are picking on a particular thing as a sort of conscience salver."
Buckfast represents 0.5% of Scottish alcohol sales, according to the Scottish government.
The monastery and J Chandler declined to say how much is produced saying it was "commercially sensitive information".
Last year J Chandler's turnover was nearly £40m and the abbey received £6.6m from its business interests, the biggest of which is the tonic wine.
Inside the abbey's winery, opened in 2011, gleaming metal tanks about 100ft (30m) high, each able to hold 125,000 litre, stand like missile silos.
There are also six horizontal metal tanks, each holding 25,000 litres of Buckfast.
Wine imported from France is shipped to the Buckfast plant, where it is fortified and blended by a team of three lay workers.
Vats of ingredients wait to be added to the base wine in a process far removed from when the monks first started making the tonic wine in wooden casks.
From Buckfast Abbey, the finished wine goes in tankers to J Chandler's plant in Andover, Hampshire for bottling and distribution.
Meanwhile, the argument over the social impact of "Buckie" rumbles on.
Luton Town, who became the first non-league side to knock out a top-flight team since 1989 when they beat Norwich 1-0, will play Millwall at home.
League One side MK Dons earned a home tie against Barnsley as reward for their win over QPR.
And Leeds, who shocked Tottenham, must travel to Manchester City next.
Manchester United will host Reading and holders Chelsea, who were held by their west London neighbours Brentford on Sunday, face a trip to Middlesbrough if they win their replay.
Arsenal, who have not won a trophy since 2005, will play Blackburn at the Emirates Stadium for a place in the quarter-finals, while Wigan must travel to Huddersfield.
The ties will take place on the weekend of 16 and 17 February.
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Glasgow North was first to declare in the city, where Patrick Grady ousted Labour's Ann McKechin.
In doing so, he became the first SNP member of parliament to be elected in Glasgow at a general election.
Former shadow Scottish Secretary Margaret Curran and former interim Scottish party leader Anas Sarwar were among the other Labour casualties in the city.
Leader Nicola Sturgeon described the newly-elected SNP politicians as her "magnificent seven".
Natalie McGarry claimed victory over Ms Curran in Glasgow East with a swing of 31%.
In Glasgow South West, Iain Davidson lost his seat to the SNP's Christopher Stephens, while in Glasgow North East a UK-record swing of 39% saw Willie Bain lose to Anne McLaughlin.
Stuart McDonald took Glasgow South from Labour's Tom Harris.
Carol Monaghan won the Glasgow North West constituency, with Labour's John Robertson losing his seat.
The final victory for the SNP in the city came in Glasgow Central where Anas Sarwar, who had succeeded his father Mohammad Sarwar as the Labour MP, lost out to the SNP's Alison Thewliss.
Natalie McGarry, who ousted Ms Curran to become the new MP for Glasgow East, said the SNP had had "a fantastic campaign".
New SNP MP for Glasgow North, Patrick Grady, said: "It is the greatest honour to be the first SNP member of parliament ever elected in Glasgow in a general election."
Damien Treavartha made two girls take part in sex games in a ploy to get them to have oral sex with him.
He also filmed himself committing a sexual assault on a third girl who he partially stripped as she was sleeping.
The 34-year-old, of Newton Abbot, admitted ten charges including rape at Exeter Crown Court and was jailed with a five-year extended licence period.
He was also ordered to sign the sex offenders' register for life.
The court heard Treavartha recorded some of the assaults secretly on his phone and the clips were found by police after one of his victims disclosed what he had done.
He admitted three counts of sexual assault, two counts each of rape, engaging in a sexual act in a child's presence and inciting sexual activity with a child, and one of attempted rape.
Mitigating, Rupert Taylor said the defendant had pleaded guilty and spared the children giving evidence.
He said he has no history of sexual offending but his behaviour had been caused by abuse of steroids and other drugs.
Sentencing Treavartha, Judge Erik Salomonsen said: "It is quite clear from the evidence, including that from your own phone, that you devised a strategy in order to abuse these children for your own sexual gratification."
The NSPCC for South West England said the victims had shown "immense bravery".
"This disturbing case shows how vital it is to educate pupils about abuse and empower them to come forward if they have been abused," a spokesman added.
Matthew Wood, 72, was found dead at a house in Tudor Road, Nuneaton, on 26 March. Warwickshire Police said circumstances around his death were suspicious.
Adam Johnson, also of Tudor Road, has been charged with manslaughter.
The 29-year-old will appear at Leamington Magistrates' Court on 1 March.
Ninety-six football fans died as a result of a crush in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.
After a 27-year campaign by victims' families, the behaviour of Liverpool fans was exonerated on Tuesday after an inquest concluded they were unlawfully killed.
A minute's applause was held at the Liberty Stadium before the kick-off.
The teams presented a floral tribute in memory of those who died to Barry Devonside, who lost his son, Christopher, in the tragedy.
Match day announcer and club chaplain Kevin Johns was also due to speak as part of the tribute at Sunday's game.
Welsh fans John McBrien, 18, from Holywell, Flintshire, and David Steven Brown, 25, from Wrexham, were among those who died.
A Swansea City spokesman said: "Everyone has seen the display of courage and strength from the families over the last 27 years. It must have been such a difficult time for them and we think, like the rest of the football family, that their fight has been justified.
"As a football club, we wanted to stand together and show our support for those families who lost loved ones."
This is the full statement to the inquests from his wife, Linda Kirby:
David George Rimmer was born on 15 September, 1950 in Ormskirk. We were married on 28 September, 1974 and we had two beautiful children, Paul, who was born in 1979, and Kate, born in 1982.
I remember meeting him at a party. I was wearing a burgundy-coloured velvet dress with a pink rose that I had saved 12 guineas to buy. Dave was on a date with a friend of mine, who had asked him to be her date.
After the party, they decided not to see each other again, but Dave continually pestered her for my number.
He didn't know my name so he called me 'Rose' because of the rose that was pinned to my dress at the party.
After some persuasion, I gave my friend permission to give him my number. He called and we arranged to meet up and it was love at first sight. I know they say it doesn't happen; but it did.
I remember my mum waited up for me to come home that night and she asked me all the usual questions like who his parents were and what he did and whether we would meet again.
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Her main comment the first time she met him was that he was a bit on the skinny side and she would have to fatten him up, and she kept her promise.
I remember going to his parents' house the first time for dinner and his Dad carved the beef roast and put it on my plate and I silently thought, 'Is that it? That must be why he is so skinny'.
When he came to my house, my mum would serve him such big portions, he almost needed sides on his plate.
He was the son she never had. She even used to take his side over mine in disagreements.
He was totally integrated into my family from early on, to the extent that when he walked the 20-minute distance from the bus stop to my house, my mum, being aware of his sweaty foot problem, would ask for his socks and have them washed and dried in time for when he was leaving.
Dave had a good, if not stupid, sense of humour. I remember we had some neighbours who we got on very well with until the wife took great umbrage at the fact that she wasn't our only friend on the street and stopped speaking to us.
There was a 'For Sale' sign down the road and on New Year's Eve someone moved the 'For Sale' sign into the neighbour's garden. It was Dave. It made us laugh because he was just a practical joker at times.
He loved 'Dad's Army' and 'Hello, Hello' and knew how to laugh at himself.
Dave was good at decorating and painting but if he was given DIY, especially anything involving a piece of wood, he was awful. For example, we had a rabbit hutch that was really short because he kept trying to even out the legs.
He used to say he made a coffee table for his Mum and Dad when he was at school and it looked like a footstool by the time he'd finished. He knew he was bad at it, but he tried anyway.
I took the kids on many walks to get away from his attempts at DIY. I guess no-one is good at everything.
Dave loved his children. He used to read bed-time stories to them, especially Kate. He would make up stories and tell them.
When he died, Kate was seven. She asked me to tell her the stories her Daddy used to tell her, but I didn't know them.
He was involved with Cub Scouts and used to take Paul to activities. If he hadn't have gone to Hillsborough on 15 April, 1989, he would have been with Paul at Cubs football.
He was on the executive committee for the Cubs and used to help organise football activities for them.
About 12 months after he died, I thought to myself, I had to do something for myself and decided to volunteer as a helper at Cub Scouts. 23 years later, I am a Cub leader and I am still involved in organising Cub activities. I am also a member of our local church.
The children don't really have any memories of him now. It is as though their brain has blocked the memories, because recalling them would be too traumatic.
Kate makes up stories sometimes. I never used to say they were just stories, as the made-up memories were real to her.
Paul was nine when his dad died. I recall his dad taking him to a football match where Liverpool played Arsenal. Paul remembers where they sat and says the day was amazing.
As a family, we used to go on holiday. We couldn't afford to go abroad, but we had a relative who had a holiday chalet in Wales and we had some great times there.
We also used to go for walks together. As a family, we would go to the chippy on Saturdays.
Dave was always concerned about working hard and taking care of his family. Dave left school at 16 and went to work for a company known as Hattersley Newman Hender.
He worked for several other companies after that and eventually was head-hunted by Oliver Ashworth to be a sales manager. He was great at his job and he was endearing to people he came into contact with.
I remember his boss came to see me shortly after Dave's death. He was saying that Dave was on the director track. Everything seemed to be happening for us at last.
Dave loved football and he was really passionate about Liverpool. It was his thing, though, so I didn't really go with him. He used to go to games with his best friend Jeff.
Jeff was with him at Hillsborough. He just about survived it, but he will never be the same because he feels guilty for surviving. Paul still goes to the games with Jeff.
The year before David died, we went to Spain for our first holiday abroad. I got a part-time job and we put that money to one side to pay for the holiday.
As a couple, we were so excited. And it was our first trip abroad together. It was such a happy time. I recall, after the children had gone to sleep, we sat on the balcony looking at the pool and thinking we were the luckiest people ever.
We used to get chicken, chips and Spanish champagne and relax to the sound of crickets.
We were so happy. We told ourselves we'd finally made it and, just like that, everything was gone, everything was taken away from us.
When Liverpool won the European Cup in Istanbul, Paul cried at the end of the game. It should have been one of the happiest days, but he kept thinking that his dad should have been there with him.
Kate is married now and her dad never got to walk her down the aisle. When I think of all the milestones he's missed, I can't help but say it's not fair.
Dave was a lovely family man who adored his children and his wife. He was my first love and we all feel his absence.
When I received the panel's report, I felt as though Dave's soul was on the way to being at peace at long last. When this inquest is all over, hopefully the truth will be revealed and he will be fully at peace.
Michael O'Neill's side beat Norway 2-0 in their most recent match, a World Cup 2018 qualifier that moved them second behind Germany in Group C.
Wales dropped one place to 13th, England stay in 14th, while Scotland moved up eight spots to 59th.
Brazil went top for the first time in seven years, replacing Argentina.
The five-time World Cup winners became the first side to qualify for next year's tournament in Russia with a 3-0 victory over Paraguay last week.
Big Society Capital has £600m, of which the majority comes from unused cash in bank accounts that had been dormant for more than 15 years.
The fund will back social enterprises that prove they can repay an investment through the income they generate.
"This is about supplying capital to help society expand," said Prime Minister David Cameron.
"Just as finance from the City has been essential to help businesses grow and take on the world, so finance from the City is going to be essential to helping tackle our deepest social problems," the prime minister added.
Venture capitalist Sir Ronald Cohen, who is Big Society Capital's chairman, told the BBC that the fund's aim was to create a "thriving market for social investment".
He explained that many not-for-profit organisations relied on donations to finance themselves, and were unable to get a normal loan from a High Street bank because they lacked assets - such as property - that could be offered as a security.
The idea is to help out businesses that provide a benefit to society much greater than the profits they make.
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"It will allow an organisation which today is trying to deal for instance with prisoners who are being released and ending up in unemployment then back in prison... to get the capital to increase the size of their organisation and to improve the lives of these prisoners," he added.
Mr Cohen explained that some of the return on the fund's investments would be paid by the government, which would give the fund a cut of any savings the Treasury made thanks to the charitable work.
For example, in the case of prisoners, if the scheme was shown to have reduced the reoffending rate of participants, then the government would pay the fund some of the money it had saved on locking them up, policing and healthcare.
The fund has already agreed investments worth £3.6m infive separate schemes, including:
However, the importance of the new scheme should not be "over-hyped", according to Dan Corry, chief executive of New Philanthropy Capital and a former adviser to Gordon Brown.
HCT Group is a social enterprise that offers school buses, park-and-ride facilities and some London bus services. Chief executive Dai Powell explains how it works:
"Social enterprise is a business that trades primarily for social purpose.
"We work in the market, we have to win contracts against the big commercial players, the only difference is what we do with the profits.
"[Big Society Capital] would enable organisations like ours [to grow]. In our sector, there hasn't traditionally been the same levels of finance as there has been in the corporate sector.
"The criteria on the investment is both social and financial. We can default on the investment if we don't provide the social aim.
"If we are very successful, we will pay between 10% and 13%... to the social investment fund, where the money will go back into social enterprise."
"I think Big Society Capital is a good thing, but it is a limited amount of money and it is a bit of a drop in the ocean, given what is happening to the sector, with the deficit-reduction programme really hitting the sector," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"It will mask the real problem: voluntary organisations who really do need grants and won't be able to cope with risk capital."
Mr Corry said that although there were many social enterprises that would benefit from the scheme, many charities would not, because they had no revenue stream that could be used to repay the funding.
"A lot of charities who are helping homeless people, for example, they don't get any revenue from that," he said. "For most of them, this is really quite irrelevant."
Labour's shadow minister for the cabinet office, Jon Trickett, welcomed the scheme, but said it needed to be viewed within the context of the pain caused by government spending cuts.
"The government should not over-claim at a time when over 70,000 jobs in the sector have been lost in the last year alone," he said.
"The voluntary and community sector stands to lose an estimated £1.2bn per year for the rest of this Parliament."
The new investment fund is independent of the government and 60% of its shares are owned by the Big Society Trust, a private limited company comprised of executives from social, business and government roles.
The rest of its shares are held by Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group and the Royal Bank of Scotland.
The British Bankers' Association (BBA) stressed that people who had unclaimed money in bank accounts would still be able to get it back.
"Cash will be kept back for people who come forward and the BBA's My Lost Account scheme is there to help people search for their funds for free," said Angela Knight, chief executive of the BBA.
"We recognise people's growing interest in how their money is used and we are delighted to have been able to help make Big Society Capital work and enable banks and investors to combine financial return with social good."
The area around Nuns Street, Derby, has been sealed off after the business reported the mistake at 17:30 BST.
Derbyshire police have erected a cordon and evacuated the area while they wait for the bomb squad to arrive.
The University of Derby's Nunnery Court halls of residence is one of the evacuated buildings.
Buildings in Mill Street, Bridge Street and Nuns Street have all been evacuated and residents sent to rest centres.
Chf Insp Steve Pont said: "There's a company on Nuns Street that used chemicals. They have mixed up chemicals in the wrong way and made a substance that may have explosive potential."
Nunnery Court has about 300 rooms.
The protesters at Spire Parkway Hospital, Solihull, are "disgusted" at the "slow reaction to their cases", a legal representative said.
They were among some 700 women treated by Dr Ian Paterson from 1993 to 2012.
Spire Healthcare said Mr Paterson was "personally liable" for private claims but it had settled some cases.
"Unlike in the NHS, Mr Paterson was not and has never been an employee of Spire Healthcare. As is industry standard, he practised as an independent practitioner under the grant of practising privileges at Spire's hospitals," its statement said.
It said ill health meant he currently lacked capacity to instruct lawyers, which had resulted in delays in litigation.
However, it added: "Despite that obstacle, wherever possible, Spire has entered into discussions with lawyers acting for patients in the private claims and has settled some cases.
"Furthermore, lawyers acting for all parties are actively exploring dates to return to the negotiation table to discuss the cases that are outstanding."
Mr Paterson, who was suspended by the General Medical Council (GMC) in 2012, carried out "cleavage sparing" mastectomies at Spire Parkway and Spire Little Aston, in Sutton Coldfield.
The GMC said the procedure, which left a small amount of tissue for cosmetic reasons, breached national guidelines because it risked the return of cancer.
He also carried out the procedure at Solihull Hospital, run by Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust which has been settling damages from NHS patients.
However, women treated at the two private hospitals say claims are taking too long.
Protester Frances Perks said she was given an unnecessary mastectomy and several other operations by Mr Paterson who treated her for 17 years.
Ms Perks said her mother and sister died from breast cancer and he repeatedly told her she was "high risk" but subsequent genetic testing found this was not the case.
"He always found these lumps and would say there is something sinister there," she said.
Ms Perks said she just wanted the claims to be settled.
"I just want it all wrapped up so I can get on with my life," she said. "I never thought I would be in this position and it has had a dreadful affect on me - physically, mentally and on my family," she said.
Ms Perks said Spire had a "duty of care" to patients operated on by Mr Paterson.
"We were private patients. You think that you are going to be looked after," she said.
Kashmir Uppal, from Thompsons Solicitors - which is representing some patients - said it was pursuing claims against both Spire and Mr Paterson's insurers.
However, she said it was "unique situation" because Spire was made aware of concerns over Mr Paterson and the cleavage sparing procedure by the NHS trust.
A review commissioned by Spire had also identified "lost opportunities" to take action, she added.
"They drew a blind eye to it, they can't turn around now and say it is not their responsibility," she said.
"They allowed this surgeon to come onto to their premises to operate on patients who presented to their hospital. Their breast care nurses were employed by them, they knew what was going on."
The campaign - funded by a grieving mother - was launched this week and is already reaching thousands of people.
Jo Cruickshank was 36 when she took her own life in August 2015.
Her mother Deanna, from Buckie, Moray, believes Jo could be alive today if she had discovered help online.
The pop-up ads provide information and support.
They appear when a person uses the term suicide in a search engine.
They have already reached more than 2,000 people in their first week, which suicide prevention body Choose Life said was an overwhelming figure.
The organisation had said there had been a rise in women killing themselves in Grampian recently, and many had done online searches before they died.
Meanwhile, a suicide prevention app developed by Choose Life has been downloaded more than 13,000 times since it was launched earlier this year.
Choose Life Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire co-ordinator Iain Murray told BBC Scotland: "We have created a strong online presence.
"The response to the ads this week has been incredible. We hope people will click, read, and for those who need help, the help is available."
He added: "Deanna has been incredibly brave."
If you are feeling emotionally distressed and would like details of organisations which offer advice and support, go online to bbc.co.uk/actionline or you can call for free, at any time to hear recorded information 0800 066 066.
A player currently becomes eligible when they have lived in a country for three years.
World Rugby is due to vote in May on extending it to five, a move also backed by England.
"We believe five years is the right thing," said WRU head of performance Geraint John.
"That's the message passed over to World Rugby when we had the meeting.
"We were in the World Rugby meeting and Martyn Phillips was representing us and our strategy is five years."
The campaign led by World Rugby vice-chairman and former Argentina international Agustin Pichot.
And John says the idea suits the way the WRU want to manage talent in Wales.
"We feel it fits into our strategic plan in terms of what we're about here in Wales - developing our own, developing players that are already here in Wales, looking at talent and trying to keep that talent in Wales," he added.
While England and Wales support the plan it has been reported that Scotland and Ireland are opposed to the change.
John has also revealed the WRU have chosen to install the Wales A team as their new captured international side rather than the Under-20s.
It is a decision designed to make it more likely for England-based Welsh-qualified players to come back into the system because now playing for the Under-20s does not tie them to Wales.
The WRU have indicated their desire to restore the A team although there is unlikely to be a fixture this season for a second string side.
"One of the difficulties we found last year was if you play for Wales Under-20s you are captured so that means you can't play for anyone else," John told the WRU official website.
"We have looked at that and there are a lot of players who are based in England who are Welsh qualified.
"Because it (Wales U20s) was a captured team, the English clubs would not release them and we could not get them back.
"We have decided our Wales A team is our next captured side and that has allowed Welsh-qualified players from across the border to come back and be involved in the U20 squad.
"We have made that statement. I think it's a big plus and will attract those Welsh qualified players who are now living in England to eventually stay in Wales."
Kieran Ridley told psychiatrist Dr James Finlayson he thought he was a Jedi Knight when he started the fire near Mallaig on 27 October 2015.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard that the 32-year-old, from Worcester, made the admission in an interview.
Mr Ridley denies a charge of attempted murder.
His lawyers have entered a special defence which states that he was not criminally responsible for the alleged offence due to the state of his mental health in October 2015.
Dr Finlayson recalled the details of the interview when he gave evidence to defence advocate Herbert Kerrigan QC.
Reading from a report that he wrote about Mr Ridley's health, Dr Finlayson told the court about how Mr Ridley described his state of mind when he started the fire.
Dr Finlayson said: "He said 'it was a bit like Star Wars. I thought I was Luke Skywalker. I think it then went a bit mad.'"
Dr Finlayson, a defence witness, was giving evidence on the fifth day of proceedings against Mr Ridley, a prisoner of HMP Inverness.
Prosecutors and Mr Ridley's defence team have agreed evidence in which neither party disputes that Mr Ridley switched on a kitchen cooker at the property.
They have also agreed that he poured petrol onto a refuse bin which caused the flames to "take effect" in the kitchen.
Jurors have also heard that lawyers do not dispute that he then left the property having locked the front and back doors of the house.
The court heard that Mr Ridley also locked some of the windows in the property and that he did this whilst "being aware" that there were 11 people inside.
The youngest person in the property at the time was a two-year-old child, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
The court heard how Mr Ridley was initially taken to a medical facility in Inverness after being detained by police following the fire.
However, he was then arrested after being assessed by medical staff there and taken to HMP Inverness.
Dr Finlayson interviewed Mr Ridley during this time period.
The consultant psychiatrist told Mr Kerrigan that his client said that a London-based psychiatrist had diagnosed him with "drug induced psychosis" earlier in 2015.
The court also heard an allegation that Mr Ridley said that he had taken magic mushrooms before starting the fire.
Mr Ridley, who worked in IT in the City of London, also told the psychiatrist that he drank 20 pints of cider.
He also said that he may have inhaled smoke from "cannabis" which was being smoked nearby. Mr Ridley said he thought this triggered the psychosis.
Reading from the report, Dr Finlayson told jurors: "He said he thought 'he was on a mission to burn down the house.'
"He said 'I was going to burn down the house.' He said 'I was going to be the hero.'
"He said he 'got the mission from a mastermind and he felt like a puppet on a string'.
"He said his family knew what the plan was. They wanted him to set fire to the house and kill them all."
Dr Finlayson said that Mr Ridley thought some of his family members were "demons" and that a dog that he saw on the day of the fire was "an android".
Prosecutors claim that Mr Ridley attempted to murder his mother Ann, his brother Duncan and a woman called Heidi Fernandez Saenz.
Mr Ridley is also alleged to have tried to murder a two-year-old child, an eight-year-old child, a 16-year-old child and a 15-year-old, all of whom cannot be named for legal reasons.
Other people who were in the house at the time of the alleged crime include Leann Sainsbury, Mark Sainsbury, Callam Chapman and Thomas Robinson.
The trial, before judge Craig Scott QC, continues.
Sky said the move would result in "much greater use of home filters", but customers could still opt-out if they wanted to.
In 2013, Prime Minister David Cameron said broadband users should face an "unavoidable decision" over whether to enable filters or not.
But the move has been criticised by internet rights campaigners.
Sky launched its online content filtering product Broadband Shield in November 2013, but a year later only 3% of its existing customers had opted to switch it on.
In January 2015, Sky emailed customers who had joined prior to November 2013 and asked them whether they wanted to switch Broadband Shield on.
The filter was automatically switched on if customers ignored the email.
Sky said 62% of the customers it had presented with this "unavoidable decision" had kept some form of parental control switched on.
The company will now switch Broadband Shield on by default for new joiners, starting in early 2016. Existing customers that have not yet been prompted to opt-in will also be sent an "unavoidable decision" email.
The UK's biggest broadband providers have all agreed to present customers with an "unavoidable decision".
Sky has seen the biggest engagement with between 30 and 40% of all customers leaving the content filter switched on.
BT told the BBC it had contacted its home broadband customers, and displayed messages to web users until they made a choice about whether to switch on filters or not.
"In line with recommendations from the Mothers Union's Reg Bailey, we don't switch parental controls on or off ourselves. We believe this is more effective when it comes to keeping children safe," a spokesman said.
Telecoms regulator Ofcom said 6% of BT's customers had opted to switch on parental controls by June 2015, although take-up in households with children was 36% according to BT.
About 12% of Virgin Media subscribers and 14% of TalkTalk customers had switched on content filtering by June 2015.
Virgin Media told the BBC: "All of our customers have made an active and informed choice on whether to switch filters on or off."
The Open Rights Group (ORG), which campaigns to protect internet freedom, had criticised Sky for enabling filters by default.
"Switching filters on by default, even if there are no children in a household, is not giving customers an informed choice about filters," said Pam Cowburn, communications director for the ORG.
"Parents should not be lulled into a false sense of security by thinking that switching on filters will automatically keep their children from seeing unsuitable content.
"Parents need to talk to children about their internet use and help to ensure that they have the skills they need to navigate the web safely."
Sky told the BBC a majority of existing customers had ignored its "unavoidable decision" email in January 2015, and had their content filter switched on automatically. But only 27 people had contacted its call centre about the plan.
"We think that default filtering is the best way for industry to meet the government's commitment to reduce children's exposure to inappropriate content," said the director of Sky Broadband, Lyssa McGowan.
Around 100,000 people in the African country, which was formed in 2011, are now facing starvation - according to the United Nations (UN).
This was the first time that a famine has been declared in any part of the world for six years.
Find out more about what a famine is here.
The main reason that South Sudan is facing this food crisis is because of fighting there.
But what is the conflict about?
South Sudan is a country in central Africa.
It used to be part of the country of Sudan (which is just above it), but it became a country in its own right in 2011, because people living in the the south voted to be an independent country.
A civil war is when two sides within the same country start fighting each other.
This split happened after an agreement that was made in 2005, which ended an extremely long civil war in Sudan. In fact, it was Africa's longest-running civil war.
The population of South Sudan is split up into lots of different ethnic groups.
BBC expert on South Sudan James Copnall says: "At independence, the new nation was very fragile. The army was divided and there was lots of tension."
So fighting has not stopped since it became a new country and it has had a devastating impact on people living there.
Salva Kiir Mayardit was leader of the south of Sudan before it became an independent country
Ever since South Sudan was born, different ethnic groups in the country have fought against each other for power and resources, like cattle.
This continued after disagreements between the president of South Sudan - a man called Salva Kiir Mayardit - and his vice-president called Riek Machar.
In July 2013, President Salva Kiir sacked his vice-president and other important members of the government.
In December 2013, he accused Mr Machar of wanting to take power off him - and what started as a political row became a civil war affecting the whole country, with different ethnic groups fighting each other.
Some groups supported President Salva Kiir, while others were loyal to Mr Machar.
In just a couple of years, many thousands of people died and over 2 million were forced to flee from their homes.
In 2014, both sides agreed to talk with each other to try to sort out their problems.
In August 2015, they signed a deal with each other, after the UN said they would be punished if they didn't try to sort things out.
The sacked vice-president, who had fled, came back to the capital of South Sudan called Juba in April 2016, in order to become vice-president again.
But it didn't last long. In July 2016, Mr Machar's bodyguards and President Kiir's guards started fighting, and there were several days of more violence.
Hundreds of people died and more than 100,000 people fled across the border.
Mr Machar was fired again and he fled the country.
James Copnall says: "The main politicians, President Salva Kiir and the rebel leader Riek Machar aren't able to work together and many of the soldiers still want to fight, often to take revenge for friends or family members who have died in the war.
"The nation is divided. Lots of new anti-governments groups have been formed and the battles have spread to new areas."
It has had a devastating impact on ordinary people living in South Sudan - especially children.
Firstly, many have been caught up in the violence. Some children have even been forced to become soldiers.
Secondly, a huge number of people have had to flee from their homes. This means that children don't have somewhere safe to live and aren't able to go to school.
"Since the war began, more than 3.5 million people have now fled, leaving behind their homes and most of what they own. They now need help just to survive," James Copnall says.
Thirdly, there isn't enough food - which is why the famine has been declared - meaning many children are starving.
Prices for basic food have become extremely high, meaning families cannot afford to get what they need to eat.
Aid agencies are also currently unable to reach all of the people who need their help.
UN assistant secretary general Justin Forsyth said: "Nobody should be dying of starvation in 2017. There is enough food in the world."
But until the conflict in South Sudan stops, it is likely that life for ordinary people living there will continue to be a struggle.
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It happened on Cherry Orchard Avenue in the Ballyfermot area in the west of the city shortly before 08:00 local time.
It is understood the victim was in his late teens.
The second motorcyclist, a man in his early 20s, was taken to hospital with injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening.
The authority also "does not fully understand the scale and prevalence of child sexual exploitation", Ofsted said following an inspection.
The rating echoes a report in April 2013, which prompted a boss and a council cabinet member to quit.
Children's services councillor Simon Hackett ruled out resigning. Three out of five areas rated by Ofsted improved.
The report found: "There are widespread and serious failures that create or leave children being harmed or at risk of harm.
"Leaders and managers have not been able to demonstrate sufficient understanding of failures and have been ineffective in prioritising, challenging and making improvements."
"We're deeply disappointed," said Mr Hackett.
"We've worked on recommendations from the last report and struggle to see how Ofsted can come to this conclusion."
Progress since the last inspection included a new multi-agency safeguarding hub - bringing social workers, police and health professionals under one roof, relying less on agency workers and recruiting permanent managers. The council also said it had reduced caseloads for each worker.
The council was working with late-night fast food outlets, taxi firms and hotels to help spot child exploitation, Mr Hackett said.
Social work Professor Ray Jones, appointed by the education secretary to advise Sandwell's turnaround months after the last critical report, disagreed with the rating.
He said: "I am especially impressed, as are others, with the recent progress which has been made to tackle CSE.
"It is of considerable concern this progress is not recognised by Ofsted."
The council disputed the rating with Ofsted but its representations made no difference, said Mr Hackett.
The Labour-run council was also served with an improvement notice after services were rated inadequate in 2009.
The route runs for nearly 20 miles and comprises 131 stops, from upper St Johns to downtown Milwaukie.
Their pictures depict the wide range of communities spread along the way as well as capturing something of the gentrification in parts of the town.
Here is a selection of images from the project.
Bus 75: Hidden Portland was supported by a grant from the Regional Arts & Culture Council, a local arts organisation in Portland.
Nine bodies of the people known as the Disappeared remain unfound but advances in technology alongside traditional methods means fresh hope for their families.
Forensic archaeologists work alongside the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR) to try and find their bodies.
John McIlwaine, who is originally from Northern Ireland, but works for Bradford University, leads the forensic archaeological team that works with ICLVR.
He outlined the process involved.
"The information first goes to the commission (ICLVR) and they have special investigators who try to prove how accurate it is," he said.
"Once it has been ground proofed through the investigators, we are then in a position to have a search area which we are deployed into, which we search for the remains.
"We have worked on four cases so far and have recovered two bodies.
"Once a potential site has been identified, the archaeological team can begin work.
"We use LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) on planes, geographical information, classic archaeology and cadaver dogs."
Many of the bodies have been buried in former cut-away peat bogs, so sites often need to be drained before an excavation can begin.
"It is very difficult because some people were buried over 30 years ago, also the locations were selected specifically for body disposal," Mr McIlwaine said.
"They are remote locations, designed to make it as difficult as possible for anybody to find the body again.
"Then you have the problem that the information is degraded, there is also the fact that there are no obvious grave sites, a lot of them are peat bogs that went out of use years ago.
"The vegetation looks similar, it's covered in heather so there's nothing very obvious, if it was obvious we could just go straight there and dig them up."
In June 2010, Mr McIlwaine led the team which discovered the remains of Charlie Armstrong.
Mr Armstrong, 57, from south Armagh went missing on his way to Mass in 1981, he was believed to have been kidnapped and murdered by the IRA.
His body was buried in an area of peat bog land at Colgagh, County Monaghan, several miles from the border.
In 2008, a team of experts concentrated on an area of bog and gorse at Inniskeen after an anonymous map was sent to the family.
It was the second map the family had received, the first showed a slightly different location.
Nothing was found during those searches, but remains were discovered nearby in 2010.
Working within an area the size of three football pitches, the team had to painstakingly draw up the soil, three to four inches at a time, to be sifted through before the next level was taken up, eventually reaching a depth of two metres.
It took about a month, often working in strong winds and torrential rain, to locate Mr Armstrong's body. It then took two months for the DNA to be fully processed.
"It took a great deal of persistence and patience to recover Charlie's remains, but that is the nature of the work we do," Mr McIlwaine said.
"I've got to know Charlie's widow, Kathleen, and their children very well over the years and know how much it means to them to bring Charlie home and give him a proper burial in consecrated ground.
"I feel proud that the team has helped them bring their many years of waiting to an end."
He said finding the Disappeared "was massively important for the friends and family" but "also very important to help the healing process in Northern Ireland".
"We have another site to investigate in the north of Ireland shortly, once the clearance comes through," he added.
"We will continue with the other cases as long as the commission want us to and we have intelligence to work from."
10 June 2017 Last updated at 14:20 BST
About 30 big trees were knocked down by a big storm called Hurricane Sandy in 2012, making big gaps in the forest.
The gaps became overgrown with weeds, but local residents didn't want big machines and chemicals to clear up the mess.
Instead they've recruited Max, Cinnamon, Unicorn, and Swirl - a team of forest goats, who are happy to eat everything!
They're gradually munching their way through the debris, to get the park back to normal!
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Luke Marshall's early try helped Ulster lead 7-0 but Treviso bossed most of the first period as two Tommaso Allan kicks cut the margin to 10-6 by half-time.
However, captain Rob Herring and Ruan Pienaar scored Ulster tries during Paulo's absence in the third quarter.
After Herring's sin-binning, Tommaso Benvenuti notched a late Treviso try.
The injury-time score was nothing more than Treviso deserved after they had controversially been denied a try minutes earlier when referee Dudley Phillips adjudged that Andrea Buondonno had knocked on before replacement scrum-half Edoardo Gori touched down.
In between Gori's disallowed effort and Barbini's last-ditch score, tenacious Treviso defending prevented Ulster from notching a bonus-point clinching score.
After following up last weekend's opening win over the Dragons with another victory, Ulster are a point behind leaders Glasgow, who defeated Leinster 33-25 at Scotstoun on Saturday.
After struggling with Treviso's enterprise and physicality during the first half, Ulster were much more solid in the second period with the introduction of impressive lock Peter Browne making a big difference.
Ulster started well as Ireland centre Marshall burrowed his way over in the fourth minute after sustained early pressure.
However, Treviso, now coached by former Canada boss Kieran Crowley, dominated the remainder of the first period with their efforts not being helped by a glaring penalty miss by Allan in the 16th minute.
In contrast, Pienaar landed a long-range Ulster penalty in the 30th minute, although Treviso were furious that Marshall had not been penalised for offside prior to the fly-half's successful kick.
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Allan's second successful penalty in the 35th minute was scant reward for intense Treviso pressure which included a superb break from full-back Jayden Hayward.
New Zealander Paulo's sin-binning on 50 minutes came after the lock had been adjudged to have delivered a late hit on Ulster replacement prop Ross Kane.
As Ulster sensed their opportunity, Sean Reidy wasted a glorious chance to score as he knocked on, but skipper Herring made no mistake in the 54th minute after a line-out drive.
Within three minutes, Pienaar had scored Ulster's third try as he ran in unopposed under the posts.
To the credit, Treviso maintained their enterprise and a deserved try came at the death as a clever crosskick from former Leinster player Ian McKinley's set up Benvenuti's score.
TEAMS
Treviso: J Hayward; A Esposito, T Benvenuti, L McLean (capt), A Buondonno; T Allan, G Bronzini; N Quaglio, O Gega, S Ferrari; M Fuser, F Paulo; F Minto, M Lazzaroni, M Barbini
Replacements: R Santamaria for Gega 48, A De Marchi for Quaglio 56, T Pasquali for Ferrari 56, F Gerosa, D Budd for Paulo 68, E Gori for Bronzini, I McKinley for Allan 72, D Odiete for Esposito 56.
Ulster: L Ludik; R Lyttle, L Marshall, S Olding, J Stockdale; B Herron, R Pienaar; K McCall, R Herring (capt), R Ah You; K Treadwell, F van der Merwe; C Ross, S Reidy, R Wilson.
Replacements: J Andrew for van der Merwe 68, A Warwick for McCall 71, R Kane for Ah You 48, P Browne for Treadwell 43, R Diack for Wilson 61 S McCloskey for Herron 73, D Cave for Marshall 55; Not used: A Lloyd
Referee: D Phillips
The announcement comes less than a week after the arrival in Tripoli of a UN-backed national unity government.
The Tripoli-based administration said it was standing down to prevent further bloodshed.
Since 2014 Libya has had two competing administrations, the one in Tripoli backed by powerful militias and the other in the eastern city of Tobruk.
The Tobruk-based administration, formed by the House of Representatives, still opposes the UN-backed body.
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"We inform you that we are stopping our work as an executive power, as the presidency and ministers of the government," said the statement by the self-declared National Salvation government.
This authority was set up by the former parliament, the General National Congress (GNC).
The UN-brokered unity government arrived in Tripoli last week and is now operating from the city's naval base as it strives to restore peace in a country ravaged by factional conflict.
Western countries want the unity government to unite as many factions in Libya as possible against an increasingly powerful affiliate of the group known as Islamic State.
But it is not clear how the new administration, led by the Presidency Council, will be able to assert its authority given the opposition it will inevitably face elsewhere in the country.
Some rival lawmakers in December 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.
The UN says it is considering lifting sanctions on Libya's estimated $67bn (£46.8bn) sovereign wealth fund if the government can regain control of the country.
The decision of one of Libya's two rival governments to dissolve itself a week after the UN-backed Presidency Council arrived in Tripoli does not mean the parliament there has ceded power - in fact it is split over the UN-backed deal.
But it does draw a line under one of three rival authorities that have technically existed in recent weeks.
The government led by Abdullah al-Thinni in Tobruk remains in place but is also split over the UN-backed agreement which was signed in December by members of both rival parliaments.
The Tobruk government is backed by what is still the internationally recognised parliament and Libya's only legislative body under a UN-backed agreement.
23 June 2017 Last updated at 12:38 BST
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They said the supporters of the Corinthians club were preparing banners ahead of a match when gunmen burst in.
The attackers ordered seven fans to lie down before shooting them. The eighth man was hit as he tried to flee.
Police say the killings at the Pavilhao Nove supporters' group were likely to be drug related.
Witnesses say three gunmen stormed into the makeshift club in a working class suburb of Sao Paulo late on Saturday.
The victims were having a barbecue as they prepared for Corinthians' next match.
Sao Paulo police suggested the Pavilhao Nove group may have had links to criminal gangs, saying the killings were probably more to do with a dispute over drugs trafficking than with football.
"Through witnesses, we are already exploring a line of investigation, which is not leading us to believe it was caused by fan rivalry," detective Arlindo Jose Negrao was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.
Violence in Brazilian football is a growing problem both directly and indirectly, with supporters of teams in several major cities using their club allegiances to organise criminal activity outside the stadiums, the BBC's Wyre Davies reports from Rio de Janeiro.
Dywedodd Felicity Roberts fod "cymunedau lle mae'r Gymraeg yn gryf yn gymhelliant cryf iawn i bobl fod eisiau dysgu'r iaith", ond fod nifer y cymunedau hynny wedi gostwng dros yr hanner canrif diwethaf.
Ar y llaw arall, meddai, mae "ymwybyddiaeth" o sefyllfa'r iaith wedi cynyddu, ac mae datblygiadau technolegol wedi gwneud gwaith tiwtoriaid yn llawer mwy hwylus.
Bydd Ms Roberts a Jaci Taylor, tiwtor Cymraeg arall o ardal Aberystwyth, yn cael eu gwobrwyo am gyfraniad oes i'r Gymraeg mewn seremoni arbennig nos Fawrth.
Eleni fydd y tro cyntaf i Brifysgol Aberystwyth, sydd wedi trefnu'r Gwobrau Dydd Gŵyl Dewi, gydnabod unigolion yn benodol am eu cyfraniad i'r iaith.
Mae Felicity Roberts, yn wreiddiol o Chwilog ger Pwllheli, wedi bod yn dysgu Cymraeg i oedolion yn Aberystwyth ers 1968, ac mae Jaci Taylor, sydd o Birmingham yn wreiddiol, hefyd wedi bod yn diwtor ers 1984.
Dywedodd Ms Roberts ei bod hi wedi dod fel "syndod braf" i'r ddwy gael eu gwobrwyo gyda'i gilydd, a'i bod yn "braf teimlo bod eich ymdrechion yn cael eu gwerthfawrogi".
Mae'r ddwy wedi cydweithio ers yr 1980au, gan sefydlu mudiad Cyd gyda'i gilydd yn ogystal a throi eu sylw at sawl menter arall gan gynnwys cynnal Eisteddfod y Dysgwyr yn Aberystwyth, a sefydlu'r Ganolfan Cymraeg i Oedolion yn y brifysgol yn 2006.
"O ystyried hyn i gyd rwyf yn falch ac yn ei weld yn beth priodol fod gwaith y ddwy ohonom yn cael ei gydnabod," meddai.
"Mae proffil uchel i'r anrhydeddau hyn y mae'r brifysgol yn eu cyflwyno, ac mae hynny yn sicr o feithrin mwy o barch at y Gymraeg a'r gwaith a wneir i roi cyfle i bawb yng Nghymru feistroli iaith gynhenid y wlad, a chael cyfranogi yn llawn o'r holl fanteision sydd o fod yn ddwyieithog ynddi."
O'i gymharu â phan ddechreuodd hi fel tiwtor Cymraeg i oedolion maen nhw bellach yn cael tipyn o gefnogaeth gan y llywodraeth a'r prifysgolion, meddai, yn ogystal â chymorth y datblygiadau technolegol.
"Heddiw rydym wedi'n hamgylchynu ag adnoddau o bob math i'n cynorthwyo yn y gwaith," meddai.
"Dwi wrth fy modd yn gallu defnyddio pwerbwynt, deunydd sain a deunydd gweledol oddi ar y we neu DVD, a'u plethu i mewn i'm gwaith dysgu."
Wedi dweud hynny, meddai, mae'r gostyngiad yn nifer y cymunedau naturiol Gymraeg dros yr hanner canrif diwethaf, wrth i bobl ddi-Gymraeg symud i ardaloedd traddodiadol Gymraeg a Chymry Cymraeg iaith gyntaf symud i ffwrdd, wedi creu heriau.
"Mae cymunedau lle mae'r Gymraeg yn gryf yn gymhelliant cryf iawn i bobl fod eisiau dysgu'r iaith," esboniodd.
"O safbwynt hyn mae'n gwaith ni'n fwy anodd, ac mae'r cyfleoedd i bobl gael eu trochi yn yr iaith yn fwy anodd i'w canfod.
"Fodd bynnag, mae'n hymwybyddiaeth o sefyllfa'n hiaith fel cenedl wedi codi, ac mae yna ymdrechion bwriadol sylweddol yn cael eu gwneud i'w diogelu drwy fynd ati'n fwriadol i greu cyfleoedd i ddefnyddio'r Gymraeg mewn gwaith a hamdden."
The driver jumped the kerb and struck fellow cab drivers who were sitting awaiting their next fares, police said.
According to US media, the driver told police he mistakenly stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake.
The incident, on the eve of the Independence Day holiday in the US, was not believed to be terrorism-related.
Major Frank McGinn of Massachusetts State Police said one of the victims remains in serious condition, three had significant injuries and six others suffered less serious injuries.
All the victims appeared to be cab drivers, he added.
The driver, who is reported to be a 56-year-old man from Cambridge, Massachusetts, stayed at the scene to co-operate with police.
Maj McGinn told reporters the crash appeared to be "just a tragic accident".
He said the unidentified driver is known to be a "very nice gentlemen from his peers" and was thought to have been alone in the vehicle at the time.
Police have seized the cab and the cause of the crash remains under investigation, state police said in a statement.
"At this preliminary point in the investigation, there is no information that suggests the crash was intentional," the statement said.
Ronald Barret was seriously injured when his Honda 1300 left the road at 15:30 on Saturday near Glenamour Farm.
He was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow for treatment but died on Monday morning.
Police Scotland said investigations into the cause of the crash were still ongoing.
Robert Emmett Rogan, 29, from Altcar Park, is alleged to have committed the offences at a house in the Carnhill area of the city on Sunday night.
A police officer told Londonderry Magistrate's Court three children under the age of 10 were in the house.
Both the man and the woman in the house suffered minor cuts.
The officer said the woman was cut on her hand when she grabbed the sword as she tried to pull the attacker away from the man.
He said the attacker was pointing the sword in a downward manner towards the man's neck and upper body area.
The court was told that the alleged male victim, who also sustained a minor cut, managed to punch the man on the nose.
The attacker then left the house.
The defendant was later arrested at his home. After his arrest he denied any involvement in the incidents.
Refusing bail a judge said the defendant had six previous convictions, a number of them for violent offences.
He remanded him in custody until 18 June.
The 25-year-old's inclusion is despite a lack of games for his club - he has started only six games this season, two of them in the EFL Cup.
He has made 13 appearances in total, but has yet to score this season.
Other Europe-based players in the squad includes Valencia defender Aymen Abdennour and Lille midfielder Naim Sliti.
Named in the provisional squad, Saad Bguir was dropped despite playing in the friendly against Uganda on Wednesday
Polish coach Henryk Kasperczak, who is attending his seventh Nations Cup in Gabon, had omitted veteran striker Hamdi Harbaoui and former Germany youth international Anis Ben Hatira from his squad.
The Carthage Eagles have been drawn in Group B at the Nations Cup, alongside rivals Algeria, Senegal and Zimbabwe.
The team will be based in Libreville with Tunisia beginning their campaign against Senegal on 15 January.
Tunisia squad:
Goalkeepers: Aymen Mathlouthi (Etoile du Sahel), Moez Ben Cherifia (Esperance), Rami Jridi (CS Sfaxien)
Defenders: Ali Maaloul (Al Ahly, Egypt) Aymen Abdennour (Valencia, Spain), Siyam Ben Youssef (Caen, France), Hamza Mathlouthi (CS Sfaxien), Mohamed Ali Yacoubi (Rizespor, Turkey), Chamseddine Dhaouadi (Esperance), Slimane Kchok (CA Bizertin), Zied Boughattas, Hamdi Nagguez and Zied Boughatass (Etoile du Sahel)
Midfielders: Ferjani Sassi (Esperance), Larry Azouni (Nîmes, France), Naim Sliti (Lille, France), Wahbi Khazri (Sunderland, England),
Mohamed Amine Ben Amor and Hamza Lahmar (Etoile), Ahmed Khalil (Club Africain), Youssef Msakni (Lekhwiya, Qatar),
Forwards: Ahmed Akaïchi (Ittihad, Saudi Arabia), Taha Yassine Khenissi (Esperance), Saber Khelifa (Club Africain)
The invitations often offer discounts on designer labels, but they are from spammers, not the brands they claim to represent.
Whether the recipient accepts or rejects the invitation, it notifies the spammer that the message has been received, so that more can follow.
Sometimes they take the form of photo-sharing alerts.
Rather like spam email, the invitations are sent at random to huge email lists, and they appear as calendar notifications.
The flaw has existed for a while but has only recently been exploited, particularly in the run up to Black Friday.
"It's a problem with the way the iCloud works," said Prof Alan Woodward, a cybersecurity expert at Surrey University.
"Because the calendar and photo sharing is mirrored to the cloud - even if you say you don't want to go it still keeps a copy in the cloud.
"You can turn the iCloud off, but that defeats the object of having it, or you can use a complicated work around.
"What they really need is an 'ignore' button."
Business lawyer and technology writer David Sparks wrote a guide to dealing with the influx of unwanted mail on his blog.
He suggested creating a special calendar specifically for the spam or moving the notifications to arrive in email form, which can then be deleted without the sender knowing.
"Most of the calendar spam I've seen has originated from China," he wrote.
"Somebody has a big list of email addresses and sends out calendar invites with spammy links embedded.
"My guess is this is only going to get worse, and I really hope Apple intervenes."
Apple has been contacted by the BBC.
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Irwin Lipkin, 77, pleaded guilty of helping to hide the fraud from US regulators by falsifying documents.
His six-month sentence marks the end of a six-year prosecution saga.
A total of 15 people have been convicted for their parts in the Ponzi - pyramid - scheme orchestrated by Madoff that defrauded investors out of billions of dollars.
Madoff's fraud emerged in 2008. What was thought to be a fund worth $68bn turned out to be all but worthless having been paid as fake profit or stolen by Madoff and his associates.
Madoff pleaded guilty to fraud and was sentenced to 150 years in prison.
The judge rejected the defence case that Lipkin should not be jailed because of his failing health, and that he did not know the full extent of Madoff's scheme.
Prosecutor David Abramowicz told the court in New York: Madoff "didn't do it alone because he couldn't do it alone. He needed the help of people like Mr Lipkin".
Lipkin was hired as one of Madoff's first employees in the 1960s.
He apologised to the court, "and to everybody else who may have been hurt by the things that I've done".
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The owner of the Ford Mustang died in August and, when his daughter checked his garage in Welwyn Garden City, she found that the car had disappeared.
The family last recall seeing the 1977 car, registration VTM 648S, in 1995.
Hertfordshire Police explained that the man who owned it was not well enough to visit the garage, which was located far from his house.
The force said it was convinced the car was not sold by the owner, as the daughter said she would have been informed, and all of the documentation is still in her late father's house.
The Mustang has been valued at about £1,000 but Det Con Geoff Smith said "it has a large amount of sentimental [value] attached to it".
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He added: "Obviously the car is very distinctive and, despite the length of time in which it could have been stolen, I believe anyone who witnessed the car being removed from the garage would remember seeing it.
"I would like to speak with anyone with information about this theft as soon as possible.
"Equally, I would like to hear from anyone who has seen the car or been offered it for sale."
It follows a government investigation that has "provided strong evidence of financial irregularities", according to Communities Secretary Carl Sargeant.
A 35-year-old woman was arrested last year on suspicion of theft and is on police bail following a complaint by NSA Afan.
It is not clear if the two investigations are related.
NSA Afan, based in Sandfields, was receiving Welsh Government funding through the Communities First and Communities for Work schemes.
Grants under both have been terminated. Funding had already been suspended in December.
"The prime focus of the Welsh Government's investigation has been the proper stewardship of public funds and the way that public funding has been spent and accounted for by NSA Afan," Mr Sargeant said.
"Investigations have provided strong evidence of financial irregularities.
"Furthermore, investigations have raised serious concerns about the effectiveness of the organisation's governance and control framework.
"This evidence calls into question NSA Afan's ability to manage and safeguard public funds."
Mr Sargeant added in his statement that "officials are continuing to discuss this matter with the police".
A spokeswoman for South Wales Police said the force "is not investigating NSA Afan in Port Talbot in relation to fraud".
She added: "We can confirm that South Wales Police has arrested a 35-year-old woman from the Port Talbot area on suspicion of theft on 11 August 2016 following a complaint received from NSA Afan.
"This person is currently on police bail while the police investigation continues."
Bethan Jenkins, Plaid Cymru AM for South Wales West, said the whole matter should be handed over to the Auditor General for Wales "to investigate fully and independently".
"NSA Afan has been the subject of a number of Welsh Government audits, and has always been given a clean bill of health," she said.
"What worries me is that the present inquiry effectively amounts to the Welsh Government investigating itself."
The deployment follows a shoot-out between two vigilante groups on Tuesday in which 11 people were killed.
Ballistic tests showed all of those killed had fired their weapons in the two-hour gun battle in La Ruana.
The two groups of vigilantes were set up to fight the local drug cartel, but have since become bitter rivals and have started fighting each other.
Five members of a group led by Hipolito Mora and six followers of his rival, Luis Antonio Torres, were killed.
Mr Mora's 33-year-old son was also among those shot dead.
Mr Torres told local media that his men had been fired on as they were approaching a roadblock manned by members of Mr Mora's vigilante group.
"We only felt the bullets raining down on us, so we defended ourselves," he said, describing how Mr Mora's supporters shot at them from surrounding rooftops.
"We weren't going to stand by with our arms crossed waiting to be killed."
Mr Mora did not give a description of the shooting but said he would request protection from the police.
Mr Mora said he would not give up his weapons or ask his men to disarm because "that would be akin to suicide".
Security commissioner Alfredo Castillo said that if evidence suggested Mr Mora was involved in the shooting, he would be detained.
Mr Mora's and Mr Torres's "self-defence groups" were set up in February 2013 to fight a drugs cartel calling itself the Knights Templar.
Earlier this year, they took control of a number of towns in the western state and drove out the Knights Templar, who had been extorting money from local businessmen and farmers.
But tensions soon emerged between the different groups, which accused each other of having been infiltrated by the very same drugs gang they were set up to fight.
There were also disputes as the groups seized ranches and land previously held by the Knights Templar.
Mr Videgaray was sacked as finance minister last year over the role he played in organising the visit of then-US presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Mr Trump had angered Mexicans, calling Mexican migrants to the US "rapists".
Mr Videgaray will now lead talks with the Trump administration, including on the wall Mr Trump has promised to build between the US and Mexico.
Announcing the appointment, President Pena Nieto said that "the instruction to minister Videgaray is to accelerate the dialogue and contacts so that, from the first day of the new [US] administration, we can establish the basis of a constructive working relationship".
Mr Videgaray was seen as the main organiser of the meeting between Mr Trump and the Mexican president in August, which was criticised by Mexicans both in the national press and on social media.
Many Mexicans saw the invitation by Mr Pena Nieto as a sign that the Mexican president was bowing to Mr Trump even though the latter had said during his campaign that he wanted to build a border wall between the US and Mexico which he insisted Mexico would pay for.
President Pena Nieto said the meeting was to convey Mexico's interests to Mr Trump.
But when Mr Trump appeared at a campaign rally in the US just hours later again promising that Mexico would pay for his planned wall "100%", President Pena Nieto said that "we could have done things in a better way".
Mr Videgaray stepped down from his post as finance minister just days after the visit and a spokesperson for the ministry said at the time that Mr Videgaray would not take on another public office.
But on Wednesday, President Pena Nieto named him as his new foreign minister, saying that Mr Videgaray would "promote Mexico's interests without diminishing our sovereignty and the dignity of Mexicans".
Mr Videgaray is replacing Claudia Ruiz Massieu who reportedly was opposed to President Pena Nieto hosting Mr Trump.
Mr Trump has in the past praised Mr Videgaray as "brilliant".
Christopher McClean, 18, from Main Street in Gortin, County Tyrone, is accused of killing Omagh man Darren McBrearty, 28, in John Street.
Mr McBrearty had been on a life support machine since the assault but died in hospital on Tuesday.
The accused was released on bail to appear again in court later this month.
Two other men, aged 23 and 24, were also arrested in connection with the incident but were released on bail.
The case against Mr McClean rests on whether he threw the punch in self-defence or as an act of aggression.
Dressed in a grey top and jeans and with a black eye, he did not speak throughout the hearing at Dungannon District Court. His solicitor, however, asked a detective constable to confirm that his client had made a full statement to the police at the first opportunity.
The police officer confirmed this was the case and agreed that the version of events laid out in that statement tallied with the police's understanding of what had happened.
The officer agreed that this appeared to be a "single punch" incident and that the case rested on whether this was an act of aggression or, as the accused claims, an act of self-defence.
A large number of friends and relatives of the accused man watched from the public gallery, some of them weeping.
Scottish Power said 300 customers have had power cuts, with the worst affected areas around Newtown and Welshpool, Powys.
An additional 259 Western Power Distribution customers were without electricity in the Pontyberem area of Carmarthenshire
Flood warnings were also issued.
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said flooding would affect the Conwy, Dyfi and Lower Dee valleys.
The Met Office yellow "be ready" warning for north Wales, Ceredigion and Powys, was in place until 04:00 GMT Monday.
The Met Office said: "Be aware that, given already saturated conditions, flooding is possible either from standing water or from rivers which have remained high after the large rainfall totals over the last few days."
NRW said its staff would be out working all weekend on flood defences and putting measures in place to reduce the impact on people and their property.
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Locheilnet Community Interest Company was created by a group of volunteers in 2012 to improve connections in parts of Lochaber.
It currently provides a wireless internet service to outlying areas of Fort William, including Glenfinnan, Kentallen and South Laggan.
The service is to be expanded to properties in and around Kilmalieu and also Tulloch, near Roybridge.
Highlands and Islands Enterprise is supporting the expansion.
McClean has scored 11 goals 87 appearances for the Latics and was voted player of the year last season as they were relegated to League One.
The 26-year-old played for Derry City in Northern Ireland and signed for Sunderland in August 2011, before joining Wigan in August 2013.
The Premier League club expect the deal to go through on Monday.
Band Aid organiser Bob Geldof had said that section was the "hardest" to sing because being the first, it's the most recognisable.
He was impressed with how "sad" the 1D lads made the opening, almost "whispering in" the first few words.
Some of the Band Aid 30 artists including Ed Sheeran, Ellie Goulding and Emeli Sande recorded solo versions of the entire track, allowing producers Paul Epworth and Midge Ure to then cherry pick who sang which line best.
Bob Geldof mentioned how each full performance he'd witnessed was great on its own, making him want to release multiple takes of the song.
It's an option for the CD single, which is expected at the beginning of December, although the current plan for that is to include the three previous Band Aid recordings (from 1984, 1989 and 2004) alongside some remixes of the new version.
Clean Bandit had the task of scoring some new string parts for the track. That meant Neil and Grace from the band got to play violin and cello on the song, but they also sing on the big chorus at the end as well.
Grace Chatto admitted she was smiling and dancing for that but as a group, all the acts had been told off for looking too serious as they sang the famous "feed the world" phrases (which now includes "feel the world" and "heal the world") so they all had to re-do it.
As if it was ever in doubt, Bono gets to do 'his' line again (even though the lyrics have changed from "well tonight thank god it's them instead of you" to "well tonight we're reaching out and touching you").
Bob Geldof did say he'd asked Chris Martin if he wanted to have a go at that line. Chris didn't want to.
Sinead O'Connor stayed over at Bob Geldof's house the night before the recording and had specifically requested the phrases she wanted to sing as they meant the most to her ("why is comfort to be feared, why is touch to be scared").
Jessie Ware appears in the group chorus but doesn't get a solo line to sing in the version that was shown on The X Factor on Sunday night.
Rita Ora was only at the recording for 90 minutes on Saturday, as she had to race in and out to complete filming commitments on The Voice.
Most of the other acts arrived first thing in the morning and hung out for the best part of the day. The end chorus which required everyone to be together, was due to be recorded mid-morning, but got pushed back as Bono was late.
He said he was "embarrassed" to keep everyone waiting but his plane had been delayed due to fog.
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First-half goals by Julian Draxler and Sami Khedira sealed Germany's victory in the Group C qualifier in Hanover.
"If we had taken anything here it would have been a huge bonus," O'Neill said.
"Whatever else happens I don't see any of the other teams in the group coming here and winning."
Draxler and Khedira struck in the space of four first-half minutes to maintain Germany's position at the top of the group with three wins from three matches.
"I couldn't have asked any more of the players," O'Neill said. "I thought we contained Germany better than we did in Paris [at Euro 2016].
"I was disappointed to go behind the way we did and to lose the second goal at that point in the game. You're trying to contain Germany and it's difficult then.
"In the last 20 minutes of the first half we had opportunities on the counter-attack and we could possibly have done a little bit better with those. We ran out of legs a little bit to threaten them."
Northern Ireland now lie third in the group, three points behind unbeaten Azerbaijan, who are their next opponents in Belfast on 11 November.
"We look forward to Azerbaijan and if we win that we have the incentive of going second," said the NI boss.
Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, 65, is the first woman to be convicted of genocide by an international court.
She was found guilty, along with her son and four other former officials, after a 10-year trial.
Some 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed during the 1994 massacres.
Nyiramasuhuko, who was family affairs and women's development minister, was accused of ordering and assisting in the massacres in her home district of Butare in southern Rwanda.
The prosecution at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) accused her of taking part in the government decision to create militias throughout the country. Their mission was to wipe out the Tutsi population as fast as possible.
"The chamber convicts Pauline Nyiramasuhuko of conspiracy to commit genocide, crimes against humanity, extermination, rape, persecution and... violence to life and outrages upon personal dignity," read the ruling by the trial's three judges.
During the genocide she ordered women and girls to be raped and forced people onto trucks - they were driven away to be killed.
Her son, Arsene Shalom Ntahobali, who was in his early 20s at the time, headed a militia that carried out the massacres. He also raped women.
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How the genocide happened
Presiding Judge William Sekule said scores of ethnic Tutsis were killed after taking refuge in a local government office.
"Hoping to find safety and security, they instead found themselves subject to abductions, rapes, and murder. The evidence... paints a clear picture of unfathomable depravity and sadism," he said.
Ntahobali and one other local official were sentenced to life in prison, while three others were jailed for between 25 and 35 years.
BBC East Africa correspondent Will Ross says Nyiramasuhuko showed no emotion as she was sentenced.
She was found guilty on seven of the 11 charges she faced. She had denied all the charges.
The trial opened in 2001, making it the longest held by the ICTR.
Last month, former army chief Augustin Bizimungu and three other former military officers were convicted after a nine-year trial.
The Rwandan government, led by Paul Kagame who ended the genocide, has long complained about the slow pace of justice at the tribunal, based in Arusha, Tanzania.
Butare was once home to a large mix of Hutu and Tutsi people, and there was some resistance there to the orders to carry out the massacres.
Nyiramasuhuko was accused of requesting military assistance to proceed with the massacres in her home commune.
After the genocide, she fled to neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire), before being arrested in Kenya in 1997, reports the AFP news agency.
Our correspondent says that although she was the only woman on trial for genocide before the ICTR, many other women have been convicted of genocide in Rwandan courts.
Two nuns were found guilty of participating in the genocide by a court in Belgium.
The night-time corners of Addis Ababa have long allowed revellers in a deeply conservative society to embrace activities that might otherwise be frowned upon - including smoking cigarettes.
Cigarettes remain deeply divisive in Ethiopian culture and Addis Ababa smokers well into their 20s will not tell disapproving parents of their habit.
"It is the health implications, money, everything - they worry you will get addicted," says 23-year-old Haile, who like other smokers interviewed did not want to give his second name.
Smoking at home is not an option - so Haile and his contemporaries tend to turn to the dive bars in the old city's Piazza, the dark alleys off the main thoroughfare of Bole Road and the red-light district of Chechnya to light up.
Mohammed, 27-year-old smoker in Addis Ababa:
"Non-smokers will be happy, but I am uncomfortable with not being able to do what I want - it is taking away a bit of my freedom"
"I am not sure what we will do if smoking is banned everywhere," says 25-year-old Mikael, who sat with friends smoking around a table in a beer garden off Bole Road.
Mohammed, 27, who sits smoking opposite Mikael, was more circumspect.
"Non-smokers will be happy, but I am uncomfortable with not being able to do what I want - it is taking away a bit of my freedom."
However, implementing the ban in Addis Ababa, a rambunctious city that has grown to about five million people, has not proved a simple task.
A manager of one Piazza bar has felt no pressure to impose a policy that would be unpopular with his 20-something clientele: "We watched news about the ban on television and so expected it to be enforced around here, but nothing has happened - day and night you can smoke here, inside and outside."
Imported habit
In newer upmarket nightclubs, more health-conscious customers are often glad to see smoking eliminated.
Amare Reda, Addis Ababa bar owner:
"Customers going to higher end places tend to be more health conscious than customers in cheaper places, many of whom still do not understand the problem of passive smoking"
"I spent 20 years in Sweden and saw how it could work," says Amare Reda, who implemented a smoking ban in his large stylish nightclub, Stockholm Elegance, when it opened in 2014.
"Customers going to higher-end places tend to be more health conscious than customers in cheaper places, many of whom still do not understand the problem of passive smoking."
In 2004, the Ethiopian government - keen to be seen as a team player internationally, especially on populist global issues such as climate change and poverty reduction - signed the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
A decade later, it ratified the international convention, entering it into Ethiopian law books - and early in 2015 Mekelle, in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, became the first city to implement the ban.
By the end of September last year, no-smoking signs in Amharic and English started appearing on walls and windows of Addis Ababa hotels, bars and cafes.
Ethiopia has never had a significant smoking problem compared with much of the world, though smoking invariably has health, social, economic and environmental consequences for the country.
About 7.9% of Ethiopia's urban population and 5.5% of those in rural areas - where most people live - were smokers in 2011, according to figures from the country's Food, Medicine and Health Care Administration and Control Authority (FMHACA).
"The numbers seem small, but that is why it is better to take action now," says FMHACA's Asnakech Alemu. "Once they are bigger it will be harder to control."
Ethiopia's first cigarette factory was built in the early 20th Century, primarily to cater for the habits of Italian soldiers around the country's eastern borders.
During Emperor Haile Selassie's reign, as the country continued to open to the West, imported Peugeot cars with inbuilt ashtrays encouraged smoking among wealthier Ethiopians.
Saving smokers money
Beyond health repercussions of smoking, the ban aims to alleviate the smoking habits of breadwinners, to help low-income Ethiopian households, says FMHACA's Baharu Zewdie.
For many Ethiopians - a 20 Ethiopian birr ($1, £0.70) pack of locally made Nyala cigarettes are prohibitively expensive, as a construction worker would earn 50 birr a day. In response, street stalls sell single cigarettes.
According to the terms of the convention, Ethiopia has until 2020 to implement the ban country-wide.
An indigenous form of smoking similar to the shisha pipes or hookahs smoked in the Middle East is especially popular in southern Ethiopia.
Smokers inhale through a mouthpiece attached to a large pot, or gourd, in which tobacco burns on charcoal or cow dung.
Mr Baharu says smoking is most popular in eastern parts of Ethiopia, where a cigarette is often smoked by those chewing khat leaves.
It is an addictive stimulant, which is chewed for hours usually by men sitting in groups.
They have yet to face the smoking ban, but the authorities hope it will have been fully implemented in the capital within a year.
It is not all doom and gloom for Addis Ababa's smokers as smoking will be allowed on public premises in designated ventilated rooms, or outside for those over 18 years old.
And some are now taking the law seriously - with some murky drinking dens having these designated smoking rooms, while at others smokers obediently sit on stools outside.
For Mohammed, however, these new rules are not going to change his life style.
"Though maybe I will stop when I have kids," he says.
Train operator Southeastern was forced to remove the advert from 70 sites after it sparked complaints from two Labour politicians.
MPs Teresa Pearce and Sadiq Khan described the use of the image as "appalling" and "ridiculous".
Southeastern said it now recognised how it "may cause offence".
The poster reads: "Good for sitting, squeezing, and shaking, don't bruise it. Please take extra care in wet weather conditions. Love every bit of you."
Tooting MP Mr Khan said the advert had "no place" on London's transport network.
Meanwhile Ms Pearce, who represents Erith and Thamesmead, demanded an investigation into how it was approved.
"Women face sexual abuse and harassment every day on public transport and it was appalling to see that Southeastern think that it is OK to trivialise it in this way," she said.
The firm said the poster was approved by an independent panel, but it had taken "appropriate action" to take it down.
"The poster was used as it was intended to be a harmless, but impactful way of drawing attention to safety issues at stations, particularly trips and falls during wet weather," a spokesman added.
The three-year-old, trained by John Gosden, also claimed the Eclipse and Irish Champion Stakes this year.
The colt, second in the Breeders' Cup Turf under Frankie Dettori on 31 October, has now been retired to stud.
A win would have seen Golden Horn become the first horse to win the Derby, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and Breeders' Cup Turf in the same year.
Found - for trainer Aidan O'Brien - proved too strong for Anthony Oppenheimer-owned Golden Horn in Kentucky.
Former Horse of the Year winners include Frankel, who triumphed twice, Sea the Stars and Hurricane Run.
In the 25th year of the big racing awards, a special presentation was made to Jack Berry, a tireless fundraiser for injured jockeys.
The rehabilitation centre, Jack Berry House, was opened in Yorkshire earlier in 2015 in honour of the 78-year-old former rider and trainer.
As well as Golden Horn, other equine stars honoured at the awards included top older horse Solow, and leading sprinter Muhaarar.
Horse of the Year - Golden Horn
Three-year-old Colt - Golden Horn
Older Horse - Solow
Sprinter - Muhaarar
Three-year-old filly - Legatissimo
Stayer - Simple Verse
Two-year-old colt - Air Force Blue
Two-year-old filly - Minding
Merit Award - Jack Berry
Police were called at about 02:00 BST to Old Kent Road to reports of a disturbance.
The victim was found with stab injuries and pronounced dead at the scene about an hour later.
Three men, aged between 21 and 23, and two women, both 25, have been arrested on suspicion of murder.
Officers believe they know the identity of the deceased but await formal identification and confirmation. Next of kin have been informed.
The former Netherlands coach takes over a day after the sacking of Gus Poyet with the Black Cats one point above the Premier League relegation zone.
"We have one aim only now - to climb the table - and everyone is fully focused on the task ahead of us," said Sunderland chairman Ellis Short.
Advocaat, 67, said: "I can't wait to get started."
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Poyet was sacked after a run of just one victory in 12 league games, which left Sunderland 17th in the Premier League and one point above the relegation zone.
They were thrashed 4-0 at home by relegation rivals Aston Villa in Poyet's last match and Advocaat's reign will get under way with a game at West Ham on Saturday.
"Sunderland is a big club and I am very much looking forward to the challenge ahead," said the Dutchman, who becomes the oldest manager currently in the top flight.
"We must now concentrate on Saturday as a priority."
Zeljko Petrovic will be Advocaat's first-team coach, while former Swansea and England Under-20 goalkeeping coach Adrian Tucker will be part of his backroom staff.
Sunderland academy coach Paul Bracewell will also support the head coach and his backroom team for the final nine games of the season.
Dick Advocaat has never managed in the Premier League but was in charge of Scottish club Rangers between 1998 and 2002.
He won the league title and cup double twice at Ibrox, while he also has league titles with PSV Eindhoven in his homeland as well as Zenit St Petersburg in Russia.
The Dutchman also led Zenit to victory over Rangers in the 2008 Uefa Cup final - now known as the Europa League - while his side also beat Manchester United in the Uefa Super Cup later that year.
Internationally, he has coached the Netherlands twice and also managed United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Belgium, Russia and Serbia.
He quit as Serbia coach in November, a day after a 3-1 Euro 2016 qualifying defeat against Denmark left them joint bottom of Group I.
Advocaat was just four months into a two-year contract after replacing Sinisa Mihajlovic and had been in charge for three games.
Defender Arthur Numan played under Advocaat for Netherlands, Rangers and PSV Eindhoven.
"He always said that it was his dream to become a coach in England," Numan told BBC Radio 5 live. "I think he is the kind of coach Sunderland needs. He's a coach with a lot of experience.
"It's a challenge to keep them in the Premier League. Maybe, if that is possible, he will stay maybe for another year, or another two years.
"The moment he arrives in England, the players will notice he's around. He eats, drinks and sleeps football 24/7, so he is devoted.
"I think the press are going to love him as well because he is outspoken, he has an opinion about football."
"It's a strange appointment. He's extremely strict in what he does but I really don't think he has got the time to instil anything like that on the players to change the results," former Rangers defender Colin Hendry told BBC Radio 5 live.
"He can walk away as a success by keeping them up or he might get a longer contract. Or they might be relegated and it wasn't his fault anyway. It's a no-lose situation for Dick Advocaat."
"Would suggest Advocaat's record is 'credible' rather than incredible. He's never been required to perform a late season fire-fighting role, though." Oliver Kay, chief football correspondent for The Times
"A coach with no experience of English football faces a daunting run-in, including away games at West Ham United, Arsenal, Stoke City, Everton and Chelsea." Henry Winter, Daily Telegraph football correspondent
Dubbed Deep Time, the event, soundtracked by Glasgow post-rock band Mogwai, saw the landmark used as a canvas for animated projections taking in 350 million years of history.
A planned live stream of the event malfunctioned, but spectators hailed the event as an "amazing spectacle".
The festival runs until 29 August.
A viewing arena was created on Castle Terrace for the show, which marked the start of Standard Life's three-year sponsorship of the Edinburgh International Festival.
On social media, Press Association reporter Ben Phillip described the event as "absolutely spectacular", while Joanna Keating said it was an "amazing spectacle" which "kicked off the festival in style".
The festival's organisers apologised for the failure of the live stream, but said a video of the event would be uploaded afterwards.
Deep Time was developed by the company 59 Productions with academics from Edinburgh University and will also look at the work of renowned Edinburgh scientist James Hutton (1726-1797), often referred to as the father of geology.
Leo Warner, creative director of 59 Productions, said: "Deep Time gives us an opportunity to build on the success of The Harmonium Project and to create a spectacular event that is more deeply connected to the story of the city."
Festival director Fergus Linehan said organisers wanted to "offer the people of Edinburgh and beyond a spectacular start to the summer festival season".
The sustainability and transformation report, suggests A&E services at Grantham hospital could end and be replaced with an urgent care centre.
It also includes proposals to centralise some maternity services.
Health bosses said they would consult on the proposals and take feedback into account when making any decisions.
Every health trust in England has been asked by the government to come up with a five-year plan to transform health services.
Martin Hill, leader of the county council, said while he welcomed some of the proposals in the report, there were parts which were unacceptable.
He said: "Living in a large rural county, Lincolnshire residents have a right to expect three 24-hour hospitals operating in the county delivering appropriate emergency access and services.
"We do not support the permanent downgrading of Grantham hospital and do not believe that the maternity proposals at Boston would be safe for unforeseen emergencies in the eastern part of the county."
The report suggests consultant-led maternity services could be centralised in Lincoln due to a shortage of trained staff across the two sites.
The idea was first reported in April.
Talking about the proposals, Andrew Morgan, chief executive of Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust, said: "It has not been an easy process and we have had to make some difficult choices about how to prioritise spending in order to maximise the benefit to our whole population."
He said although no final decisions had been taken, future healthcare needed to be sustainable.
Mr Morgan said: "What we are setting out is better ways of providing services - a stronger focus on care closer to home - more investment in general practice - and not having as many people referred to hospital."
A consultation will take place in 2017.
With just a week to go that remains the case. But if the opinion polls are to be believed, it is far from certain who will come second, while there is also a key battle for fourth place.
Since the Easter weekend, six polls of how people intend to vote in the election on 5 May have been conducted and published, each of them done by a different company.
Collectively these polls give us the best guide to the likely outcome. The average level of support for the principal parties across all these six polls is shown in our table.
The SNP are credited with 52% of the vote on the constituency ballot and 45% on the list.
On the constituency vote this represents a seven point increase on what the party secured in the last Scottish Parliament election in 2011, though on the list vote it is just a one point increase.
The SNP's performance in 2011 was regarded at the time as remarkable, not least because it proved sufficient to give the party an overall majority. Yet it seems that the party might do even better this time around.
Labour's poll support, in contrast, is well down as compared with what the party achieved in the ballot boxes five years ago. The party is credited with 20% of the constituency vote, down as much as 12 points. On the list it stands at 19%, down seven points.
Bad enough though these figures are, what will alarm Labour even more is that they the party only narrowly ahead of the Conservatives.
The polls suggest Ruth Davidson's party is standing at 17% on the constituency ballot, up four points on 2011, while it is perhaps doing even better on the list, with 18% (up six points).
That means the two parties are reckoned to be no more than one point apart on the list vote. Given the uncertainties that surround any opinion polling, this means that nobody can be sure who will come second on the list vote.
So far as winning seats is concerned, both Labour and the Conservatives are likely to be primarily, if not wholly, dependent on the "additional" seats that are allocated to the parties' on the basis of their share of the list vote.
So the closeness of the race for second place on the list vote means that it is also far from certain which party will have the larger presence in the next parliament.
The Liberal Democrats trailed badly in 2011, winning just 8% of the constituency vote, and 5% of the list ballot. The polls suggest the party finds itself in a similar predicament this time around; its average tally is just 6% on both votes.
But whereas five years ago the Liberal Democrats' performance was still good enough for the party to be the fourth largest party at Holyrood, this time that may not be the case.
The Greens, who for the most part are only putting up candidates on the list ballot, are at 9% on the list vote, up five points on their 2011 performance.
That means the party is three points ahead of the Liberal Democrats. If that were to be what emerges from the ballot boxes next week the Greens would almost undoubtedly secure more MSPs than the Liberal Democrats.
Still nobody who remembers the problems that bedevilled the polls in the general election a year ago will want to put too much faith in what they say now.
Meanwhile all the parties, however high or low their current standing, will be doing their best to win over voters in the week that is left - and so, they hope, prove the polls wrong.
20 January 2017 Last updated at 02:06 GMT
Gwen, 24, from Pennsylvania, hosted an "ask me anything" (AMA) session on the online community site Reddit.
She received almost 2,000 questions and comments, mostly from "supportive and respectful people".
"I figure very few of you know trans people in your everyday lives and might be afraid to ask questions at the risk of offending someone, so I thought I'd give you all the opportunity to learn from someone who will answer your invasive questions," she said.
One Redditor wrote: "I think you just won over half of Reddit right there."
Another said: "You're very beautiful, and I'm glad you found the happiness that you were searching for. Thanks for sharing with us."
In this video, Gwen responds to some of the questions she was asked.
Video journalist: Hannah Gelbart
Helen Titchener had been taken to court for stabbing her husband, Rob, following two years of domestic abuse but was cleared of attempted murder by a jury in a special hour-long episode of the BBC Radio 4 soap.
However, domestic violence charities say the conclusion to the court case would probably be the beginning of a long road of recovery for a survivor of abuse. So what now for Helen's character?
Polly Neate, CEO of Women's Aid, said: "Sadly this is not the end. Domestic abuse perpetrators don't stop because somebody has told them to.
"It's important to get the right support through domestic abuse support organisations to help with the road to recovery."
Sandra Horley CBE, chief executive of Refuge, said: "The control a domestic abuse perpetrator exerts over 'his woman' can last long after a relationship has ended.
"Helen may be free, but she will now have to face the impact Rob's abuse has had on her and her family.
"It can take a long time to begin to recover from these experiences but with specialist support from a charity like Refuge, women like Helen can rebuild their lives, free from fear."
The storyline began more than two years ago when Rob started emotionally abusing his wife which culminated in a dramatic episode where Helen stabbed her husband.
The plot was inspired by a new law against "coercive or controlling behaviour" in relationships, with writers consulting lawyers, charities and abuse survivors to get the details right.
Ms Neate said that while Helen's character could report Rob to the police under this new charge, it is likely her main focus will be her recovery.
Controlling or Coercive Behaviour in an Intimate or Family Relationship (Serious Crime Act 2015 - England and Wales)
She said: "Helen will be suffering from post-traumatic stress. You can't unlive an experience like that. But survivors can get the specialist support they need to recover and overcome the experience."
Helen will next face her abuser at a family court hearing which has been set for 14 September where custody of her two sons will be decided.
Fans of the programme were left with the chilling threat that Rob issued to Helen after she was discharged from the court room following the not guilty verdict.
He told her: "You might have fooled everyone else but you haven't got rid of me - and as long as we have a child together you never will."
The threat has led to suggestions that Rob will continue to try to control Helen - a situation many domestic abuse survivors may be confronted with.
Ms Horley said: "I don't know what the storyline now holds for Helen, but it is clear that for Rob, it is far from over. Abusers are rarely truly remorseful and they often blame women for the abuse.
"If the storyline continues to reflect the reality for thousands of women who have experienced domestic violence, Rob may now continue to abuse Helen through the family courts."
An estimated 1.3 million women and 600,000 men in England and Wales reported experiencing domestic abuse in the year ending March 2015, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.
A survey by charity Solace Women's Aid found 95 out of 100 female survivors were victims of coercive control.
Women's Aid reports that on average two women are killed by a partner or ex-partner in England and Wales every week.
About two-thirds of the residents living in domestic violence refuges are children, according to the charity Refuge.
Children living with domestic abuse can suffer from a range of psychological emotions including withdrawal, aggression, nightmares and anxiety, the charity says.
Helen's difficult journey may be set to continue but domestic abuse charities say the ending of the court case sends out an encouraging message for other survivors.
Ms Neate said: "I think the verdict is hopeful as there were jurors in the court who understood domestic violence and cohesive control.
"Hopefully it will make more people understand what domestic abuse is. It sends out a positive message of awareness and understanding."
Millions of fans tuned in for Radio 4's special show and reacted with relief at the not guilty verdict, but as The Archers' outgoing editor Sean O'Connor has suggested the story still has "a long way to go".
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The Chinese economy expanded by 6.7% in the first three months of the year, the slowest quarterly growth in seven years.
Chinese markets edged lower, with the Shanghai composite down by 0.26% to 3,074.26.
In Hong Kong, the benchmark Hang Seng index was also lower by 0.16% at midday to 21,304.21.
In South Korea the Kospi index there was down 0.1% at midday to 2,014.55.
Over in Japan, the benchmark Nikkei 225 index edged down 0.34% - or 56.68 points - to 16,854.37 at the lunch break. Investors stayed at the sidelines, waiting for full assessment and impact of a 6.5 magnitude earthquake in southern Japan.
Australia was the only market in the plus column on Friday. The benchmark S&P ASX 200 was up 0.4% at midday, to 5,144.1.
US stocks had closed mostly unchanged on Thursday.
US banks reported lower profits, but beat analysts earnings estimates. Bank of America and Wells Fargo both reported a fall in first-quarter profit after they put aside more cash to cover bad loans to energy firms.
Intermune, which is based in Brisbane, California, makes a medicine for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a deadly disease which scars the lungs.
The deal is the latest in a string of mergers in the drugs sector.
It is also the largest by Roche since 2009 when it bought the remainder of Genentech for about $47bn.
Roche will pay $78 per share in InterMune, which is a premium of 38% on top of the value of the shares at the end of last week.
Recent deals in the drug sector include US drug firm AbbVie's purchase of the UK pharmaceutical company Shire for £32bn.
UK High Street chemist Alliance Boots was bought up by US pharmacy giant Walgreens in an agreement earlier this month.
In May, pharmaceutical company Pfizer dropped a bid for UK company AstraZeneca.
Pearce, 51, was a hugely popular figure among fans during 12 years as a Forest player, but has rejected the chance to replace Billy Davies after initial talks with owner Fawaz Al Hasawi.
Pearce spent 12 years at Forest where his trademark crunching tackles earned him the nickname "Psycho". His playing days ended in 1997 after a brief stint as caretaker player-boss.
He played for Newcastle United, West Ham and Manchester City after leaving Forest and was Manchester City manager for two years from 2005 before taking over as England Under-21 boss in 2007 - a job he held until June 2013.
Former England Under-21 boss Pearce had emerged as the preferred choice.
Forest are still keen on Gianfranco Zola, Glenn Hoddle and Malky Mackay.
Ex-West Ham manager Zola, 47, resigned as head coach of Watford with the club in 13th place in December, having led them to the Championship play-off final last season.
It has been almost eight years since former England boss Hoddle, 56, last had a job in management, when he was in charge of Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Mackay, 42, was controversially sacked as Cardiff City boss in December, having seven months earlier overseen their promotion to the top flight for the first time since 1962.
Neil Warnock has already rejected the chance to take over as manager.
Forest are seventh in the Championship, two points outside the play-off places following a nine-game winless run, with eight games of the season remaining.
The 22-year-old batsman had surgery in early October after being diagnosed at the end of last season - and was cleared to go to Australia to play grade cricket in Perth.
But a small area of cancer in his lymph nodes has been detected in a CT scan.
He must now stay in England to have a course of chemotherapy.
Fell had returned from Australia in time to set off on the county's pre-season tour to Abu Dhabi, but he now does not expect to be back in action until June.
"It came as a complete shock because I did a blood test in Australia and that was all fine," he said. "I got back here and had the CT scan, which detected a little bit of cancer in the lymph nodes that hadn't been there before.
"It is very small at the moment and they've got hold of it early but the only option now is to have the chemotherapy. I will have three sessions of chemo starting from the end of next week and each cycle lasts three weeks.
"If I'm feeling OK, there is no reason why I can't be back up and running by June and hopefully playing again at that stage.
"The important thing is to live your life, not mope about and get on with things. It is the best way to deal with it."
Fell scored 1,084 runs, including three centuries, at an average of 41.69 in last summer's County Championship.
Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes added: "Obviously we are absolutely gutted for Tom. He enjoyed his time in Perth and was looking forward to the pre-season tour.
"However, his health is the most important thing to all of us here at Worcester and we wish him a speedy recovery."
Jack Salter, 18, posted an image of the "bomb" on Facebook.
Army ordnance experts were called and found that Salter's creation was not a viable explosive, but looked realistic to the untrained eye.
Salter, of Fort William, was dealing with his father's death at the time, the court heard.
Sheriff Margaret Neilson ordered Salter to be detained for 16 months after he admitted behaving in a threatening manner by exhibiting a device that looked like a bomb on 19 June last year.
The sheriff said: "I accept that at the time you were at a very difficult stage of your life and not coping well.
"But the charge is of such gravity that no other disposal other than a custodial one is appropriate."
Solicitor Hamish Melrose pleaded with the sheriff not to impose a period of detention, saying: "He acknowledges the consequences of what he did - inconvenience is too light a word.
"He was having difficulty coming to terms with his father's death but that is no longer the case. Just a week before he died, he had to perform CPR on his dad to bring him back around.
"At one stage it was very difficult to get anything out of him, but he is in a stable relationship now and has plans to go to college."
Mr Melrose added: "He gave police a very emotional interview and a doctor had to be present. It was put to him that he had done this to get help and he agreed.
"It was not a viable device but gave the impression of being one. That is what he wanted. He put it on Facebook and advertised it in effect."
However, the solicitor conceded that Salter also told police the incident "was just so the cops didn't lift me at the weekend" for road traffic offences.
Procurator fiscal Roderick Urquhart showed Sheriff Neilson Salter's Facebook page with an image of the hoax bomb which had been made at the flat where he was staying at the time.
It was constructed from two gas cylinders, a golf club, a scarf and a deodorant canister.
Police and firefighters were called before an Army ordnance disposal team was sent north from its base in Edinburgh.
Mr Urquhart said the call-out left the Army with a "lesser-equipped standby truck" to cover the whole of Scotland for a period of eight hours.
The fiscal said the military personnel established that it was not a viable advice, but "the set-up of it created a visual effect such that it would appear viable to the untrained eye".
The emergency services were called to the scene on the A494 at Bethel, between Bala and Corwen, at around 12.20 BST.
A North Wales Police spokesman said: "Sadly the motorcyclist involved in the collision has passed away."
Police are appealing for witnesses.
The 23-year-old England international was persuaded to move after Reds boss Brendan Rodgers made it clear the player was not part of his plans.
"It's great to be here at West Ham and all signed up," said Carroll. "I want to be playing games and obviously hoping to score some goals.
"I know the manager well and some of the lads, so it is nice for me to come to a place where I know people."
Carroll played under West Ham boss Sam Allardyce at Newcastle United. The forward also played alongside Hammers skipper Kevin Nolan when they were at the Magpies.
"I know Sam from Newcastle and he was a massive reason for me coming," added Carroll. "It was a no-brainer really."
Allardyce said: "For all parties, this is a great signing. Andy is an all-round footballer but, because he is 6ft 3in and one of his strengths is his aerial power, everybody dismisses the ability he possesses on the floor.
"Hopefully he can score goals for us and we will be in a very good position at the end of the year in the Premier League."
It is understood there is no commitment from West Ham to buy Carroll, although the Hammers have the option to complete a permanent deal for an undisclosed fee next summer.
Liverpool manager Rodgers said: "It is very simple. The club have made a monumental investment in big Andy. At the moment he is not playing. He made it very clear he wanted to play games and this is his last chance to do that."
Having conceded defeat in their chase for Carroll earlier this month, West Ham were given signs of encouragement on Thursday.
The deal could allow Liverpool to free up funds to move for Fulham striker Clint Dempsey, while Arsenal's Theo Walcott also remains a target.
In the meantime, Liverpool have completed the signing of 18-year-old striker Samed Yesil from Bayer Leverkusen. The fee for the German Under-18 international is understood to be in the region of £1m.
Wildlife groups said trawlers fishing illegally had not used devices to stop turtles getting entangled in nets.
Experts say such a large number of turtles has not been found dead on the southern Indian coast for 10 years.
Olive ridleys are endangered in India. They are one of five species of marine turtle to mate and nest on its shores.
The turtles were found dead near an estuary along the southern coast of Andhra Pradesh, about 130km (80 miles) north of Chennai (Madras).
"The trawlers are supposed to fish beyond eight kilometres [five miles] from the coast. But we found out that this time they were fishing in less than four kilometres from the beach to catch shrimps. As a result, many turtles got entangled in the nets," Dr Supraja Dharini of Tree Foundation, a marine conservation organisation based in the city, told the BBC.
Tens of thousands of olive ridley turtles come to the shores of eastern and southern India to lay eggs every year between January and April.
In 2003 more than 3,000 olive ridleys were found dead on the eastern coast of Orissa state.
The firm has recently suggested investment in the factory could cease if its economic competitiveness is affected by Brexit.
The factory is Britain's biggest car plant and employs almost 7,000 people.
A government spokesman said talks with the company were "ongoing".
The Wearside factory produced 475,000 vehicles last year, of which 80% were exported.
Chief executive Carlos Ghosn was speaking to reporters at the Japanese company's headquarters in Yokohama, news agency Reuters reported.
It followed a meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May at Downing Street last week.
He said: "We're not asking for any advantage [from the British government], but we don't want to lose any competitiveness no matter what the discussions."
Ghosn said he had received reassurance that the British government would be "extremely cautious" in "preserving the competitiveness" of the plant.
"As long as I have this guarantee... I can look at the future of Sunderland with more ease."
Production of the next Qashqai model is expected to begin in 2018 or 2019.
The time it takes to bring a new car into production means Nissan needs to decide where to make its next-generation model soon.
Businesses have been concerned that Britain is headed towards a "hard Brexit", which would leave it outside the single market and facing tariffs of up to 10% on car exports.
The six-seater plane came down off Barwon Heads on Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula, about 25km (15 miles) south of Geelong.
The accident happened just before 12:30 local time (01:30 GMT), said Victoria Police.
The cause of the crash is not yet known, but weather conditions were reported to be poor.
The emergency services were dispatched to the area, including two air ambulances and Coast Guard boats.
Police later said three people had been found dead. It was not immediately clear how many people had been on board.
Barwon Heads is on the south coast of Victoria in one of the southernmost points of mainland Australia.
When relatives of those shot dead at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston faced the suspected gunman, Dylann Roof, in a court hearing on Friday, they met him with words of forgiveness.
"I forgive you and my family forgives you," said a representative of Myra Thompson, 59, one of those killed on Wednesday night. "Repent and give your life to Christ and change your ways. You'll be better off than you are now."
Dr Eddie S Glaude, professor of religion and African American studies at Princeton University, says: "What we saw in court today was the best of the black tradition - that your evilness, your hatred will not distort the faith.
"There is a tendency to normalise black forgiveness and, in doing so, lose sight of what a miracle it is."
The African-American church has a deep history of forgiveness rooted in faith and tied into the history of white supremacy in the US.
"It has long been recognised in the Christian community that we live in a social order that has been other than friendly," says Dr Alton Pollard III, dean of the Howard School of Divinity.
"Still [members of the black church] believe in the ethos of the founding figures. All persons are created equal in the sight of God."
That notion is what makes it easier to forgive.
"God is always greater and because of that, even in horrific conditions, we can still be faithful," says Dr Pollard.
"Because of faithfulness, we have the capacity to forgive."
The ability to forgive has emerged as both an act of mercy and a tool against oppression.
Martin Luther King, himself a reverend, famously said: "We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
"There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.
"When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies."
As she stood in the courtroom addressing Mr Roof, Bethane Middleton-Brown, the sister of victim Rev Depayne Middleton-Doctor, said it simply.
"We have no room for hate so we have to forgive."
Dr Pollard echoed the sentiment. "Where there is no forgiveness there can be no love. The only thing more endemic to humanity than pain is the love of God.
"These families have forgiven but they have not forgotten. They still feel rage, they still hurt."
The victims of the Charleston shooting
They described a controversial off-the-record meeting with the attorney general as "constructive".
They said officials expressed a commitment to altering guidelines on issuing subpoenas in criminal investigations involving reporters.
Several major US media organisations boycotted the meeting.
The New York Times and Fox News were among them.
The justice department is facing questions over its seizure of phone records and emails from journalists.
The records were taken as part of investigations into leaking classified information to the media.
A review of how the justice department conducts investigations into reporters prompted this round of off-the-record meetings.
After the first of them, on Thursday, executives from news organisations which chose to be present said government officials agreed to significant changes.
Executive editor of the Washington Post, Martin Baron, said it was a "constructive meeting".
"They expressed their commitment to the president's statement that reporters would not be at legal risk for doing their jobs," he said.
Jerry Seib, Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, said there was also a renewed commitment, from the government, to supporting a federal shield law for journalists.
Such laws are in already in force in many US states to protect journalists from having to reveal confidential sources.
The Associated Press news agency had said it would not attend, but would "offer our views on how the regulations should be updated in an open letter".
New York Times Executive Editor, Jill Abramson, said it would not be "appropriate" for the newspaper to attend an off-the-record meeting.
"Our Washington bureau is aggressively covering the department's handling of leak investigations at this time," Ms Abramson said.
CNN, CBS, Huffington Post and Fox News were also absent.
Politico Editor-in-Chief, John Harris, explained the publication's attendance by saying he routinely has off-the-record conversations to discuss news coverage and newsgathering practices.
Mr Baron said he would prefer to meet on the record, but added: "Journalists routinely participate in off-the-record sessions, whether they prefer those conditions or not."
The 33-year-old has made 16 appearances for Teddy Sheringham's strugglers since joining in the summer.
McCombe, who left Doncaster after playing 59 games over three years before moving to Stevenage, last played on 16 January in the 3-2 defeat by promotion contenders Plymouth.
He becomes the second Stevenage player to leave by mutual consent in two days, after fellow defender Mark Hughes.
It brings the country close to breaking the Netherlands' record of modern-era uninterrupted economic growth.
Australia's economy had contracted in the third quarter but the surprise 1.1% rise pulled the annual figure back to a 2.4% growth rate.
The recovery was attributed largely to strong exports and consumer spending.
Mining and agriculture enjoyed relatively strong growth in the three months to December.
Iron ore and coal are Australia's biggest exports and reduced demand from China has cooled a mining boom and hurt the Australian economy.
Australia has not had a recession - defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth - since June 1991.
It is now just one quarter short of the Dutch record set between 1982 and 2008.
Treasurer Scott Morrison welcomed a 2% rise in business investment in December - the first rise after a dozen quarters of decline.
"Our growth continues to be above the OECD average and confirms the successful change that is taking place in our economy as we move from the largest resources investment boom in our history to broader-based growth," he said.
ANZ analysts said the figures confirmed that the weakness in the third quarter "was only temporary, and underlying momentum in the economy remains solid".
Capital Economics chief Australia economist Paul Dales said the economy was firmly "back on track".
"The decent rebound in real GDP in the fourth quarter doesn't just dash any lingering fears that Australia was in a recession, but it also boosts hopes that the surge in commodity prices will trigger a rapid recovery," he said.
"The outlook for the next year is reasonably bright," Shane Oliver of AMP Capital told the BBC. "We are seeing a pickup in export volumes and we have seen a big rebound in key commodity prices."
Mr Oliver added: "Growth should probably get back to 2.5%, maybe 3% over the course of this year."
Estimates by the country's central bank point to economic growth rising to about 3% for 2017 on the back of recovering commodity prices.
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Exeter Chiefs chairman Tony Rowe was given the Freedom of Exeter for his outstanding services to rugby.
Mr Rowe immediately exercised his right to lead sheep through the city, draping four animals in the flags of the teams who will be appearing in Exeter.
The Chiefs are hosting three world cup games at their Sandy Park ground.
During his 20-year involvement with the Exeter Chiefs, Mr Rowe presided over the club's promotion to rugby's top flight in 2010 and the construction of the Sandy Park stadium.
Exeter City Council said it can bestow the honour on anyone who has "undertaken something which is outstanding or has helped enhance the reputation of the city".
The former Royal Marine bandsman is being recognised for his services to rugby union, which the council said has "helped promote the city around the globe".
The businessman follows in the footsteps of Exeter-based Olympic athlete Jo Pavey and Great Britain swimmer Liam Tancock, who were both given the Freedom of the City in 2015.
Sandy Park will host it's first world cup group game when Tonga face Namibia on 29 September. It will then host Namibia versus Georgia on 7 October and Italy versus Romania on 11 October.
Patricia Smith, 37, said she felt the call had served little purpose.
On Tuesday Rachel Fee and her partner Nyomi were found guilty of murdering Rachel's two-year-old son Liam in Fife.
The couple were convicted of assaulting and killing the young child at his home in Thornton in March 2014.
They had blamed another boy for the murder.
Ms Smith, an office administrator, was one of several witnesses who raised concerns about two-year-old Liam before he was murdered.
Speaking to Good Morning Scotland she described how she contacted social services after getting a "gut wrenching" feeling that something was wrong.
She described how she had never seen anything like it before and knew she had to raise her concerns.
Ms Smith explained said: "I had passed them in the street. I noticed he [Liam] was lying flat in the buggy. He had a blanket over his head and the mother told me he wasn't sleeping, he was actually awake.
"At that point that's when alarm bells started ringing. She then went on to state he had autism, again this was something that couldn't be right because I knew the little boy.
"It was then that I got this gut-wrenching feeling and decided to speak to my line manager [at work] and call child protection services."
She went on to say that she thought she had known what a gut wrenching feeling felt like "until that day".
Ms Smith added: "That's the only way I can explain how bad I felt at the time."
However, after contacting social services she felt she should not have bothered as they had suggested everyone had different parenting skills.
Mrs Smith said: "They told me that they would send a health visitor round, but the feeling I got after that call was that I shouldn't have bothered.
"I personally felt like they were maybe getting quite a few calls about them and this one was just another one on the list that was creating them more work.
"I know obviously that social workers do a great job, but I came away from that call thinking that I shouldn't have bothered."
A significant case review has begun.
Six people on three bikes targeted Fraser Hart in Brent Cross Shopping Centre at 10:15 GMT.
The pillion passengers got off the bikes and smashed the windows, leaving with jewellery. BBC London understands the haul was worth up to £2m.
The bikes were found abandoned near a golf course.
No-one was injured in the raid but an elderly man was treated for shock at the scene.
The raid happened 15 minutes after the centre opened to shoppers for the day.
Eyewitness Claire Smalley said: "We looked out and we saw six men, two on each bike, pull up outside Fraser Hart and then they pulled out an axe and they were getting into Fraser Hart and telling everyone to stay back."
Sue Bangs from Hertfordshire, who was in John Lewis at the time, said: "It was very frightening. I could not believe it was happening.
"All the shops suddenly put down their shutters and we were locked in for a while. My heart was pounding."
Witnesses said the robbers appeared to have targeted Cartier and Rolex watches in the shop along with some other jewellery. The area of the shop that was targeted has been sealed off.
Flying squad detectives have taken over the investigation, Scotland Yard said.
Police believe the bikes pulled up at the entrance next to New Look where the pillion passengers got off and ran towards the ground-floor jewellers and broke the display windows.
They then ran back to the waiting motorbikes and fled towards Hendon Central.
Police said they found the bikes about 15 minutes later on Ashley Walk in Mill Hill.
The suspects were dressed in dark clothing and were wearing crash helmets with the visors down.
Det Supt Mark Strugnell said: "We are appealing to anyone who may have seen the sequence of events at the shopping centre, which had only just opened its doors to its first shoppers only moments before, and to anyone who may have seen the three motorbikes being driven from Brent Cross to Mill Hill."
The 34-year-old former Wigan Warriors back was contracted until the end of next year, but has decided to retire at the end of the current campaign.
The Australian-born Ireland international started at Parramatta Eels before switching to West Tigers.
He joined Wigan in 2006 and during his eight-season stay he won the Super League and Grand Final twice, as well as the Man of Steel award in 2010.
"I'm disappointed to see a so great a player, with so much class on and off the field, hanging up his boots," said Dragons head coach Laurent Frayssinous.
"As a team, it's an extra motivation to finish the season as high as possible to offer him the end he deserves."
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It is the first time the Americans have won the trophy since 2008, with Europe victorious on the past three occasions.
Victory was sealed when Ryan Moore beat Lee Westwood, one of Clarke's wildcards who did not win a point.
"Hindsight is a wonderful thing but even with that we wouldn't have made any changes," Clarke told BBC Sport.
"I have spoken about this already to my vice-captains and we were confident."
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Needing 14 points to retain the trophy, Europe trailed 9½-6½ heading into the final-day singles and Clarke put his best players out first, hoping they would erase the deficit and those playing later would continue the momentum.
However, US skipper Davis Love guessed Clarke's tactics, and Patrick Reed, the number one US player, beat Rory McIlroy on the 18th hole.
Henrik Stenson and the impressive Thomas Pieters, who won three points when paired with McIlroy on Friday and Saturday, both won as Europe closed to within a point.
But the US emerged comfortable winners thanks to victories in five of the last six matches in front of a partisan crowd in Minnesota.
"A putt missed here or a putt holed outside your opponent, that makes all the difference," said Clarke.
"Unfortunately for us we didn't quite hole them and the Americans did."
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Love said a "shift in attitude" helped the US win the biennial tournament for the first time since 2008.
In the build-up to the event, both he and veteran Phil Mickelson talked about adopting the European approach of keeping past players, vice-captains and captains involved.
"It's a breath of fresh air," said Love, the losing captain at Medinah in 2012.
"We came here ready to go. It started in March with Jack Nicklaus telling us to be prepared and throughout with Tiger Woods telling us the strategy.
"It was a new system and the picks were confusing, but everything else we were prepared for.
"It was a new chapter over the last two years and the biggest thing is not really the win, but that we are all pulling in the same direction together.
"We are going in a great direction. The veteran players have showed them what we want them to do for the next 20 years."
Mickelson agreed that the work put in for this tournament would help for the long-term future of the US team.
"We need to build on this," he said. "Otherwise, it's all for naught. We created a very solid foundation this year. Yes, it's great that we had success this week, but it's not about one year or one Ryder Cup. It's about a multitude, for decades to come."
Meanwhile, Justin Rose has criticised the course at Hazeltine, claiming bad play was not punished severely enough during Sunday's singles.
"I thought the set-up was incredibly weak," said the Englishman. "It was very much a pro-am feel in terms of the pin placements. They were all middle of the green.
"We are world-class players here and we want to showcase our skills - we want to be tested. For example, the water holes out there, all the pins were as far away from the water as possible.
"The pin on 17 is an absolute a joke. It's a nine iron into the middle of the green. With a match on the line, you want a player to step up a little bit more than they have to.
"Even 18, if you hit a good drive down there, you've got a wedge into the green - and if you hit a wedge to the middle of the green, you're within 12 feet of the pin.
"I just felt coming down the stretch it was a little soft."
The home side had taken the lead through Mark McGuigan in a feisty match which was peppered with eight bookings.
But Docherty's late shot from inside the box levelled the tie again.
The two sides meet again for the second leg at Somerset Park on Sunday afternoon, with the eventual winner gaining promotion to the second tier.
Ayr's Greg Fleming produced a quite stunning save from a thundering Ryan Thomson shot, which appeared netbound until the goalkeeper launched himself to his left and diverted with the strongest of hands.
Fleming's team-mate Ross McCrorie blundered at the other end. Unmarked six yards out, he had all the time in the world to finish but rushed his effort and totally missed the target.
A swift Stranraer counter-attack led to the opener as Andy Stirling, the outstanding player on show, fed McGuigan to finish low and with precision.
The hosts could have scored a second in a bizarre sequence of play which began with an Ayr player having his jersey pulled as he took a throw-in by a Stranraer fan leaning over the wall.
The home team broke and Ayr keeper Fleming totally misread a header outside his box. The ball deflected to Jamie Longworth, whose shot was eventually cleared.
And then Docherty levelled the tie again seconds before the final whistle.
It was indeed a weird and wonderful night and sets up a fascinating showdown on Sunday.
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Dr Kate Granger, a 31-year-old hospital consultant, started the "Hello my name is..." campaign while she was being treated for cancer.
She felt frustrated by staff who failed to tell her their names.
David Cameron, Jeremy Hunt and Bob Geldof are all supporting her campaign.
Dr Granger started her campaign to improve the patient experience in hospital, shortly after she was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer three years ago.
The doctor who informed her that her cancer had spread did not introduce himself to her and did not look her in the eye.
She was also dismayed by other staff who failed to introduce themselves when caring for her.
She subsequently set up #hellomynameis on Twitter.
Her campaign reminds staff to go back to basics, build trust and make a vital human connection with patients by - at the very least - giving their names.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme she said: "The lack of introductions really made me feel like just a diseased body and not a real person".
When someone did introduce themselves, she said, "it really did make a difference to how comfortable I was and less lonely I was in hospital".
It has now become a national campaign and has the support of more than 400,000 doctors, nurses, therapists, receptionists and porters across over 90 organisations, including NHS Trusts across England, NHS Scotland and NHS Wales.
The Scottish government announced on Monday that it was allocating £40,000 to NHS boards to roll out the campaign across the country.
The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals, where Kate is now working, were the first to sign up and the movement spread from there.
Trusts are now sharing ideas about how to boost compassionate care for patients across the UK.
Dr Granger said the main message from the campaign was about treating patients with respect and dignity.
She said: "I got my cancer diagnosis three years ago and unfortunately I'm not going to get better, I have a rocky road ahead of me.
"I want my legacy to be a better health service.
"I love the health service and I would never work for anyone else, and I think it's very important that we all think about the care we are delivering and how we can make it better for patients."
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the campaign was inspiring.
"All patients should be treated with compassion and the fact this movement has started from within the NHS itself makes it all the more powerful.
"We know that doctors and nurses within the NHS are doing more than ever to provide safe and compassionate care and this movement is harnessing their energy."
Jeremy Taylor, chief executive of National Voices, a national coalition of patient charities, called it "a fantastic campaign".
He said the NHS had made enormous progress but, too often, simple basic care was forgotten.
"Staff don't have the time and don't stop to think about the impact simple care can have.
"We need to put the human back into healthcare.
"It's a simple campaign which gets back to what is important."
The 27-year-old from Lowestoft dislocated his shoulder against Ruslan Schelev in Germany in July 2015.
"I've had two years of hellacious rehab," Ogogo told BBC Radio Suffolk. "It's been heartbreaking at times.
"I 100% believe I'm going to get what I want out of boxing," he continued. "And that's to become a world champion."
The London 2012 Olympic bronze medallist was returning from a previous injury when he suffered the setback in the second round against Schelev.
"I boxed four and a half rounds with a dislocated arm, won the fight, dug in, but I didn't learn much from it," Ogogo continued.
"It was just about proving to myself I had the minerals to stay in there despite the pain."
The Suffolk boxer is due to make his comeback on 28 May in Glasgow on the Ricky Burns v Michele Di Rocco undercard, where he will hope to improve on his record of eight professional fights unbeaten.
"If any guy is going to fight me, it's best to fight me now," said Ogogo. "My right shoulder is probably at about 80-85% compared to where it was prior to the dislocation.
"I've got the speed back but my right arm is only going to get bigger and stronger.
"It's frightening how much better I can get. British boxing is on the crest of a wave at the moment.
"I feel like I've sat on the outskirts looking in, so I'm glad I can finally get stuck in myself."
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.
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (The Party of Freedom Fighters) split from the Pakistani Taliban two years ago.
It has claimed a number of major attacks, including a suicide bombing that killed more than 70 people - including many children - at a park during Easter celebrations this year.
In August, the group said it had carried out a suicide bombing that killed at least 70 people at a hospital in the city of Quetta.
What they did not mention was that they would let strangers look around your home and spill your secrets to anyone who asks the right questions.
These are not people letting you down, they are smart gadgets that will form what is known as the Internet of Things. All of them are a security disaster waiting to happen, suggests a BBC experiment.
The Internet of Things (IoT) stands in contrast to The Internet of People we currently enjoy and which lets us communicate and connect via a myriad of different technologies. The IoT promises to let stuff, devices and gadgets connect in the same way to both other hardware and us.
Via the IoT, those gadgets will tell us how they feel and we will control them via the same routes. Already it is possible to get smart thermostats, fridges, ovens, washing machines, air conditioners, lights, plugs, music players, baby monitors and many more.
Smart gadgets are better than dumb ones, say enthusiasts, because the ability to control them remotely will help us cope with the uncertainties of modern life.
With a net-connected oven, it will be possible to ensure your casserole is cooked to perfection as you arrive home hours late rather than dried up and cold because there was no way to communicate with the oven and adjust its timer.
The BBC's experiment brought together seven computer security experts who have been looking into so-called smart gadgets to find out how many they could subvert.
And how many could they crack the security on?
All of them.
"With most of them, if you can connect to it you can own it," said James Lyne, head of security research at Sophos.
The BBC set up a house filled with a variety of smart gadgets and asked researchers to demonstrate how easy it was to crack the security systems on them.
Liam Hagan, a researcher from security firm Nettitude, said he was "shocked" at the poor job baby monitors and wi-fi cameras did to protect the pictures and sounds they were gathering.
"One of the big issues is that one wi-fi video camera makes itself available to the internet regardless of your firewall," he said. "Anyone who knows your IP address would be greeted with the login screen for the camera."
With one camera he tested, entering a default login name and password granted access to the images and sounds the device was capturing. There was no prompt to change these credentials to protect privacy, he said.
Statistics gathered via the Shodan search engine, which catalogues devices and industrial equipment attached to the net, suggests there are more than 120,000 of just this one poorly protected gadget online already.
It was hard to know how many were giving strangers a look into homes up and down the country, he said, as there was no legal and ethical way to probe them.
The vulnerabilities in the device emerge from the very basic web server software it uses to post images online. That insecure software is currently being used by more than five million gadgets that are also already online.
More worryingly, he said, one wi-fi camera he tested had what is known as a "cross site scripting" vulnerability that lets an attacker inject their own code on to the device. This, said Mr Hagan, could be used to turn the video camera into a sniffer that could look for what else was on the network and let an attacker "pivot" to other more interesting systems such as PCs, smartphones and tablets.
Researchers from NCC Group managed to take control of several different devices including smart plugs that can be controlled via wi-fi, a wireless music system and a blu-ray DVD player.
Felix Ingram, from NCC Group, said vulnerabilities in a widely used networking system called UPnP helped his team take control of these devices.
UPnP was known to be vulnerable and kits already exist, one of which was written by an NCC Group researcher, that look for devices that use the networking protocol and try different vulnerabilities against them.
Many of the devices used UPnP to reach servers out on the wider net potentially exposing them to attackers. Built-in passwords that could not be changed made these ripe for exploitation, he said.
Gaining control of these devices was likely to annoy people more than anything else, said Mr Ingram, but other work by the company had exposed a more worrying aspect.
"The one that people really get concerned about is the microphone on a smart TV," he said. "We were able to bug a living room through it."
"That's when the internet of things starts to spook people out," he said. "when your stuff does more than you think it does or ever wanted it to."
Mr Lyne from Sophos said, at the moment, the danger smart gadgets exposed people to was fairly small. However, he added, trends in computer crime suggest it might not stay that way.
The work that Microsoft and other PC software vendors were doing to harden their code was already making dedicated cyber criminals look elsewhere for targets. This, he said, explained the rise in ransomware, technical support scams and attacks on computers at checkout points in shops.
The "ridiculously easy" way it was possible to subvert many smart gadgets was likely to make them a candidate for attack in the near future, he said. There had already been examples of attackers looking to subvert domestic hardware in a bid to grab online banking data.
Mr Lyne called on manufacturers to "step up" and do a better job of securing their products. In many cases, he said, there was no easy way to update the insecure firmware on these gadgets to fix the bugs researchers are finding. And, he added, many might be reluctant to apply them for fear of "bricking" the camera, washing machine or TV altogether.
He realised that there might be cost and usability implications for improving security but said it would not take much effort or cash to harden many products.
"There's a continuum between security and usability and it's true that the more you secure something there is a cost in how usable it is," he said. "At the moment, however, we are a long way off the wrong end of that scale."
Fixing many of the most obvious flaws on many devices would not hit usability at all, he said, because it would affect parts invisible to customers and users.
The BBC would like to thank Felix Ingram, Eleanor Chapman and George Hafiz from NCC Group, James Lyne from Sophos, and Rowland Johnson and Liam Hagan from Nettitude for their help with this story
Turnout is thought to have been 80% in the poll - seen as a further big step away from decades of military rule.
Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) is expected to win the most parliamentary seats, although she is barred from the presidency.
The military-backed Union Solidarity Development Party (USDP) has been in power since 2011.
Voting was generally smooth, observers say, with some isolated irregularities.
Crowds of excited supporters appeared outside NLD headquarters in Yangon as darkness fell, apparently expecting the hear results. Instead a party official read out a message urging them to calmly wait at home.
The first official results are expected to be issued from 09:00 local time (15:30 GMT) on Monday.
Jonathan Head: "So Suu Kyi never showed at NLD HQ. Near impossible to get through crowd. They partied hard anyway. Just voting has been such a big deal."
Jonah Fisher: "NLD's Tin Oo is calling a few results unofficially. A USDP MP Hla Swe that the NLD supporters really don't like has apparently lost."
James Menendez, at polling station in Yangon: "Buddhist monk taking snaps of crowds outside NLD HQ (monks not allowed to vote) #myanmarelection"
Fergal Keane: "ASSK has visited her constituency in Kawhmum nr Rangoon. Followed by media convoy. Small clusters of locals watch it pass."
As polls opened on Sunday, long queues formed at some polling booths, with reports of people waiting from before dawn.
Smiling voters emerged after casting their ballots, some displaying fingers stained with purple - the official sign that they had voted.
"When I cast my vote I was very excited and so worried that I might do something wrong that my hands were shaking," said Kay Khine Soe, in Ms Suu Kyi's Kawhmu constituency.
Voting in Yangon, Wuhan Datong said: "I am 57 years old. I never participated in the previous voting since I had doubts over it. But the election this time is fair. So I have come to vote."
About 30 million people were eligible to vote in the election in Myanmar, also known as Burma.
More than 6,000 candidates from over 90 parties vied to be elected to the 664-seat parliament in the first national elections since a nominally civilian government took power in 2011.
However, 25% of seats are reserved for unelected military representatives, who are expected to side with the USDP.
Ms Suu Kyi, a former Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is barred from the presidency as the constitution disqualifies anyone with foreign offspring - her children are British.
The NLD must take 67% of all contested seats in order to gain a majority.
On Thursday, she said she would be "above the president" if her party won.
The party outside NLD headquarters started soon after the polls closed with several thousand people dancing and singing their way through the party's repertoire of songs.
Most were expecting Aung San Suu Kyi to make a speech and declare victory, but they were to be disappointed. NLD founder member Tin Oo instead took the microphone and told them that, though things were going well, with no results declared they should be patient. While some went home, the music fired up and festivities restarted.
International observers still have to give their verdict, but broadly speaking this election looks to have been credible.
If an NLD victory is confirmed, it will be a leap into the unknown for a country that has endured five decades of almost uninterrupted military rule.
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Current President Thein Sein said he would accept the election result. He cast his ballot at a school in the capital, Nay Pyi Taw, built in 2005 by the military.
Hundreds of thousands of people - including minority Rohingya Muslims - were denied voting rights, raising concerns about the fairness of the poll.
The BBC's Jonah Fisher in Yangon says there are no reliable opinion polls in the country, so no-one really knows how the vote is going to play out.
Ahead of the vote, security was stepped up across the country, with some 40,000 police guarding polling stations.
Ruled by the junta for nearly half a century, Myanmar has seen economic and political reform in recent years.
Ms Suu Kyi has already raised concerns about poll fraud and voting irregularities. In the 1990 election, the NLD won a majority, but the results were largely ignored by the generals.
For its part, the government has warned that rapid change could lead to civil unrest.
Recorder Ignatius Hughes QC had ordered an internal CPS inquiry into the case involving Anthony Mitchell.
Mitchell was jailed for 21 years in February for drugging and sexually abusing boys in a youth football team.
A jury at Exeter Crown Court returned a guilty verdict despite not being told of allegations he searched for child abuse images on his computer.
Recorder Hughes heard Mitchell's computer was analysed by police experts before report was sent to the CPS, but it was then not included in case papers sent to the defence.
The oversight was noticed shortly before Mitchell's trial was due to start, but the evidence was disputed by his defence team.
Instead of applying for an adjournment to consider the dispute, the CPS decided to proceed with the case as scheduled.
On hearing the results of the CPS inquiry, Recorder Hughes said prosecutors would have been left with "egg all over their face" had Mitchell been found not guilty.
He said there was a "black hole" caused by reorganisation of the CPS and asked whether the failure was the result of cost-saving exercises.
"If the case breaks down because of bad organisation or underfunding it is probably a case of spoiling the ship for a halfpenny's worth of tar," he said.
He said problems with a prosecution such as the Mitchell case would be "a great cause for public concern".
Laura Searle, for the CPS, apologised and said a meeting with trial counsel, at which the evidence should have been discussed, had not taken place because a convenient date could not be found.
But Lee Bremridge, for Mitchell, said the computer evidence had never actually been accepted and may have been challenged if the prosecution had relied on it in court.
Television was a latecomer: state TV launched in 2001, several years after the first private station. TV viewing is eroding radio's traditional dominance.
Although the growth of the broadcast media has been hindered by a lack of capital investment, dozens of private FM radio stations are on the air, most of them in cities.
News from international radios - including the BBC, Voice of America and Germany's Deutsche Welle - is carried by many stations.
Government-owned media are "largely biased" toward the ruling party, says US-based Freedom House.
The mainland and Zanzibar have separate media policies. Many islanders can pick up broadcasts from the mainland and read the mainland Tanzanian press.
By June 2012, 5.6 million Tanzanians were online (Internetworldstats.com).
The 19-year-old spent last season on loan at Griffin Park from Liverpool, and scored seven goals in 39 appearances for the Bees.
Canos joined Norwich in July 2016, but has only made three league appearances for the Canaries this season.
The Spain Under-19 international has signed until 2021, with a year's option in the club's favour.
"Sergi, is a player and character that fits naturally into our dressing room," said Brentford boss Dean Smith.
"After working with him last season, you can see what he brings to the group, and an infectious attitude to match."
Meanwhile, Slovenian striker Jan Novak has joined Brentford's B team on an 18-month deal.
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Victoria Balch, 20, from Lancashire, had six rounds of surgery in a bid to save her leg.
But she told the Victoria Derbyshire programme the pain had become a burden following an infection.
Ms Balch was one of five people who sustained serious injuries on the Smiler ride on 2 June.
She was sitting in the front of the ride alongside Leah Washington, Joe Pugh and Daniel Thorpe, when it hit an empty carriage.
The crash left them and 12 other people trapped 25ft (7.6m) above the ground. They were rescued by firefighters using a hydraulic platform.
Ms Balch said: "After the third operation it was looking good - I thought I might be able to walk again.
"But the bad news came before my seventh operation, by which time I was exhausted. I had spent so much time asleep.
"My mum noticed something going on with my leg. I had stopped being able to move as well, and people started needing to help me move around again."
Her right leg had become infected and required an amputation. More acute surgery followed to extend the amputation above the knee, on the advice of her surgeon.
Ms Balch described losing her leg as feeling "like a burden had been taken away".
"The leg was so painful that I couldn't do anything with it," she added.
Ms Balch has been receiving physiotherapy at the Specialist Mobility Rehabilitation Centre in Preston.
She has now progressed onto crutches, having previously used a wheelchair, and has recently been provided with her own prosthetic with which she can begin learning to walk again.
It is a process she says left her "shaking" with apprehension during the first attempt, but the University of Derby student has a clear goal.
"I'm graduating in November, so I want to be able to walk with a crutch. I just want a leg so at graduation I can say 'look how far I've come'.
Ms Balch said that while most people have been supportive, she had also encountered "staring and pointing" while shopping for the first time following the crash.
She said of Alton Towers: "I do think they're doing everything they can for the families."
Ms Balch said she had received weekly visits from staff following the crash.
"It's not their fault personally - they're normal people that have families," she added.
Merlin Entertainment, which owns the theme park, said it had contacted those injured and all 16 on board at the time of the crash will receive compensation. It said the incident was the first accident in the company's history.
Lawyer Paul Paxton, from Stewarts Law, who is representing Ms Balch among other crash victims, told the BBC in June that victims had received their first interim insurance payments to help with their rehabilitation.
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BBC Sport has learned the two - among nine clubs under examination by Uefa for failing the governing body's "break even" test - face similar penalties.
It is believed a Champions League squad reduction could see the clubs restricted to using anywhere between 18 and 21 players in Uefa's premier competition. A normal squad size is 25.
Uefa made its first FFP ruling based on club accounts from the past two seasons - 2011-12 and 2012-13.
Under this monitoring period, total losses of €45m (£37m) are permitted as long as clubs have owners who can cover such amounts.
A wage cap could also be introduced on the errant clubs to ensure there is no rise on this season's squad wage bill for the Champions League.
Negotiations between PSG and the investigatory panel of Uefa's Club Financial Control Board (CFCB) are thought to be nearing a conclusion with the French club prepared to accept a 21-player cap on the size of their Champions League squad for next season.
That measure will be combined with a limit on the overall wage bill for their Champions League squad, meaning PSG cannot exceed the amount they spent on salaries this season.
It is believed the club will also have part of their Champions League payments and prize money withheld by Uefa for the next three seasons, equating to £16.5m per season.
It is thought clubs have until Friday to agree a "settlement" with Uefa.
Failure to agree a deal would see a club referred to an adjudicatory panel in June where a non-negotiable penalty would be applied.
At that stage clubs could then seek a final appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland.
City manager Manuel Pellegrini sidestepped the sanctions issue at a news conference on Tuesday. He said: "When it is official news of Uefa we can analyse what happens with the team. In this moment we don't know what happens."
• The Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) was set up in June 2012 to oversee the application of the Uefa Club Licensing System and Financial Fair Play Regulations
• Clubs cannot repeatedly spend more than their generated revenues, and clubs will be obliged to meet all their transfer and employee payment commitments at all times
• Higher-risk clubs that fail certain indicators will also be required to provide budgets detailing their strategic plans
• Teams participating in Uefa club competitions have had their transfer and employee payables monitored since the summer of 2011. The break-even assessment covering the financial years ending 2012 and 2013 will be assessed during 2013-14
Read more at Uefa.com
Under Uefa's FFP rules, clubs can lose no more than £37m over the previous two seasons.
City posted combined losses of almost £149m for the past two seasons - £97m in 2012 and £51.6m in 2013.
Arsenal and Manchester United were in the black for the last two seasons, so they have nothing to fear from Uefa's financial fair play scheme.
Chelsea made a £49.4m loss last year but registered a £1.4m profit in 2012 so will comply with the new regulations.
Liverpool, who have lost £90m over the last two years but have not played in Europe this season, will not have to pass the FFP rules until next autumn.
Uefa introduced FFP because it fears many clubs are risking their futures by spending beyond their means, while Uefa president Michel Platini also believes the big spending of some clubs is ruining the game.
PSG's failure to adhere to FFP is understood to stem from the club's controversial contract with the Qatar Tourism Authority.
The contract is said to have been ruled as valid by Uefa but the overall value of the deal - worth up to £165m per year - has been deemed excessive.
PSG are also understood to have argued with Uefa that French income tax levels in France made complying with FFP that much tougher.
Sources close to the club say that, over a three-year period, they will pay £163.9m more in wages than an equivalent club based in Germany because of taxation.
Uefa ultimately rejected the club's argument that they have to pay higher gross salaries to attract and keep their star players.
Posts about high-risk cases will appear high up in the News Feeds of users who are located within the areas where officials are searching.
The firm's support for the police's Child Rescue Alerts scheme follows a similar Amber Alerts facility launched in the US and Canada in January.
The latest initiative has been welcomed by the UK's National Crime Agency.
"When a child goes missing, public awareness is a vital tool," said Sherri McAra, a tactical analyst for the NCA's Missing Persons Bureau.
"Facebook's support of Child Rescue Alert will not only enable an even larger number of people to be reached quickly - it means we can target the alert to greater effect by focussing on a specific search area."
Facebook said the alerts would be shown as the second item in affected users' News Feeds.
Targeting will be based on the place users have listed as their home location in their profiles, the internet address from which they most recently logged into Facebook and location data sent from the site's mobile apps.
The extent of the search area covered will be determined by the police - in some cases it could be a village and the surrounding land, in others the UK as a whole.
Posts will typically include a photo of the missing child, the location of their disappearance as well as other appropriate information.
Facebook suggested recipients could in turn share the posts with others they thought might be able to help.
It added that it would only promote cases in which the child was believed to be at a "serious risk" of harm.
One expert supported the approach.
"I think this is a helpful, good idea and shouldn't be irritating as I'd expect that the posts would only appear relatively infrequently in your feed," commented social media consultant Sue Llewellyn.
Facebook also offers a similar service in the Netherlands and South Korea and said its "goal is to continue to distribute it across the world".
The Blues, who had keeper Thibaut Courtois sent off, were down to nine men for a period after staff ran on to treat Hazard following a trip, despite him not appearing to be badly injured.
If a player receives treatment, they must leave the field.
"I was unhappy with my medical staff. They were impulsive and naive," Mourinho told Sky Sports.
"Whether you are a kit man, doctor or secretary on the bench you have to understand the game.
"You have to know you have one player less and to assist a player you must be sure he has a serious problem. I was sure Eden did not have a serious problem. He had a knock. He was tired."
Chelsea were already struggling to cope against Swansea's extra man before Hazard was tripped by Gylfi Sigurdsson with six minutes remaining, leading to Mourinho's frustration.
It was an eventful match for Premier League champions Chelsea. Courtois suffered an injury scare in the warm-up before he was was dismissed in the 52nd minute after bringing down Swansea striker Bafetimbi Gomis.
Replacement goalkeeper Asmir Begovic came on for his debut after an £8m move from Stoke, with opening goalscorer Oscar making way. Gomis scored the resulting penalty.
"I don't want to talk about it," Mourinho said of the referee's decision.
After Oscar's opener, Andre Ayew equalised on his Swansea debut but the visitors only held on for 95 seconds before Federico Fernandez scored an unfortunate own goal to gift Chelsea a 2-1 lead.
Following defeat by Arsenal in last Sunday's Community Shield, Chelsea again looked rusty, having returned from a pre-season tour of North America where they travelled 9,800 miles.
Mourinho said: "Swansea didn't have chances against 11 men. The team was playing very, very well in the first half.
"In one minute, it was a penalty, red card and the goal.
"If you have 10 men and are winning you can defend well and try to find a strategy but to play with 10 men and try to win the game is more difficult. I would say we were the best team with 11 players and with 10 we fought hard, some fighting at the limit of their condition."
Chelsea travel to face Manchester City in their next game on Sunday, 16 August.
From a distance, nothing about her appearance seems unusual. It's only on closer inspection that doubts set in. Yes - she's a robot.
Nadine is an "intelligent" robot capable of autonomous behaviour. For a machine, her looks and behaviour are remarkably natural.
She can recognise people and human emotions, and make associations using her knowledge database - her "thoughts", so to speak.
At IMI, they are still fine-tuning her receptionist skills. But soon, Nadine might be your grandma's nurse.
Research into the use of robots as carers or nurses is growing. It's not hard to see why.
The global population is ageing, putting strain on healthcare systems.
Although many 80-year-olds may only need a friend to chat to, or someone to keep an eye out in case they fall, increasingly the elderly are suffering serious ailments, such as dementia.
How can we provide quality care to address this array of needs? Many experts think an answer could be robots.
Nadine is being developed by a team led by Prof Nadia Thalmann. They have been working on virtual human research for years; Nadine has existed for three.
"She has human-like capacity to recognise people, emotions, and at the same time to remember them," says Prof Thalmann.
Nadine will automatically adapt to the person and situation she deals with, making her ideally suited to looking after the elderly, Prof Thalmann says.
The robot can monitor a patient's wellbeing, call for help in an emergency, chat, read stories or play games. "The humanoid is never tired or bored," says Prof Thalmann. "It will just do what it is dedicated for."
Nadine isn't perfect, though. She has trouble understanding accents, and her hand co-ordination isn't the best. But Prof Thalmann says robots could be caring for the elderly within 10 years.
US technology giant IBM is also busy with robo-nurse research, in partnership with Rice University, in Houston, Texas.
They have created the IBM Multi-Purpose Eldercare Robot Assistant (Mera).
Mera can monitor a patient's heart and breathing by analysing video of their face. It can also see if the patient has fallen, and pass information to carers.
However, not everyone is ready for a robot carer, acknowledges Susann Keohane, IBM global research leader for the strategic initiative on aging.
This view is backed by research by Gartner, which found "resistance" to the use of humanoid robots in elderly care.
People were not comfortable with the idea of their parents being cared for by robots, despite evidence it offers value for money, says Kanae Maita, principal analyst in personal technologies innovation at Gartner Research.
Amid this scepticism, IBM believes its Internet of Things (IoT) research may prove more immediately valuable.
The firm is studying how sensors and IoT can identify changes in physical conditions or anomalies in a person's environment.
By recording atmospheric readings - such as carbon dioxide - in a patient's room, carers could understand a person's habits, such as when they eat lunch, or take a walk, without invading their private space. Carers could spot changes remotely and respond accordingly.
Ms Keohane says: "There's a real opportunity to create new innovative solutions, including the use of robotics and the Internet of Things, that will help people extend their independence, and enrich their quality of life."
While widespread use of humanoids may be a long way off, robo-pets are already in use across the world.
Developed in Japan, Paro is a therapeutic baby seal that has been shown to reduce the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.
The seals respond to touch and are designed to make eye contact. About 5,000 are in use.
Clinical trials with dementia patients, conducted by Dr Sandra Petersen's team at the University of Texas at Tyler, found Paro improved symptoms such as depression, anxiety and stress. The need for symptom-related medication reduced by a third.
In some cases the results were even more remarkable. Dr Petersen says: "Some patients that were non-verbal began speaking again - first to the seal, then to others about the seal."
There are drawbacks to robo-pets, Dr Petersen admits - notably the cost. A Paro costs about $5,000 (£4,000).
There is also a reluctance by some in the medical profession to adopt non-pharmacological therapies.
Nonetheless, Dr Petersen believes the Paro may have a role in many health-related settings, as the seal's artificial intelligence allows it be programmed to adapt to a variety of behaviours.
"I think the Paro may have a role in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, in neurocognitive rehabilitation with stroke patients, and with pain management or palliative care patients," she says.
"Autism-spectrum children may benefit from interaction with the seal."
Inevitably, there are downsides to robotic solutions.
One issue, says Prof Sethu Vijayakumar, director of Edinburgh University's Centre for Robotics, is whether the spread of humanoid carers could lead to the increasing isolation of the elderly.
"We have to ask: are [robots] isolating people more, or really helping people?" Prof Vijayakumar says.
The use of robotics also raises concerns about personal data issues, he says.
"The quality and personalisation of [robotic] services are directly proportionate to the amount of data you're willing to release to the system. Your data becomes a type of currency for access to better services.
"It's an interesting ethical trade-off. A very sensitive area."
Doubts aside, Prof Vijayakumar says the growth of robo-care is inevitable. "Demographics being the way it is, we will see significant use of robotics in dealing with the problems of old age."
The next time you fill your name and other information into a box on a website remember this: when you do it, you are transferring data about yourself.
But what will happen when we leave the EU?
Data is not just a commodity for the likes of Google and Facebook to sell on. It can also be a cure.
At the moment, scientists are taking part in a study of how cancer is affected by lifestyle and diet.
The project is called Epic, and it is one of many research projects that rely on moving large amounts of data around the EU.
"The data can move freely between the researchers," says Beth Thompson, senior policy adviser at the health charity, the Wellcome Trust.
Right now, much of her time is taken up working out whether that will still be the case when we leave the EU.
You might think data is the ultimate borderless commodity, but how it moves is governed by rules made in Europe.
Imagine you're a Liverpudlian tax specialist offering online services to British expats living in Spain. Or an Edinburgh children's toy-maker marketing products in Germany.
When a customer fills in your online form and gives you data about themselves, you're legally covered because the UK is part of the system of EU data laws.
The rules we operate under at the moment were drawn up more than 20 years ago, well before the advent of social media.
New EU rules will come into force next year, and the UK will have to implement them. A year later we leave the Union, and then it will be up to the European Commission to decide whether it believes the UK meets EU standards - whether we are deemed to be "adequate".
"Adequacy is something equivalent to EU standards," says Chris Pounder, a lawyer at information specialists Amberhawk, with 30 years' experience in data protection.
Would we get adequacy?
"Already the Europeans are concerned about the level of protection afforded by the [current British] Data Protection Act."
He believes that if this continues when we implement the new data rules next year we are not going to get adequacy.
It's not just Britain's data relationship with the EU that is at stake here.
"Because we are part of the European Union we trade data with the United States as part of something called Privacy Shield," says Stephanie Hare, a political risk analyst who specialises in technology.
When we leave the EU we will leave that data-sharing arrangement, as we will the EU's other arrangements with Canada, New Zealand and the like. Stephanie Hare says in the future Britain will probably mirror the way non-EU countries currently do it.
"They have to go to these third-party agreements. It's really expensive, it's bureaucratically heavy, it becomes an added cost for business."
Those costs would exist for researchers too.
Beth Thompson, at the Wellcome Trust, isn't worried about data flows stopping, but "if we don't have adequacy the researchers in other EU countries who want to transfer their data to the UK will have to go through a series of hurdles and that will make the UK a less attractive place to do research."
Some argue we will not end up in that sort of situation.
Paul Lindsell co-founded the Data Governance Forum, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting best practice.
He says firms have to comply with the new EU rules at least until the point of Brexit. "Since the government is unlikely to waste time on unpicking data protection legislation post-Brexit, the vast majority of corporations will have become compliant.
"The result is de facto compliance. 'Adequacy' of legislation is almost sure to remain."
That would be the easiest scenario, but before then, organisations must plan for a more complicated future, even if that's not what emerges in the end.
Matthew Price reports for the Today programme on BBC Radio 4.
The Tomato Leaf Miner moth has destroyed 80% of tomato farms in Kaduna state, in the north of the country.
Other states, particularly in the north, have been badly hit too and farmers have lost millions of dollars.
The price of a basket of tomatoes has soared from $1.20 (£0.80) less than three months ago to more than $40.
Now Nigeria's National Research Institute for Chemical Technology says it has found a solution - a pesticide which will kill off the moth.
But farmers affected by the moth will have to wait as the new pesticide is not commercially available yet.
Tomatoes are a basic part of most Nigerians' diets and officials in Kaduna state declared a state of emergency in May as the price of tomatoes rocketed.
It follows a recent RTÉ documentary on collusion.
Brothers Gerard and Martin Harte died along with Brian Mullin when the SAS fired on them near Drumnakilly.
The shootings came 10 days after eight soldiers were killed in the IRA Ballygawley bus bombing.
The families claim what was said in the documentary shows that a so-called "shoot-to-kill policy" was being operated at that time.
Lord Maginnis was among those interviewed for the programme.
He stated that in the immediate aftermath of the Ballygawley bombing he was in direct contact with then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
He said he gave Mrs Thatcher the names of people he thought would have been involved in carrying out the attack. He said the people he named ended up dead.
Just over a week after the bombing, the Harte brothers and Brian Mullin were shot dead by the SAS.
Lord Maginnis, a former Ulster Defence Regiment soldier, told the programme: "Of course I felt, thank God that's the end of those fellows, they will not be killing any more of my soldiers. And that's war."
The Harte and Mullin families are also taking civil actions against the Ministry of Defence, the Northern Ireland Office and the chief constable of the PSNI.
The claims for damages contained in legal documents say: "As a result of the murder of our client's brothers and the recent revelation that agents of the state were directly involved in the planning and carrying out of the same, our client has sustained a severe psychiatric injury.
"Medical evidence has been commissioned in this regard, In addition, the deceased's estates have incurred significant financial losses."
The families' lawyer Peter Corrigan said "This is clearly a case where the state at the highest level has ordered a shoot-to-kill policy against our clients and we are taking a civil action.
"It's clear from the programme that the authorities have usurped the judicial process.
"Names were provided, no evidence was adduced, there was no trial process, there was no charging and men were executed by the state on the authority of the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher."
Ignatius Harte, a brother of two of the IRA men shot dead at Drumnakilly, said: "It's evident from what Ken Maginnis had to say that the orders came from Thatcher herself that Gerard, Martin and Brian had to be taken out at whatever cost."
He accepts the three men were armed and involved in IRA activity at the time of the shootings.
"They had prior knowledge of the men being armed, they had access to the weapons, so therefore they could have been arrested at any time and charged.
"They lured them into an ambush and shot them dead without any warning."
The lawyer said they expect the case to be heard in the High Court in due course.
Tickets for the league leaders' final home game were offered for £15,000 a pair via an online re-sale website.
The 7 May match against Everton, which could see the Foxes crowned champions, sold out in 90 minutes on Monday.
"The club has a duty of care to its supporters and is working diligently to prevent ticket touting," a Leicester City club statement said.
"As a result, a small number of season-ticket holders and members have this week received multi-year bans."
The club said this prevents those responsible from attending Leicester games, as well as having their season tickets cancelled "without compensation".
The Foxes are seven points clear of nearest rivals Tottenham and need three wins from their five remaining games to guarantee the title.
They host West Ham and Swansea and visit Manchester United ahead of the game against Everton, before finishing the season away to Chelsea.
German media reports suggest the country's spy agency BND collected data on European firms at the behest of the US National Security Agency.
An Airbus statement quoted by AFP news agency said it was "alarmed" by the reports but did not want to speculate.
The company said it had asked for more information from the German government.
"We are aware that large companies in the sector, like ours, are targets of espionage," read the statement.
"However, in this case we are alarmed because there is concrete suspicion."
Leaks from a secret BND document suggest that its monitoring station at Bad Aibling checked whether European companies were breaking trade embargos after a request from the NSA.
Embarrassment in Berlin - the BBC's Jenny Hill writes:
There is mounting pressure on the German government to disclose how much it knew about the espionage.
In the firing line is Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, who in 2008 was the minister in charge of the chancellery and directly responsible for the BND.
He insists he knew nothing about malpractice within the secret service.
Tabloid newspaper Bild printed a picture of Mr de Maiziere on Wednesday- his nose elongated to Pinocchio proportions.
"Herr de Maiziere!" the accompanying headline screamed, "You lie with impunity!"
Spy scandal turns tables on Merkel government
Airbus was named by the German press as one of the firms that was targeted. It is believed that BND eavesdropped on online, phone and other communications in order to gather information.
It is also alleged that it spied on France's presidential palace and foreign ministry, and the European Commission.
According to the reports, the agency did not target German or US officials in the surveillance, as they are protected by a BND-NSA agreement signed in 2002.
However, it has emerged that the German government knew about NSA spying on European arms businesses as early as 2008. The government found "shortcomings" in the BND's operations, German TV reports.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has denied claims of a cover-up.
Mr de Maiziere said he had no knowledge of malpractice at German intelligence agencies, but called for the internal BND report to be presented to a parliamentary committee.
"These are my girls," he said before television cameras in Rome.
"A Catholic priest was raping them when this photo was taken so that's why we've been fighting for so long... This was my perfect family. We created that, the Catholic Church destroyed it."
That fight occupied much of his final two decades. Mr Foster died in hospital at the weekend not long after suffering a fall at his home in Melbourne. He was 64.
Along with his wife, Chrissie, Mr Foster had relentlessly pursued the church for answers since his daughters, Emma and Katie, were abused at their primary school between 1988 and 1993.
Emma later endured drug addiction and self-harm. In 2008, aged 26, she overdosed on medication and died while holding a teddy bear she had received on her first birthday.
In 1999, Katie was struck by a drunk driver, leaving her with physical and mental disabilities which require constant care.
The Fosters had long sought answers about their daughters' abuser, Father Kevin O'Donnell, a paedophile priest who had been the subject of allegations as early as 1958. He was jailed for child sex offences in 1995 and died in 1997.
The Fosters said their family's accounts were not initially believed by the church. Finally, after a 10-year legal battle, the Fosters received A$750,000 (£435,000; $555,000) in a settlement.
"The church should be ashamed," Mr Foster said in an interview with Fairfax Media in 2010. "If it had been open about the abuse, Emma might have still been here today."
Although softly spoken, Mr Foster's eloquent words carried power as the pair gave interview after interview recounting their harrowing story.
In addition to seeking justice for their family and, increasingly, other victims, the Fosters educated parents and would-be parents about communicating with their children.
Their advocacy contributed to the formation of a royal commission - Australia's highest form of public inquiry - into institutionalised sexual abuse.
Set up in 2013, the inquiry is due to deliver its final report in December after hearing devastating personal accounts and a claim that 7% of Australia's Catholic priests abused children between 1950 and 2010.
It was long-awaited testimony from Cardinal George Pell, Australia's most senior Catholic figure and treasurer to the Vatican, which took the Fosters to Rome last year.
Appearing via video link, Cardinal Pell, who was Archbishop of Melbourne from 1996 to 2001, gave evidence about whether he knew that abuse was occurring under his watch.
After one hearing, Mr Foster confronted the cleric and told him he was "holding the hand of a broken man".
Following Mr Foster's death, royal commission chair Justice Peter McClellan paid tribute to the family for helping to bring about the inquiry. He noted they had "attended hundreds of days of public hearings and participated in many of our policy roundtables".
"With a dignity and grace, Anthony and Chrissie generously supported countless survivors and their families whilst also managing their own grief," he said.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said Mrs Foster had accepted the offer of a state funeral.
"History will record that a man named Anthony Foster quietly and profoundly changed Australian history," he said.
"He fought evil acts that were shamefully denied and covered up."
Paul Kennedy, a journalist who wrote a book with Mrs Foster, Hell on the Way to Heaven, said the nation had lost "a giant".
"Anthony Foster was my dear friend and hero. Goodbye, brave man," he tweeted.
In a statement, Mr Foster's family said they were humbled by his passionate efforts to protect children.
"Anthony's heart was so big - he fought for others to make sure what happened to our family, could not happen to anyone else," they said.
It had brought them peace to know that he had become an organ donor, "in line with Anthony's generosity in life and death".
Belgian rider Merckx, 71, won six stages on his way to the 1969 title and holds the record for the most Tour de France stages wins, with 34.
Brussels has hosted the Grand Depart once before, in 1958, while 2019 will be the fifth Tour start in Belgium.
"I'm very emotional, I hope I'll still be alive," said Merckx.
Nicknamed 'The Cannibal', Merckx also won three world road race championships, four Giro d'Italia titles, the 1973 Vuelta a Espana and claimed 19 victories across cycling's five prestigious one-day 'Monument' races.
This year's Tour begins in German city Dusseldorf on 1 July, after London turned down the chance to host, while the 2018 edition starts in Vendee in Western France.
The court heard that Gavin Coyle, 38, from Omagh, but whose address was given as Maghaberry Prison, had allegedly been secretly recorded talking about the attack.
He faces three charges, including attempting to murder the off-duty PSNI officer and causing an explosion likely to endanger life.
He is also charged with membership of the IRA.
The charges relate to an attack on a police officer in Castlederg on 12 May 2008.
He was on his way to work in Fermanagh when a bomb exploded under his car at Spamount, near Castlederg.
He suffered serious leg injuries and was rescued by a member of the public who dragged him from the wreckage shortly before it burst into flames.
Strabane Magistrates Court heard that police interviewed Mr Coyle about the attack twice in 2008, but that prosecutors decided the evidence against him - namely CCTV images, number plate recognition data, two witness statements, text messages and a trace of explosive residue found in his car - was insufficient to charge him.
A police officer said evidence from a covert recording of a meeting allegedly involving Mr Coyle, recorded in February 2010, had now given police sufficient grounds to charge him.
The officer said the accused's convictions in relation to other dissident activities also added weight to the evidence against him.
A solicitor for Mr Coyle asked the officer why the charge had only materialised five years after the recording was obtained. He also questioned why it was not used against his client in his previous prosecution.
"This material was in the cognisance of the prosecution five years ago," he said.
The officer said expert voice recording analysis had taken a long time to progress and detectives only received a final report on the taped meeting in October this year.
Mr Coyle's solicitor, who questioned whether the man taped at the meeting was his client, highlighted that no specific details about the attack, such as the name of the officer or the location, were mentioned in the recorded conversation.
He accused police of an "abuse of process" and said a bid to stay the prosecution would be made at a later court hearing.
Upon further questioning by the solicitor, the officer acknowledged the case against Mr Coyle did not include fingerprint, DNA, fibre or vehicle tracking evidence.
An application for bail was rejected for Mr Coyle who refused to stand during the hearing or confirm that he understood the case against him.
He was remanded back into custody.
He gave a thumbs up when led away from the dock.
Armed police officers were present in and around the court during the hearing.
Leszek Puchala, 52, got caught in a riptide while swimming at Sea Palling, just north of Great Yarmouth, on Saturday.
An inquest at Norfolk Coroner's Court in Norwich heard attempts were made to rescue him but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Coroner Jacqueline Lake said he had been visiting from Poland.
Mr Puchala, who lived in Malyszyn Gorny, had been staying with his son Sebastian. His son identified his body to police at the beach.
A post-mortem examination at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital gave the cause of death as drowning.
The hearing was adjourned for a full inquest at the Norfolk Coroner's Court on 28 October.
The coastguard said the incident unfolded after a group of swimmers got into difficulty in a riptide.
Mr Puchala was pulled unconscious from the waves and could not be revived, while a second man in his 20s was taken to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and was understood to be in a stable condition.
Neil Ramsay, 44, of Norwich, was at the beach and tried to rescue the swimmers.
He said there was a Polish family who were shouting in Polish, but as he did not understand the language it was almost three minutes before he realised their shouts were of panic.
He said he wished he had realised and gone to help sooner.
"It would be great to have a universal cry for help," he added.
Norfolk Police also issued safety advice in light of the beach tragedy.
Algeria's Belgian coach, George Leekens, had been expected to pick the 27-year-old for the tournament which kicks off on 14 January.
Three other English Premier League stars have been named, including the Leicester duo of Riyad Mahrez and Islam Slimani as well as Watford's Adlene Guedioura.
Another midfielder, Nabil Bentaleb, currently on a season-long loan at Schalke in Germany from Tottenham Hotspur, is also included.
Algeria, among the pre-tournament favourites, also left out Carl Medjani, who has been a consistent choice since his debut in 2010.
Leekens, who only took over as coach in October, picked uncapped 21-year-old Rennes defender Ramy Bensebaini in his squad who will warm-up with two friendly internationals against Mauritania next week before heading to the tournament.
The Desert Foxes have been drawn in Group B at the Nations Cup, alongside Tunisia, Senegal and Zimbabwe.
The teams will be based in Libreville with Algeria beginning their campaign against Zimbabwe on 15 January.
Algeria squad:
Goalkeepers: Rais Ouhab M'bolhi (Antalyaspor, Turkey), Malik Asselah (JS Kabylie, Algeria), Chemseddine Rahmani (MO Bejaia, Algeria)
Defenders: Mokhtar Belkhiter (Club Africain ,Tunisia), Mohamed Rabie Meftah (USM Alger, Algeria), Aissa Mandi (Real Betis, Spain), Hicham Belkaroui (Esperance, Tunisia), Liassine Cadamuro (Servette Geneva, Switzerland) , Mohamed Benyahia (USM Alger, Algeria), Ramy Bensebaïni (Stade Rennes, France), Faouzi Ghoulam (Napoli, Italy), Djamel Eddine Mesbah (FC Crotone ,Italy)
Midfielders: Adlène Guedioura (Watford, England), Saphir Taïder (Bologna, Italy), Nabil Bentaleb (Schalke 04, Germany), Mehdi Abeid (Dijon, France), Yassin Brahimi (FC Porto, Portugal), Rachid Ghezzal (Olympique Lyon, France)
Forwards: Islam Slimani (Leicester City, England), Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City, England), Hilal Soudani El Arabi (Dinamo Zagreb, Croatia), Baghdad Bounedjah (Al Sadd, Qatar), Sofiane Hanni (Anderlecht, Belgium)
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The Exiles have not won in six home matches this season, are bottom of League Two and host leaders Plymouth Argyle on Saturday.
"It's up to us to step up to the plate," said Westley, who managed Peterborough in League One last season.
"The home record over the last couple of years hasn't been good and we need to start putting that straight."
Saturday's opponents Plymouth are three points clear at the top of the table having won nine of their 13 league games this season.
"Our home needs to be a place that people fear coming to and it will be," Westley, who succeeded the sacked Warren Feeney on 7 October, told BBC Wales Sport.
"With respect to any team in League Two, they're a League Two team. Last year I faced some big clubs in League One and there were some really tough challenges.
"We're in League Two facing League Two opponents and of course we must not underestimate them - but we must not overestimate them.
"We've got a lot of experience and good quality players here and I'm sure we're capable of playing like a top of the league team."
Newport conceded in the 80th minute as they lost 1-0 to Yeovil in Westley's first game in charge of the club, but the 48-year-old is confident letting in late goals will not become a habit.
"My sides are notorious for being strong late on and scoring lots of late winners," he added.
"They're certainly not notorious for conceding late goals, so it won't be an issue."
Noah Serra-Morrison, 13 months, died at the hands of Hardeep Hunjan in Luton, in November 2015.
A serious case review said the family was known to children's services in London but its details were not fully considered when they moved to Luton.
Luton Borough Council says it has now changed its procedures.
Baby Noah died as a result of a skull fracture at his home in Crawley Road.
At the time medical experts concluded the child had been slammed against a hard surface. He also had multiple limb fractures consistent with being twisted or swung.
A serious case review (SCR), commissioned by Luton Safeguarding Children Board, described how Noah, referred to as 'Child J', moved to Luton with his mother Ronnie Tayler-Morrison weeks before his death.
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The boy's parents had separated and his mother became involved with Hunjan in July 2015.
Hunjan had been bailed to an address in Hull after assaulting a "vulnerable" neighbour in London.
He was able to move in with Tayler-Morrison without children's services' knowledge because the terms of his bail only specified addresses within the M25, the report said.
The review concluded that the safeguarding team in Luton "was experiencing heavy workloads, a disproportionate number of contacts, large turnovers of staff and poor management of resources" at the time of Noah's death.
Workloads were high and "staff did not feel they had sufficient time to read and understand all the information provided by an Ealing social worker," it said.
A spokesman for Luton Council said the review highlighted the inconsistency across all local authorities on the transfer of so-called child in need cases.
"Following the death of Child J, we immediately carried out a review and changed our procedures so that when we are informed by another local authority that they are transferring a child in need case to our area we automatically carry out an independent assessment of the child's needs," he added.
Sheila Lock, independent chair of the Ealing Safeguarding Board, said the authority would be writing to the new children's minister to push for change in the way agencies handle information on families that move between boroughs.
Hunjan, 27, was jailed for life for baby Noah's murder at Luton Crown Court last July. Tayler-Morrison, 22, was jailed for six-and-a-half years for causing or allowing his death.
A spokesman for the NSPCC described the case as "tragic".
"A vulnerable baby boy was subjected to horrific abuse and neglect by the very people who should have been protecting him," he said.
They've turned out for a day of harness racing, a sport which is new to me but, despite the far from Romanesque setting, immediately conjures up images of Charlton Heston and Ben Hur.
Pies and pints in hand, most people are picking over their punts.
But on the eve of a federal election, a few are pondering politics.
"Personally I'm a swinging voter and at the moment I'd vote for anyone but the leading parties," one plain-speaking race-goer says. "I think our leaders are short on nuts."
He goes on to say that the country needs "an Aussie Putin".
Australians are famously the world's biggest gamblers, but with the global economic uncertainty caused by Brexit, many are feeling a little risk averse in the run up to this election.
"Everything is global these days," says Judy, a retired cook for whom the economy is one of the biggest election issues.
"Things that didn't hit Australia before are hitting Australia now."
And when I ask people what they're looking for out of this election, the most common answer is "stability."
"We've got to have a bit of stability," says Peter Clark, a retired horse trainer.
"We need strong, stable government. Not like we've had in the last few years."
Indeed, for a supposedly stable democracy, Australian politics of late has been remarkably volatile.
The country has had an incredible five prime ministers in just six years (including two stints for Kevin Rudd).
The rate of change is only matched by perpetually crisis-ridden Greece.
The birthplace of democracy also managed five different leaders since 2010.
Australia, meanwhile, had to endure the back-and-forth soap opera of the Kevin Rudd/Julia Gillard years, where the two Labor leaders took turns to stab each other in the back.
In 2013, capitalising on Labor's internal squabbles, Tony Abbott led the conservative Liberal-National coalition to power.
But having pledged never to repeat Labor's mistakes, Mr Abbott fell victim to a leadership coup himself, being ousted after just two years by one of his Liberal Party colleagues, the current prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull.
Mr Turnbull is a 61-year-old former lawyer who turned his hand to investment banking and became a multi-millionaire.
Unlike his more right-wing predecessor, Mr Abbott, he's regarded as a moderate conservative.
Outside Australia, Mr Turnbull is perhaps best known for having led the country's unsuccessful 1999 referendum campaign to ditch the monarchy and become a republic.
He is being challenged in this election by the Labor Party's Bill Shorten.
Despite lacklustre personal approval ratings, until a few days ago the 59-year-old former union leader looked like he had a strong chance of becoming Australia's sixth prime minister in six years.
His Labor Party had crept narrowly ahead in the polls.
But that was before Brexit and the climate of global economic uncertainly that came with it.
"The conventional wisdom is that this favours the government led by Malcolm Turnbull," says Sam Roggeveen, a senior researcher with the Sydney-based think-tank, the Lowy Institute.
"In times of uncertainty people tend to stick with incumbents and his party (Mr Turnbull's) is traditionally aligned with strong, stable economic management in the eyes of voters."
Mr Roggeveen cautions that Mr Turnbull has not necessarily made the most of that trend in his final week on the campaign trail.
But post-Brexit polls show that Mr Turnbull has now edged ahead.
That said, in the week after Britain's EU referendum, many voters will be aware that the pollsters and pundits aren't always to be trusted.
"Opinion polls are less reliable than they used to be and certainly in the Brexit case the punditry was not to be relied upon," Mr Roggeveen says.
"If we're learned anything from Brexit and from recent Australian state elections, it is to expect the unexpected."
Its members voted 4-1 for action after rejecting pay offers from Network Rail, which owns and maintains most of Britain's railway infrastructure.
Union bosses rejected the offer of a one-off £500 payment to staff and three years of rises in line with inflation.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said the result showed "the anger" of staff.
"It is now down to Network Rail to start taking this issue seriously, to understand the deep-seated grievance felt by their staff and to come forward with a renewed offer which protects pay and jobs," Mr Cash said.
"The union executive will now consider this overwhelming mandate for action and decide on our next steps aimed at securing pay and workplace justice."
The ballot had a turnout of 60%.
But instead another deadline has been missed.
Three countries remain where the transmission of polio has never been interrupted - Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria.
Nigeria is being watched more closely than anywhere else: its cases reached a three-year high with more than 100 in 2012.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as Rotary International, are pouring significant money and effort into the global campaign to end polio.
Cases are concentrated in particular pockets of several states in northern Nigeria.
The young children who cheerfully thronged around me in Duhuwa village might yet be lucky enough to grow up in a world without polio.
One of the community leaders proudly shows me a certificate marking his role in helping what are now vigorous immunisation campaigns in Nigeria.
He told me through a translator: "We've had no polio cases here for 10 years. People here accept vaccination.
"I'm very grateful to God that people are responding and accepting intervention."
But in another village about half an hour's drive away, a mother of eight who teaches the Koran says suspicion still lingers that the drops of polio vaccine are a western plot to sterilise Muslim children.
She has to immunise her own children in front of a wide audience, to win the confidence of other mothers.
She said: "I gather a big group of extended families. I open the box of vaccines in front of them, and do my children first. If not, the women wouldn't accept it.
"They fear that I give 'good vaccine' to my own children, and leave the rest for others.
"Another misconception is that the jabs are a family planning method that will ultimately stop the children from giving birth when they want to."
The polio virus invades the nervous system, and can cause paralysis in hours. Survivors often have wasted limbs.
Even small drops in vaccination levels among children can lead to large outbreaks.
That is why eradication is so important.
Yusuf Yusufari is a health worker in Yobe, one of the north Nigerian states which has had polio cases this year - because parents have either refused the vaccine, or their children have simply been missed.
Sometimes, he says, resistance comes down to a feeling that not enough is being done to tackle other basic diseases.
Yusuf told me: "It's really challenging. Just when you think you're done with polio, it begins to show its face again.
"Part of the mindset that resists vaccination is that it's some sort of global agenda linked with contraception.
"The other perspective is that people witness lots of malaria.
"They say - why are you bringing polio vaccination to my doorstep every month, but no anti-malarial drugs?"
That standpoint has to be confronted head on, according to England's former chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson.
He is leading independent monitors overseeing the polio eradication efforts.
Their latest report gave a blunt warning that Nigeria may end up being the last country in the world with polio.
Communities should have their broader health needs taken into account by vaccination campaigns, the report recommended.
There are though grounds for optimism that 2013 might be different.
Fresh energy is being put into vaccine campaigns - even using satellite tracking to detect settlements where children might be missed.
Local staff who are deemed ineffective have been fired. And lessons are being learned from India, which marked a year without polio cases early in 2012.
On his private jet, the Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote - whose business empire includes production of cement, flour and sugar - explained why he is involved in an initiative to double immunisation efforts in his home state, Kano.
It is a hub for polio cases.
He said: "Most people you see who are crippled by polio are from northern Nigeria.
"We now have the buy-in of the state governor, and I believe that Kano will soon have a success story.
"I intend to go there and help with the polio immunisation exercise twice a year. I might even try to do more than that."
It is 30 years since polio was transmitted in the UK.
But in Nigeria, operations still have to be carried out on young polio survivors who need corrective surgery. Senior politicians are feeling the heat from the global campaign.
In his office in the capital Abuja, I asked the health minister Dr Muhammad Pate how much he felt was resting on his shoulders.
He said: "I feel my head is sticking out on this. If we don't successfully conclude the efforts in eradicating polio, I'll consider my legacy to be a failed one.
"Polio eradication is do-able. Other countries have done it - therefore we can do it in Nigeria."
Stuart Campbell, 59, an uncle of Danielle Jones, was jailed for life for her abduction and murder in 2002.
Danielle, 15, was last seen at a bus stop near her home in East Tilbury on 18 June 2001. Her body has never been found.
Essex Police were led to the block of garages in Stifford Clays, Thurrock, by information described as "credible".
Campbell, a builder and father of two, was told he would serve at least 20 years of his life sentence for murder. He was also sentenced to 10 years for Danielle's abduction, which he is serving concurrently.
Campbell will be eligible for parole in four years' time.
Assistant Chief Constable Steve Worron said: "We received information earlier this year that there had been unusual activity in the garage block around the time of Danielle's disappearance."
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Police said they had not "ruled out the possibility that Danielle's body could be buried" there.
I was a junior reporter when Danielle was taken and the trial was one of the first I had covered.
It was a case that had enormous media interest - not just because it involved the murder of a young teenager on her way to school, but because her body had not been found.
My main memory of the court case was seeing her parents, Tony and Linda, sitting attentively listening to the evidence. They were so strong and so dignified throughout.
And then there was Stuart Campbell, who just showed no emotion throughout. He just sat there looking straight forward.
And of course, this was a case which showed just how far technological evidence had come - with mobile phone signals proving where Campbell had been.
More than 1,000 garages were included in a "huge number" of searches that were carried out in 2001 and 2002, according to Mr Worron.
However, the force on Monday confirmed it had received "non-specific information" about one set of garages back in 2001 but no search was carried out.
"We are working to ascertain why these (the Stifford Clays garages) were not searched as part of the original investigation," a police spokesman said.
Danielle's parents Linda and Tony Jones said: "We are extremely grateful that the police are following up this information and we know they are determined to do whatever they can to find Danielle.
"We think about Danielle every day and we hope that this latest search may bring us answers to what happened to her 16 years ago."
Essex Police and Crime Commissioner Roger Hirst said the case was one of the largest investigated by Essex Police and remained open because Danielle's body had never been found.
"Today's operation follows new credible information being obtained by Essex Police," he added.
"We are all hopeful that this line of inquiry will be successful and help to provide some closure for Danielle's family."
Police identified Campbell as Danielle's killer after phone records showed he had used her mobile in the crucial period after she went missing and that his claim he had been buying bolts at a builders' merchant in Rayleigh when Danielle went missing could not be true.
At the time, the case was England's most expensive homicide investigation costing £1.7m.
The 42-year-old succeeds his fellow Scot Alex McLeish, who was sacked the day after the final game of the season.
Lambert, who becomes Villa's fourth boss in less than two years, guided the Canaries to back-to-back promotions from League One before finishing 12th in last season's Premier League.
"Lambert is clearly one of the brightest young managers in the country and his work at Norwich was hugely impressive. Now his task is to revive a Villa squad that has gone backwards since the departure of Martin O'Neill two years ago."
A Villa statement said: "The board are delighted to confirm that Paul Lambert has been appointed manager."
The former Livingston, Wycombe and Colchester boss, who recently described speculation he could leave Carrow Road as "absolute nonsense", offered his resignation to Norwich on Friday but saw that rejected.
In a statement released on Saturday, Norwich said they were in discussions with Villa about compensation for Lambert and denied reports that a figure had been agreed.
"We will continue to discuss this matter privately with Aston Villa," it read.
"The next Norwich City manager will have a great squad of players, a robust and competitive budget and excellent facilities to work with - as well as the superb backing home and away of our fantastic supporters."
Chief executive David McNally had previously told the BBC that he was ready for a fight to keep Lambert at the club.
Norwich striker Grant Holt, whose future at Carrow Road is up in the air, took to Twitter upon Lambert's departure. He wrote: "Good luck to the gaffer [he] will be sadly missed at Norwich. Enjoyed every minute of his 3 years."
Lambert, who enjoyed spells at Celtic and Borussia Dortmund in his playing days, moved to Carrow Road in August 2009 when the Canaries were in the third tier.
He will now have the task of reviving Villa's fortunes after a disappointing campaign for the West Midlands club which saw them finish only two points above the relegation zone.
Villa goalkeeper Shay Given, who is preparing for Euro 2012 with the Republic of Ireland, has welcomed the appointment.
He said on Twitter: "Great appointment today for the club with Paul Lambert coming in as our new manager. I wish him well at #avfc"
Lambert is expected to be given money to spend after McLeish spent last season reducing what he described as an "astronomical" wage bill.
It is expected that he will be able to reinvest any money he generates from the sale of current Villa players.
McLeish departed Villa on 14 May after only 11 months in charge.
Owner Randy Lerner also held talks with former Manchester United striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer but he opted to stay at Molde in Norway for family reasons.
Villa also spoke with advisors of Wigan boss Roberto Martinez, somebody who had rejected the chance to replace Gerard Houllier 12 months ago.
The South African born forward, 26, has been added to the panel that was named last week by head coach Joe Schmidt.
Roux won his only Ireland Test cap against the Springboks in June 2016.
The 32-man squad will play their opening Test against the USA Eagles in New Jersey on 10 June before flying to Japan for two Tests against the 2019 Rugby World Cup host nation.
The matches against Japan, on 17 and 24 of June, will give the Ireland players and coaches a chance to run the rule over the Brave Blossoms, who they have been drawn against in Pool A of the 2019 Rugby World Cup.
Roux is one of just four specialist second rows included in the squad alongside Devin Toner and the uncapped pair of Kieran Treadwell and James Ryan.
John Cooney, Dave Heffernan, Rory O'Loughlin, Andrew Porter, Rory Scannell and Jacob Stockdale are the other uncapped players in the travelling squad.
Ireland are without 11 senior players for the June tour because of their involvement with the British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand.
Forwards: Finlay Bealham (Connacht), Jack Conan (Leinster), Cian Healy (Leinster), Dave Heffernan (Connacht), David Kilcoyne (Munster), Dan Leavy (Leinster), Tommy O'Donnell (Munster), Jack O'Donoghue (Munster), Andrew Porter (Leinster), Quinn Roux (Connacht), Rhys Ruddock (Leinster), James Ryan (Leinster), John Ryan (Munster), Niall Scannell (Munster), Devin Toner (Leinster), James Tracy (Leinster), Kieran Treadwell (Ulster), Josh van der Flier (Leinster).
Backs: Joey Carbery (Leinster), Andrew Conway (Munster), John Cooney (Connacht), Keith Earls (Munster), Paddy Jackson (Ulster), Kieran Marmion (Ulster), Luke Marshall (Ulster), Luke McGrath (Leinster), Tiernan O'Halloran (Connacht), Rory O'Loughlin (Leinster), Garry Ringrose (Leinster), Rory Scannell (Munster), Jacob Stockdale (Ulster), Simon Zebo (Munster).
Ian McCall's men had six different scorers - Ross Docherty, Craig McGuffie, Michael Moffat, Craig Moore, Andy Geggan and Declan McDaid.
Ryan Sinnamon scored a late consolation for Annan as Ayr made it four wins out of four in Group E.
Lee Erwin scored on his Kilmarnock debut as they beat Dumbarton 3-0 to qualify as one of the best runners-up.
Ayr will now be seeded for Sunday's draw, having scored 15 goals and conceded just three in an impressive start to the season, with 11 of those goals coming in their past two games.
Kilmarnock will join their Ayrshire rivals in the second round after Chris Burke and debutant Erwin both scored their first goals for the club in the win at home to Dumbarton.
Burke headed in Dom Thomas' cross eight minutes into the second half, and ex-Motherwell winger Thomas was again the provider as Kris Boyd doubled the lead with another header.
Erwin clipped in a third with a nick off the post 12 minutes from time.
Describing the elation and freedom of flight, it was most famously quoted in January 1986, by then-US President Ronald Reagan following the Challenger space shuttle disaster.
Russell Crowe also recites it in his film For The Moment.
Yet High Flight was first penned in the skies above the wartime RAF base at Llandow in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales.
On 18 August 1941, a 19-year-old Magee was taking part in a high altitude Spitfire training flight when he was struck by the phrase "to touch the face of God".
On touching down, he finished the rest of the words and posted them on the back of a letter to his parents in Washington DC.
It said: "I am enclosing a verse I wrote the other day. It started at 30,000 feet, and was finished soon after I landed. I thought it might interest you."
High Flight's 75th anniversary is to be marked at a ceremony at the MoD St Athan station church on Thursday - beneath the skies where some of the words could potentially have been dreamt-up.
The Venerable (Air Vice-Marshal) Jonathan Chaffey QHC, Chaplain-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force, summed up the appeal of the poem.
"In High Flight, Magee captures the joyous freedom and deeper sense of spiritual insight he and subsequent pilots have found in flying.
"It has significance for many members of the Royal Air Force, as they discover in its words an expression of the joy, spirituality and pathos of their own experiences."
Tragically, just a few months after writing High Flight, Magee was killed in a mid-air collision over Lincolnshire.
He was buried there at Scopwick Cemetery, near Digby, and the first and last lines of the poem are inscribed on his grave.
American and Canadian RAF personnel visited Lincolnshire in 2011, to mark the 70th anniversary of the death.
Thursday's service at St Athan will be attended by John Gillespie Magee's younger brother - Padre Magee - who is now in his early nineties.
The NVT Group's partnership with Own Energy Solutions is set to create 25 jobs over the next 12 months which it hopes will rise to about 300 within three years.
The scheme harvests wind using a small wind turbine and inverter system.
As a result, metered, clean energy could be fed directly into the National Grid.
The company said that as a result, each suitable lamp-post conversion would save half a ton of carbon being released into the atmosphere.
As part of the deal, which is worth about £3.5m over the next 15 years, Own Energy is relocating from Glasgow to NVT's headquarters in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire.
Stephen Park Brown, managing director of NVT Group, said: "We have a great record of working with winning teams and this new venture has every prospect of eclipsing our recent commissions. We believe that Own Energy can become a significant player in the renewables market both in the UK and beyond."
David Gordon, chief executive of Own Energy, said: "We chose to partner with NVT Group based on its extraordinary performance in recent years, particularly in the delivery of the technology for world-class sporting events such as the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow - which of course was widely regarded as the most successful in history - and The Ryder Cup.
"Our business is likely to scale up quickly and we know that NVT Group will be able to accommodate such growth based on its past experience. There are around 10 million lamp-posts in the UK and upwards of 20% of these are suitable for conversion which makes this a very scalable business opportunity with huge export potential.
"We have already had positive preliminary discussions with UK public and private bodies and have had indications of interest from the USA, Canada, Mexico, Ireland and South Africa. We believe this business has the potential to achieve an annual UK turnover of over £400m within five years."
Local MSP Richard Lyle said: "This is marvellous news and I know from colleagues across the political divide that this project is really firing the imagination.
"It chimes with the policies of the major political parties in Scotland and can deliver both clean green energy as well as meaningful financial benefits for hosts such as local government and private owners alike. Bringing jobs to Bellshill is also to be welcomed."
North Lanarkshire Council leader Jim Logue said: "I very much welcome this news. New jobs, technology and innovation are a healthy mix of ingredients which will, we hope, pay dividends for North Lanarkshire and beyond."
The Magic have lost five of their last six games to leave them in the Eastern Conference's final play-off spot.
"We have to wake up," said Vucevic. "If we don't it's going to be tough to make the play-offs."
Toronto lead the Atlantic Division.
The Raptors lost to Orlando in Florida in November but have won seven of their last 10 games.
This will be the sixth regular-season NBA game to be played in London and tickets have sold out.
Darren Turk, 54, hanged himself while on trial accused of 16 offences against boys at Frewen College in Northiam, East Sussex, between 1996 and 2002.
He was found guilty of 10 out of the 16 offences.
Judges reserved their decision after hearing an application for permission to appeal against the conviction.
Unmarried Turk is understood to have been the first person in England to be convicted of offences following their death.
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He was a member of care staff and later head of care at the boarding school, but was not a teacher.
The appeal case - at the Court of Appeal's criminal division in London, was brought by his mother Jasmine Botting, 76, from Etchingham, who has maintained his innocence.
Sally-Ann Hales QC, representing Mrs Botting, told Sir Brian Leveson, Mr Justice Jay and Mr Justice Garnham, that the application concerned the effect of her son's death on criminal proceedings in the crown court "and in particular the validity of guilty verdicts returned by the jury after his death".
She submitted that criminal proceedings should abate on the death of an accused at whatever stage the trial has reached.
Sir Brian said the case raised a "really important issue of criminal law".
He said: "We can recognise that for the victims, the pronouncement of the verdicts, at least in certain cases, was a vindication of their evidence."
But he emphasised: "Nothing we decide in any sense should be taken as removing their appropriate feelings of vindication."
The question the court had to decide was whether "as a matter of criminal law and practice, it is either justifiable or right that once a defendant has died the case should continue in any form".
The judges reserved their decision, which will be given on a date to be announced.
A spokesman for the player confirmed the 25-year-old was arrested on Sunday night and has since been bailed.
The spokesman said Mr Sakho denied any allegations against him, he had given police a complete explanation and had not been charged with any crime.
The Senegal international joined West Ham from Metz in France last August.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "On Sunday 23 August, officers from Havering arrested a man on suspicion of threats to kill and witness intimidation.
"A 25-year-old man was arrested at an address in Emerson Park, Hornchurch. He was taken to an east London police station and bailed pending police enquiries to a date in early October."
His spokesman told the BBC: "Diafra Sakho has not been charged with any offence. He vigorously denies the allegations that have been made against him, and has given police a complete explanation of events.
"He will not be making any further comment."
Mr Sakho was also arrested on suspicion of assault in early August, three days before helping West Ham beat Arsenal 0-2 at the Emirates Stadium on 9 July.
To date he has scored 10 goals for the London side in 26 Barclays Premier League appearances.
The 31-year-old England C international spent the past four years at Forest Green Rovers, who were promoted to League Two.
Kelly began his career at Rushden & Diamonds and has had spells at Oxford United, Kettering Town, Mansfield Town and Tamworth.
He is Wrexham manager Dean Keates' ninth summer signing as Wrexham bid for promotion after a decade in non-league.
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Her movies, including Captain America: Civil War and the Coen Brothers' Hail Caesar!, earned $1.2bn (£978m) globally over the past 12 months.
Johansson's Marvel co-stars Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr tied for second place with $1.15bn (£938m) each.
Last year, the list was topped by Chris Pratt while, in 2014, Jennifer Lawrence took the top honours.
Forbes curates the annual list by adding up global ticket sales using data from analysis site Box Office Mojo.
Animated movies, where only actors' voices were used, are not included and only top-billed performances are counted.
Johansson is joined in the top five by two other actresses - Australian Margot Robbie, who starred in the successful yet critically mauled Suicide Squad, which grossed $746m ($609m) worldwide, and Amy Adams.
Adams earns her place through her current film, sci-fi hit Arrival, and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, in which she played Lois Lane.
British actress Felicity Jones made her debut on the list after making $805m (£656m) thanks, largely, to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, only released earlier this month.
She also starred in fantasy film drama A Monster Calls and alongside Tom Hanks in Inferno.
Ebay and Etsy have also been affected, in addition to many forums and blogs.
The problem has been caused by Photobucket introducing a charge for allowing images hosted on its platform to be embedded into third-party sites.
The company caught many of its members unaware with the change, prompting some to accuse it of holding them to ransom.
Denver-based Photobucket is now seeking a $399 (£309) annual fee from those who wish to continue using it for "third-party hosting" and is facing a social media backlash as a consequence.
The BBC received an automated response when it tried to contact the company and is still seeking comment.
Photobucket has been online since 2003 and says it has more than 100 million customers and more than 15 billion images on its servers.
Part of its attraction with small retailers was the fact that its ad-supported "free" accounts could be used to upload images of goods to a single destination from where they could be pushed to multiple outlets.
On 26 June, however, the company published a brief note advising users to "take a moment to review our updated terms and policies".
About 500 words into the linked document was a declaration that free accounts would no longer permit image-linking to third-party sites.
Many users realised the change only when their embedded images were replaced by graphics saying their Photobucket accounts needed to be updated.
Devon-based seller vintage store Retro 2 Go, which sells its goods on eBay, was one of those affected.
"I have quite a bit of editing to do," the store's owner, Gigha Klinkenborg, told the BBC.
"A bit of notice would not have been unreasonable to expect. I have deleted my accounts and would not use [Photobucket] again."
Some sellers unwilling to pay the fee have handled the change by uploading their product photos to a rival service.
But the new policy has also affected historical social media posts, blogs and forums that were reliant on Photobucket.
One of those affected is Stampboards, a forum with more than 17,000 members who discuss postage stamps and share images of them.
Many of its pages are now filled with Photobucket's upgrade demands instead of the photos of stamps it once showed.
"They are holding you to ransom," the site's administrator, Glen Stephens, told members, advising them not to pay the fee.
"You have no guarantee they will be in business... in a month the way this disaster is rolling out."
One British digital marketing company said it was understandable that Photobucket had wanted to become less reliant on ads, but criticised the service for both the sums it was seeking and the way it had gone about the move.
"It came out of the blue," blogged Runcorn's Aqueous Digital.
"There were no announcements, no emails warning people that it was about to happen and more importantly, no explanation.
"Bulletin boards across the globe are being crippled as previously vibrant threads with detailed images are disappearing.
"People who have used Photobucket for hosting these images successfully for over 10 years are finding that they will have to literally start again with what for some, amounts to a lifetime's work."
But one expert said the public needed to be aware of the risks of relying on any free image service.
"There's a lot of websites out there looking for advertising, and there's a finite amount of advertising spending to go round," said Nigel Atherton, editor of Amateur Photographer magazine.
"And any photo gallery and storage site like this that relies on ads to offer a free service can only continue to do so if they have enough money coming in.
"So, if you put all your photos into any site or app like this where it's not clear how they are going to continue financing their business, then it could come back and bite you at some point in the future."
Officials are optimistic that the city will be recaptured by the weekend.
But a spokesman for the US-led coalition has been more cautious, saying a tough fight is in prospect.
Iraqi forces are heading towards the main government complex, and have come up against snipers and suicide bombers.
Ramadi fell to IS in May in an embarrassing defeat for the Iraqi army.
US-led coalition spokesman Col Steve Warren estimates that there are up to 350 IS fighters still in Ramadi in addition to possibly tens of thousands of civilians.
There have been reports that IS has been rounding people up, possibly to use as human shields.
BBC Middle East editor Sebastian Usher says that the offensive in Ramadi appears to be a more effective Iraqi military operation, helped by months of US training.
Notable by their absence, our correspondent says, are powerful Shia militias, who helped recapture Tikrit earlier this year.
Their presence would be too incendiary in the Sunni heartland of Ramadi and the surrounding province of Anbar, he adds.
Security sources told the BBC troops and allied tribesmen, backed by US-led air strikes, had already retaken two districts, and entered two others.
Last month, government forces completed their encirclement of the predominantly Sunni Arab city, about 90km (55 miles) west of Baghdad, cutting off militants inside the centre from strongholds elsewhere in Anbar province and in neighbouring Syria.
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Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service spokesman Sabah al-Numani said its troops, supported by soldiers, police and Sunni tribesmen, begun the assault on central Ramadi at dawn on Tuesday.
Sources in the Iraqi military's Anbar Operations Command told the BBC that engineers had built temporary bridges over the River Euphrates, which flows along the north and west of the city centre.
This had enabled troops to enter directly the al-Haouz district, south-west of the government complex.
By Tuesday afternoon, government forces had retaken the al-Thubat and al-Aramil districts, and entered nearby al-Malaab and Bakir, the sources said.
The Iraqi defence ministry said the jihadists had prevented civilians leaving Ramadi since leaflets warning of an assault were dropped over the city last month.
Sources inside Ramadi told the BBC IS had carried out a campaign of raids and mass arrests of residents in districts still under its control, in an attempt to prevent an uprising in support of the government offensive.
IS has lost control of several key towns in Iraq to government and Kurdish forces since overrunning large swathes of the country's west and north in June 2014 and proclaiming the creation of a "caliphate" that also extended into neighbouring Syria.
On Monday, analysis by IHS Jane's suggested that IS had lost 14% of its overall territory in Iraq and Syria, about 12,800 sq km (4,940 sq miles), over the past year.
Despite this, the group has been able to capture new territory of strategic value over the same period, including Ramadi and Palmyra in Syria's Homs province. It also still controls the Iraqi cities of Falluja, east of Ramadi, and Mosul, in the north.
A notoriously violent Islamist group which controls large parts of Syria and Iraq. It has declared its territory a caliphate - a state governed in accordance with Islamic law - under its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
IS demands allegiance from all Muslims, rejects national borders and seeks to expand its territory. It adheres to its own extreme interpretation of Sunni Islam and regards non-believers as deserving of death.
IS projects a powerful image, partly through propaganda and sheer brutality, and is the world's richest insurgent group. It has about 30,000 fighters but is facing daily bombing by a US-led multinational coalition which has vowed to destroy it.
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Former Arsenal defender and MOTD2 pundit Martin Keown expands on his TV analysis of the Gunners' 5-0 win over Aston Villa and explains how manager Arsene Wenger adjusted his existing system in January, instead of bringing in new faces, to make his side more solid at the back.`
Arsene Wenger's side were seen as having a soft centre when they lost to Southampton on New Year's Day, and the lack of protection given to their defence has been frequently criticised this season.
But, since that defeat by Saints, Wenger has improved them massively at the back.
Sunday's 5-0 win over Aston Villa was Arsenal's third-straight Premier League victory, and their third-straight clean sheet.
He has done it by adjusting his midfield system to make it work with the players he has already got, rather than signing any more.
Wenger might still feel that he needs to buy a new defensive midfielder before the window shuts on Monday.
But, rather than filling a problem position, it would be as cover if Francis Coquelin gets injured, so he has someone else who can do his job.
Coquelin's impact since he came into the first team in December has been a huge bonus for Arsenal.
He has been at the club since 2008 but, before this season, he had made only nine Premier League starts in six years and spent the whole of the previous campaign on loan at German club Freiburg.
His recent progress shows you why some players are worth waiting for, because I think by the age of 23, a lot of managers would probably have given up on him before now.
Wenger, however, kept seeing something there.
When I spoke to him recently, Wenger explained to me that, earlier in the season, every time he saw Coquelin train he told him that he should be in the first team but felt he had to go out on loan first because he needed the experience.
Coquelin ended up being sent to Championship side Charlton in November to get some games under his belt.
Since returning, Wenger has pretty much put him straight in his team. Coquelin has taken his chance superbly, and he fully understands his job for the team.
At the start of the season, Wenger was playing with one deep-lying midfielder, usually Mathieu Flamini, with two men either side of him.
But Flamini was dropping so deep in front of the defence that he ended up out of the midfield itself.
People might think that Coquelin has just replaced Flamini as the deep-lying player but in fact he has been playing higher up the pitch.
Another thing that has changed is that Coquelin is not being asked to do the defensive job on his own either.
But he is the team's anchor in that he does the crucial job of dragging the other Arsenal midfielders back to wherever he goes.
He always takes up a good position, and that means Aaron Ramsey or Santi Cazorla know where they have to return to as well.
Cazorla has the ability to stitch himself into the play going forward when Arsenal attack and he is working hard defensively too, as we saw in Arsenal's impressive win over Manchester City.
But Ramsey is the player who Wenger primarily wants to see coming back to form a two-man shield in front of their defence.
Against City and Villa, the Wales international was far more team-aware of where he needed to be to fill any holes.
For me, that is a big reason why Arsenal are conceding possession at the moment - they had less of the ball than Villa did on Sunday, despite winning 5-0, and against City their possession rate of 35% was their lowest since Opta's records began in 2003.
Arsenal are quite happy for the other team to have the ball because, with Ramsey and Coquelin both back, they know the opposition cannot hurt them.
Ramsey can still gamble and go forward when Arsenal have good possession, but he is picking his moments far more carefully than before, and he does not join attacks as much as he did.
It was great to see that he had the same discipline against Villa as he did against City and, in both games, knowing when to go and when to sit gave Arsenal the right balance in defence and attack.
When they lost to Swansea in November, my MOTD2 analysis was all about how the Gunners got that balance wrong and sent too many players charging forward.
That is not the case now, and they are not conceding goals either. Nobody is talking about them having a soft centre any more.
Martin Keown was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
The man died on the driveway of an unnamed hotel in St Saviour early on a Sunday morning at the end of May.
St Saviour constable, Sadie Le Sueur-Rennard said the guests were told there were only three ambulances operating at the weekend.
The man who died has not been named but his family were told his body could not be moved because it was a sudden death.
Constable Le Sueur-Rennard said she was bringing it to the attention of the chief minister at the first States sitting after the incident.
She said: "It was a distressing weekend as it was a young person who was there with a young family. I felt very bad because there was very little I could do."
Chief Minister Senator Ian Gorst said health authorities were aware and an investigation was under way.
He said: "I am extremely disappointed to hear what sounds like such a tragic and sad incident and I'm sure the sympathy of every member in this family goes out to them.
"On top of the extremely distressing time in their lives, they should not have had to wait for a response from our emergency services.
"The assistant health minister is undertaking a full review and I'm sure will put in place any necessary changes to ensure this does not occur again."
"We call for an independent commission of inquiry to ascertain the reasons why armed officers raided our office," the All Progressive Congress (APC) deputy chairman Lawal Shuaibu told the BBC.
The party said computers were destroyed and documents seized during the raid.
The State Security Service said it was investigating alleged cloning of voter cards, ahead of elections in February.
"The petition alleged that those behind the activities were cloning Inec [Independent Electoral Commission] permanent voters cards, with the intention of hacking into [the] Inec database, corrupting it and replacing them with their own data," the SSS said.
"Based on this information, the Service placed the building under surveillance and having been convinced that some unwholesome activities were going on in the building, it undertook a raid of the premises."
It said its agents had taken away a server, three hard drives and 31 bags of documents on Saturday.
But the APC said the incident was "another one in the string of attacks and illegal actions of the administration".
It said "more than a dozen" computers had been destroyed, a server had been "vandalised" and 28 people arrested.
"Nigerians have been witnessing the way and manner the government have been using force in oppressing us," Mr Shuaibu told the BBC Hausa service.
"This is to be condemned and we have been restraining ourselves from taking actions based on the provocations by the government and the security personnel."
APC spokesman Lai Mohammed compared the raid to the Watergate scandal in the United States, which led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.
"Just like the Watergate scandal in the USA, the state-sponsored security operatives apparently acting at the behest of the ruling PDP [People's Democratic Party] government turned the office upside down, and pulled out and vandalised everything in sight," he told the AFP news agency.
The APC has said the office was operating as a "data centre" to process registration of party memberships and was a "legitimate operation".
The APC was formed in a merger of four opposition parties in 2013.
It said there was an urgent need to challenge President Goodluck Jonathan whose party, the PDP, has won every election in Nigeria since the end of military rule in 1999.
The International Crisis Group recently warned that February's election may be "volatile and vicious".
"If this violent trend continues, and particularly if the vote is close, marred or followed by widespread violence, it would deepen Nigeria's already grave security and governance crises," the think tank said.
"The government, its agencies and all other national figures must work urgently to ensure that the vote is not conducted in an explosive situation as this could further destabilise the country."
Emma Follis struck the crossbar early on for the visitors only to see Harding give Liverpool the lead soon after.
Coombs was the provider with a neat flick-on in the area before she added the second within seven minutes.
Caroline Weir's pinpoint pass found her in space and allowed a finish on the half volley which doubled the lead.
Jade Boho-Sayo went close to pulling a goal back before the break for Reading, but her shot across goal was saved by Siobhan Chamberlain.
Reading improved in the second half as substitute Amber Stobbs saw Chamberlain tip her shot onto the post.
Liverpool climb to third and are now unbeaten in four games.
Match ends, Liverpool Ladies 2, Reading Ladies 0.
Second Half ends, Liverpool Ladies 2, Reading Ladies 0.
Attempt saved. Lauren Bruton (Reading Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Katie Zelem (Liverpool Ladies).
Molly Bartrip (Reading Ladies) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Katie Zelem (Liverpool Ladies).
Rachel Rowe (Reading Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Liverpool Ladies. Ashley Hodson replaces Shanice Van de Sanden.
Corner, Liverpool Ladies. Conceded by Amber Stobbs.
Corner, Liverpool Ladies. Conceded by Kylie Davies.
Substitution, Liverpool Ladies. Niamh Charles replaces Natasha Harding.
Substitution, Reading Ladies. Laura May-Walkley replaces Kayleigh Hines.
Attempt missed. Kayleigh Hines (Reading Ladies) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Laura Coombs (Liverpool Ladies) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Emma Follis (Reading Ladies).
Attempt missed. Alex Greenwood (Liverpool Ladies) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Attempt saved. Kirsty McGee (Reading Ladies) header from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Reading Ladies. Conceded by Gemma Bonner.
Substitution, Liverpool Ladies. Katie Zelem replaces Rosie White.
Shanice Van de Sanden (Liverpool Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sophie Perry (Reading Ladies).
Amber Stobbs (Reading Ladies) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kate Longhurst (Liverpool Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Amber Stobbs (Reading Ladies).
Foul by Kate Longhurst (Liverpool Ladies).
Lauren Bruton (Reading Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Rosie White (Liverpool Ladies) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Amber Stobbs (Reading Ladies).
Attempt saved. Amber Stobbs (Reading Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Rosie White (Liverpool Ladies).
Lauren Bruton (Reading Ladies) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Reading Ladies. Conceded by Kate Longhurst.
Rosie White (Liverpool Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Molly Bartrip (Reading Ladies).
Attempt saved. Caroline Weir (Liverpool Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Natasha Harding (Liverpool Ladies) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Rosie White (Liverpool Ladies) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Rachel Rowe (Reading Ladies).
Satara Murray (Liverpool Ladies) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Emma Follis (Reading Ladies).
Lebanon has about 1.5 million displaced Syrians, in a country smaller than Wales.
And "refugee" is not a temporary status, most will have been there for at least two years.
Many refugees are of school or college age and as well as feeding their bodies, there is a need to feed their minds.
Lebanon has pioneered the concept of the "double-shift" school, making the most of limited school buildings by pupils attending in two shifts per day.
But Syria's "lost generation" will also need higher-level skills. Any ambitions for rebuilding will depend upon the type of ideas and talents developed by a university education.
The American University of Beirut is providing assistance, with a scholarship project to help young Syrian refugees become part of a post-war future.
But it's a tough starting point - and Rima Afifi, professor in the health sciences faculty, says the impact on Lebanon of the influx of Syrian refugees has been huge.
"It has affected every aspect of our lives. People have sometimes asked for the evidence. One of our faculty members said if I open my door it's right in front me. How much more evidence do you need than that?
"One in four people in Lebanon is now a Syrian refugee," she says.
It puts pressure on jobs, housing and health services as well as the education system - and it's not surprising that this causes friction.
"There's a lot of tension between the Lebanese population and the Syrians.
"It's one of the things I'm most concerned about. You feel like there's a potential for things to blow up."
These are the types of problems that you might not usually expect to be put at the door of a liberal arts college.
The American University of Beirut is a venerable 19th Century institution, which has continued through the region's wars and conflicts.
The university scholarship scheme for Syrian students is part of a wider global project run by the Mastercard Foundation, which has supported 18,000 disadvantaged secondary school and higher education students, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa.
Prof Afifi runs the scholarship project in Beirut and says that a university can provide a role model of tolerance and open debate for a "hopefully more just society".
"There are people here from every faction - there's discussion and dialogue - in a way that's safe and provides a good basis for when they return to Syria," says Prof Afifi.
She also rejects the stereotyping of young refugees as "a problem, people who are going to be violent".
"All our work has shown that despite all this negativity, they are still hopeful and an asset to their community."
Before the civil war, about a quarter of young Syrians were going to university, but much of the country's higher education system now lies in rubble.
And the scholarships in Beirut are a way of reconnecting these youngsters with an opportunity that the war has taken from them.
The Mastercard Foundation has supported the American University of Beirut with $35m (£24m) in funding - and the foundation's president Reeta Roy describes it as a "remarkable institution" which shares the aims of the scholarship project.
"The whole ethos is about ensuring a commitment to pluralism, whether it's about diversity of faith, ideology or political views. It's really trying to get above those differences to promote civil dialogue, peace-making," said Ms Roy.
The foundation itself dates from 2006 when Mastercard became a public company. A slice of the money was set aside to endow a free-standing, independent foundation - and that is now worth about $11bn (£7.5bn), says Ms Roy.
Educating deprived youngsters is one of the biggest priorities, with hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on scholarships, covering fees, books and accommodation and providing support such as mentoring and job advice.
Much has been targeted at the poorest countries in Africa, but there is an urgent need to help Syrians in Lebanon.
"No society rebuilds, no society progresses, unless it has the right kind of leaders, where different viewpoints can be aired. Education plays a huge role," says Ms Roy.
Prof Afifi says students at the Beirut university are taught "anti-oppression" lessons to challenge intolerance.
"In Lebanon, there is so much "othering". Depending on which sect or faction you are, you're "othering" everybody else," says Prof Afifi.
As well as religion, nationality and politics, these prejudices can be about gender or class.
"Let's be honest, let's look at these issues, let's put them on the table and see if we can deal with them. It's about interacting as humans rather than as someone who is different."
The AUB's president, Fadlo Khuri, said universities have to "take up the challenge of providing education for refugees".
"It is part of their larger commitment to equity and justice."
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Many of Syria's refugees have travelled much further than Lebanon.
Those who are in Hungary are being offered help by the Central European University in Budapest.
The university is opening its doors to refugees at weekends with volunteer academics offering courses in English, maths, philosophy, Hungarian culture and history and human rights law.
The university in Budapest has another poignant project. Two Syrian academics from Aleppo are working on mapping and planning a virtual version of their city, in preparation for when it might be physically rebuilt after the war.
The Aleppo Project links the university with those still in the besieged city as it gathers information about damaged buildings that might one day be reconstructed or replaced.
Last week, the United Nations described conditions in the city as "catastrophic".
"It is hard to have much hope for Aleppo," says the project's blog. "One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world has been torn apart by war.
"Rebuilding will take many decades, but it can start very suddenly. When that moment comes, it is important to be ready."
The case related to the 2003 killings of 200 residents of Bogoro village in the Ituri region of DR Congo.
The court in The Hague heard reports of victims being burned alive, babies battered and women raped.
Mr Ngudjolo denied ordering the attack, saying he learned of it days later.
He had been charged with seven counts of war crimes and three of crimes against humanity. Prosecutors said he had enlisted child soldiers to carry out the killings. Some of the killings were carried out with machetes.
But presiding Judge Bruno Cotte said the court acquitted Mr Ngudjolo of all charges, saying the prosecution had "not proved beyond reasonable doubt that Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui was responsible" for the crimes committed.
He said the decision was unanimous, and that witness testimony had been "too contradictory and too hazy".
By Jonathan KachelewaBBC News, Eastern DR Congo
Fighting is still going on in the mineral-rich Ituri region. All the different armed groups in the area have formed a coalition. They include Mr Ngudjolo's FNI, which is drawn from the Lendu ethnic group, and its former enemies from the Hema ethnic group.
Some former fighters joined the army during a series of peace deals, but all the others in this region have now joined together. As ever, they are fighting for control of the region's gold mines, as well as for their own protection.
A UN report says the rebels are backed by neighbouring Rwanda, which denies it.
The violence in Ituri was a part of the DR Congo war. It remains overshadowed by fighting elsewhere in eastern DR Congo. Some 50,000 people were killed in the province in four years before the European Union sent a peacekeeping force in 2003 - its first mission outside Europe.
Mr Ngudjolo showed no emotion at the acquittal, according to the Associated Press news agency. His lawyer, Jean-Pierre Kilenda, said his client had always insisted he was innocent.
In its summary, the court stressed that the ruling did not mean it believed no crimes were committed in Bogoro "nor does it question what the people of this community have suffered on that day".
"The chamber also emphasised that the fact of deciding that an accused is not guilty does not necessarily mean that the chamber finds him innocent," the ICC said in a statement.
"Such a decision simply demonstrates that, given the standard of proof, the evidence presented to support his guilt has not allowed the chamber to form a conviction 'beyond reasonable doubt'."
Judge Cotte ordered Mr Ngudjolo's immediate release, and rejected prosecutor Fatou Bensouda's attempts to have him detained pending an appeal.
"The chamber dismisses the prosecution's application for further detention," Judge Cotte said, adding that there were "no exceptional circumstances" to detain Mr Ngudjolo further.
Human Rights Watch said the verdict "leaves the victims of Bogoro and other massacres by his forces without justice for their suffering".
"The ICC prosecutor needs to strengthen its investigations of those responsible for grave crimes in Ituri, including high-ranking officials in Congo, Rwanda and Uganda who supported the armed groups fighting there," said Geraldine Mattioli-Zeltner, the group's international justice advocacy director.
The Coalition for the ICC, a campaign group that monitors the court's work, said the verdict was "a hard blow for the victims and affected communities who had placed all their hopes in the Court to deliver justice, considering the great harm they suffered during the ethnic war in Ituri".
The verdict is only the second in the 10-year history of the ICC, and the first acquittal.
In March, Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga, Mr Ngudjolo's enemy in Ituri, was found guilty of recruiting and using child soldiers between 2002 and 2003. He was sentenced to 14 years in jail.
The conflict in Ituri was a distinct part of the war that raged in DR Congo following the 1994 genocide in neighbouring Rwanda and involved troops and fighters from several neighbouring countries.
Militia leaders from all sides have been accused of using the conflict to profit from the region's mineral reserves, especially gold.
Earlier this month, a news report claimed the firm monitored millions of incoming messages on behalf of intelligence officials.
Chief executive Marissa Mayer was also criticised for not appealing the order.
But on Thursday, Yahoo general counsel Ron Bell called the claims "misleading" and said the order must be published.
"At Yahoo, we are deeply committed to transparency and to protecting the rights of our users," he said in a letter to US director of national intelligence James Clapper, published on Yahoo's blog site Tumblr.
"Yahoo was mentioned specifically in these reports and we find ourselves unable to respond in detail."
He asked Clapper to confirm the existence of the surveillance order, to declassify all or part of it, and to "make a sufficiently detailed public and contextual comment to clarify the alleged facts and circumstances".
The government should explain to the public the "national security orders they issue to internet companies to obtain user data," he added.
"As we've said before, recent press reports have been misleading; the mail scanning described in the article does not exist on our systems," he said.
Earlier this month, Reuters news agency said the firm built special software last year to comply with a classified request. The software allegedly scanned all Yahoo Mail users' incoming messages to isolate those containing specific data, as requested by intelligence officials.
At the time the firm told the BBC that Yahoo was "a law abiding company, and complies with the laws of the United States".
The firm said that while its letter to Mr Clapper made specific reference to the recent allegations against Yahoo: "It is intended to set a stronger precedent of transparency for our users and all citizens who could be affected by government requests for user data."
Other internet firms including Google, Twitter and Facebook said this month they had not been asked to carry out email scanning by the US government, while Microsoft said it had "never engaged" in such an activity.
US law allows the country's intelligence agencies to order the release of customer data that they believe could prevent a terrorist attack, among other reasons.
Companies can challenge such orders behind closed doors in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
She told Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn she had been urged by her constituents to vote against the Article 50 bill.
Ms Stevens said leaving the EU will be a "terrible mistake" and it was "wrong" to back steps that make it inevitable.
Mr Corbyn said it was "right that the Labour Party respects the outcome of the referendum".
The Cardiff Central MP is the second Labour front-bencher to have quit over the vote.
Other Labour MPs have said they will rebel against their leader's orders.
The European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill was published on Thursday after the Supreme Court ruled that parliament - not just the UK government alone - must vote to launch the formal process of the UK leaving the EU.
Mr Corbyn is ordering Labour MPs to back the bill, despite their misgivings, to avoid accusations of trying to overturn the result of the referendum.
Ms Stevens - the first person to quit the shadow cabinet over the bill - was the fourth MP to serve as Labour's shadow Welsh secretary since the May 2015 general election.
The city of Cardiff as a whole voted 60% Remain to 40% for Leave at the EU referendum.
One of her predecessors as shadow Welsh secretary - Pontypridd MP Owen Smith - has also said he will rebel against any instruction to vote in favour of the bill.
In a letter to Mr Corbyn, Ms Stevens said: "I accept the referendum result is to leave.
"I also accept that the parliamentary numbers are such that Article 50 will be triggered and we will leave the EU.
"But I believe that leaving is a terrible mistake and I cannot reconcile my overwhelming view that to endorse the step that will make exit inevitable, is wrong.
"I expect this to be the most important vote I will ever cast as an MP and for me it is a clear issue of principle and conscience.
"When I vote I will be representing my constituents, a great many of whom, including a great many Labour Party members and voters, have strongly urged me to vote in this way.
"That is why, in Shadow Cabinet, I argued against the imposition of a three line whip."
Ms Stevens said Prime Minister Theresa May was "now leading our country towards a brutal exit with all the damage that will cause to the people and communities we represent".
"There have been no guarantees before triggering Article 50 about protecting single market access, employment, environmental and consumer rights, security and judicial safeguards and the residency rights of many of my constituents. And no guarantees for the people of Wales," she added.
"Article 50 should not be triggered without these safeguards in place."
In response Mr Corbyn said: "I understand the difficulties that Jo, and other MPs, have when facing the Article 50 bill.
"Those MPs with strong Remain constituencies are understandably torn.
"However, it is right that the Labour Party respects the outcome of the referendum on leaving the European Union.
"We have said all along that Labour will not frustrate the triggering of Article 50 and to that end we are asking all MPs to vote for the Bill at its second reading next week."
Former Labour Welsh Secretary Lord Hain praised Ms Stevens in a tweet, saying she had been "brilliant" in the role of shadow Welsh secretary.
He described her as a "principled socialist huge talent sadly sidelined by crass whip [and] absence of clear Labour strategy or vision".
Jenny Rathbone, her Labour colleague who represents Cardiff Central in the assembly, said she was sorry to lose Ms Stevens as shadow Welsh Secretary "as she has undertaken the role with gusto".
Ms Rathbone said Ms Stevens was right to vote against Article 50 given "because no safeguards [have been] offered for Wales".
She added: "Nothing will be decided until Germany and France have had their general elections.
"So triggering Article 50 now could leave the UK adrift without a paddle."
Reid, 21, recently had his grant cut by British Athletics but is refusing to mope about the situation.
And the Bath-based 200m athlete says his tough childhood in and out of foster care has helped motivate him during a testing time.
"It builds fire in the belly," Reid told BBC Radio Bristol.
Reid, who is fifth on the British all-time list for 200m, spent time in 14 different foster homes.
"I had nothing, everyone always writes you off when you are in foster care," he said.
"At school I was always messing around, I was always fidgeting, the class clown probably because I didn't have a stable home. I went to 10 different schools."
Reid eventually took up sprinting at the relatively late age of 15 after being urged to do so by a school PE teacher and won a silver medal at the European Under-23 Championships in the summer.
Having lost his support from British Athletics, he is now looking for local backers to provide funding as he pursues his Olympic goal.
"Some people react differently to cut funding, I'm leaving no stone unturned, I'm going for it.
"If I'm not at Rio, it'll be the London 2017 World Championships, I'll be there and I'll fight to be on the starting line," he added.
"I got dropped by British Athletics funding, not because of my results, but because the sport is moving on and going places where I'm destined to be but not quite yet.
"I'm just outside the Olympic qualifying level which is 20.50 seconds. I've run 20.62 five times in the rain so it's within touching distance."
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Officers say the 16-year-old girl was walking home in Kilmarnock with the three men when one of the men attacked her.
Following the assault, the man joined the other two men who were walking towards the town centre.
Det Insp Stevie Wallace described the incident as "a horrendous ordeal for a young woman".
Police Scotland said the attack took place at about 02:00 on Saturday, in the archway close to John Finnie Street and Nelson Street, after the girl and the three men had been walking along Nelson Street.
The teenager reported the incident to police a few days later.
The three men police want to identify are all white, in their early 20s and of medium height and build. They speak with local accents and have brown hair.
The suspect was wearing a black jumper with the sleeves pulled up to his forearms, dark blue jeans and brown shoes or boots.
A second man was wearing a distinctive blue hooded sweatshirt which had 'Jack and Jones 1975' written on it.
He was also wearing blue jeans and white trainers.
The third man police want to identify was wearing a distinctive red and blue hooped T-shirt with blue jeans.
Det Insp Stevie Wallace, of Kilmarnock CID, said: "This was a horrendous ordeal for a young woman to have to experience and it is critical that we trace this man as soon as possible.
"I would like to reassure the community that our officers are doing everything they can to find the person responsible. Incidents like this are extremely rare in our town.
"However we need help from members of the public who may have vital information to assist with the investigation.
"I ask that anyone who might recognise the suspect description or the other two men gets in touch with any information.
"It's possible they may have been out and about in Kilmarnock town centre earlier on in the night, hailed a taxi on John Finnie Street on their way home or attended at fast food takeaway shops later in the evening.
"I would also urge anyone who was in the surrounding area around that time who may have seen or heard anything suspicious to contact police.
"Officers are currently at the scene. Available CCTV is being analysed and we are also conducting door-to-door inquiries in the area. Extra patrols will be present in the area during the inquiry."
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Along the way they were trapped by a blizzard, hugged by Taylor Swift and overwhelmed by The Great British Bake Off.
The group achieved success after singer Olly Alexander gave up a promising acting career - appearing on stage with Dame Judi Dench, a role in Channel 4 drama Skins - to pursue music with Emre Turkmen (synths) and Mikey Goldsworthy (bass).
Communion was inspired by Alexander's teenage diary and his tumultuous love life ("they're rejection songs," he told the BBC last year). Critics praised his "angelic melisma" as well as the record's "ace melodies and emotional frankness".
Ahead of the announcement of the Sound of 2016 next week, the band visited the BBC to reflect on their breakthrough year.
Olly: It was nuts. We'd barely given anyone an interview and suddenly we were on Radio One and on the news. It felt like it was happening to someone else.
Emre: It was exciting. It was really exciting.
Olly: We were like, 'We're a real band!'
Emre: Now we know where everything is in this building. The coffee machines, the toilets, everything.
Mikey: Knocking Ellie Goulding off number one was the best part!
Olly: We were on tour in Glasgow when we found out and I was really sick. I was lying down in the dressing room and Emre leaned over and said, "It's going to go to number one!" I just cried.
Mikey: I have the statue on my bedside table, and I look at it every morning and every night. No one can take that away from us.
Olly: We were up for the Critics' Choice and we didn't win it - but Taylor Swift hugged me, so I'll live forever now.
Mikey: We went over to New York to do two shows, but then they had a massive blizzard and we had to cancel.
Olly: I don't know if anyone's ever seen the news in America, but they really over-egg a lot of stuff. It was like: "Everyone stay indoors! Don't leave the house! People are going to die!"
Emre: But the blizzard didn't stop me and Mikey from taking a trip around downtown New York to find some donuts.
Olly: The next day we woke up and there was, like, an inch of snow.
Emre: This was the rescheduled show in New York. Katy Perry was in the audience, but we didn't actually tell Olly because he was ill again.
Olly: I'm always sick.
Emre: He'd just come from the doctor who'd given him adrenalin shots or something.
Olly: Yeah, they gave me a shot in my bum. Loads of steroids. And then I was meeting Katy Perry. It was all very weird.
She was pretty casual. She had an entourage of, like, poets and violinists. All these cool women. But she was pretty low-key. She was really nice. She told me to take zinc, which I didn't do.
Emre: We picked the worst letter to start our name with. Right at the end of the alphabet. The CD's hidden at the back of HMV. That's why Adele's so popular.
Olly: We should get ahead of her by changing our name to 00Aardvark.
Olly: It was just ridiculous. There were posters on the tube and everything. I couldn't believe people would actually go out and buy it. But they did, so thanks.
Emre: And now my parents have stopped bugging me about getting a proper job. That was a good result.
The video for King was watched more than 100 million times.
Olly: We got a special certificate for that! The video felt very serendipitous. We wanted to make it in LA with dancers. Then Ryan Heffington the choreographer got in touch with me over Instagram. I was like, "Oh my God, let's work together" and he was up for it.
I actually got the idea of the dancers moving us around because I'd seen that in an art piece before. I felt it represented the song very well because it's about being manipulated. It hurt quite a lot - but the worst bit was getting in the pool, because it was freezing cold.
Emre: We had some dancers touch us up. It was great. But my highlight video-wise is Mikey's acting in Shine, when he's looking at the fridge, puzzled.
Mikey: I've been nominated for a few awards for that. What was in the fridge? Vegetables and a few eggs.
Mikey: These guys watch [The Great British] Bake Off late at night on the tour bus to wind down. I watch [The] Walking Dead.
Olly: I cried when Nadiyah [Hussain] won! I found it quite emotional when Nadia won Big Brother 10 years ago too. It must be something about people called Nadia.
Mikey: But actually the highlight of the year was The Apprentice: The Final Five. They used Shine and King over the highlights.
Olly: It was the first Glastonbury for all of us - and we were all nervous as hell - but it was such a good moment. My mum loved it.
Emre: I had to watch it on the BBC iPlayer a couple of days later because it just went by in a blur. I was just dazed. I couldn't remember it.
Olly: We haven't really had time to write this year. Just tiny bits. I like to write by myself in a room with a piano, which never happens any more.
Emre: We're just gearing up towards thinking about writing, really.
Olly: We're going to try to pull something special together. Do some more songs, do some covers.
Emre: Get a hologram of Rihanna.
Olly: I want to get a swing so I can swing around the arena.
Emre: Some controversy and scandal would be great.
Olly: Some outfit changes. Nudity.
Emre: Mikey's going to show a nipple.
Mikey: Actually, I'll be naked.
Emre: With just a sock. On your head.
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The hearing was due to decide if Ms Stewart can practice again.
Kirsteen Stewart was working at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary when the incidents took place between October 2007 and March 2010.
In 2010 Ms Stewart was suspended for 18 months by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
The NMC said she administered drugs which contributed to the foetus of one or more pregnant women experiencing a condition that caused a slow heart rate.
The ruling came after Grampian health board said it was investigating the care of 22 mothers and babies at Aberdeen Maternity Hospital over a two-year period.
Just seconds after home right-back Conor Coady had coolly cleared off the line from Britt Assombalonga, Wolves broke straight away down the right.
Andreas Weimann squared for Dicko to tuck home, before Forest's Danny Fox was sent off in stoppage time.
The hosts' fifth straight win leaves Forest two points clear of trouble.
Paul Lambert's Wolves are now a much healthier 11 points above the relegation zone with a game in hand on many of the teams below them, who have just six matches left to play.
A generally frustrating night could have turned out differently after Wolves were clearly hindered by the loss of record signing Helder Costa, who pulled out after aggravating an ankle injury in the pre-match warm-up, to be replaced by Dicko.
Assombalonga was close to scoring early on when he cut inside and tested Wolves keeper Andy Lonergan with a low right-foot shot saved at his near post.
Dicko then went close at the other end with a low left-foot shot just wide, while Ben Marshall sent a right-foot curler just past the post after the break.
Forest then seemed certain to break the deadlock when Wolves found themselves outnumbered. But, after a desperate tackle from Ivan Cavaleiro, the covering Coady got back to clear on the line - and Wolves rapidly made Forest pay for their profligacy.
Wolves went down the other end, Dicko slid in from close range for only his fourth goal of the season - and a theatrical Lambert leapt high in the air in his technical area to celebrate.
Forest substitute Jamie Ward had a hooked left-foot volley saved by Lonergan, who then made a desperate save to deny another of Forest's subs, Mustapha Carayol, in the last minute of stoppage time, after Fox was sent off for a second yellow card.
But Wolves hung on for the victory that all but ensures their Championship safety.
Wolves boss Paul Lambert told BBC Sport:
"We had a bit of a doubt over Helder Costa's ankle in the warm-up, so we made the late change.
"But we had every confidence that Nouha Dicko would do a good job for us. And Ivan Cavaleiro did well too. He's a big talent.
"When he gets the ball he's exciting, but he also did well for us when he tracked back to help stop them scoring. Conor Coady on the goal line was a big moment for us and then we showed how quickly we can break."
Forest boss Mark Warburton told BBC Radio Nottingham:
"It hurts to lose in that way. We had our best chance of the game, it falls sweetly for the goalkeeper and then, 10 or 12 seconds later, it's in the back of our net.
"They are the fine margins. Goals change games, as they say. And, at the end, there was another good chance for Muzzy, but I don't think we were at our best."
Match ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1, Nottingham Forest 0.
Second Half ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1, Nottingham Forest 0.
Attempt saved. Mustapha Carayol (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jamie Ward.
Second yellow card to Daniel Fox (Nottingham Forest) for a bad foul.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Conor Coady.
Attempt saved. Jón Dadi Bödvarsson (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Morgan Gibbs-White.
Mustapha Carayol (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Conor Coady (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Offside, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Andreas Weimann tries a through ball, but Jón Dadi Bödvarsson is caught offside.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Zach Clough (Nottingham Forest) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Jón Dadi Bödvarsson (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Conor Coady.
David Vaughan (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Morgan Gibbs-White (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Apostolos Vellios replaces Ben Brereton.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Jón Dadi Bödvarsson replaces Nouha Dicko.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Romain Saiss replaces Ben Marshall.
David Edwards (Wolverhampton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Zach Clough (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by David Edwards (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Kortney Hause.
Attempt blocked. Jamie Ward (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Zach Clough.
Matt Mills (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andreas Weimann (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
David Vaughan (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Morgan Gibbs-White (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Andreas Weimann (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Ben Marshall.
Danny Batth (Wolverhampton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for dangerous play.
Jordan Smith (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Dangerous play by Danny Batth (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by David Vaughan.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Morgan Gibbs-White replaces Ivan Cavaleiro.
Attempt saved. Jamie Ward (Nottingham Forest) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Mustapha Carayol with a cross.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Mustapha Carayol replaces Ben Osborn.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Jamie Ward replaces Britt Assombalonga.
Goal! Wolverhampton Wanderers 1, Nottingham Forest 0. Nouha Dicko (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Andreas Weimann following a fast break.
Attempt blocked. Britt Assombalonga (Nottingham Forest) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by David Vaughan.
Attempt blocked. Danny Batth (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ben Marshall.
Foul by David Vaughan (Nottingham Forest).
Jane Haining will be the focus of a new exhibition in the Holocaust Memorial Centre in Budapest.
Spokesman Zoltan Toth-Heinmann said the Church of Scotland missionary, who grew up in Dunscore, near Dumfries, was a "unique and important" figure.
He said her inspirational story had been "neglected" in the city.
As matron at the Scottish Mission school in Budapest during the 1930s and 40s, she refused to return home despite advice from church officials, saying the children needed her in the "days of darkness".
She was arrested in 1944, charged with working amongst Jews and taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, where she died aged 47.
She was posthumously honoured by the UK government for "preserving life in the face of persecution".
Mr Toth-Heinmann said he was determined to ensure that as many people as possible learned about her and visited Scotland this week to seek inspiration for the temporary exhibition, which is going on show in the autumn.
He visited Dunscore Parish Church, the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh and Queen's Park Church in Glasgow, where the missionary worshipped before moving to Budapest in 1932.
He said: "Jane Haining's story is an important part of the Holocaust history in Budapest, and sometimes, for the general public, it might be neglected.
"She was unique because all the other players - rescuers, victims and perpetrators - were local people.
"She was the only one who had the chance to choose if she would stay there and risk her life to save children or just leave and return to Scotland."
Mr Toth-Heinmann said the exhibition would help ensure that her memory was kept alive and "illustrate her heroism to visitors".
He added: "The primary objective will be the education of young people so they can learn that sometimes it is important to make a sacrifice.
"We have various items relating to her life - artefacts, photographs and documents - which will, along with testimonies from some of her former pupils, bring her story closer to visitors."
Rev Ian Alexander, secretary of the Church of Scotland World Mission Council, said: "Jane Haining's story is heart-breaking, but also truly inspirational.
"Scottish missionaries were advised to return home from Europe during the dark days of World War Two, but Jane declined, writing: 'If these children need me in days of sunshine, how much more do they need me in days of darkness?"'
A heritage centre, which will in part tell the story of Ms Haining, is being created inside Dunscore Parish Church.
Matthew Aitken, one of the team behind the project which is expected to be open in October, said: "It is going to be amazing and so many people from the church and the local community have been involved.
"Jane Haining's story is just incredible.
"It is hard to put into words what she did and what she experienced.
"We hope that people come and see the material that we have and learn about her story for themselves."
Gloucestershire lost Phil Mustard and Ian Cockbain early on as they slumped to 29-2 from six overs and were on the back foot as they made a below-par 200.
Kent seized the initiative with Joe Denly and Daniel Bell-Drummond's 92-run opening stand putting them in control.
Denly hit eight fours and one six as Kent won by seven wickets on 203-3.
Darren Stevens hit a six to help the hosts over the line to reach 7,000 career one-day runs thanks to his 28.
Mustard joined Gloucestershire on loan from Durham on Tuesday, but will be ineligible to play against his parent club if the two sides meet in the knockout stages of the One-Day Cup, as is the case when they face each other in the T20 Blast quarter-finals on 10 August.
The 20-year-old, playing only his sixth Test, claimed 7-112 to help bowl England out for 342, a first-innings deficit of 133.
Alastair Cook and Joe Root made 76 and Moeen Ali was last out for 61.
Hashim Amla was dropped on nought as South Africa reached 42-1- a lead of 175 - before bad light ended play.
James Anderson gave England faint hope of an attainable fourth-innings chase when Dean Elgar was caught behind in the third over, and England's record wicket-taker then saw Amla put down by a diving Alex Hales at third slip.
But Rabada's heroics will make the home side - 2-0 down in the series - confident of a consolation victory.
England resumed on 138-2 and lost four wickets for 73 runs in the 26 overs bowled before lunch. Cook and Root had calmly negotiated the first 13 of them but Morne Morkel began an impressive spell that yielded a collapse.
The big fast bowler produced a near unplayable delivery to Cook, with pace and steepling bounce that found the edge and was smartly taken by wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock.
Then Rabada utilised the overcast conditions to devastating effect, bowling a consistently dangerous line around the off stump and extracting sufficient pace and movement to find the edges.
Root, who successfully overturned a caught-behind decision off spinner Dane Piedt, had hit Rabada for three fours in an over but edged one that that nipped away off the seam.
"He is a real prospect, he's got something," former England opening batsman Geoffrey Boycott told BBC Test Match Special.
"You would think he would learn a lot from bowling with Dale Steyn when he comes back into the side. The world is his oyster."
James Taylor, who struck his first ball delightfully down the ground for four, appeared intent on hooking anything short and a swipe at Rabada resulted in an edge to the wicketkeeper.
That forced Jonny Bairstow to begin his innings on the stroke of lunch and he fell third ball as another rising delivery from Rabada brushed his glove, which ended the morning session with England losing three wickets for three runs in 18 balls.
Cape Town hero Ben Stokes launched Piedt for four and a towering six in an over but he was caught at slip for 33 off Rabada in the first over with the new ball.
Moeen, who was dropped on 45, brought up a first Test fifty in 15 innings before he was last out, caught at deep point.
With the pitch showing signs of uneven bounce, England's chances of victory - with two days remaining - appear slim.
Boycott said: "I don't think England can win from here. They haven't got a cat in hell's chance. All they can do is try to save the game."
Former South Africa wicketkeeper Mark Boucher told TMS: "South Africa are on top but they're not out of danger yet.
"What if England come back tomorrow and bowl them out for 80? It's not impossible."
One concern for the Proteas in the fourth innings is opening bowler Kyle Abbott, who left the field with a hamstring injury and is unlikely to bowl again in this match.
Play on Sunday will start earlier at 08:04 GMT to make up for the overs lost to rain.
Tigers have already secured a play-off spot and are likely to face Saracens at Allianz Park in the semi-finals.
Saturday's trip to The Rec is the Tigers' first since their 47-10 semi-final defeat 12 months ago.
"Part of me would like to send the best team to knock lumps out of them, but the reality is that we need to put egos in our pocket," said Cockerill.
"We have to look after our squad and be sensible. We need to make sure we get it right for the semi and try to win the competition."
Leicester suffered two heavy defeats at The Rec in 2014-15, their play-off exit coming after they were beaten 45-0 - their heaviest-ever loss in the Premiership.
"The history of our last two games at The Rec aren't particularly good ones, but you have to put ego to one side and focus on the semi-final," Cockerill told BBC Radio Leicester.
"While we want to put in a good performance and win, it's not our first thought really.
"We will send a side that is fresh and hungry to play, but we will make sure that we rest guys and look after guys for the semi."
England centre Manu Tuilagi will remain sidelined for another week after suffering a knee injury in Tigers' European Champions Cup semi-final defeat by Racing 92 last month, but he will be fit for the start of the Premiership play-offs.
Brendon O'Connor will also be fit for the semi-final, but scrum-half Sam Harrison is out for the rest of the season after fracturing bones in his face and breaking his nose in Leicester's 31-17 win over Worcester.
Capt Matthew Ball paid for Qismat Amin's airline ticket after the interpreter waited nearly four years for a special immigrant visa.
A Trump administration travel ban affects seven mainly Muslim countries, but Afghanistan is not among them.
Capt Ball bought the ticket in case the ban was expanded to Afghanistan.
"I'm so happy," the officer said after welcoming Mr Amin to San Francisco International Airport on Wednesday.
"Yeah, it feels great. I'm happy to see him. I'm sort of overwhelmed. He's here. It's been a long time."
For now, Mr Amin will live with Capt Ball and his wife, Giselle Rahn, in Palo Alto, California.
Mr Amin reportedly went into hiding after receiving death threats from the Taliban for working with American troops.
His visa arrived two days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order suspending the US refugee programme and temporarily banning immigration from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
Capt Ball paid for the $1,000 (£800) ticket after US officials suggested the ban could be extended to other countries.
Mr Amin told AP news agency he was nervous before the trip, but that quickly changed once he stepped off the plane to see Americans holding signs emblazoned with the words: "Welcome to America" and "Welcome Home".
"Right now, I don't know what to say," he said. "I forgot my words.
"Actually this has made me much, much stronger, seeing people with the welcome signs.
"I feel like I got a huge family right now, and I got a big family in Afghanistan."
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Mr Amin said he wanted to call his mother to let her know he arrived safely, before going to see the ocean for the first time.
Capt Ball, a law student at Stanford University, organised a letter campaign with other students to press Congress on Mr Amin's visa.
The former Army ranger said Mr Amin had protected him during a mission in one of Afghanistan's most dangerous areas.
He said the US government needed to accelerate the often years-long visa process for Afghan interpreters and cultural advisers who live in constant danger.
More than 13,000 Afghans and their immediate family members are still waiting for a special immigrant visa for helping American troops, according to the State Department.
The customised white Kangoo was presented to the pontiff by French carmaker Renault.
Benedict XVI has been dubbed "the green pope" for his environmental concerns.
Since he became Pope, the Vatican has installed photovoltaic cells in its main auditorium and joined a project to offset carbon dioxide emissions.
The city state intends that by 2020, 20% of its electricity will be provided by renewable energy.
Renault said the Kangoo Maxi van, which has the Papal coat of arms on its doors, has a 44 kilowatt electric motor and lithium-ion battery and can travel 170km (105 miles) without recharging.
Renault also handed over a second car, which is blue, to be used by the Vatican's police force.
The vehicles were presented to the Pope on Wednesday at Castel Gandolfo, in the Alban Hills south of Rome, by Renault chairman Carlos Ghosn, before being unveiled to the press on Thursday.
The Pope used his new car on Wednesday to travel from the helipad at Castel Gandolfo through the gardens back to his palazzo, the Vatican said.
He was returning after presiding over his weekly audience at the Vatican.
Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said the Pontiff's Kangoo would not be a new Popemobile as it lacked the necessary security features.
The current Popemobile is based on the Mercedes-Benz M-Class and has bulletproof windows.
What does this mean for the Irish border?
For now nothing changes - the UK is still in the EU so people and goods can continue to move freely across the frontier. But when the UK leaves there could be changes.
The current free movement of people is allowed by an arrangement known as the Common Travel Area (CTA). It pre-dates the creation of the EU. Both the UK and Irish governments will push to see it continue. But we can't be certain that it will - some legal experts suggest it could only continue with the agreement of other EU countries.
In a contingency plan published on Friday the Irish government said "preserving the benefits of the CTA will be a key priority in the context of UK-EU negotiations". The nature of any trade deal with the EU will decide whether customs checks return to the border.
The Irish contingency plan says it will explore options to "minimise the impact of checks on trade flows" which will involve discussions with HM Revenue and Customs and the UK government.
What does it mean for business investment?
The Northern Ireland economy relies heavily on foreign direct investment for providing well paying, high productivity jobs. One of Northern Ireland's attractions to foreign-owned companies is that it provides access to the single market. That access will probably be reduced when the UK leaves the EU.
The Ulster Bank economist Richard Ramsey says the the referendum result "raises questions about the ability to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) in the future". He adds that until there is clarity around what our new trading arrangements will be, NI could be seen as a no-go zone for some FDI.
Invest NI, the agency tasked with attracting foreign investment, has sought to play that down. Its chief executive, Alastair Hamilton, said "we are confident that Northern Ireland will continue to succeed as an attractive location for inward investment, in particular from our largest target market, the USA; and that the reduction in corporation tax will play an invaluable role in creating a business-friendly environment to support job creation".
Currency movements
Perhaps the most dramatic market move on Friday was the steep fall in the value of the pound against other currencies. That should bring short-term benefits to exporters. A significant proportion of Northern Ireland's exports, such as food are price sensitive. A weaker pound makes those goods cheaper to buy abroad and so they should gain market share.
Similarly, it should be good for tourism as it makes Northern Ireland a cheaper destination for people travelling from the eurozone or US. But currency movements are a double-edged sword. A weaker pound will make imports more expensive. Fuel prices could be first to go up as oil is traded in dollars. The Petrol Retailers Association, said that a rise of 2p-3p a litre was on the cards as early as next week.
What happens to farm subsidies?
With complex negotiations over an exit, the existing subsidy scheme is likely to be guaranteed until 2019. After that the Leave camp has promised a British agriculture policy or BAP to replace the existing Common Agriculture Policy known as CAP.
But will it add up to the £260m paid out to farmers here by the EU last year? With farm incomes down across all sectors, producers have come to rely on the cheques from Europe. Those backing exit have said subsidy levels will be maintained and the payments tailored to local needs. Opponents say there's no guarantee and successive British governments have tried to reduce direct payments during CAP reform.
Questions have also been asked about where farming will come in the pecking order for the redistribution of money previously paid to the EU budget.
What happens to the cross-border agri-food trade?
Northern Ireland has a healthy trading relationship with the Republic of Ireland. In 2014, £560m of dairy, beef, sheep, pig and poultry was sold to the market across the border.
For now, that all moves seamlessly across the border. Questions now revolve around what the new trading arrangements will be. Whether there will be tariffs and custom controls that might add cost and reduce competitiveness.
The Leave camp says it will not be a problem, that technology will grease the wheels of cross-border trade. The Irish Republic and other EU export markets are important to Northern Ireland agri-food businesses. But most of what is produced in NI is sold within the UK.
What does this mean for the environment?
A raft of rules around things like habitats, waste, water and air quality are driven by EU regulations and directives.
Much of this has been done by legislating for them in domestic law. If those laws are not repealed it is assumed they will continue to apply. In some cases they are more stringent than the European ones.
What will change is the need to prove to the EU that targets under those rules are being kept or risk penalties.
What happens to healthcare in Northern Ireland & the rest of the UK?
The way people access healthcare in Northern Ireland on a day-to-day basis is unlikely to be affected by the vote to leave the EU. The same goes for when using services in England, Scotland or Wales. The NI Executive has made clear it is committed to providing a health service that's free at the point of use. Most other EU countries do not have national health services, with most relying on medical insurance style systems for their healthcare.
What happens to healthcare when travelling in Europe?
For many people from Northern Ireland heading off on European holidays, packing a European Health Insurance Card - or EHIC - is a must.
This card, which is free, currently means travellers can avail of state-provided medical help for any condition or injury that requires urgent treatment, in any other country within the EU. The EHIC covers Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein as well, even though they are not EU members.
Will the EIHC still be valid in the future? At the moment it is far from clear and much will depend on the deal the UK can negotiate with the EU.
What about staff?
It's hard to get accurate figures on the numbers of EU medical staff working in each trust area here - the last census, which dates from 2011, recorded 83,000 people from elsewhere in the EU living in Northern Ireland. Of that group 37,000 were from the Republic of Ireland.
There is no doubt that during the referendum there were concerns from those on the Remain side that Brexit would make it harder to recruit and hold on to foreign staff. However, those who backed the Leave vote argued if the UK was outside the EU it could still admit foreign health staff under a visa system which recognised essential skills.
What impact will the referendum result have on local universities?
In the aftermath of the vote there is uncertainty, but any impacts are unlikely to be immediate.
The main concerns will centre on funding from the EU for research, and the ability to attract EU and international students to study in Northern Ireland. Most leaders of UK universities were firmly in the Remain camp prior to the referendum. The Queen's University (QUB) vice-chancellor Patrick Johnston was one of 103 university vice-chancellors who signed an open letter prior to the vote warning of the impact of an exit.
He had also previously said that "Queen's would be a very different and much poorer place, both economically and socially" without access to the opportunities EU membership provided. Sources at Ulster University (UU) have echoed many of his concerns.
Why are there concerns about EU research funding?
Both local universities benefit from research and knowledge exchanges with partner universities in the EU. They have also received millions in grants from the EU for research. QUB has received around £16m from the EU in research funding in 2016 so far, while UU has also received a number of large EU research grants this year, including a recent 1m Euro grant for psychologists at the university. Sources at both universities have expressed concerns that it will be harder to access that funding outside the EU. It is important to note, however, that the provision of a £150m loan to UU from the European Investment Bank to part-fund its new Belfast campus is unaffected by the leave vote.
Will it become harder for universities here to attract students from abroad?
This is unclear, but both QUB and UU want to more than double the number of international students they attract. In 2013/14 there were 5,950 students from outside the UK in higher education here - around 10% of the student body. Just under half came from EU countries, while the rest came from countries outside the EU, mainly in Asia. Those non-EU students pay considerably higher tuition fees than local or EU students. Sources at both universities have expressed concerns that it might now become harder to attract students from other EU countries and from farther afield to Northern Ireland.
What about Northern Irish students who want to study at universities in the Republic of Ireland. Will they have to pay higher fees?
Currently, students from Northern Ireland pay a tuition fee of 3,000 euros a year to study in the Republic of Ireland. However, non-EU students pay substantially more - with fees beginning at 10,000 euros a year. Would Northern Irish students be classed as non-EU in future?
In a statement to the BBC, the former dean of undergraduate studies at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Professor Patrick Geoghegan, said that TCD would do whatever was necessary to ensure that Northern Irish students were not treated as international students in the years ahead.
What will happen at the Irish border?
Some in the Remain camp argued that a vote to exit the European Union would see a return of permanent border checkpoints. Those in the Leave camp, including Secretary of State Theresa Villiers, insisted that was nonsense.
There have been such agreements, which pre-dated the European Union (EU), that allowed easier cross-border movement. However, it is unclear how those arrangements will be affected by the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
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A poem and short story written by the author as a teenager were found between the pages of a biography of poet Henry Kirke White, owned by Maria Bronte.
Bronte specialist Dr Juliet Barker called the find "extraordinary".
The book and manuscripts are in the process of being acquired by the Bronte Society for £200,000. The Bronte Museum hopes to put them on show next year.
Dr Barker, who wrote a seminal history of the Bronte Family, told the BBC she was "astonished" when she heard about the newly discovery material.
"It's so unusual to get unpublished manuscripts in this day and age. To find an unpublished one like this - that we had no knowledge of its existence - is extraordinary."
Maria Bronte's copy of Robert Southey's The Remains of Henry Kirke White was among a few treasured possessions salvaged after a boat carrying her belongings - prior to her marriage to Patrick Bronte - was shipwrecked off the Devonshire coast in 1812. To this day, it is stained with salt-water.
Inside it bears a Latin inscription, in her husband's writing, which states it was "the book of my dearest wife and it was saved from the waves. So then it will always be preserved".
The book itself contains annotations and sketches by members of the Bronte family, as well as the poem, story extract and a letter by Arthur Bell Nicholls, Charlotte's husband, written shortly after the author's death in 1855.
Dr Barker believes there is "no question" of the manuscripts' authenticity, citing Charlotte Bronte's distinctive handwriting - which varied according to the type of material she was writing - as well as the contemporary detail and Charlotte's use of her "favourite" male pseudonym, Lord Charles Wellesley.
Set in 1833, the short story fragment - described by Dr Barker as a "satirical take on life in Haworth" - is 74 lines long and written in the character of "the debonair, man-about-town" Lord Charles.
Highlighting the significance of the manuscript, Dr Barker stressed the "insight [it gives us] into Charlotte's character".
"Charlotte much preferred to write as a man," she explained. "It allowed her to go, as a writer, to places she couldn't go as a woman."
The incomplete "dramatic" poem is 77 lines and revolves around the fantasy world of Angria, which Charlotte dreamt up with her brother, Branwell, in childhood.
Dr Barker described it as "typical" of the poems she wrote. The first quatrain reads:
Mary thou dids't not know that I was nigh
Thou dids't not know my gaze was fixed on thee
I stood apart and watched thee gliding by
In all thy calm unconscious majesty
With the help of funding from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the V&A Purchase Grant Fund and the Friends of the National Libraries, the Bronte Society is currently in negotiations to acquire both Maria Bronte's book and the Charlotte Bronte manuscripts.
The book was originally sold following the death of Patrick Bronte in 1861 and has been held by the same family in the US for nearly 100 years.
It is believed to have been offered for sale just once previously, in 1918 - but it was either withdrawn ahead of sale or no buyers were found.
The forthcoming bicentenary of Charlotte Bronte's birth next year, which will be marked around the world - including an exhibition about the Brontes in New York - is thought to have precipitated the current sale.
The decision followed a motion by Warwickshire Fire and Rescue.
A huge fire at recycling plant in Smethwick last year was blamed on a Chinese lantern, while warnings were voiced in 2011 after one landed near hay at a Warwickshire farm.
Deputy Chief Fire Officer Gary Philips described them as "extremely dangerous".
He said: "Not only do they set fire to trees and property, but they can frighten animals.
"Some animals have even died because of the heat in the wire and cable of the mechanism."
Warwickshire Fire and Rescue said it hoped the council decision, which covers parks, would also make people think twice before launching them from their gardens.
Ronchi, 36, represented Australia in a handful of limited-over matches before switching allegiance to the country of his birth in 2012.
He was part of the side which reached the final of the 2015 World Cup.
"I can't think of a better time to have been involved with New Zealand cricket," said Ronchi.
"From the 2015 World Cup campaign, through to the overseas tours of that time and some amazing games and series, it's been a genuine highlight for me."
Ronchi, who played four Tests for New Zealand, scored his only international century - an unbeaten 170 off 99 balls - in a one-day international against Sri Lanka in 2015.
New Zealand head coach Mike Hesson paid tribute, saying: "Luke was one of the best glovemen around and I think that's often overlooked in a game increasingly dominated by batting and run-scoring.
"He was a very skilful wicketkeeper, and a very destructive batsman. He was always prepared to play a role for the greater good of the team; to do what was required even if that risked sacrificing his wicket."
The 26-year-old, who joined from non-league team Hednesford in 2012, started 32 league games last season.
"I need to 'buckle down' on my consistency," said Clements.
"I want to cement a place [in the team], get more goals than I did last season and help the team gain promotion. We have a good chance of having a good season."
The length of the contract has not been revealed.
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Watkins, 36, of Pontypridd, changed his plea as his trial was due to start at Cardiff Crown Court alongside two women on Tuesday.
South Wales Police say they are looking into issues raised by a dozen calls.
The police chief who led the inquiry said officers would "work tirelessly to identify any other victims".
Watkins will be sentenced on 18 December.
A force spokesperson said: "Since Tuesday the incident room has received around a dozen calls from the public and we are looking into any issues which have been raised."
Watkins admitted two counts of attempted rape and 12 other offences including sexual assault and taking, making and distributing indecent images of children.
The court was told the two women who stood alongside Watkins in the dock sexually abused their own children and made them available to Watkins for him to abuse.
Woman A admitted the attempted rape of a baby after denying rape and two charges of sexual assault, as well as taking and distributing an indecent photograph of a child.
Woman B pleaded guilty to conspiring to rape a child, three sexual assault charges and four charges of taking, possessing or distributing indecent images.
The evidence against Watkins came from computers, laptops and mobile phones with some recovered from "cloud" storage.
The court heard that he had filmed and kept the episodes of abuse which took place in various hotels in London and south Wales.
Det Ch Insp Peter Doyle described it as "the most shocking case I have ever seen".
After Tuesday's hearing, he told reporters: "The outcome does not mark the end of our investigations and we will work tirelessly to identify any other victims or witnesses and seek the justice they deserve."
South Wales Police worked with other forces, Interpol, National Crime Agency's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) command, local authorities in England and Wales, the Department of Homeland Security in the USA, and the NSPCC.
A surprise output jump from its biggest member, Saudi Arabia, put further pressure on prices.
Gains made since Opec announced output cuts late last year have nearly all been erased.
Saudi Arabia said it was "committed" to stabilising the global oil market, and that its output was still in line with its Opec target.
"Despite the supply adjustment, stocks have continued to rise, not just in the US, but also in Europe," Opec said in its report. "Nevertheless, prices have undoubtedly been provided a floor by the production accords."
Saudi Arabia's production increased to 10.011 million barrels per day in February compared with 9.748 million barrels per day in January.
Saudi Arabia "is committed and determined to stabilise the global oil market by working closely with all other participating Opec and non-Opec producers", its energy ministry said.
Oil prices fell after the release of the Opec report to trade close to $50 (£41) a barrel, their lowest since November.
Crude prices are still higher than $40 per barrel a year ago and a 12-year low of about $28 in January 2016.
The price of Brent crude settled about 0.5% down at $51.09 per barrel, while US crude was at $47.90.
An altercation took place in the city which resulted in the 28-year-old needing treatment after he was punched.
The full-back said on the club website: "I accept the consequences and regret that my time at Stuttgart has come to an end in this way."
Stuttgart coach Hannes Wolf said: "It's not an easy situation for any of us."
Grosskreutz, who won five caps, was an unused substitute during Germany's successful 2014 World Cup campaign in Brazil.
The Baggies have offered Manchester United about £15m for midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin, who has played just 11 Premier League minutes this season.
Pulis said some players "prefer the protection" of a bigger club rather than moving to a team where they "have to work and play and earn their money".
West Brom have also been linked with Leicester City's Jeffrey Schlupp.
The 24-year-old left-sided defender or winger has made only four league appearances for the champions this season.
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The Baggies are eighth in the table and face competition from Everton for 27-year-old France international Schneiderlin, who United boss Jose Mourinho says can leave Old Trafford if the club's board is happy with the fee.
"The big picture is we're trying to get players into this club who will progress us over a period of time, not just in this moment," added Pulis, whose side visit fourth-placed Arsenal on 26 December (15:00 GMT kick-off).
"It's not just time and money, it's getting the players to come to the club."
Michelle O'Neill will meet with Chinese officials with responsibility for food standards.
China is set to become the world's largest consumer of pork, surpassing the European Union by 2022.
The minister said she would use the visit to build on an "important relationship" between both countries.
Inspectors from China made two trips to pork plants in Northern Ireland in April as part of the approval process.
Exports
Mrs O'Neill said: "I am hopeful my visit will maintain momentum on the approval process."
Northern Ireland already exports dairy products and animal hides to China.
As well as a market for pork, it is hoped there could be opportunities for beef and chicken exports in the future.
The minister will also promote Northern Ireland's agri-food industry during the week-long trip.
The minister will travel on Sunday in what will be her third visit to China.
The UK's Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) says the current system acts as a disincentive to drug companies who can seek waivers to avoid doing the trials.
Of 28 new cancer drugs approved in the EU for adults since 2007, 26 could potentially work in children, but 14 have been exempted from child testing.
The ICR wants these "class waivers" to be scrapped.
The European Commission is considering whether to change its guidelines.
The ICR says the EC should no longer grant pharmaceutical companies exemptions on the basis that the adult cancer that the drugs treat does not occur in children.
Although waivers are appropriate when an adult cancer drug will not work in childhood cancers, says the ICR, they are often granted even when a drug has a broader action and could potentially treat childhood tumours.
For example, drugs have been approved for treating adult cancers linked to certain gene mutations, but the manufacturers have been granted waivers from testing the drugs in children who have cancers linked to the same gene errors.
Under current legislation, drug companies are offered longer market exclusivity if they test their products in children. But the ICR says too few take up this incentive.
ICR chief executive Prof Alan Ashworth said: "It's essential that ground-breaking cancer treatments are tested not only in adults but also in children, whenever the mechanism of action of the drug suggests they could be effective. That requires a change to EU rules, since the current system is failing to provide children with access to new treatments that could add years to their lives.
"Modern cancer treatments are often targeted at genetic features of the tumour that may be common to a number of tumour types, and to adults' and children's cancers. That means a drug developed for a cancer in adults could also be effective against a cancer affecting a completely different part of the body in children. The way EU rules are implemented fails to take this into account."
Once a treatment is licensed for adult use, a doctor can chose to prescribe it "off-label" to a child. But without enough trial evidence to support its use, healthcare providers may not want to pay for it.
Around 1,600 children are diagnosed with cancer every year in the UK.
A spokesperson for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, which sets guidelines for the use of NHS treatments in England and Wales, says all children and young people with cancer should be offered the opportunity to enter any clinical research trial for which they are eligible, and adequate resources should be provided to support such trials.
The non-invasive technique measures light reflected off tissue to determine whether it is cancerous or healthy.
The patient, Reuben Hill, 22, is making a good recovery after the operation at Charing Cross Hospital.
It is hoped the technique could make this kind of delicate surgery faster and more accurate.
It has only been tried in Montreal, Canada, before now.
Mr Hill, who is from Devon and studying for a PhD in physics at Imperial College London, works with the same laser technology as used in his operation.
Before surgery, he told me: "My inner scientist is fascinated by what they are going to do.
"Understanding the physics involved definitely makes it less frightening."
During the operation, surgeons use a near-infrared laser probe, pointing the beam of light on to the exposed brain.
This causes molecules in the cells to vibrate.
Fibre optics in the probe collect the scattered light that bounces off the tissue.
This is analysed using Raman spectroscopy, which can measure the frequency of vibrations.
Healthy and abnormal tissue have a slightly different "signature".
The whole process takes a couple of seconds, and is entirely non-invasive.
In all cancer surgery, the aim is to remove all abnormal tissue while sparing healthy cells.
This is especially important with brain tumours, as removing healthy tissue can cause permanent damage to cognition, memory and speech.
The Raman probe can tell surgeons whether to cut or spare tissue.
At present, they rely on biopsies sent for analysis during the operation, which can take up to 40 minutes each.
Neurosurgeon Babar Vaqas, the trial chief investigator, said: "Optical technologies like this are the future. They are fast and don't destroy any tissue and could be used during many types of cancer surgery or when dealing with infection like a brain abscess."
Mr Vaqas said the trial at Charing Cross Hospital - part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - was aiming to recruit between 30 and 40 patients with brain tumours.
During the same operation, surgeons used another innovative technique - an "intelligent" knife that can give a detailed molecular analysis of tissue.
The "iKnife" is an electro-surgical scalpel that produces smoke as it cuts through tissue.
This is sucked into a mass spectrometer next to the operating table, for analysis, telling surgeons what type of abnormality they are dealing with.
Kevin O'Neill, head of neurosurgery at Imperial, said the combination of new technologies would revolutionise brain surgery.
"This is bringing the laboratory into theatre, giving a real-time molecular fingerprint of tissue," he said.
"The potential is amazing, not just to differentiate between normal brain and tumour, but whether the patient is likely to respond to specific treatments".
The team at Imperial began using the iKnife in September 2014 and are also trialling it in breast, colon and ovarian cancer surgery.
Mr Hill was diagnosed with epilepsy and a brain tumour after he was found collapsed in his bedroom.
He said: "It was a big surprise. I was a fit, healthy person and in the judo team."
The golf-ball-sized tumour was near the area of the brain that deals with language and communication.
Mr Hill is part of the choir at Imperial College, and was concerned that the surgery might affect his speech and ability to sing.
Half way through the operation, he was gently woken up and asked to talk - and sing - so that surgeons could be sure that these would not be affected.
A speech therapist worked with Mr Hill as the surgeons removed the last parts of the tumour.
With the lights dimmed, Mr Hill sang these poignant words from the hymn 10,000 Reasons: "Whatever may pass and whatever lies before me, I'll still be singing when the evening comes."
I have witnessed scores of operations over the years, but none like this.
It was a moving culmination to a remarkable piece of surgery.
I met Mr Hill two months after his operation, when he was back at Charing Cross Hospital for a follow-up appointment.
Surgeons were able to confirm that his tumour had not been cancerous.
The operation was a complete success, though Mr Hill will need to be monitored regularly in the coming years.
He said he was now well on the road to recovery and looking forward to getting back to his physics PhD next year.
Mr Hill said being ill had given him a new perspective on life, adding that in the future "I'll be remembering just to be happy".
The research at Imperial College is part-funded by the charity Brain Tumour Research.
Chief executive Sue Farrington Smith said: "Advances in brain tumour surgery such as this are very exciting and give hope to the thousands of patients and their families diagnosed with a brain tumour each year."
The 26-year-old forward had been linked with a move to Manchester United, before their interest in him cooled.
Atletico's appeal against a transfer ban for breaching Fifa rules over the signing of minors was rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).
"It's a hard time for the club," Griezmann told French television.
The France international told Telefoot he had decided to stay at the Spanish side after discussion with his sporting advisor Eric Olhats.
"It would be a dirty move to leave now - we talked to the leaders and we will be back for next season," he added.
Atletico, together with city rivals Real Madrid, were banned in July 2016 from registering players for two transfer windows and fined after a Fifa investigation concerning players aged under 18 who played in competitions for Atletico between 2007 and 2014, and Real from 2005 to 2014.
Both sides failed in their initial appeals to Fifa, but Real had their ban halved by Cas, while Atletico's suspension was upheld on Thursday, although their fine was reduced.
Atletico called the Cas ruling "unfair" and said it would cause "irreparable damage" to the club.
Later on Thursday, Griezmann posted a message on social media reading: "Now more than ever! #atleti #alltogether."
He had previously told French television show Quotidien there was a "6/10" chance of joining Manchester United this summer.
As Atletico cannot register new players again until 1 January 2018, it is anticipated they will offer Griezmann a new contract - his current deal includes a 100m euro (£86m) release clause.
This article was first published on 1 November 2016 and should be treated as being dated 1 November 2016.
Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding were two of three men questioned following an incident at a property in south Belfast on 28 June.
The arrests happened in June but details have just emerged.
Police said a file would be prepared for submission to the Public Prosecution Service.
Paddy Jackson, 24, was not included in the 27-man Ireland squad to face New Zealand this Saturday in Chicago for what an IRFU (Irish Rugby Football Union) press release described on Monday as "personal reasons".
Olding is currently out of action with a hip flexor injury.
Jackson has been capped for Ireland 16 times while centre Olding, 23, has played four times. The two Belfast men are established stars for Ulster Rugby and have played regularly this season.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said: "Police arrested two men aged 24 and one man aged 23 on Thursday 30 June in relation to a number of sexual offences, reported to have taken place at a property in south Belfast on 28 June.
"The men have been interviewed and released from custody. A file will be prepared for submission to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS).
"A fourth man aged 24, will be reported to the PPS in relation to this incident for perverting the course of justice."
Solicitors acting on behalf of Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding released statements saying their clients rejected the allegations and had both co-operated fully with police.
Ulster Rugby also released a statement: "Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding have been assisting the PSNI with enquiries," it read.
"The players deny any wrongdoing and have not been charged with any offence. As no charges have been brought forward, it would be inappropriate to comment further."
The brother of a UVF murder victim has appealed to those responsible for destroying a memorial to "stop terrorising the people of Tullygally".
Brendan Duffy is pictured beside the memorial to his sister, Eileen Duffy, and two others who were killed by loyalists in a mobile shop in Craigavon in 1991.
It was destroyed by vandals last weekend.
Mr Duffy told the Lurgan Mail his family had been upset by its destruction but were heartened by the support they had received, as well as offers to help rebuild the memorial.
Two young dancers from Lurgan also feature in the paper.
Zarah Freeburn, 11, and Evie Macdonald, 12, are taking centre stage at the Grand Opera House in Belfast this week.
They were selected to play the part of the children in the Scottish Ballet's production of Hansel and Gretel.
"Pilot project helps tackle silent killer", is the front page headline in the Coleraine Times.
It reports on a scheme at the Causeway Hospital in Coleraine which is reducing the number of diabetes-related amputations by 90%.
Under the Diabetes Foot Pathway scheme, patients see a podiatrist, dietician and nurse under one roof and within 48 hours if required.
The lead doctor of the project, Dr Brian Connor, says they have already seen a reduction in the number of amputations within the Northern Health Trust as a result.
The paper also reports on some good news for rate payers.
Councillors in the Causeway Coast and Glens have agreed to a rate freeze for a second consecutive year.
However, the Coleraine Times adds that householders will still see an increase in their bills when the regional rate, which is outside council control, is factored in.
Staying on health-related matters and pressures on the Ambulance Service come under the spotlight in the Andersonstown News.
A source within the Belfast Trust told the paper an ambulance had to be sent from Bangor to Belfast to respond to a report of an unconscious child because of a shortage in the city.
The source added this was due to all Belfast-based ambulance crews being engaged in emergency situations or commuting patients to the Ulster Hospital.
They warned that the Belfast Trust is "unable to cope with the volume of sick people".
Concerns of a different kind feature inside the paper.
Residents at an apartment complex in the city centre say they are at their wits end over a "lack of action" to tackle a rat infestation.
When the paper's reporter and photographer went to the College Place complex they saw rats jumping inside the communal bins in the car park and smelt a strong odour.
Residents says the car park has become a playground for the rodents and fear it is only a matter of time before they're found inside their homes.
Helm Housing says its contractor has taken steps to introduce a "number of rodent control measures" and it will monitor the situation until it is resolved.
Resolution of a different kind was needed after a fight involving a number of pupils broke out at County Tyrone school.
The Strabane Chronicle says two teaching unions have given their backing to staff at Holy Cross College in Strabane following the incident on Tuesday.
Also making the headlines is news that the introduction of CCTV cameras in the town has moved a stop closer.
A spokesperson for Derry City and Strabane District Council confirmed that seven cameras have been costed.
The papers says if funds can be secured then the matter is likely to go before councillors to be signed off.
DUP leader Arlene Foster comes under fire from the Fermanagh Herald who report that there has been "palpable anger" in the local area following her comments on the Irish language.
The Fermanagh native told a DUP election event earlier this week that she would never agree to an Irish Language act and suggested there was more need for a Polish Language act as more people spoke it in Northern Ireland.
A father whose children attend an Irish speaking school in Lisnaskea said the outgoing first minister's comments were "insulting".
The paper's leader says referring to those who wished to protect the Irish language in the same breath as hungry crocodiles was "frightening coming from a woman aspiring to lead all the people in the community".
Elsewhere and time stands still no more for the clock at St Macartin's Cathedral in Enniskillen.
The clock, which was manufactured by John Smith and Sons of Derby in 1935, fell silent 14 months ago.
Following an inspection, technical staff from Smiths recommended an upgrade of the clock's auto-winding system.
"The upgrading of the clock was an expensive undertaking and the select vestry of St Macartin's are deeply indebted to those who have made it possible by their generous donations," Samuel Morrow from St Macartin's told the paper.
Talking of good deeds, the Banbridge Chronicle says a pioneering food share scheme will be launched in the County Down town on Friday.
It says the FoodShare scheme is the first of its kind in the borough and will operate from The Hub building at the Grace Generation Church.
Several local businesses have given their backing, including Tescos and two bakeries.
Co-ordinator Neil Adair says the aim is to reduce food waste in the community and says it will be open weekly to anyone to "come along and take what they want".
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It was alleged that two people at the former Duncroft Approved School in Staines had allowed the late television presenter access during the 1970s.
After looking into the scale of his abuse at the now defunct school, Surrey Police submitted a case summary to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
The CPS has now determined that no further action should be taken.
It had investigated whether staff were complicit in Savile gaining access to girls, or whether they were aware that such abuse took place and took no steps to report it.
Nigel Pilkington, head of the CPS South East complex casework unit, said: "After carefully and thoroughly reviewing this case, there is insufficient evidence to suggest that staff were complicit in allegations of sexual offending against the school's pupils.
"There is also insufficient evidence to suggest that members of staff knew of the risk that the man [Savile] posed and wilfully failed to protect pupils from harm.
"Furthermore, a jury would also have been required to conclude beyond reasonable doubt that the staff members considered the complaints made to be genuine and wilfully chose to ignore them.
"We concluded that, on the evidence, a jury would not be able to do so," he said.
As part of its investigation, Surrey Police had interviewed more than 100 former pupils at Duncroft, which closed in the 1980s.
Savile, who died in 2011 aged 84, was a Radio 1 DJ and the presenter of the Jim'll Fix It show on BBC One.
He was one of Britain's most prolific sex abusers and is thought to have assaulted hundreds of people between the ages of five and 75.
He had denied the allegations of child abuse at Duncroft when questioned by police in 2009.
The matter was referred to the CPS which advised there was insufficient evidence to take further action.
It said the move came as businesses sought to improve productivity.
The survey of 750 firms, said a third believed the UK was a more competitive place to invest than two years ago.
But the organisation warned the economic health of European partners was one of the biggest external risks to future investment.
The EEF survey said the industrial policies of the previous government had helped to improve conditions in manufacturing, which represents about 10% of the UK economy.
It called on the recently elected Conservative government to remain supportive.
Lee Hopley, the EEF's chief economist, said: "UK manufacturers' ongoing commitments to invest in technology, skills and innovation provide positive signals about the sector's future growth and productivity prospects."
Figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) earlier this year showed UK labour productivity fell 0.2% in the last three months of 2014. That meant productivity last year remained "little changed" on 2013.
The ONS figures also found the productivity of the UK workforce remains slightly lower than in 2007, marking an "unprecedented" absence of growth since World War Two.
There is always someone ready to raise questions about any "official figure" , whether it is the voter list or death figures from a road accident.
Not surprisingly then, when the eight-storey Rana Plaza collapsed on 24 April with thousands of people working in five garment factories, numbers became a hotly contested issue.
Two sets of figures are now accepted as accurate. Firstly, the number of people rescued alive, which stands at 2,438 and secondly, the number of bodies recovered from the rubble, which stands at more than 1,000 and keeps rising every day.
But there is disagreement over how many are still missing - and hence, the total number likely to have died.
More than two weeks after collapse, there is still no agreement on exactly how many workers and staff were present in the building. This has left officials calculating in darkness.
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), initially said that 3,200 people may have been employed by the five factories located on the upper floors of the building.
But that figure now looks unrealistic. Nearly 3,500 people have already been accounted for, with unknown numbers still buried under the rubble.
Five days after the collapse a woman named Shahina was found alive.
But Shahina could not be rescued, as a fire sparked by metal cutting machines killed her on 28 April. One of the rescuers later died in hospital from burns sustained during the abortive rescue.
It was not expected that more survivors would be found, and rescuers switched their focus to recovering bodies.
Then another round of distrust about numbers was kicked off by none other than Maj Gen Hasan Suhrawardy, the man in charge of the recovery operation at the site.
On 1 May, he told journalists that only 149 people were missing, raising heckles across the social landscape. Even senior government officials expressed doubts about the figure.
Workers rescued from the site said many people had tried to escape down a stairway at the back of the building. They insisted that many bodies lay in that part of the building.
It appeared the general had used a list which local administration officials had stopped using. The police had their own, much larger list, based on people registering names of their missing relatives.
Officials worried that many names were appearing several times in different lists. They also worried that fraudsters might be at work, registering fake names to get compensation.
As a result of the confusion, all lists were taken down and officials stopped talking about the number missing.
But more fuel was added to the fire by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, leader of the main opposition, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
Addressing a big rally in Dhaka on 4 May, Mrs Zia accused the government of ''disappearing'' 900 bodies.
The opposition leader did not quote any source, but it reflected a sense of frustration and distrust among relatives of those missing.
Hundreds of relatives of the missing waited at the site everyday, desperate to ensure they at least got the body of their loved one so they could be buried properly.
But rumours soon spread that the army was about to bulldoze the site. Rumours were also spread that trucks removing debris from the site were being used to take away dead bodies.
Anger and frustration spilled over on one or two occasions and relatives, aided by locals, blocked army vehicles carrying debris.
Painstaking work by officials finally calmed the situation. The army made it clear there would be no bulldozing and that every effort would be made to recover any remaining bodies.
The military and fire brigade decided to use heavy equipment sparingly, only after ensuring that no body was left to be recovered.
It is perhaps this painstaking, time-consuming, brick-by-brick search for bodies that has allowed the rescuers to find a woman alive in the rubble on Friday, 12 days after the last survivor was found and 17 days after the building went down.
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The 22-year-old woman, from Liverpool, has been discharged from hospital, Queensland Police confirmed.
An Australian man, 22, is facing 23 charges over the alleged ordeal that ended on Sunday.
Police on Wednesday said the attacks took place over a one-month period, not two months as alleged earlier.
They say the assaults happened between 3 February and 5 March on a road trip stretching from Cairns, in Far North Queensland, across the state's outback.
It ended when officers stopped the pair's 4x4 more than 1,000km (620 miles) south at Mitchell, after a service station reported they failed to pay for petrol.
In a brief statement on Wednesday, police said the woman had been released from hospital into the care of friends and family.
They also said the pair met at a Cairns party on 27 January, clarifying wrong information that it was three months ago.
Detective Inspector Paul Hart on Tuesday said the pair began a relationship but "at some point that had soured". She was then subjected to a "horrific and terrifying" experience, he said.
He said she had suffered facial fractures, bruising, abrasions to her neck and cuts to her body, as well as psychological injuries.
The accused man, from Cairns, is facing charges including four counts of rape, eight counts of assault and four counts of strangulation.
He is also charged with two counts of deprivation of liberty, causing wilful damage, possessing drugs and drug equipment and obstructing police.
The man appeared to be "hiding from police" in the back of the vehicle when he was arrested, Mr Hart said.
Police had stopped the 4x4 after receiving a call from a service station owner in Mitchell.
"She pulled up and fuelled up and then when she came in, she couldn't pay for her fuel," the owner, Beverley Page, told the Courier Mail.
"The girl was crying at the time and our person told her to just go outside and have another look for her wallet and take a deep breath and come back in," she said, adding the woman then drove off.
Queensland Deputy Premier Jackie Trad described the allegations as "absolutely horrific".
"I want people to understand that Queensland is a safe place and these sorts of things are the exception," she said on Wednesday.
"We want to make sure that violence against women, these sorts of crimes, are completely unacceptable."
The accused man was refused bail on Monday and will go before the courts again on 23 May.
Neither the man or the victim can be named for legal reasons, Queensland's Department of Justice said.
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Hamed Bakayoko told Radio France International (RFI) he believed the attackers received their orders from Gbagbo loyalists in neighbouring Ghana.
One assailant was also killed in the gun battle on Monday in the Riviera district of Abidjan, the main city.
Ivory Coast is recovering from months of unrest after a disputed poll.
The attacks on Sunday and Monday were said to be the biggest in Abidjan since Mr Gbagbo was ousted in April 2011.
"They [the attackers] were people who come from the myriad pro-Gbagbo militiamen and former armed forces nostalgic of the Gbagbo regime," Mr Bakayoko told RFI.
He believed that "everything was ordered" by pro-Gbagbo militiamen who fled to Ghana after they were ousted from power in Abidjan, RFI reports.
Mr Bakayoko told state TV the army would step up its presence across the country.
'Weapons stolen'
"The orders have been given, our instructions are firm," he said.
"From today, you'll be able to note this by the presence of our men in all the districts of Abidjan as well as towns in the interior."
By John JamesBBC News, Abidjan
This attack certainly gives Ivorians the jitters - especially those tempted to believe the violence of the past 10 years was finished.
The assailants may not have had much chance of taking control of the Akouedo base, which has a UN peacekeeping base at its heart, but it shows the Ivorian army is vulnerable to surprise attacks, and many soldiers complain of being woefully under-equipped.
This incident will also increase tensions between those in the new unified armed forces about who is loyal to whom.
The army struggles both from a lack of weaponry because of the continuing UN arms embargo, but also from its mixed make-up of former rebels from the north, regular troops and recent volunteers due for disarmament.
With so many small arms in circulation, and limited progress on reconciliation, this may not be the last of this type of incident.
The BBC's John James in Abidjan says there was a gory scene at the Akouedo military camp, with bodies lying on the ground and blood spattered over the walls after Monday's attack.
Corp Ousmane Kone, who took part in the fighting, told Reuters news agency that the attackers had made off with guns.
"They took lots of weapons, loaded them in a truck and drove off with them. They took AK-47s [automatic rifles], machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades," he said.
The head of the national assembly, Guillaume Soro, said the situation was under control.
"The attackers just want to give the impression that the security situation in Ivory Coast is precarious," he added.
The army is patrolling the areas east of Abidjan looking for the attackers.
UN peacekeepers have been posted at key junctions.
Defence Minister Paul Koffi Koffi had told AFP the Yopougon attack was an apparent bid to free people who had been arrested the previous day.
Yopougon district suffered some of the heaviest fighting during the battle for control of Abidjan last year following the disputed elections.
Although Abidjan has been relatively peaceful recently, there have been outbreaks of unrest, especially in the west of the country, which correspondents say remains awash with guns.
Some 3,000 people were killed in a dispute after the November 2010 poll.
Mr Gbagbo refused to accept defeat to President Alassane Ouattara, who eventually ousted his rival with the help of former rebel forces, the UN and former colonial power France.
Mr Gbagbo is currently in The Hague, awaiting trial at the International Criminal Court on charges of crimes against humanity.
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Fighters loyal to ex-Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo carried out recent attacks in Abidjan, killing 10 soldiers, a minister has said.
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Police also arrested 52 people across Wales under new drug-driving offences, which came into force in March.
Police carried out more than 12,000 breath tests during the June campaign.
In north Wales, a 36-year-old woman from Holywell, Flintshire was arrested after a reading of 125 micrograms, more than three times the legal limit.
In Wales and England, the alcohol limit for drivers is 80 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood, 35 micrograms per 100 millilitres of breath or 107 milligrams per 100 millilitres of urine.
North Wales Police said it had carried out an intelligence-led operation, targeting people who frequently drive under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Ch Insp Darren Wareing from the force said: "We are seeing more arrests as a result of our intelligence-led operations, however, there is still a perception out there that drivers, particularly in rural areas, believe they have less chance of getting caught drunk or under the influence of drugs behind the wheel."
He added: "I would also like to personally thank each individual who contacted us during the campaign to give us the information we needed."
This is the first time the annual campaign has been able to target drug-drivers.
Police in England and Wales have been able to use "drugalyser" devices at the roadside since March.
The device can test for cocaine and cannabis from a saliva sample within three minutes.
Police can test for other drugs including ecstasy, LSD, ketamine and heroin at a police station, even if a driver passes the roadside check.
Drivers face prosecution if they exceed limits set for the presence of eight illegal drugs and eight prescription drugs which are sometimes abused.
Motorists who test positive can face a criminal record, loss of their licence for at least a year and a fine of up to £5,000.
The prescription drugs that fall under the new regulations are morphine, diazepam, clonazepam, flunitrazepam, lorazepam, oxazepam and temazepam and methadone.
The illegal drugs include cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, ketamine and heroin.
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More than 300 people have tested positive for drink-driving in a month-long crackdown by Wales' four police forces.
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The boy was found with "life-threatening injuries" at a property on Thresher Drive on 25 March and died six days later on Friday, 31 March.
Wiltshire Police said the same man had previously been questioned on suspicion of attempted murder.
A post-mortem examination is set to take place later this week while inquiries continue, police added.
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A 50-year-old man been bailed by police after being questioned on suspicion of murdering a three-month-old baby.
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As home secretary campaigning to stay in the European Union, she described it as "inconceivable" that Brexit would not lead to changes to the border arrangements between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
It is important because once the UK leaves, it will be the only land border between the UK and the European Union.
The current arrangements significantly pre-date the formation of the EU.
The UK and Ireland entered into a Common Travel Area (CTA) agreement in 1923. This is an informal travel arrangement that means that no passport controls are in operation for Irish and UK citizens travelling between the two countries. It's been updated a couple of times since then.
During the Troubles there were frequent road closures and checkpoints at the border and in Belfast on Monday, Prime Minister Theresa May said: "Nobody wants to return to the borders of the past."
But it is by no means a foregone conclusion that the situation can remain unchanged - the UK and Ireland joined the European Community (which later became the EU) on the same day, so the border has never been one between a member and a non-member.
Ireland is not currently part of the passport-free Schengen zone, which does mean that visitors entering Ireland from another EU country will already have had their passports checked.
Much will come down to what happens in the UK's negotiations to leave the EU, particularly whether freedom of movement continues. It will also be important whether the UK decides to remain part of the European Economic Area, although there are some customs checks even between Norway, which is an EEA member and Sweden, which is an EU member.
There has also been legal advice that any agreement between the UK and Irish Republic would have to be agreed by the whole of the EU.
Professor Dagmar Schiek, Jean Monnet chair of EU Law and Policy at Queens University Belfast, is quoted in a report by the Northern Ireland affairs committee as saying: "Under EU law, any future relations between the Republic of Ireland and the UK would be subject to agreement not only with the Republic of Ireland, but with the whole of the EU".
One suggested solution is that the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland should remain open, but there would then be a border between the island of Ireland and the rest of the UK, which would have the advantage of not being a land border.
But First Minister Arlene Foster said she had told Theresa May: "There must be no internal borders within the United Kingdom, and I was very clear with her on that and she responded positively to that."
Read more: The facts behind claims about our relationship with the EU
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Theresa May has visited Northern Ireland for the first time since taking over as prime minister.
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The legislation will target those who subject spouses, partners and family members to psychological and emotional torment but stop short of violence.
It paves the way for charges in cases where there is evidence of repeated "controlling or coercive behaviour".
The Women's Aid charity said it was a "landmark moment" in tackling abuse.
The new law, brought into force in England and Wales, follows a Home Office consultation in which 85% of participants said the existing law did not provide sufficient protection.
It comes as Citizens Advice published figures showing a 24% rise in those seeking advice for domestic abuse.
The Crown Prosecution Service said the type of abuse covered by the new offence could include a pattern of threats, humiliation and intimidation.
It could also involve stopping someone from socialising, controlling their social media accounts, surveillance through apps and dictating what they wear.
Alison Saunders, the director of public prosecutions, said: "Controlling or coercive behaviour can limit victims' basic human rights, such as their freedom of movement and their independence.
"This behaviour can be incredibly harmful in an abusive relationship where one person holds more power than the other, even if on the face of it this behaviour might seem playful, innocuous or loving.
"Victims can be frightened of the repercussions of not abiding by someone else's rules. Often they fear that violence will be used against them, or suffer from extreme psychological and emotional abuse.
"These new powers mean this behaviour, which is particularly relevant to cases of domestic abuse, can now be prosecuted in its own right."
BBC legal correspondent Clive Coleman
Where do the normal power dynamics of a relationship end and "coercive or controlling" behaviour begin?
The new offence criminalises patterns of such behaviour against an intimate partner or family member.
Critical to the offence is the repeated or continuous nature of the conduct and the ability of a reasonable person to appreciate that the behaviour will have a serious effect on its victim.
A defence is also included to provide a further safeguard against inappropriate use of the new offence.
It will apply where the defendant can show that they believed they were acting in the victim's best interests and that their behaviour was objectively reasonable.
An example might be someone caring for a mentally ill spouse, who has to keep them in the home and make them take medication for their own protection or in their own best interests.
Here, the spouse's behaviour might be considered controlling, but would be reasonable in the circumstances.
Cases will be heard in magistrates' or crown courts and evidence could potentially include emails and bank records.
In order for the offence to apply, the pattern of behaviour alleged must have a "serious effect" on the victim, Home Office guidance says.
This means they must have either feared violence will be used against them on at least two occasions or they have been caused serious alarm or distress which has a "substantial adverse effect" on their usual day-to-day activities.
David Tucker, from the College of Policing, said the new offence of coercive control presented "challenges" but provided an opportunity to make victims and potential victims of serious assaults safer.
Gordon Aikman, a political campaigner with the illness, had urged politicians to double funding into finding a cure.
Following the announcement, Mr Aikman took to twitter in a bid to get support from David Cameron and Nick Clegg.
He will also issue an appeal to party leaders in a speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival.
Ahead of the address Mr Aikman said, with the right funding and co-ordination, Scotland could be on the cusp of finding a cure.
"Half of people with MND die within 14 months of diagnosis," Mr Aikman said. "The odds are stacked against me. This is likely to be the last general election I will see.
"So with just weeks until we go to the polls I am making a direct and personal plea to all the party leaders. David, Ed, Nick and Nicola - the ball is in your court.
"Don't tell me it can't be done. Let's dare to dream. We are poised to find the cure here in Scotland."
He said Scotland was home to world-leading MND researchers with a population which could be easily monitored by the NHS, while the recent decision to double the number of MND nurses would allow better tracking of patient progress.
"Scotland is the ideal place to drive both the discovery science, as well as deliver a stratified medical approach for individual patient care and ultimately better-focused clinical trials," he said.
He added: "I am dying but I am confident and excited about what the future of MND research holds.
"This is it. This is our chance. With the political will and modest investment we can, and we must, find a cure for future generations."
Mr Aikman was diagnosed with the incurable degenerative condition last year and he has since raised more than £250,000 for MND research through his Gordon's Fightback campaign.
They are among 21 web firms, including Yahoo and Orkut, facing a civil suit in Delhi accusing them of hosting material that may cause communal unrest.
A criminal case of similar allegations is due to be heard next month.
Judges have threatened to block sites that fail to crack down on offensive content, but many firms say it is impossible to pre-filter material.
Late last year, Communications Minister Kapil Sibal met officials from Google, Facebook and other websites and said the government would introduce guidelines to ensure "blasphemous material" did not appear on internet.
The Delhi High Court last month asked Facebook and Google India to "develop a mechanism to keep a check and remove offensive and objectionable material from their web pages" or "like China, we will block all such websites".
The civil case being heard in Delhi on Monday was filed by Muslim petitioner Mufti Aizaz Arshad Kazmi, who alleged the companies were hosting material intolerant to religious sentiment.
Google and Facebook told the court they had complied with an earlier order by a Delhi district court judge to take down certain material.
Google said: "This step is in accordance with Google's longstanding policy of responding to court orders."
Facebook India said it had also filed its compliance report.
Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others all argued that no action should be taken against them.
But the judge insisted the 22 firms should provide a written reply within 15 days detailing the removal of the material.
A second, criminal case - brought by Hindu journalist Vinay Rai - is scheduled to be heard next month, with leading company executives summoned to appear.
However, a Delhi High Court judge will rule next week on an appeal by the firms involved for the case to be quashed.
A spokesman for Microsoft said it had "filed an application for rejection of the suit on the grounds that it disclosed no cause of action against Microsoft".
Google India has argued that it is not feasible to pre-monitor material posted by "billions of people across the globe".
Google lawyer, NK Kaul, said in an earlier court hearing that the issue also related "to a constitutional issue of freedom of speech and expression, and suppressing it was not possible as the right to freedom of speech in democratic India separates us from a totalitarian regime like China".
Facebook says policies are in place that enable people to report abusive content.
In December, Mr Sibal said: "My aim is that insulting material never gets uploaded. We will evolve guidelines and mechanisms to deal with the issue. [The companies] will have to give us the data, where these images are being uploaded and who is doing it."
Mr Sibal was angered by morphed photos of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, as well as pigs running through Islam's holy city of Mecca.
Network Rail asked people to avoid the station after signal problems at Proof House Junction.
Trains struggled to get in and out of the south end of the station, with problems affecting Arriva Trains Wales, CrossCountry Trains, London Midland and Virgin Trains.
Network Rail said it believed the cause of the problems was vandalism.
Live updates on the rail disruption
The latest problems came after passengers took to Twitter to express their frustration over severe delays due to another signalling problem last Friday.
Thousands of rail commuters also faced delays and cancellations across England on Tuesday 5 April when overhead electric wires stopped working at Birmingham International station.
Check if this is affecting your journey
Earlier Chris Denham, from Network Rail, said: "We've had a problem with the power supply that lights all the signals up just south of Birmingham New Street which has been ongoing for several hours now."
Shortly after 09:00 Network Rail announced the power supply had been restored.
Earlier a spokesman apologised to passengers for the delays.
"We are very sorry for this disruption and a difficult start to the week, and Network Rail is working with the train operators to get services back to normal as quickly as possible."
The spokesman said the cost of the delays will "run into hundreds of thousands of pounds" which could have been spent on the rail network instead.
Passengers used the hashtag #BirminghamNewStreet to complain about the delays on Twitter.
Martin Ward wrote on BBC Midlands Today's Facebook page: "All that money spent on Birmingham New street (shopping centre!!!). Should have spent it on track and signals. Grrrrr"
Meanwhile, Ann Marie Gallagher wrote: "Just sit down, have a hot drink, read your book , eat your snacks , breathe - it's not the end of the world."
Ade Slf Cotton added: "Should use steam trains as back up."
Birmingham New Street tweeted on Sunday that it had been nominated for Station of the Year.
Passenger Jodie O' Rourke tweeted "Why is it that a journey involving #birminghamnewstreet always goes wrong."
CrossCountry said the problem caused up to an hour-long delay between Manchester Piccadilly and Bournemouth.
Virgin Trains West Coast reported waits of up to 30 minutes between Wolverhampton and London Euston.
London Midland said it was expecting services to be affected until about 16:00 BST on Monday.
The Rent Smart scheme will require landlords to be trained in their responsibilities and obligations.
Latest Welsh Government figures show fewer than 25% had been granted licences by last week.
Only 25,353 out of a possible 100,000 Welsh landlords are registered.
The Welsh Government wants Rent Smart to help tackle bad landlords who give the private rented sector a bad name.
Housing charity Shelter Cymru said nearly a third of its workload came from private tenancies.
Although it can take only a few minutes to register, the process of completing the licensing takes about eight weeks and many have not even started it.
Back in July, 13,000 landlords had registered with Rent Smart but progress has been slow.
The Rental Landlords Association (RLA) fears fewer people will let out houses, meaning there will be fewer houses to rent and that this will push up the cost.
RENT SMART FACTFILE:
Angela Durrant - who rents out a flat in Cardiff Bay - said she only found out about the Rent Smart changes by chance but is unhappy with the amount of work it involves.
"I've actually chosen to go through a letting agent in order to [register] because I was more concerned I'd miss something out or fall foul of the law," she said.
"I was really annoyed because we've respectfully rented out the property for 10 years and I understand it might be trying to root out rogue landlords but it's not really taking into consideration people who are trying to do a good job with perhaps one or two properties."
The Welsh Government said it would raise overall standards and improve the reputation of private rented housing which had been "damaged by the actions of rogue and even criminal landlords and lettings agents".
A spokesman added: "We hope the scheme will ultimately lead to more investment in Wales by improving its reputation".
Meanwhile, 96% of those who had completed the relevant training said "it will make them a better landlord."
James Lieser, 38, did not return to HMP Greenock on Friday, 24 April. He was last seen by his family in Parkhead, Glasgow, at about 15:30 that day.
Lieser was convicted in 2004 of murdering Steven Collins and had served 11 years of a 12-year sentence.
Police want anyone with information on Lieser's whereabouts to contact them.
Lesley Hayward was given a four-month sentence, suspended for a year, at Reading Magistrates' Court last month.
Hayward, 63, who sat as an independent on Wokingham Borough Council, had told the authorities she lived alone when she actually lived with her partner.
Under Electoral Commission rules, by-election proceedings for the Bulmershe and Whitegates Ward have begun.
Hayward admitted two counts of knowingly failing to declare a change in circumstances to the council and the Department for Work and Pensions, and one of making a false statement to obtain Pension Credit.
A council spokeswoman said although Hayward had previously indicated that she would resign, she did not submit a resignation in writing and so was automatically disqualified from the authority.
Matthew Baker, 29, and James Whitlock, 32, went on the run in November after breaking out of HMP Pentonville.
Baker's girlfriend Chelsea Gibson, 25, of Bow, east London, pleaded guilty to assisting an offender while his sister Kelly Baker, 22, of Ilford, admitted harbouring an escaped prisoner.
They were both sentenced to eight months in jail suspended for 18 months.
Baker and Whitlock escaped from prison by sawing through a metal bar to open an external window cover.
Two days later, Baker was found hiding under a bed at his sister's home in Ilford. He had dyed his hair and had a fractured leg.
Whitlock was found at an address in Homerton, east London, after six days on the run.
Gibson was also ordered to complete 150 hours of unpaid work, while Baker was told to complete 100 hours of unpaid work.
The unrest is a consequence of Hong Kong's unique historical position - a territory on Communist China's soil, but a global and connected city where many believe direct democracy is the only fair system of government.
The BBC looks at some of the turning points between handover and now.
On this date the Union Flag was lowered in Hong Kong, marking the end of 150 years of British colonial rule.
Negotiations between Britain and China left Hong Kong the Basic Law, a de facto constitution that ensured the territory would be run under the principle of "one country two systems" until 2047. It would retain its capitalist system and preserve rights and freedoms mainland Chinese citizens did not have.
The first chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, was elected by a 400-member Chinese committee, but the Basic Law promised that democracy would gradually develop. The ultimate aim was "the selection of the Chief Executive by universal suffrage upon nomination by a broadly representative nominating committee in accordance with democratic procedures" - but no deadlines were set.
From then on, protests have been held every 1 July to remind China that Hong Kong was still waiting for universal suffrage.
Did China go back on its promises?
Proposed changes to Hong Kong's security laws brought an estimated half-a-million people out in protest.
The bill - which the government was constitutionally obliged to draw up - proposed heavy penalties for sedition and would have made it illegal for political organisations to establish ties with foreign political groups and vice versa.
It enraged democracy campaigners who said the bill was a step back for political, religious and media freedom and could be used by China to silence its critics. Ultimately, the bill was dropped indefinitely.
The following year, China ruled that its approval had to be sought for any changes to Hong Kong's election laws, giving Beijing the right to veto any moves towards more democracy.
How does Hong Kong choose its leaders?
29 December 2007 - direct elections granted
When Donald Tsang began his second term as chief executive in July 2007, he promised to publish a green paper "so that we can all work together to identify the most acceptable mode of universal suffrage to best serve the interests of Hong Kong".
Right on time, on 29 December, China ruled that Hong Kong would be able to elect its leader by the 2017 elections. Mr Tsang said this marked "a timetable for obtaining universal suffrage".
But critics - including veteran pro-democracy lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung, above - said this was too slow and not far enough.
In March 2012, Leung Chun-ying (widely known as CY Leung) won the race to become Hong Kong's third chief executive - he was elected by a panel of 1,200 influential citizens, most of them Beijing loyalists. He was to be the last executive to gain office without public election.
CY Leung - seen here with Chinese President Hu Jintao at his inauguration in July - proved an unpopular choice among the Hong Kong public from the outset, finding it hard to shake suspicions that his loyalties lay too closely with Beijing.
Though he passed popular measures, including a tax on foreigners buying property and a ban on pregnant woman travelling from the mainland to give birth, he lost favour by proposing Chinese patriotism classes for schoolchildren.
In the face of further huge protests, the government backed down.
In January 2013, law professor Benny Tai published an article in the Hong Kong Economic Journal, in which he said civil disobedience was now the best way to demand democracy. The Occupy Central movement was born.
In June 2014, the group organised an unofficial referendum on how candidates should be shortlisted for the 2017 election. About 42% of voters backed a proposal allowing the public to have a greater say, alongside a nominating committee, and political parties.
China said the referendum was illegal and invalid, but Mr Tai insisted that even if it were not legally binding, the 792,808 votes cast could not be ignored.
But groups claiming to represent Hong Kong's "silent majority" who did not want to see confrontations also spoke out, saying they gathered more signatures for their cause.
Hong Kong voices against the protest
Beijing had been considering for some time what form the 2017 elections would take - would Hong Kong, as many hoped, have a totally free choice of candidate?
China's top legislative committee issued its verdict in August - yes, Hong Kong would be able to elect its chief executive in 2017, but with one important caveat: a nominating committee would choose two to three candidates, who must each be approved by 50% of the committee members.
China said the "sovereignty, security and development interests of the country are at stake," and therefore "there is a need to proceed in a prudent and steady manner".
This was a bitter blow to the democracy campaigners. Occupy began planning mass protests for 1 October, China's National Day.
Things that could only happen in a Hong Kong protest
On 22 September, thousands of students walked out of the classes, mobilised by the Hong Kong Federation of Students and Scholarism. What began as a peaceful boycott and sit-in to demand democracy escalated through the week as the students converged on government HQ. When a small group broke into government offices, a number of people, including student activist leader Joshua Wong, were arrested.
Then on the evening of Sunday 29 September, Occupy Central announced that they were joining forces with the students and their occupation of the business district was beginning early.
Hours later, riot police moved in, firing tear gas at unarmed students and mounted baton charges. Not only did they fail to end the protests, the operation was widely condemned as an overreaction, prompting thousands more to join.
China's legacy of youth protest
Members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said taxpayers were missing out on £16bn a year, as a result of evasion and criminal activity.
HMRC needed to increase the number of investigations, and prosecute more wealthy tax evaders, the MPs said.
But HMRC said it was one of the most effective tax collectors in the world.
And it revealed it had 26,000 staff focusing on tax evasion, avoidance and fraud, out of its total staff of 56,000.
Labour MP Meg Hillier, the chair of the PAC, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that HMRC "could clearly be doing more" with "the right resources".
"We have long felt that there should be more prosecutions because we think that sends a signal to the honest tax payer who is sweating over their tax returns and also a warning shot to those who are thinking about being fraudulent," she said.
Ms Hillier pointed out that over the last five years the level of tax losses - the difference between the tax that should be collected and the amount that is actually collected - had remained static at around 3% of all the tax owed to the Treasury.
She acknowledged the job of HMRC was "challenging" and welcomed international cooperation on tax evasion.
According to the report, HMRC had said it investigates around 35 wealthy individuals for tax evasion each year.
But it told the MPs that it did not know how many had been successfully prosecuted.
In addition, only one person was prosecuted after a former HSBC employee called Herve Falciani handed over a list of potential tax evaders with Swiss bank accounts in 2015.
The MPs said that created the impression that the rich can get away with tax fraud.
It follows a previous PAC report last November, in which the MPs said the number of prosecutions by HMRC was "woefully inadequate".
But as a result of extra funding given to it in the Summer 2015 budget, HMRC said it now hoped to investigate 100 companies and wealthy individuals each year by 2020.
Part of the answer may be that the richest and easiest pickings for tax sleuths lie elsewhere.
HMRC's estimate of the tax gap breaks down into £26bn not paid by businesses large and small, £6bn attributable to criminals, many operating in the black economy, and just under £3bn which individuals should have stumped up.
£3bn is a large sum of money, but it is the smallest category.
There is clearly a worry among tax officials about the cost of launching highly complex prosecutions and achieving disappointing returns.
The Falciani list of more than 3,000 possible tax evaders who hid funds in Switzerland resulted in 150 cases being looked at for potential prosecution, of which only 3 were passed to the Crown Prosecution Service to consider and, notoriously, only one was taken forward.
HMRC now names and shames deliberate tax defaulters by publishing a regular list of offenders.
But look at the characters on the list and you will see that they are small business people including restaurant owners, fishermen, newsagents and car traders, not the sort who have Swiss bank accounts.
Critics say that while this approach might be convenient for HMRC, it sends out entirely the wrong message, that they are keener to nab the small fry than to home in on the rich who might wriggle out of tax.
The current tax gap is around £34bn a year - half of which is down to fraud.
But HMRC said it collected 93 pence of every pound due, making it one of the smallest tax gaps in the world.
"We remain relentless and strategic in tracking down the few that try to get out of paying their fair share," a spokesperson said.
Nevertheless the MPs said HMRC had not set out a clear strategy, and it should do so by November 2016.
Jon Thompson takes over as the new chief executive of HMRC this month, following the departure of the previous boss, Lin Homer.
The two presidents will meet at the White House on Thursday.
"Part of the conversation with President Obama is how can they help us in the post-conflict," he told the BBC.
The Farc says it is willing to lay down its weapons after more than five decades of conflict.
Peace negotiations were launched in Cuba in November 2012.
The Colombian government and the left-wing rebels have set a 23 March deadline to reach an agreement.
The post-conflict period "is more difficult than the process itself", said Mr Santos.
White House officials told Reuters news agency earlier that Mr Obama was willing to increase aid to Colombia to secure the success of the accord.
The Farc, which was founded in 1964, will give up its armed struggle and join the legal political process.
Last week, the United Nations Security Council voted to accept a request from the Farc and the Colombian government to appoint a mission to oversee the end of the conflict.
"This is really a step that makes the process irreversible," said Mr Santos.
He added the rebels also agreed to "cut every link that they have with drug trafficking", as part of the accord.
"They recognise that they have financed themselves through drug trafficking, or taxing the drug traffickers. That's what they say.
"And they will in a way help us, especially in those remote areas, to convince the peasants to switch to legal crops," he told the BBC.
Colombia is the world's top producer of cocaine.
Mr Santos and Mr Obama are also expected to discuss ways of combating the spread of the Zika virus.
Colombia is the second most affected country by the current outbreak, after Brazil. It has more than 20,000 reported cases.
"We in a way are expecting a rapid increase. We expect this to go, reach a plateau and come down," he said.
"The problem with Zika is nobody knows a lot about what it is."
Officers responded to reports of a man lying in Bridge Street, Girvan, at about 02:30.
The 23-year-old was taken to Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock then later transferred the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.
Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward.
Det Insp Alan Sommerville said: "We understand that there was a disturbance on Bridge Street in the early hours of Monday morning which has left a man seriously injured.
"Anyone who witnessed any suspicious behaviour on Bridge Street at the time of the incident is asked to contact Ayr Police office."
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Did all the players do enough to keep their place for Thursday's match against Wales in Lens? Or is anyone in danger of dropping to the bench?
Chief football writer Phil McNulty rates the England players in Marseille's Stade Velodrome...
Had little to do but some uncertain moments on the ball. No chance with the goal.
Vibrant attacking performance in the first half justified his selection. May be put under more pressure against Wales but did well here.
Booked, but a solid, determined performance and made a couple of crucial blocks.
Steady. Strong in some physical exchanges and largely untroubled.
Some good crossing, especially in the first half, but found himself in an aerial mismatch with Vasili Berezutski for Russia's equaliser.
Impressive on the ball, solid in the tackle and a thunderous free kick for his goal.
Showed some good touches and confidence at this level. More to come.
England's man of the match. Great range of passing and controlled the game until he was taken off. Outstanding.
Another who vindicated Hodgson's faith. Strong running and only marks off for a couple of chances missed in the first half.
Got worse as the game went on, betraying a lack of confidence. His place may be under threat for the game against Wales.
Quiet night for the Spurs striker, who got little service and support and mysteriously still takes England's corners. Will improve as he has real class.
Couple of runs but did not make much impact.
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The shepherd's hut, thought to have cost the former prime minister £25,000, includes a wood-burning stove, sofa bed and sheep's wool insulation.
Mr Cameron admitted his wife Samantha made all the design decisions about the hut, in which he plans to write his memoirs.
His children have other ideas, however - they want to use it as a playroom.
The former Conservative party leader said there had been "a bit of a fight" over the use of the shed, painted in muted shades called Clunch, Mouse's Back and Old White.
"My children want to use it as a Wendy house," he said. "I want to use it as a book-writing room and my son wants it as an alternative bedroom. So, quite a lot of competition.
"When it first arrived, there was great excitement - who was going to spend the first night in it?"
The humble shed has seen something of a resurgence in recent years, with people choosing to build an extra room in their garden - often in spectacular style.
Owners choose to use them as offices, pubs and even nightclubs.
Some of the very best have been featured on Channel 4's Amazing Spaces Shed of the Year competition, which was last year won by a building made from 90% recycled material and featuring a hidden room behind a bookcase.
Previous contenders for the title have also included a shed replica of the Millennium Falcon.
Another David who is enthusiastic about sheds is David Sproule from St Albans, Hertfordshire, who joked about the former PM's hut: "His shed is nothing compared to mine - he's just starting out in the world of sheds."
He had a recording studio and music room installed in his garden last year, which he christened 'The Shedio'.
"The top of the garden was just nettles and brambles - dead space," said Mr Sproule, who plays in a rock band.
He admits his "four or five guitars - one more than my wife knows about anyway" and amplifiers used to clutter up the house and that he needed somewhere to play music.
Mr Sproule said The Shedio was "the best £6,000 I ever spent".
"I love having a shed - as long as you don't use it to keep smelly lawn mowers in, it's the perfect place to run and hide from the world," he said. "And my wife no longer has to listen to me rehearsing my music - so it's a win-win."
Mr Cameron is understood to have signed a deal late last year to write his autobiography, set to be released next year.
He is not the only one to use a hut for writing - Roald Dahl wrote his books from a shed in his garden, as did Dylan Thomas.
Most I spoke to seemed more concerned by the NHS, even though responsibility for it has been devolved to the assembly since 1999.
Labour wants to focus on domestic policies, so is happy to blur the boundaries of what is and isn't devolved.
References to the Welsh Government's handling of schools and hospitals featured heavily in the launch of the Welsh Labour election campaign. It even reheated promises made at last year's assembly election.
Jeremy Corbyn, however, wasn't mentioned at all in Carwyn Jones's launch speech.
What a contrast with the Conservatives who seize on every opportunity to claim that Theresa May needs to be returned to Downing Street so she can lead the UK out of the EU.
For the Tories, this is the Brexit election.
And the polls suggest a lot of voters agree.
YouGov, on behalf of ITV Wales, has been asking people to rank the political issues that matter to them.
Its survey of more than 1,000 people is a much better guide to public opinion than the half-dozen willing to talk to me in Ponty.
The EU - or rather leaving it - has shot up the list of priorities.
For years, Europe ranked way behind the health service and the economy.
But the referendum has changed that.
Polling expert Prof Roger Scully, of Cardiff University, said: "You would normally expect maybe the economy to come top, the health service to be second.
"This time it's Brexit - and clearly Brexit.
"And that's unprecedented. We've never had a general election before where Brexit or the EU or relations with Europe have been the most important issue."
So if this is the Brexit election, is Mrs May right to say voting for her will improve Brexit by strengthening her hand in the negotiations?
A report in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said those negotiations began badly at a dinner with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker.
The journalist who broke the story, Thomas Gutschker, has been asking his contacts in Brussels and Berlin whether they care about the size of Mrs May's majority in the House of Commons.
He said: "They don't care about the size in the sense that she implies it - that she might have a stronger hand in the negotiations with a stronger majority.
"They do care however about this majority because they think the bigger it is the easier it will be for her to sideline Brexit hardliners in her own party, and then really to strike the difficult compromise that needs to be struck."
The EU has already set out its negotiating position, Mr Gutschker added.
"It won't make any difference neither for politicians in Brussels nor in Berlin whether this government has a 50-seat majority or a 100-seat majority in the House of Commons."
It's worth reflecting on how the topics that dominated the 2015 election seem to have vanished.
The Tories have got rid of a target to generate a surplus by 2020.
David Cameron and George Osborne aren't even standing.
And who would have thought two years ago that Jeremy Corbyn would be Labour's candidate for the job of prime minister?
The referendum changed the political landscape and the personnel.
Andrew Shorrock and his mother Amy, 34, were last seen in Tameside in Greater Manchester at about 12.30 GMT on Friday, police said.
Ch Insp Chris Downey appealed to Ms Shorrock to contact police, saying "yours and Andrew's welfare is our priority".
After reviewing CCTV footage, police believe they are in Blackpool.
Ms Shorrock and her son were seen on CCTV at Manchester Piccadilly railway station where they boarded the 15:47 train to Blackpool in Lancashire, police said.
They left the train at Blackpool North station at 17:07 GMT.
Ch Insp Downey said Ms Shorrock's family were "worried" and "desperate" to speak to her.
"We are extremely concerned about Amy and Andrew, and I would like to appeal directly to Amy to please get in touch with us to let us know you are both safe and well," he said.
"Amy's mother Deborah Shorrock wants to appeal directly to Amy to come home safely with Andrew as she is extremely worried about them."
Ms Shorrock is described as white, 5ft 6in tall and of medium build with long dark hair. She was last seen wearing a black hooded top and had a small, dark suitcase on wheels.
Andrew is described as white, of slim build but tall for his age, with short brown hair. He was last seen wearing a grey and burgundy fleece top and blue jeans.
Ch Insp Downey asked anybody who thinks they may have seen Ms Shorrock and her son to contact police.
Captain Rory Best has shaken off a calf muscle injury and will start.
Coach Joe Schmidt said that Van der Flier took a "bang" in training on Monday after "shipping a couple of knocks" in the England and Italy games.
"Josh would probably be fit to play but he is just carrying a few knocks," said the Ireland coach.
"Conversely, Tommy has trained incredibly well.
"He hasn't had the luckiest of preparations with us in previous times," said Schmidt of O'Donnell who will be winning his 12th cap on Saturday.
O'Donnell missed out on last Autumn's World Cup in heartbreaking fashion after sustaining a dislocated hip in the warm-up game against Wales in August.
However, the Munster flanker, 28, battled back to feature in Ireland's opening Six Nations games against Wales and France.
Best, 33, was reported to have a tight calf on Tuesday but the hooker was able to resume training on Thursday.
An Ireland win will move the holders above Scotland in the table and ensure they finish no lower than fourth.
If results go to form with Wales seeing off the Italians and new champions England completing the Grand Slam at the Stade de France, a home win at the Aviva Stadium will leave Ireland third in the table.
In the first season following Paul O'Connell's retirement, Schmidt insisted that he would be happy with a top-three finish after a campaign where they missed several influential players including Iain Henderson, Peter O'Mahony and Tommy Bowe.
Sean O'Brien, Mike McCarthy and Dave Kearney missed the last three games of Ireland's tournament after being injured in the defeat by France while Jared Payne, Rob Kearney, Simon Zebo and Keith Earls have also been ruled out for stages of the campaign.
"If we can get that top-half finish I'd be very happy that we've worked our way through a pretty challenging time," added Schmidt.
"Hopefully that could give us a little bit of a platform into what is an incredibly tough second half of the year."
Ireland face a three-Test tour to South Africa in June before facing New Zealand twice and Australia in the autumn in an unforgiving close to 2016.
Simon Zebo's impressive attacking display in last weekend's nine-try 58-15 win over Italy meant that his retention at full-back was not in any doubt with Rob Kearney again ruled out by injury.
Eoin Reddan and Cian Healy, who both missed the Italy game because of knocks, return to the bench in place of Connacht pair Kieran Marmion and Finlay Bealham after resuming training this week.
Ireland: S Zebo, A Trimble, J Payne, R Henshaw, K Earls, J Sexton, C Murray; J McGrath, R Best (capt), M Ross; D Ryan, D Toner; CJ Stander, T O'Donnell, J Heaslip.
Replacements: R Strauss, C Healy, N White, U Dillane, R Ruddock, E Reddan, I Madigan, F McFadden.
In June, the rock star said a plan for a facility to house up to 30,000 pigs on a Newtownabbey farm was "horrific".
But the Ulster Farmers' Union said a campaign was being orchestrated against the farm.
They said "celebrity views" should not take precedence over those of local people in planning decisions.
The union said Brian May's views should not "weigh more heavily than those of people who live in the area or the thousands who work in processing jobs that depend on supplies coming from local farms".
Farmer Derek Hall has applied to build a large pig production facility on land on the Reahill Road in Newtownabbey as his existing farm has reached capacity.
He said it would be a "state of the art" facility with modern technology to minimise noise and odour issues.
He said the cost of the technology that he is introducing, coupled with tight profit margins in the industry, means the farm has to be of sufficient scale to pay back the money he will need to borrow.
If passed, it will be built in two phases. The first phase will see 15,000 animals housed, with the potential to double that number.
Brian May told the Belfast Telegraph that he was opposed to the scale of the development.
He said he was against what he described as "cruel and degrading" animal welfare conditions on "mechanised" farms.
Mr Hall said animal welfare is at the core of what he is planning.
The UFU said a campaign was being orchestrated against the development because of its scale.
But, it said, in a global context, the Newtownabbey farm was not that big, as some units in Brazil produce more than 100,000 pigs.
Friends of the Earth has circulated an objection letter that it is encouraging people to sign and send to Antrim and Newtownabbey Council.
It said its objections centre on the size of the development and any potential environmental and health impacts.
There has also been opposition to the plan from people who live nearby.
Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council have received 789 letters of objection and will also consider an online petition site that has received more than 200,000 signatures in relation to the application.
Brian May achieved global fame in the 1970s with Queen and has gone on to become an active campaigner, particularly in the sphere of animal rights.
He founded the animal charity Save Me and has spoken out against badger cullings.
Ally MacLeod performs in Girls, Strì and Macaroni, a short film made by Iain Wilson from Staffin on Skye.
The video is among entries in the running for best mobile short and best comedy. Mr MacLeod has also been shortlisted for the best performance award.
The full list of shortlisted films can be found on the FilmG website.
Mr MacLeod, 20, a crofter on north Skye and a Skye Camanachd player, added tin foil to a pair of sunglasses and a "gangsta rap swagger" to his usual look for the last-minute entry.
Mr Wilson, 22, said he started work with Mr MacLeod on the film only a few hours before the competition's deadline for "a bit of fun".
Held annually, the competition attracted 105 entries - a record since the competition's inaugural year in 2008.
Films were sought on the theme of "strì", meaning "endeavour/conflict".
Best Gaelic sports commentary was a new category for this year's contest.
The four shortlisted commentaries include Kate Bradley, from Ardnamurchan, for her take on the women's shinty Valerie Fraser Cup Final and Christina MacDonald, from Skye, who commentated on the semi-final of the same tournament.
The awards ceremony will be held in Glasgow on 17 February.
This is the worrying growth in the resistance of infectious diseases to conventional medicines, largely caused by the world's over-use of cheap antibiotics.
Potentially fatal diseases like tuberculosis are developing resistance to the most commonly-used drugs, but the big pharmaceutical companies have little incentive to spend billions on finding replacements if poorer countries cannot afford to pay for them.
This is the big healthcare economics conundrum facing the world.
"If we don't find a solution to this enormous challenge by 2050, 10 million people a year could be dying from it", economist Jim O'Neill told the BBC World Service's In the Balance programme.
Last year, Mr O'Neill, former chief economist at investment bank Goldman Sachs, was given the unusual role of heading up a government-backed commission looking into antimicrobial resistance.
The term covers not only those drugs used to treat bacterial infections, but also those used to treat other microbes, such as parasites, viruses, and fungi.
Hundreds of thousands more people are dying each year from infectious diseases that used to be easily treatable, health experts believe.
Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics over time, but overuse of the drugs accelerates the process. The WHO reports seeing growing resistance to "front line drugs" in most parts of the world.
Mr O'Neill's commission has estimated that these extra deaths could cost the global economy $100bn (£65bn; €89bn).
But what should "big pharma", governments and health professionals be doing about it?
According to Mr O'Neill, this is as much a problem of economics as healthcare.
"There's a major demand problem and there's a major supply problem," he told the BBC.
On the the supply side, pharmaceutical companies want to develop drugs that they can sell a lot of at high prices, he said. But in emerging economies, this is not affordable.
So pharma firms are reluctant to commit billions of dollars on research and development that might lead to new, more effective drugs, without being confident they will recoup costs and make a profit.
On the demand side, there's a pressing need for patients and doctors to realise that antibiotics "are not sweets," says Mr O'Neill. "We all think that they solve anything, but they don't, they cause resistance."
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) recognises that more needs to be done to make sure that the right drugs are being prescribed appropriately.
Dr Virginia Acha, the ABPI's executive director of research medicine and innovation, also accepts that a change to the traditional drug development business model will be needed if this problem is to be addressed.
"You're going to need new [drugs] eventually, just because of the process of the way bacteria respond," says Ms Acha.
But the issue is not just about developing new drugs, she argues, it's also about having them readily available and at the right volumes.
She suggests new funding models could involve insurance-based schemes or collective investment from governments, pharma firms, research institutes and charities.
Mr O'Neill believes that developing 10 new key drugs over the next decade would cost about $25bn.
"It sounds a lot of money, but that is less than a third of a tenth of a percent of global GDP," he says."And it's less than the global pharma industry spends on buying back its own shares every year."
But he admits that "global taxpayer money" will be needed to keep the costs of the drugs low enough to be affordable for developing economies.
Meanwhile, in densely-populated countries like India that are particularly prone to multiple infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance is taking an increasingly savage toll.
A high mortality rate in new-born babies in India is "attributable to bacterial infections", says Prof Vinod Paul, head of paediatrics at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi. "Almost 200,000 babies are dying each year."
But using antibiotics risks triggering more microbial resistance, says Prof Paul.
"We are walking a tight-rope."
So what should governments be doing?
"Better infection prevention and control in healthcare settings; a focus and hygiene and sanitation; where appropriate, increasing vaccination uptake," says Dr Charles Penn, the World Health Organization (WHO) co-ordinator for antimicrobial resistance.
All of which would reduce the reliance on antibiotics, he argues. New drugs need to be available to all, but they should be used "wisely and appropriately" so that they remain effective for "as long as possible," he says.
Most experts agree that co-operation between the private and public sectors will be essential to prevent millions of additional fatalities over the coming decades.
There has to be an "international call to arms", concludes the ABPI's Virginia Acha.
Angry opposition parties have responded by announcing a 48-hour nationwide blockade of roads, rail and waterways beginning on Tuesday.
They want PM Sheikh Hasina of the ruling Awami League to resign and transfer power to a caretaker government ahead of the polls.
But Ms Hasina has rejected this demand.
Caretaker governments previously oversaw elections, but Ms Hasina scrapped the arrangement in 2011.
In a televised statement, Mr Ahmad said his organisation would do everything possible to ensure the poll was peaceful, free and fair.
"I've asked all political parties to uphold the will of the people, maintain peace and compromise.
"Army troops will be deployed to assist the law enforcement agencies so people can vote freely," he said.
Last week Ms Hasina put together a multi-party coalition and offered her rival, Khaleda Zia of the Bangladeshi Nationalist Party (BNP), any post she wanted.
Ms Zia refused the offer.
The two women have been at loggerheads for years.
Mr Ahmad said he had asked President Abdul Hamid to broker a peace deal between the two women and their respective parties.
"We've asked the president to personally initiate special steps and end this unbearable impasse," he said.
A spokesman for the BNP, Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, told reporters "we will not accept any farce in the name of elections".
"We ask that the schedule be kept on hold until a settlement is reached," he said.
Last month, opposition parties staged a three-day strike, spearheaded by the BNP, in which several people were killed.
The BNP fears the Awami League will rig the elections if it remains in power instead of the caretaker government.
Staff and visitors were evacuated from the Metropolitan Remand Centre in Ravenhall after clashes involving hundreds of inmates began at midday.
Parts of the prison are in lockdown but the outer perimeter was not breached.
Victorian Corrections Commissioner Jan Shuard said it was one of Melbourne's biggest ever prison riots.
She said it might be linked to the smoking ban, due to come into effect on Wednesday, but the ban would go ahead regardless.
"Until I get a full debrief, I can't speculate about how it all came about," she told reporters.
But she said it was "very disappointing that it occurred today".
Other media reports quoted people in contact with prisoners who blamed the ban for the violence.
One man, David, told Melbourne's 3AW radio station an inmate had told him earlier in the week that "all hell was going to break loose" if their tobacco was removed.
Police and emergency services rushed to the Metropolitan Remand Centre in the afternoon afternoon after prisoners breached an inner perimeter.
There have been no reports so far of injuries but local media have reported police entering the prison and using a water cannon to subdue inmates.
Footage from the scene broadcast on Australian media showed prisoners in an outside yard with covered faces lighting fires and smashing windows.
Ms Shuard said several small fires started by the prisoners were quickly "contained".
Police secured the prison's perimeter while a police drone and police helicopter surveyed the scene from the air.
The riot, which broke out at about 12.30pm local time on Tuesday (02:30 GMT), was not a threat to public safety, said prison authorities.
The commissioner could not confirm reports the riot involved two rival prison gangs.
Earlier in the day, she said the state's prison system had been "very ready" for the smoking ban.
About 84% of Victorian prisoners are smokers, according to government figures, about five times the rate in the general community.
The government said it was introducing the ban to improve the health of prison staff and inmates.
Ms Shuard said the ban had been 18 months in the making.
"We've had a very long-term project in place to work with both our staff and the prisoners in preparing for [the ban]," Ms Shuard told the ABC on Tuesday.
The body of 49-year-old Michael Freshwater was discovered in Westridge Road on 29 April.
Tristan Pope, 21, of Eastcote Lane, London, is due before Southampton Crown Court on 17 June charged with conspiracy to supply class A drugs.
An appeal to trace Kevin Suika, 23, from London - who has links to Southampton and Kent - is ongoing.
In its latest update on the attack in June, the Commons says 39 mailboxes were hit - fewer than 0.5% of 9,000 Parliamentary accounts.
But among them was a select committee mailbox, which contained emails with personal information.
The Commons has not confirmed which committee was affected.
The hack prompted officials to disable remote access to the emails of MPs, peers and their staff as a safeguard and the fact some access was gained has been blamed on "weak passwords".
The Commons says 26 people were affected by the cyber attack, including six MPs and one peer. Among the 39 accounts affected were 11 "generic organisational mailboxes" - two people had more than one account.
"In the case of one compromised generic organisational mailbox, a Commons select committee mailbox, 77 people have been notified that personal data - information on personal circumstances provided to support the work of the Committee - was contained in the mailbox and so may be at risk of compromise," the Commons update says.
"We have invested heavily in cyber security measures and will continue to do so. A series of technology changes, including multi-factor authentication, have already been made to increase security."
The National Cyber Security Centre and National Crime Agency are investigating the incident which came weeks after 48 of England's NHS trusts were hit by a cyber-attack.
The M48 Severn Bridge and M4 Second Severn Crossing were due to be handed over by April 2018 after building cost debts are repaid to a private company.
But Severn River Crossing boss Philip Smith told the Welsh Affairs Committee he was awaiting policy decisions to push the plans forward.
In his budget in March, the chancellor said tolls would be halved in 2018.
Mr Smith told MPs during a meeting on Monday that they had only a few months before needing to reach main agreements.
"It's problematic at the moment. We seem to be in a position where we're waiting for policy decisions and until policy decisions are made then there's no progress on the detail of the handover."
The union is currently holding a ballot on action short of a strike which is due to close next Thursday.
It would be up to the union's ruling council to decide when to hold any subsequent strike ballot.
But a strike ballot is unlikely to be held before the autumn.
Education Secretary John Swinney will address the conference on Saturday. The EIS is Scotland's largest teaching union.
The dispute between the EIS, Scottish government and Scottish Qualifications Authority centres on claims of excessive workloads for secondary teachers caused by the new National Qualifications.
The EIS has argued that the timeline around the introduction of the new qualifications has been rushed, giving schools insufficient time to absorb and plan for the changes.
Its ballot of secondary teachers on action short of a strike is due to close next Thursday.
It could lead to teachers "working to contract" by boycotting any additional work and assessment related to the new qualifications, which have been introduced under the Curriculum for Excellence.
EIS general secretary Larry Flanagan earlier urged delegates at the conference to "send a strong message" to the Scottish government and the SQA to return an "overwhelming 'Yes' vote" in the ballot.
Mr Flanagan also said Mr Swinney had made clear that he was in "listening mode" and had "made clear his intent" to address the issues.
But he said more action was needed, and stressed that the EIS was "committed to the ballot process".
Asked about the ballot when it opened last month, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: "We will continue to work with teachers to make sure we are providing the best education for our young people in our schools but also that we are supporting teachers to do that.
"I think we've demonstrated in our time in government that we work with our teaching profession to support them and we will continue to do that."
Ms Sturgeon confirmed in January that local authorities will be required to use new standardised assessments, in reading, writing and numeracy, in P1, P4, P7 and S3.
The tests are a central part of the National Improvement Framework, which the Scottish government claimed would help narrow the attainment gap between the least and most deprived children - or as Mr Flanagan put it, the "impact of poverty of educational achievement".
Mr Flanagan told delegates the standardised assessments for younger students had to support learning and teaching, and not be used to promote target setting and league tables.
He said: "It could be potentially positive if it leads to increased investment; or potentially negative if it narrows the focus to an obsession with targets.
"We have been there before - we are not going back again. Data rich education systems are fine; data driven systems are not."
Mr Flanagan also launched a staunch defence of the Scottish comprehensive education system, and warned against following "UK Tory policy" on education, which he argued was "anathema to the type of comprehensive, public sector, societal good approach we have embraced in Scotland."
And he warned Mr Swinney against structural change after an SNP manifesto reference to educational regionalisation.
Mr Flanagan said: "Absolutely the last thing Scottish education needs at the moment is a structural reorganisation that would simply be a huge distraction and, frankly, a waste of resources."
The 35-year old, who previously announced his retirement, penned a short-term deal to return to the Welsh capital with Cardiff Blues in November.
Robinson says helping on the training paddock with the Blues has opened his eyes to future opportunities.
"It is working well for me and is a nice opportunity working here," he told BBC Radio Wales Sport. "But I am not retired yet, I am still going."
Robinson, who won 13 Wales caps, said he has not necessarily considered a career in coaching before rejoining the Blues, actually deciding it probably was not for him.
"I am helping out a bit with the coaching side; it has opened up a little bit of an opportunity for me to help out with kicking stuff," he explained.
"Especially with Jarrod Evans and Gareth [Anscombe] to see if they want/need my input.
"And if there are any injuries like there were earlier in the season. I am there and raring to go. '
"I thought about it previously and felt I didn't want to do it.
"I felt my experiences of working with coaches and how stressful that can be and obviously when you're a fly-half you have quite a bit of input both on and off the pitch.
"But it wasn't something I really wanted to pursue as I haven't done a huge amount of coaching.
"This just worked nicely as a nice opportunity to gain experience and see if it was something that I wanted to pursue long-term or not."
The deep fried chicken strips, first launched in 2005, were taken off the menu in 2012, but were reintroduced after customers demanded their return.
"The ongoing guest outcries reached a point where they could no longer be ignored," it said at the time.
Global sales in restaurants open at least a year rose 6.7%, it said.
Parent firm Restaurant Brands said new burgers, store improvements and special offers also helped to drive the sales increase.
Restaurant Brands was created last year, when Burger King's majority shareholder, 3G Capital bought Canadian coffee and doughnut chain Tim Hortons for $11bn.
Burger King's performance helped profit at parent firm Restaurant Brands hit $9.6m (£6.2m) for the three months to the end of June.
Sales from both groups totalled $1.04bn - again slightly higher than analysts had expected.
Its results come just a few days after fast food rival McDonald's said sales had fallen in the second quarter.
The firm said it had opened 141 new Burger King restaurants in the period, and 52 new Tim Horton ones.
Anca Falconer, 36, from Pembrokeshire, was diagnosed with Leiomyosarcoma (LMS), a type of soft tissue sarcoma, just days after giving birth in 2010.
Her request for specialist treatment in England was refused.
The Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee said the success of Selective Internal Radiation Therapy (SIRT) "has not currently been established."
Mrs Falconer, who lives in Haverfordwest, initially underwent extensive surgery and chemotherapy for her rare liver cancer, but it returned.
Her first request to the committee was rejected in 2013 on funding grounds, and her cancer consultant refused to submit another application, describing the efforts as being "futile", and she was told she would have to find the money herself.
Fundraising efforts allowed her to receive the first round of SIRT, which involves injecting radioactive microbeads into the liver, at a cost of £10,000.
Mrs Falconer, who had been bedbound for about three months, said she felt transformed after the treatment.
"Within days I was able to stand up again. I can play with Mary and take her to school," she said. "I had lost hope before."
The second round of treatment costs £20,000 and is due by late August.
Mrs Falconer's husband, Richard, 51, said NHS Wales was "not set up to deal with soft tissue sarcomas" with many of the specialist centres in England.
He added that he thought experts in Wales had "given up on his wife" four years ago and that she had received "nothing more than palliative care" and "roadblocks to all curative options that should have been on the table".
Dr Sian Lewis, medical director for the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, said the "clinical effectiveness" of SIRT for the treatment of liver cancer "has not currently been established".
She said it is only available to a limited number of patients in NHS England as part of a programme to assess its effectiveness.
The Welsh Government said NHS Wales will make a decision regarding the routine commissioning of SIRT when the results of the evaluation become available next year.
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, which provided chemotherapy to Mrs Falconer, said if previous funding requests have been declined by the committee any subsequent submission has to contain "new clinical evidence".
A statement from the health board said, while it could not comment on Mrs Falconer's case, its "clinicians fully appreciate the distressing situation its patients are in".
"It's because of this they would never consider falsely getting a patient's hopes up by resubmitting an already declined request when there is no new clinical evidence available."
Hywel Dda University Health Board has also been asked to comment.
The 23-year-old Briton said she chose to explain the reason for her absence because it was "something that isn't talked about enough in sport".
"Can't walk, intense pain radiating down my legs, head spinning, full body sweating, shouting, crying kind of bad," she wrote on a Twitter message.
"Five minutes before leaving for the track all of the above happened."
In 2015, British tennis player Heather Watson highlighted "girl things" as one of the reasons for her exit from the Australian Open.
Sawyers, who said her periods affected her very badly for the first one or two days, added: "If you don't have periods, or don't have them this bad, it's hard to imagine why I can't just suck it up and compete.
"But when you're in so much pain you can't walk more than a few steps and your legs buckle under your own weight, there's no chance you can jump."
Sawyers was a finalist in the long jump competition at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio and won silver at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
She added she was "fine, and will be jumping in Oslo next week".
He caught the world by surprise when he announced on 28 February he would stand down as head of the Catholic Church.
Benedict became the first Pope to resign in 600 years.
Speaking in Latin, the 85-year-old told cardinals in Rome that his "strengths due to an advanced age are no longer suited" to the role.
The Vatican has rejected speculation that the former pope is unwell.
Two months after his resignation, he was flown by helicopter from the Castel Gandolfo papal summer residence to Vatican City, where he was welcomed by his successor, Pope Francis.
Emeritus Pope Benedict will now spend the rest of his days in the convent just behind St Peter's Basilica, with his personal secretary, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein.
The last pope to resign was Pope Gregory XII in 1415.
In the Middle Ages, Pope Celestine V abdicated in 1294, after only five months as pontiff. He died nearly two years later as a hermit.
A clause in Church Canon Law stipulates that a papal resignation is valid if the decision is made freely and manifested properly.
At 78, Benedict XVI was one of the oldest new popes in history when he was elected in 2005.
A piano-playing professor, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was looking forward to retirement when Pope John Paul II died in 2005. He has said he never wanted to be Pope.
If he or any of the cardinals who elected him imagined a brief, uneventful reign, paving a transition to a new era, they were to be disappointed.
Benedict took the helm as one of the fiercest storms the Catholic Church has faced in decades - the scandal of child sex abuse by priests - was breaking.
The flood of allegations, lawsuits and official reports into clerical abuse, which reached a peak in 2009 and 2010, may be the defining episode of his pontificate.
The most damaging claims for the Church have been that local dioceses - or even the Vatican itself - were complicit in the cover-up of many of the cases, prevaricating over the punishment of paedophile priests and sometimes moving them to new postings where they continued to abuse.
While some senior Vatican figures initially lashed out at the media or alleged an anti-Catholic conspiracy, the Pope has insisted that the Church accept its own responsibility, pointing directly to "sin within the Church".
Shortly before his election in 2005, he lamented: "How much filth there is in the Church, and even among those... in the priesthood."
He has met and issued an unprecedented apology to victims, made clear that bishops must report abuse, and introduced fast-track rules for defrocking abusive priests.
Before his papacy Cardinal Ratzinger spent 24 years as a senior figure in the Vatican, heading the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - once known as the Holy Office of the Inquisition.
It earned him the nickname "God's Rottweiler", and played to his passion for Catholic doctrine.
His high office gave him ultimate oversight of a number of clerical abuse cases.
Critics say he did not grasp the gravity of the crimes involved, allowing them to languish for years without proper attention. He has never publicly given his own version of events.
His backers, however, say he did more than any other pope to confront abuse.
Joseph Ratzinger was born into a traditional Bavarian farming family in 1927, although his father was a policeman.
The eighth German to become Pope, he speaks many languages and has a fondness for Mozart and Beethoven.
He was said to have admired the red robes of the visiting archbishop of Munich when he was just five and carried his love of finery to the Vatican, where he has reintroduced papal headgear and capes from previous centuries.
At the age of 14, he joined the Hitler Youth, as was required of young Germans of the time.
World War II saw his studies at Traunstein seminary interrupted when he was drafted into an anti-aircraft unit in Munich.
He deserted the German army towards the end of the war and was briefly held as a prisoner-of-war by the Allies in 1945.
Benedict's conservative, traditionalist views were intensified by his experiences during the liberal 1960s.
He taught at the University of Bonn from 1959 and in 1966 took a chair in dogmatic theology at the University of Tuebingen.
However, he was appalled at the prevalence of Marxism among his students.
In his view, religion was being subordinated to a political ideology that he considered "tyrannical, brutal and cruel".
He would later be a leading campaigner against liberation theology, the movement to involve the Church in social activism, which for him was too close to Marxism.
In 1969 he moved to Regensburg University in his native Bavaria and rose to become its dean and vice-president.
He was named Cardinal of Munich by Pope Paul VI in 1977.
At the age of 78, Joseph Ratzinger was the oldest cardinal to become Pope since Clement XII was elected in 1730.
It was always going to be difficult living up to his charismatic predecessor.
"If John Paul II had not been Pope, he would have been a movie star; if Benedict had not been Pope, he would have been a university professor," wrote US Vatican expert John L Allen.
He has a reputation as a theological conservative, taking uncompromising positions on homosexuality, women priests and contraception.
He espouses Christian compassion - speaking out for human rights, protection of the environment and the fight against poverty and injustice.
A central theme of his papacy has been his defence of fundamental Christian values in the face of what he sees as moral decline across much of Europe.
He has confounded those who expected him to appoint hardline traditionalists to key posts.
But the conclave of cardinals, which will elect his successor, is now dominated by Benedict's appointees, and has a bias towards European, and particularly Italian, clerics.
Benedict is described by those who know him as laidback, with a mild and humble manner, but with a strong moral core.
One cardinal put it another way, calling him "timid but stubborn".
Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor, the former head of the Church in England and Wales, says he is "unfailingly courteous" and has many talents, but administration is not one of them.
An embarrassing leak of documents from the Pope's desk revealing corruption and mismanagement inside the Vatican led to the conviction of his butler. The affair gave a damaging impression of a power struggle at the Holy See.
The former pope's handling of the child abuse scandals also attracted stinging criticism from the secular press.
And he managed to offend Muslims, Jews, and Protestants with his actions and speeches.
Supporters argued such incidents misrepresented his avowed intention of improving inter-faith relations.
He reached out, visiting the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, and praying for peace at the Western Wall.
Even so, questions were raised about those who advised Benedict, and their attention to public relations - leading, eventually, to the appointment of a former Fox News correspondent, Greg Burke, to head the Vatican's communications strategy.
For Benedict, public relations gaffes may only have been fleeting concerns compared with the serious long-term challenges for the Church - the falling away from the Church of millions of Catholics, and the decline in numbers of priests being recruited in the West.
He always believed that the strength of the Church came from an absolute truth that does not bend with the winds.
That approach disappointed those who felt the Church needed to modernise and despaired of his intransigence on priestly celibacy or condoms.
But his supporters believed that was exactly why he was the man to lead the Church through such challenging times.
The 23-year-old has signed a contract until 2021.
Ginter was part of the Germany side that beat Chile 1-0 in Sunday's Confederations Cup final.
Dortmund's sporting director Michael Zorc said Ginter had "expressed his desire to leave" because of competition for places in the Dortmund squad.
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They say Ahmed Daqamseh is now at his family home in a village near the northern city of Irbid.
Daqamseh opened fire at the Israeli pupils during their trip to an island in the border area with Jordan.
A military court deemed him mentally unstable at the time and sentenced him to life in prison.
In Jordan, this usually means 25 years. However, some lawmakers had lobbied for him to be freed early.
Israel has so far made no public comment on the soldier's release.
After the shooting, Jordan's late King Hussein personally apologised for the incident and visited the families of the dead girls in Israel to offer his condolences.
Jordan also paid compensation.
Daqamseh is seen as a hero by some opposition activists in Jordan, who oppose the country's peace treaty with Israel, signed in 1994.
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The firm said the money will keep its balance sheet steady as it ramps up manufacturing of its newest car.
Tesla aims to make 5,000 of its mass market Model 3 a week by the end of this year.
It has estimated it is already spending about $100m a week to hit that target.
On 4 August Tesla said was looking to raise $1.5bn by selling bonds, but said on Friday it now expected to raise $1.77bn from the sale.
The fundraising is limited to major institutions and not private investors.
Junk bonds are ones that pay a higher yield than normal bonds (5.3% in Tesla's case), but also carry a higher risk of not being paid back. The bonds are set to be repaid in 2025.
Analysts said Tesla's ability to raise more than $1.5bn indicated an appetite for risk among investors, as low interest rates have limited returns in many other types of investments. High stock market valuations have also made it harder to make a profit.
"Without the proceeds from the note offering, Tesla's liquidity position would be stressed," analysts at Moody's said, warning of risks to potential investors.
Tesla had about $3bn in cash at the end of June, but it spent more than $2bn in the most recent quarter.
The company founded by Elon Musk has frequently turned to investors to overcome persistent operating losses.
Tesla plans to eventually make more than 500,000 of the new Model 3 cars a year at its Fremont factory - or about 10,000 per week.
Moody's said the target was ambitious given the relatively small size of the US electric car market.
Is this now a time for reflection, manager Ronny Deila was asked after the 1-1 draw at Fenerbahce, but of course that had started long ago, as one disappointing result followed another.
Yet, as each game unfolded, it appeared lessons were not being learned from one match to the next.
While defensive lapses were highlighted by the media and acknowledged by the coaching staff, they recurred - again and again.
Nonetheless, Deila has spoken continually of progress and reiterated his faith in his own methodology following Thursday's final Europa League group match in Istanbul.
It appears he will be entrusted with Celtic's European fate for another season at least.
What, then, needs to change if Celtic are to avoid missing out on the Champions League group stage for a third successive season next year?
Celtic were rarely able to field the same defence in Europe and even when they could, Deila opted to make changes.
That did nothing to diminish an uncertainty that threatened to become endemic, regardless of the personnel involved.
Now, the back four that played against Fenerbahce seems to be Deila's first choice and they looked less vulnerable than in previous matches.
Mikael Lustig is a dependable figure and teenager Kieran Tierney has emerged as a terrific talent in spite of the difficult circumstances.
It is the central pairing of Dedryck Boyata and Jozo Simunovic that does not yet inspire confidence, and must show in the next six months that it can gel sufficiently to be entrusted with the next campaign.
Craig Gordon's status has also come into question this season and while the goalkeeper remains virtually peerless in his shot-stopping, lapses in judgement have cost Celtic dearly.
With Celtic's defence bearing the brunt of much of the criticism, less has been made of the pressure it has come under as a result of carelessness elsewhere.
Even Nir Bitton, who has flourished under Deila, was guilty in Istanbul of inviting counter-attacks as a result of poor ball retention.
Celtic, of the four teams in their group, looked least at ease with the ball at their feet, with the opposition harrying and hassling.
There is no excuse for this and such weakness will be punished much more often in European competition than - as assistant manager John Collins pointed out - the domestic game, where Celtic can still get away with performing below their best.
The absence of Leigh Griffiths was keenly felt in Turkey and it illustrated a dearth of attacking options open to the Scottish champions.
Nadir Ciftci was well off the pace, which is quite predictable given the player has yet to play a full 90 minutes for Celtic.
Deila felt it would be harsh to judge whether the former Dundee United forward has the ability to cut it at this level on the basis of his performance against Fenerbahce, but doubt certainly exists.
Carlton Cole has been brought in and may yet prove to be a valuable addition, but whether he has the quality to guide Celtic back to the Champions League group stages again has to be a matter of debate.
There is no doubt Griffiths has improved immeasurably under Deila, but he cannot be relied upon as the sole source of goals because - as became clear in the home defeat to Ajax - he will have off-days and on such days a high-quality Plan B is required.
So Deila and chief executive Peter Lawwell have much to ponder. Perhaps the first question is: do we try to invest in the players we think we need in January to allow them to bed in rather than throw them untested into a Champions League qualifying campaign that begins in the very early stages of the new season?
Even if the answer to that in an ideal world is 'yes,' the practicalities may make that an impossibility.
Another question might be: do we waver from our policy of signing young, raw talent to bring in one or two experienced, proven Champions League-standard players?
Such a move would run contrary to the way in which the club has operated over a number of years, but could be the difference between navigating the Champions League qualifiers successfully and another year in the Europa League.
The latter scenario does not bear thinking about for Celtic, either from a financial point of view or from a supporter's perspective, particularly if it ends the way this one has.
They are the first South African notes to bear the image of a black person - they replace notes with wild animals and rural and industrial scenes.
President Jacob Zuma says the banknotes were a "humble gesture" to express South Africa's "deep gratitude".
Mr Mandela, 94, is one of the world's best loved figures after spending 27 years in prison for fighting apartheid.
Reserve Bank governor Gill Marcus was the first to use the new banknotes when she spent 160 rand, about $18 (£12) on some nuts, beetroot, a watermelon and a cucumber at her local shop in the capital, Pretoria.
She said that Mr Mandela was delighted with the design.
She also noted that South Africa tries to update its currency every seven years for security reasons. The new design includes watermarks and a metal strip, while raised printing was added to assist the visually impaired.
Mr Mandela's face is on one side of all the new banknotes, while the "Big Five" animals - lion, leopard, rhino, buffalo and elephant - remain on the reverse.
He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for his campaign against white minority rule and was elected president the following year before stepping down after a single term.
Known affectionately by his clan name "Madiba", he has now retired from public life.
Jurors were played a recording of the call by Darren Playford, who said: "He's stabbed and shot people."
They also heard from witnesses who described a man grabbing the Labour MP's hair, before stabbing and shooting her and shouting about Britain.
Mrs Cox, 41, was shot and stabbed in Birstall, West Yorkshire, on 16 June. Thomas Mair, 53, denies her murder.
Mr Mair, from Birstall, also denies grievous bodily harm with intent, possession of a firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence and possession of an offensive weapon - a dagger.
Mrs Cox, a Remain campaigner, and her staff were due at a constituency surgery at Birstall library before joining an EU campaign stall later that afternoon - a week before the EU referendum.
In the 999 call played to the jury, Mr Playford said: "He's shooting everyone."
The operator said: "Who's shooting everyone?"
He replied: "The gunman. Outside the library in Birstall."
He said the man had "stabbed a lady", adding: "He's following me at the moment. I'm just trying to get away from him. If you sent the helicopter up he's walking towards Huddersfield Road."
Mr Playford then kept talking to the operator and kept them informed about the man going behind the Vaults pub and changing his clothes.
He said: "If you hurry up you'll get him. There's hell on. It's chaos, he's stabbed and shot people."
Earlier, David Honeybell described how he saw the attack on his way to Mrs Cox's surgery.
He told the jury he was at the library to see Mrs Cox at her surgery when he saw a man with a knife, and a woman lying on the road.
"He just stood over her, cocked his gun and blasted her," he said. "Walked away like he didn't have a care in the world."
Taxi driver Rashid Hussain told the court he saw a man stab Mrs Cox five or six times.
He said he confronted the man near Birstall library after he heard screaming and shouting, saw him shoot at Mrs Cox and heard him shout "Britain First".
Mr Hussain said: "He said, 'Move back or I'll stab you.'
"I saw an Asian lady screaming, saying 'Jo'. She was the only person helping her. Jo's head was in her lap.
"He shot once then moved back and shot again. He was shooting behind the car where Jo was laid. He shouted Britain First."
Another witness, Clarke Rothwell, said he saw a man shoot a woman who was lying on the pavement outside Birstall library.
He said he heard the man say words like "This is for Britain".
Tracy Bywood said she was working at the Priestley Care Home when she saw a man beating a woman.
"I saw him wind his hand in her hair and drag her off the pavement," she said.
"It was horrible what I saw. She went down on the floor like a sack of potatoes. It was awful to see a lady get such animosity."
She said she was "fairly sure" she heard "someone shout Britain First".
"He was so peaceful and calm as if he hadn't done anything wrong," she said.
She told the jury she heard a "popping noise" and said: "I won't even buy Pringles any more, I can't handle the noise of the seal breaking."
Michaela Noble, a cook at the Priestley Care Home, said she could see a man dragging a woman off the kerb by her hair.
She said he was kicking her before he stabbed her several times.
Another witness, Julie Holmes, said she was working at her shop when she heard a loud popping sound from Market Street and raised voices.
She said she saw a man strike a woman, who fell down, and saw him stab the woman all over her body and around her head and neck.
The trial continues.
Jo Cox was a self-proclaimed "proud Yorkshire lass" whose work for charity took her around the world and whose political success led her to Westminster.
The 41-year-old mother-of-two was elected as MP for Batley and Spen in the 2015 election and increased Labour's majority to 6,051 (from 4,406 in the 2010 election).
She described herself as "proud and humbled" to be the Labour MP for the place where she was born.
Mrs Cox first worked in politics after graduating from Cambridge University in 1995, but then built a career working for charities including Oxfam, Save the Children and the NSPCC.
She was described by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as "a much loved colleague, a real talent and a dedicated campaigner for justice and peace."
Tireless campaigner turned political 'star'
The complex of nuclear power plants at Chernobyl has dominated this corner of northwest Ukraine for decades but the new construction towers over it all.
The project is to build what is called a New Safe Confinement – in effect, a giant cover, a kind of dome, to fit over the building that houses the reactor that exploded on 26 April, 1986.
The radiation immediately above the reactor is still far too intense for the new enclosure to be built exactly where it is needed – anyone working there can only stay very briefly.
So adjacent land has been cleared and then decontaminated – a massive task in itself – to allow the new structure to be assembled before being manoeuvred into position.
Large enough to accommodate a couple of Boeing 747s or the Stade de France in Paris, and almost tall enough to hold St Paul’s Cathedral in London, the giant cover stands on a system of massive rails.
When complete, it will weigh an extraordinary 31,000 tonnes.
Over several days, it will be rolled along its special track so as to just slide over the reactor building – a very tight fit – in order to seal it in.
The task is “of a complexity and uniqueness we have never faced before”, according to Vince Novak, who runs the nuclear safety department of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He has led the international drive to make Chernobyl less dangerous.
“Until this project is in place, we will not be safe,” he said during a media visit to the site.
“The ultimate objective is to protect the environment, contain the threat and deal with the radioactive material inside.”
This material is a nightmare mix of more than 100 tonnes of uranium, one tonne of plutonium, and other highly radioactive elements, formed into a previously-unseen lava-like mass.
Added to that are several thousand tonnes of sand and boron dropped on to the site by emergency workers at the time.
Vast quantities of radioactive liquids and dust are also present inside a reactor building that has itself long been in danger of collapse.
In the months following the accident – when the reactor exploded and burned for 10 days – the authorities attempted to smother the building in an emergency “sarcophagus” of concrete and steel.
But this was only ever intended to be a temporary fix and has needed urgent repairs to try to keep it stable and intact.
One of the shift managers working at the power station back in 1986 – though not on duty when the disaster struck – told me how that weakness of the building is a serious concern.
According to Lenar Sagidulin, the emergency concrete was “just stuck to the side of the building; it was not stable.
“All this structure could just collapse, suddenly. There are cracks and holes growing in size, so this new confinement is a good idea and will meet its intended functions.”
The confinement system involves some seriously challenging engineering – it’s designed to withstand a magnitude 6 earthquake, a Category 3 tornado and temperature extremes ranging from -43C to +45C.
A double skin creates a cavity between the inner and outer walls that helps regulate temperature and humidity, and a complex ventilation system uses a system of negative pressure to keep any radioactive dust trapped inside.
The goal is not merely to enclose the damaged reactor and isolate it from the corrosive effects of the weather - but also to create a space in which to start the job of dismantling the most hazardous components.
Suspended from the apex of the structure will be remotely operated cranes, designed to tackle tasks too hazardous for human beings.
During the assembly phase, the radiation risk has been minimised by the construction of a protective wall right beside the reactor building.
This means the workforce at the assembly site receive minimal doses of radiation.
The man in charge of the project’s management, Ron Hink, joked that he probably gets a higher dose while flying home to Kentucky.
But he acknowledges a greater risk during a crucial stage of the forthcoming operation to install the new structure.
Although the walls at each end have been shaped to fit over the contours of the reactor building’s roof, teams of workers will still need to be on hand to make sure of a tight seal.
Mr Hink said: “That’s probably the most hazardous job we have here. That work is inside the structure and that is fairly high-dose and will require a lot of workers to execute.
“They will work on a 15-on, 15-off rotation so they will only work half the month.”
Coming up with the design has involved a long and difficult journey. Initially, Russian experts favoured smothering the whole building in a massive tomb of concrete – until the risks of corrosion and cracking were highlighted.
Then came the task of raising funds for such an expensive project – currently priced at 1.5bn euros for the confinement system, with a total bill for repair and safety work at the site of 2.15bn.
As things stand, the EBRD has committed 675m euros, with the European Commission providing 361m. The third largest donor is the United States with 241m. Ahead of a donors' conference next month, there are concerns about meeting a shortfall in funding. The hope is that existing pledges by the EBRD, the European Commission and G7 nations to cover most of a 615m euros shortfall will be confirmed, with a further 100m euros needed from non-G7 countries.
The intention is to have the new structure in place and fully commissioned by November 2017.
If that is achieved, it would be 31 years since the disaster itself – but should provide protection for at least a century.
Glenn Stewart crossed for the National Rugby League side inside two minutes, with Dylan Walker, Greg Inglis and Joel Reddy also scoring before the break.
Luke Keary and Chris McQueen touched down too, with Reddy adding a second.
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A late Adam Reynolds drop-goal ensured the record and a clean sweep of the World Club Series by Australian sides.
The previous biggest winning margin in one of rugby league's showpiece fixtures was 38 points when Saints were beaten 44-6 by Melbourne Storm in 2000 and 38-0 by Sydney Roosters in 2003.
The first two games of the series were closely contested as St George Illawarra edged out Warrington on Friday, while Brisbane Broncos needed a golden-point extra-time penalty from Corey Parker to overcome Wigan on Saturday.
But Souths, watched at Langtree Park by Crowe who chose to miss the Oscars, set the tone early on a cold and blustery night, when Reynolds' clever kick was pounced on by forward Stewart.
After Saints centre Mark Percival had an effort ruled out for being held up over the line, Souths half-back Reynolds then showed some magical feet to round the defence and set up Walker for an easy score.
Rabbitohs captain Inglis then rounded off a flowing move and winger Reddy took advantage of a fortunate bounce from a kick into the Saints' in-goal area as the Australian team led 24-0 at the break.
Another Reynolds kick caused confusion allowing stand-off Keary to touch down, before McQueen finished off a slick passing move out wide.
Saints struggled to break down a committed Souths defence throughout the evening and Reddy grabbed his second try in the corner after more good handling.
And, with a minute left, Reynolds secured a personal haul of 11 points with a drop-goal, which also set the new unwanted record for Saints.
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St Helens head coach Keiron Cunningham: "I really am disappointed. We just got schooled by the best side in the world.
"It's going to be a good education for my players, especially the young ones. It is difficult. I'm confident in my team's ability and that wasn't my team tonight. I know they're a lot better than that."
South Sydney Rabittohs head coach Michael Maguire: "I'm really proud of the way we played. We set out to come out over here and be really professional. It was a great performance.
"It's a team of guys who just want to improve and there's a lot more in front of us now.
"I spent two years over here and I worked with some great players in Wigan. The last two results were very close, so the top teams over here can definitely mix it with the NRL."
Asked about the last-minute drop-goal to secure the record margin: "It was the players' idea. Adam saw an opportunity and took it as I didn't know about it (the record) at the time.
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St Helens: Lomax; Makinson, Percival, Turner, Swift; Burns, Wilkin; Amor, Roby, Masoe, Greenwood, Vea, Flanagan.
Replacements: McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Walmsley, Thompson, Savelio.
South Sydney: Inglis; Johnston, Walker, Goodwin, Reddy; Keary, Reynolds; G. Burgess, Luke, Tyrrell, Stewart, Sutton, Lowe.
Replacements: Clark, McQueen, T. Burgess, Grevsmuhl.
Attendance: 17,980
Referee: Richard Silverwood
In late May a group belonging to a banned cult beat a woman to death in a fast food restaurant. Her only crime was to refuse to give them her telephone number.
The cult in question is called the Church of the Almighty God and claims to have millions of members.
It was an ordinary evening in a small town McDonald's in east China until a family of six arrived trying to recruit new members to their Christian cult.
They moved between the tables asking for phone numbers and when one diner refused they beat her to death, screaming at other diners to keep away or they would face the same fate.
The savage murder was filmed on closed circuit TV and on mobile phones.
It shocked China. Who were these people prepared to kill over a telephone number?
Interviewed in prison later, one of the murderers, Zhang Lidong, showed no remorse and no fear.
He said: "I beat her with all my might and stamped on her too. She was a demon. We had to destroy her."
The public face of the Church of the Almighty God is a website full of uplifting hymns and homilies. But its core belief is that God has returned to earth as a Chinese woman to wreak the apocalypse.
The only person who claims direct contact with this god is a former physics teacher, Zhao Weishan, who founded the cult 25 years ago and has since fled to the United States.
No one knows exactly where he is, but much of the website's message of outright hostility to the Chinese government is delivered in English as well as Chinese.
It states: "Since the Communist Party came to power in 1949, religious faith has suffered from full-scale crackdown and persecution by the Communist Party - the red dragon - in mainland China."
Of course it's true that until the late 1970s, Communist China did persecute all religious faith, and even now allows it only within strict guidelines.
There are in fact tens of millions of Chinese Christians whose faith is orthodox but who practice it in illegal underground or "house" churches to escape government interference.
But while complaining of Communist persecution, there's no mention on the Church of the Almighty God website of the murders, mutilations, stabbings and riots that some of its own members have been accused of.
Instead it claims millions of followers and says nearly 400,000 have been arrested in the past three years alone.
Resisting the Communist Party, "the big red dragon", is a key test of fitness for salvation according to the personal testaments on the website.
One states: "Even if they beat me to death my soul is still in God's hands. God's word's made my faith firm... I'll never yield to the devil."
A very different picture emerges from those who have lost family to the cult.
Most don't want to reveal their identity for fear of retribution. We talked to one man who went undercover to rescue his wife and father-in-law.
He said: "The cult is anti-family, anti-human, anti-government. It is constantly training its members to lie to their husbands and wives. They throw away family relationships and encourage each other to do the same."
"Whoever is more resolute in rejecting their family is given a higher rank. It takes people who are kind and makes them crazy and extreme."
We found many victims through family support websites and heard of a shadowy cell structure where false names and identities make it almost impossible to trace relatives.
A picture emerged of recruiters who start by offering support and move on to intimidation, who persuade new members to hand over money in exchange for salvation, and who sometimes resort to seduction and kidnapping.
Outside a government-sanctioned church in Beijing's university district, there are large black signboards warning congregations to be wary of cult recruiters.
Christianity provides a sense of shared values and community at a time when the Communist Party seems to many Chinese to have stopped trying.
But the cult promises an even closer-knit community and even more direct route to salvation. Its recruiters are skilled at targeting people at times of vulnerability: a major illness in the family, a marriage break up, a job loss.
Already the government-backed church suffers from a steady flow of Christians to the underground churches.
But the cults recruit much more aggressively and Pastor Wu Weiqing said it's hard to hold onto his flock.
He said: "I very seriously believe in the next 10 years the most serious challenge to the growth of the church would be from heresies and cults."
"The cults and the heresies will always have the opportunities to get those people, get their heart and drag them away from us. "
In an east China cemetery on a hill above vineyards and orchards, Wang Jiannan picks his way carefully between the headstones.
He lost his mother and his sister to the cult nearly 20 years ago. But now he's lost his father too.
On 1 October last year, his sister beat their father to death in a grim forerunner of the McDonald's killing. Like those killers, she saw her victim as a demon who must be destroyed.
She then handed herself into police and is now in prison alongside the McDonald's murderers.
"My sister has committed the crime and must be punished. But I just want my mother to see clearly the damage the cult has done to her family," said Mr Wang.
"I want her to leave and become a normal person. This is my biggest hope."
Since the McDonald's murder, public outrage has forced the authorities to increase the pressure on the Church of the Almighty God.
Recent weeks have seen an almost daily drip feed of raids and arrests.
But so far the cult has inflicted its damage on individuals and families. Despite its vocal hostility to the Communist Party, it has mobilised no meaningful political threat.
And a threat to the Party, rather than the people, is what it takes to trigger a crackdown in China.
Gianmarco Peschiera, 14, and Carlos Gonzales, 15, died when the car they were in crashed into a parked lorry on the A9 at Inverness in July 2006.
The church was involved in arranging the trip and the car's driver, Donald MacLeod, 82, was a church member.
Gianmarco's parents wanted to sue the church on the grounds of negligence.
Mr MacLeod had been driving the boys to North Kessock where they were to meet up with the rest of their group for a day trip to Stornoway.
The former rector at Fortrose Academy, in the Black Isle, suffered a fatal heart attack while behind the wheel of his Honda CRV 4x4, which then crashed into a Tesco lorry.
Gianmarco's parents took legal action against the church, the Colegio San Andres school in Lima and the school's former headmaster in 2010.
In a statement, the Free Church of Scotland said: "We can confirm that the legal case in Peru was resolved several months ago.
"This was a tragic accident for all concerned and in particular for the families in both Peru and Scotland who lost loved ones.
"We are pleased that this long running legal process is now at an end."
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After losing their opener against the West Indies, England completed a record run chase to beat South Africa and then overcame a scare against Afghanistan.
They then reached the last four with a tense 10-run win against Sri Lanka.
"We've been under pressure in a couple of the wins we've had," said Bayliss.
"Once you've been there and been able to get through tight games it gives you the belief that you are good enough to do it.
"The more times you're in the situation the better for the long-term benefit of the team."
England will be playing in Delhi for the third time in the tournament when they meet New Zealand in the city on Wednesday.
"Having played two games there already, the players will know what to expect from the wicket," added Bayliss.
"I wouldn't necessarily say it is an advantage. New Zealand are very adaptable and we are going to have to play some very good cricket to win this match but we will give it one hell of a go."
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Meanwhile, England's Jason Roy and David Willey have been fined for breaching the ICC's code of conduct during the win over Sri Lanka in Delhi.
Roy was found to have "shown dissent at an umpire's decision" after being given out lbw for 42 in the 10-run victory that sealed England's place in the semi-finals.
Willey, meanwhile, was fined for giving Milinda Siriwardana a send-off.
Roy loses 30% of his match fee, with Willey losing 15% of his.
The US and countries with competing claims in the area maintain that China is creating artificial islands to use as military bases.
The ministry says they are for defence, but also maritime search and rescue, disaster relief and research.
China claims most of the South China Sea.
Last year, China increased its land reclamation activity prompting the US in May to call for an "immediate and lasting halt" to land reclamation in disputed areas of the South China Sea.
There has also been a spike in tensions between the US military and Chinese navy near the Spratlys in recent weeks.
In the statement on Tuesday, China did not give a timeframe or identify which of the seven reefs undergoing land reclamation would be finished soon.
"China will complete its reclamation project soon as part of its South China Sea construction in parts of the Nansha islands," the foreign ministry said using the Chinese name for the Spratlys.
Once the land reclamation is complete, building would begin on facilities that can "fulfil the relevant functions", the statement said.
It split along party lines, with all 11 Republicans voting in favour and all 10 Democrats against. A full vote will now be held in the Republican-run Senate.
The move capped a busy day for the new Donald Trump administration.
Most notable was the US withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, fulfilling a campaign pledge.
President Trump signed an executive order to pull out from the 12-nation trade deal that had been a linchpin of former President Barack Obama's Asia policy.
"Great thing for the American worker what we just did," Mr Trump said.
At the start of his first full week in office, the president also:
Also on Monday, the Senate confirmed Mike Pompeo as Mr Trump's CIA director.
Mr Pompeo's immediate task, correspondents say, will be to establish an effective relationship between the spy agency and Mr Trump.
The president has been critical of the CIA for concluding that Russia had been actively working to influence the US presidential election in his favour.
In another development, new US Defence Secretary James Mattis said Washington had an "unshakeable commitment" to Nato, despite Mr Trump's earlier description of the military alliance as "obsolete".
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved Mr Tillerson after leading Republican Senator Marco Rubio dropped his opposition.
Mr Rubio sparred with Mr Tillerson, a 64-year-old Texan oil executive, during confirmation hearings earlier this month, accusing him of being soft on Russia.
The former head of Exxon Mobil, Mr Tillerson knows Russian President Vladimir Putin through his business dealings.
But Mr Tillerson has criticised Moscow for its annexation of Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula in 2014.
Mr Rubio said that although he had doubts over the choice, he believed a new president was entitled to deference in assembling his cabinet.
"Despite my reservations, I will support Mr Tillerson's nomination in committee and in the full Senate," said Mr Rubio.
He had challenged Mr Tillerson over his refusal to call President Putin a "war criminal" over Russia's air strikes in Syria and his failure to condemn strongly enough human rights violations in Saudi Arabia and the Philippines.
Mr Rubio was among the candidates who fought Mr Trump in the battle for the Republican presidential ticket.
The partisan split in the voting is unusual. Traditionally, nominees for secretary of state have been approved by overwhelming votes from both parties.
Senator Ben Cardin, the committee's top Democrat, had said he would not vote for Mr Tillerson, also over his position on Russia as well as other issues.
He also suggested that Mr Tillerson's "business orientation" could "compromise his ability as secretary of state to forcefully promote the values and ideals that have defined" America.
While critics raise concern about his ability to trade in his corporate interest for a national one, some supporters suggest the former CEO's background as a global dealmaker may bring fresh perspective to the nation's top diplomatic post.
At a closed doors meeting on Monday night, Mr Trump told congressional leaders he would have won the popular vote in the election if millions of undocumented immigrants had not voted illegally. He gave no evidence for the claim.
Democrat Hillary Clinton won nearly three million votes more than her opponent, who got more support in key swing states and won the electoral college.
But any notion of widespread voter fraud was widely rejected as untrue when Mr Trump made the same claim in November.
Moray and Shetland councils are to set their budgets on Wednesday, and six others will follow suit on Thursday.
Local authorities are free to increase the basic rate of council tax by up to 3% for the first time since 2007, while higher-band properties will pay more regardless after MSPs approved changes.
All 32 of Scotland's councils will have set their budgets by 2 March.
Six local authorities have so far set their budgets for the coming year, with all but one opting to make the maximum 3% increase to the basic rate of tax.
Midlothian, Western Isles, City of Edinburgh, Scottish Borders and East Renfrewshire councils have all signed off on the maximum council tax increase, while Aberdeenshire Council opted for a 2.5% hike.
Some other councils which are yet to formally set their budgets have indicated they plan to continue the council tax freeze voluntarily.
Moray and Shetland councils will make their decisions on Wednesday, with South Lanarkshire, Highland, Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, Angus and Fife following on Thursday.
MSPs voted to increase the multiplier for the top four bands of council tax from April, meaning people in these properties will see their bills increase regardless of what their local councils decide to do.
The average band E household will pay about £2 per week more than previously, while the average band H household will pay about £10 a week more.
BBC Scotland analysis shows this will affect one in five properties in Moray, and 16% in Shetland.
Scotland-wide, more than a quarter of households will be affected by the increased multiplier for bands E-H. In two council areas, East Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire, more than half of properties are in these affected bands.
There has been a political row over how much funding councils are likely to receive from the Scottish government in the coming year.
Finance Secretary Derek Mackay's original draft budget included a cut to the core council grant, but he argued that extra funding going directly to schools and health and social care services meant "local services" would actually be boosted.
An extra £160m was subsequently added to the council allocation by Mr Mackay's budget deal with the Greens, although some opposition parties argue that councils are still being left out of pocket.
Holyrood's local government committee said the budget allocation was "very difficult to follow", noting that it was "essential" that MSPs were clear on "exactly how much money local authorities can be expected to receive", demanding "greater transparency" from the government.
Emergency services were called out to the incident at about 21:15 on Friday at an area near Enterkinfoot known as Hell's Cauldron.
A silver Audi A3 car which had been broken down and parked for "several weeks" at the location was on fire.
Police have asked anybody who saw anyone or any vehicles in the area around that time to contact them.
His lawyers admit he carried out the attacks but say he was under the influence of his radicalised brother.
If found guilty, the 21-year-old, who is charged with 30 counts, will face life imprisonment or execution.
The jury is to begin their deliberations on Tuesday, after both sides finished their closing arguments.
Three people, including an eight-year-old boy, died after two pressure cooker bombs packed with nails, ball bearings and other shrapnel detonated in April 2013. More than 260 people were injured, with many losing limbs. A police officer was shot dead during the massive manhunt.
Assistant US Attorney Aloke Chakravarty said that Mr Tsarnaev targeted the marathon in 2013, because it was a day when the world's attention would be focused on Boston.
"He wanted to terrorise this country," the prosecutor said as closing arguments began at the trial in Boston.
"The defendant thought that his values were more important than the people around him. He wanted to awake the mujahedeen, the holy warriors," he said.
"He wanted to terrorise this country. He wanted to punish America for what it was doing to his people."
Mr Tsarnaev shook his head slightly when Mr Chakravarty referred to him as a terrorist.
As expected, defence attorneys underscored their argument that Mr Tsarnaev was acting under the influence of his elder brother, Tamerlan, who orchestrated the plot.
"Tamerlan built the bombs, Tamerlan murdered officer Collier, Tamerlan led and Dzhokhar followed," lead defence lawyer Judy Clarke said.
"We don't deny that Dzhokhar fully participated in the events, but if not for Tamerlan, it would not have happened," Ms Clarke also said.
She repeatedly referred to him as a "teenager" and as a "kid".
The court was filled with people who have been affected by the bombings and the subsequent manhunt - prosthetics, wheelchairs, and hearing aids have all been seen in the courtroom.
Defence lawyers have maintained that his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, who died during a massive manhunt, had orchestrated the attacks and by doing so they hope to spare their client the death penalty.
If convicted, a second phase will determine the punishment, and the jury will have to decide whether he will be put to death.
The attacks were the deadliest terror attack on US soil since 9/11.
Moores, a silver medallist in the event at London 2012, was considered a medal chance but finished fifth in his heat.
"I'm not too disappointed about because I haven't been training backstroke. It's all about the breaststroke," he said.
The 22-year-old will now turn his attention to the breaststroke.
In athletics, Kyron Duke finished fifth overall in the final of the F41 shot put and Olivia Breen qualified for the final of the T38 100m after finishing fourth in her heat.
In table tennis, World number one Rob Davies beat Silvio Keller of Switzerland 3-2 in his opening class 1 qualifier and faces Italy's Andrea Borgato in his next game on Friday.
Davies hopes to improve on his opening performance, saying: "Hopefully I can play better in my next match and be a bit more clinical."
Davies' table tennis teammate Sara Head lost 3-0 to Anna-Carin Ahlquist of Sweden in her opening women's singles class 3 game.
Clare Griffiths played as Great Britain's women lost 43-36 to Canada in the Wheelchair Basketball but Phil Pratt and the men's team beat Algeria 93-31.
Owen Burke failed to qualify for the men's R1-10m Air Rifle Standing final.
Seven Welsh athletes will be in action for on the second day of the Games on Friday.
Para-rower Rachel Morris, who won hand cycling gold in Beijing and bronze in London 2012, starts her campaign in the Arms Only Sculls.
On the track, Jordan Howe is an outside medal chance in the T35 100m and begins his bid in the heats.
The coffins left Tunis earlier, arriving on an RAF aircraft at Brize Norton in Oxfordshire at 15:00 BST.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said all 30 British victims had now been identified and he was confident the figure was the final death toll.
Meanwhile, the defence secretary has set out the case for air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria.
Michael Fallon told MPs they should "be in absolutely no doubt the people who perpetrated the murders of our constituents are going to be tracked down, whether they're in Libya, Syria or anywhere else".
He has also suggested the attack, which killed 38 people, may have been planned by IS in Syria.
It comes as eight suspects remain in custody on suspicion of being directly linked to the attack, which IS has claimed. Four others who were held have been released.
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Tributes are continuing to be paid to the British victims, who include a recently-engaged beauty blogger, three members of the same family and a married couple marking a 50th birthday.
Those repatriated on Thursday were:
The first inquests into the Tunisia deaths were due to be opened at West London Coroner's Court on Thursday afternoon, but were delayed until Friday. Further inquests are due to be opened at the court on Saturday and Sunday.
Post-mortem examinations will be carried out before the bodies are released to their families.
Eight other Britons killed by gunman Seifeddine Rezgui - who had links to IS - were brought back to the UK on Wednesday.
Thomson and First Choice said in a statement that all 30 British people killed were its customers.
"The whole company would like to extend our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of those involved in this tragic event," it added.
"Our main focus now is to ensure the families of the deceased and our customers who have been injured receive all possible support at this incredibly difficult time."
What we know about the British victims
The repatriation of the dead is likely to take several days, with two further flights planned for Friday and Saturday.
A minute's silence is due to be held across the UK at noon on Friday to mark a week from the date of the attack.
Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Police said more than 160 officers were interviewing witnesses to the attack who had returned to the UK.
A total of 20 officers have been sent to Tunisia by the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, which is leading the coroner's investigation.
The National Policing Counter Terrorism Headquarters has also sent specialist security advisers to Tunisia, to support a review of security at resorts and tourist attractions.
Scotland Yard has previously said its investigation into the attack is likely to be one of the largest counter-terrorism deployments since the London 7/7 bombings in 2005, which killed 52.
In a report, the IMF said Greece had made "exceptional" progress on reducing its budget deficit since 2010.
But the IMF, one of the lenders that backed a bailout of Greece, said the "notorious" problem of tax evasion was still a major issue.
Also, Athens was still too slow to cut public sector jobs, the IMF said.
Cutting the budget deficit and making its economy more competitive were key conditions of the 240bn-euro (£202bn) bailout from the European Union and the IMF.
"Progress on fiscal adjustment has been exceptional by any international comparison," the IMF said in its report, which followed a visit by officials to the country.
"Greece has also made a significant dent in its competitiveness gap," the report said.
But the IMF added that "insufficient" structural reforms have meant that deficit cutting has been achieved primarily through cutting jobs and salaries bringing "unequal distribution of the burden of adjustment".
The IMF also said that "very little" had been done to tackle Greece's "notorious tax evasion," with the rich and self-employed "simply not paying their fair share" as austerity unfairly hits mostly public sector workers earning a salary or a pension.
The Fund called on the government to strengthen the independence of the tax administration to make it easier to reform the system.
On public sector jobs, the IMF said Greece is too reliant on voluntary departures. "The taboo against mandatory dismissals must be overcome," the report said.
Last month, the Greek parliament adopted a law that will allow the dismissal of 15,000 civil servants.
But under Greece's current bailout plan agreed in November, Athens has to cut 150,000 public sector jobs overall from 2010 to 2015, about a fifth of the total.
Compulsory redundancies are a sensitive issue in Greece where unemployment has hit a record high of 27.2% and the economy is now in its sixth year of recession.
Last week, a European Union report forecast that Greece would end years of recession in 2014 with growth of 0.6%, in line with an earlier forecast by the IMF.
But, following what the IMF forecast will be a 4.6% contraction of the economy this year, the Fund warned that attempts to "artificially" stimulate growth should be resisted.
The BBC understands the site, near Selby, North Yorkshire, may play a part in a future government plan to avoid electricity blackouts.
The 53-year-old coal-fired power station, which employs around 240 people, is due to stop generating power in March subject to consultations.
Neither Eggborough Power Ltd nor the government wished to comment.
Previously the firm said it could not rule out some redundancies at the site, though some roles might be required to support decommissioning.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change previously said the UK's energy security would be unaffected by the closure.
Ferrybridge 'C' power station in West Yorkshire and Longannet in Fife, Scotland, are also due to close early next year.
Peter Atherton, a utilities analyst at Jefferies Investment Bank, said: "Things are looking pretty tight, particularly next winter.
"Large coal-fired power stations have announced that they will shut in March.
"If all of that capacity does shut, we're probably looking at the lowest reserve margin that we have seen in our lifetimes."
Nigel Adams, Conservative MP for Selby and Ainsty, described the Eggborough talks as "potential good news".
He said: "It's too early to say whether it keeps the whole station open.
"I know this offer by the government, via the National Grid, is for two of Eggborough's units, but I'm really pleased."
He added: "We seem to be getting somewhere, but I don't want to raise too many hopes."
John Drew, who was 15 at the time, had been detained by police in Llandudno in 2012 under drugs laws but faced no further action.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission found on Friday that two officers did have a case to answer.
John Drew's father said the family welcomed the decision.
"It's been a long job - this has taken three years. The officers have been disciplined," said father, David Drew.
"I feel vindicated but I'm not entirely satisfied - I would have liked more action."
The IPCC carried out its own investigation after upholding appeals from Mr Drew after complaints to North Wales Police.
The police watchdog said that while the strip search had taken place in a private part of the Llandudno station, no appropriate adult was notified or present.
The north Wales force told the IPCC it had put in place a number of measures around "stop and search" procedures, including intimate searches in custody.
Action includes further training for officers.
The IPCC said as the two police constables involved in the incident had already received management intervention, no further action against them was necessary.
"North Wales Police has advised the IPCC that, since the time of the incident, the force has heightened its focus around stop and search and has appointed a senior officer, at superintendent level, to oversee this area," said Jan Williams, IPCC Commissioner for Wales.
However, the teenager's father said the incident had left a long-lasting mark on his son.
"It's really affected him, even now. He's not the lad he was," said Mr Drew.
"He's quiet and inoffensive and has never been in any trouble."
Supt Nigel Harrison, who leads North Wales Police stop and search said the force acknowledged the report's findings.
He added: "Stop and search is a vital operational policing tool, in order to show transparency we now have robust management and scrutiny procedures in place to enable the public to have confidence in its lawful, fair and proportionate use."
It will be part of a project to create a major visitor attraction in the city using virtual reality to tell the story of James I and the Stewart monarchs.
James I was assassinated in Perth in 1437 and later buried at the Charterhouse monastery.
But the priory was destroyed in the reformation 100 years later and no-one is sure of the grave's exact location.
The monastery where he was buried was built on his orders and was part of his great plans for Perth.
Historians believe he wanted to create a complex on the scale of Westminster and move St Andrews University to the city to compete with Oxford.
Dr Lucy Dean, from the University of the Highlands and Islands, told BBC Scotland: "Thirteen out of 18 of James' parliaments take place in Perth. He is centralising his government here.
"I'm not sure whether Perth would have been the capital but it was definitely in the running for being the capital. [His] murder halted that idea in its tracks."
James I was assassinated on 4 February 1437 while he was in the royal apartments at the Blackfriars monastery in Perth.
After a group of 30 conspirators were let into the building he tried to hide in a sewer, but he was trapped and killed by Sir Robert Graham.
A pub and sheltered housing accommodation now stands on the site of his death.
The area where he died is marked with a stone monument.
Archaeologist David Bowler, who explored the site in the 1980s, said he was "very excited" by the plans to find the king's tomb.
"It's something we've all been thinking about in Perth for many, many years," he said.
"We've all known about the Carthusian friary and we want to know a bit more about where it is."
Leaders of this project, which also includes a "virtual museum" depicting Medieval Perth, hope the city could benefit from the discovery of the tomb in the same way Leicester did when Richard III's remains were found.
Richard Oram, professor of Medieval history at the University of Stirling, said: "If we were to actually locate where the royal tomb was within this complex - we saw what that did to Leicester with the rediscovery of Richard III.
"A lot more people know Richard III than James I but we're looking to try and change that. So if we were successful that would be a huge added bonus to the project."
Police said the offences related to incidents at Whinmoor Children's Home in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
A 76-year-old from Leeds has been charged with 17 counts of indecent assault and four other sex offences.
An 82-year-old from North Yorkshire has been charged with two counts of indecent assault and one other sexual offence.
Both are due to appear at Leeds Magistrates' Court on 12 June.
Police said the men were arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into abuse at children's homes in Leeds.
Eleven other men have been arrested as part of the inquiry and released on bail.
It says three of the five people shot in the last month have, beforehand, been named on a Facebook page along with allegations of crimes they have been involved in. Updates on when they have been shot are also said to be posted on the page.
Both The Irish News and the News Letter lead with the latest development in the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme - claims that a former special adviser to Arlene Foster had acted to delay the closure of the botched scheme.
Andrew Crawford was accused of influencing a decision to keep the scheme open by senior civil servant Dr Andrew McCormick during a hearing of the Public Accounts Committee.
Inside, the News Letter describes Dr McCormick's evidence on Wednesday as "devastating" and "explosive". It highlights a quote from Dr McCormick's testimony: "Deception wasn't necessary to abuse this system."
The Irish News says that Sinn Féin breached its boycott of Stormont committees in order to attend the hearing.
Staying with RHI-related matters, the News Letter reports that the police raided a building in south Armagh on the suspicion it was a cannabis factory. Instead, they discovered it was an almost entirely empty shed that had the heating on.
A source tells the paper that the owner admitted he was running boilers in the building because it was making him money, but that he was doing nothing illegal.
The Belfast Telegraph has an open letter to Northern Ireland politicians from east Belfast blogger Hannah Ruth Gibson, a "child of the Belfast Agreement".
She says politics in NI have become "predictable, boring and embarrassing".
The Irish News has the story of north Belfast man Davey McCrum's bid to climb 12 mountains in Ireland to raise money for an air ambulance.
Mr McCrum and a friend previously helped rescue a German student who had lain injured for 24 hours after falling on Cave Hill.
He said it was only then that he realised Northern Ireland does not have an air ambulance service.
The paper also reports that newly declassified CIA documents include several references to Northern Ireland.
Inside the Daily Mirror is the story that the latest victim of a paramilitary shooting in Belfast was shot by appointment.
Finally, if you've been wondering when the drama about the unlikely friendship between Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness is hitting the big screens the answer may be "never, never, never".
The Belfast Telegraph says The Journey, starring Timothy Spall and Colm Meaney, has failed to gain a cinema release, despite being played at the Venice and Toronto film festivals.
The paper says no date for the film to open in cinemas has been set and it may be destined to go straight to DVD.
Former party leader Mark Durkan, who has been the MP for the area since 2005, lost out by just 169 votes to Elisha McCallion of Sinn Féin.
Londonderry's city seat had been coveted by the SDLP since their party founder John Hume was elected in 1983.
All 18 of Northern Ireland's MPs have been confirmed with the SDLP and Ulster Unionist Party the biggest losers.
At the last general election in 2015, Mr Durkan was 8,000 votes clear of his nearest rival with 42% of the vote.
"I cannot tell a lie," he said in his concession speech.
"I cannot say it doesn't hurt but I absolutely want to begin by congratulating Elisha McCallion and agreeing with her that what she has achieved tonight is a privilege, to represent the people of this city."
The Foyle turnout was 65.60% - up from 53.58% two years ago.
While not exactly a political newcomer, Ms McCallion only became an MLA at Stormont earlier this year following the death of Martin McGuinness.
In an emotional speech after the result, she recognised Mr Durkan's contribution to political life in the North West.
"Mark has been a public representative in Derry for a large number of years and he has served it well," she said. "But I can't not express my extreme delight at being the first ever republican MP ever elected in this city."
Mr Durkan said one of the reasons for his defeat was greater campaign funding by Sinn Féin.
He also felt that a reluctance from other parties to engage in a "progressive alliance" along pro-EU lines had been damaging.
"We were faced with a huge effort and a huge spend by Sinn Féin, they targeted the constituency very well and put huge resources in here," he told the BBC.
"It's a big part of it, if we can't match that spend or that spin."
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood, who also hails from Derry, will now have a big job on his hands to pick the party up from their Westminster whitewash.
Stephen Pound, the Labour MP for Ealing North and shadow minister for Northern Ireland, said Mr Durkan's loss from the house of Commons would be keenly felt.
"Mark was without a doubt one of the finest speakers in the House of Commons, he was also the inventor of these incredible 'Durkanisms'," Mr Pound told BBC Radio Foyle.
"He was one of the few people that made everybody stop rustling the papers and look up when he started speaking, he'll be missed greatly.
"We've lost a unique voice. He was a damn fine speaker and a very, very good friend."
The team keep the same driver line-up for the third consecutive year, with Brazil's Felipe Massa partnering Valtteri Bottas of Finland.
Team principal Sir Frank Williams says it will be a "challenge" to retain the third-place finish in the constructors' championship over the past two seasons.
"But we are determined to keep improving because only winning will ever be good enough," he added.
Williams are likely to be challenged by Red Bull, Renault, McLaren and Force India this season as well as last year's top two of Mercedes and Ferrari.
The FW38 sports the same red, white and blue stripes as the past two editions and chief technical operator Pat Symonds says the team have addressed the poor performance of last year's car at slower circuits.
"The FW37 was a pretty effective car and so we concentrated on understanding the areas where we could improve it without losing the attributes which made it effective," he said.
"It is no secret that the low speed performance of the FW37 didn't match its high speed performance, so a lot of time was spent looking into why this was and is subsequently making changes, which we hope will improve the situation."
The 2016 season starts with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on 18-20 March.
The decision, described by Nato head Jens Stoltenberg as "historic", comes 16 years after the alliance bombed Montenegro during the Kosovo war, when it was still part of Yugoslavia.
Montenegro's accession would result in "retaliatory actions", said a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Accession talks are expected to take about a year to complete.
The invitation to Montenegro is Nato's first expansion into eastern Europe since Albania and Croatia joined in 2009.
The mountainous Adriatic state of 650,000 people has a small military with about 2,000 active members.
Nato diplomats say it sends a message to Russia that it cannot veto the alliance's expansion - but Russia has said it will retaliate.
"The continued eastward expansion of Nato and Nato's military infrastructure cannot but result in retaliatory actions from the east, i.e. from the Russian side, in terms of ensuring security and supporting the parity of interests," Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Mr Peskov added that it was too early to specify what the retaliatory actions would be.
Montenegro is now on its way to becoming Nato's 29th member, some 16 years after Nato bombs were dropping on Serbian military targets in the country.
It is an indication of the dramatic changes in the region. Montenegro's government believes that its eventual membership will be good news for the western Balkans and will contribute to increasing stability in the region.
Montenegro has tiny armed forces. Its navy largely comprises two ex-Yugoslav frigates. Thus it is unlikely to be a major contributor to Nato's collective security.
For Nato it is a further demonstration that the alliance's door remains open to new members. The invitation for Montenegro to begin the process of membership has clearly irritated Moscow, which regards Nato expansion as a provocation, while Nato insists that this decision has nothing at all to do with Russia.
Montenegrins themselves remain divided over joining.
Many remain angry that Nato bombed Serbia and Montenegro in 1999 as part of a strategy to halt the killing and expulsion of ethnic Albanians in Serbia's then southern province of Kosovo.
The country has also seen an influx of Russian money, homebuyers and tourists since splitting from Serbia in 2006.
The government of Milo Djukanovic - which is in favour of joining - has resisted calls from some opposition parties for a referendum on the issue.
However, Nato diplomats point to polls that suggest public opinion is narrowly in favour of joining.
Besides Montenegro and Georgia, the other current candidates for Nato membership are Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia.
Thirty-eight sheep were killed and 12 others were hurt in the crash.
Police said Lynn Ann Michel, 47, fled the scene on Tuesday in her 2005 Isuzu sport utility vehicle, but her front number plate was left behind.
Officers used the plate to find and arrest Ms Michel. She was released pending a court date.
The incident, which was confirmed by Colorado State Patrol police, happened near the small town of Monte Vista, Colorado, about 220 miles (350km) south of Denver.
A full city centre road closure will be in place from 15:30 GMT ahead of kick-off at 17:30 at the Principality Stadium on Saturday.
Cardiff Council urged fans to get to the stadium as "early as possible".
Rail services will run from Cardiff Central and Queen Street after the game with queues expected.
All valley lines services will depart from Queen Street after 19:00.
Arriva Trains Wales urged fans to buy return tickets to avoid lengthy queues after the game.
Buses will not stop in the city centre during the road closures and will be diverted along Churchill Way, for east services, Greyfriars Road for north, or Tudor Street for the west.
For safety reasons Station Terrace, close to central station, will remain closed until 01:00 on Sunday.
St Mary Street taxi rank, outside the House of Fraser, will be closed from 15:00, reopening from 21:30.
The taxi rank on Mill Lane is not affected and will be open as normal.
Robert Stehlik, 24, and Milos Bellan, 41, both from Slovakia, were arrested in Dover after arriving by ferry from Calais on 13 January.
A haul of weapons had already been seized by French Police, but the pair continued on to the UK while on bail.
They were both sentenced to 20 months in prison at Canterbury Crown Court.
A search of the pair's car by Border Force officers uncovered two cases of ammunition for a type of air gun - one containing CS gas cartridges and the other pepper spray.
The officers also found balaclavas and papers showing that French police had earlier seized weapons including two gas guns, two extendable batons, a flick knife and two Tasers.
The two men had been released on bail and continued their journey to the UK.
A spokesman for the National Crime Agency said: "Stehlik had set up a false Facebook account in order to befriend and track down the new boyfriend of Bellan's former partner.
"Photos of the girl and her new boyfriend, as well as pictures of his house and work were also on one of their phones."
Stehlik and Bellan had admitted charges of conspiring to possess an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.
As well as being jailed, the pair were given two-year restraining orders.
Police were called to reports of a collision involving a 17-month-old boy at the Ibis Hotel car park in Salford shortly after 21:00 BST on Thursday.
The boy died at the scene, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.
Detectives said they did not believe there were any suspicious circumstances, adding it was "a tragic accident".
Armed officers arrived at the hotel as they were closest to the scene when the emergency call was made, but police said it was not a firearms incident.
The incident at the car park on Trafford Road involved a Toyota Rav-4, police said.
Sgt Brian Orr, of GMP's Serious Collision Investigation Unit, said: "At the moment this appears to have been a truly tragic accident and not a suspicious incident; however we have launched an investigation to establish a full understanding of exactly what happened."
Police are appealing for information.
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The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Global Tiger Forum said 3,890 tigers had been counted in the latest global census.
In 2010 there were just 3,200 tigers in the wild. In 1900, there were 100,000.
While hopeful that the numbers indicate a population increase, experts cautioned it could also just indicate improved data gathering.
"More important than the absolute numbers is the trend, and we're seeing the trend going in the right direction," said Ginette Hemley, senior vice-president of wildlife conservation at the WWF.
WWF International's director general Marco Lambertini said the latest figures showed "that we can save species and their habitats when governments, local communities and conservationists work together".
The census was released ahead of a meeting in Delhi this week of ministers from 13 countries where tigers live. The conference hopes to double the global tiger population by 2022.
India alone has more than half the world's tigers, at 2,226 in the latest estimate.
But there has been a rapid decline in Indonesia, where forests are being destroyed to feed global demand for palm oil, pulp and paper.
Cambodia is considering reintroducing tigers after recently declaring them functionally extinct.
As well as human encroachment on the animals' habitats, tigers are also killed by poachers hoping to sell their body parts, and locals concerned about their own safety.
The town hall will be converted in the £3.1m project.
The scheme has received support from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Dumfries and Galloway Council.
Once completed it is hoped the building could become the home to the Viking treasure unearthed in the region more than two years ago.
Councillor Jane Maitland, whose ward includes the town, said it was an important day for the area which is proud of its history as an "artists' town".
"Of course I feel amazingly excited and enthusiastic about it all happening," she said.
However, she stressed that the major conversion works would take some time to complete.
"This is the beginning of a major journey," she said.
"It is going to take a year - I have to tell the public that we are going to have boards around the town hall.
"But my goodness me what a fantastic facility it is going to be for the area."
Edwin Poots has been given leave by the Court of Appeal to appeal its ruling that any ban on gay and lesbian couples adopting is unlawful.
The Attorney General had his request for clarification on the issue refused.
The case is now expected to go before the Supreme Court in London.
The department of health's legal team can now petition the higher court directly to hear its case.
In October last year, the ban based on relationship status was held to discriminate against those in civil partnerships and to breach their human rights.
Previously, a single gay or lesbian person could adopt children in NI, but a couple in a civil partnership could not.
After the Court of Appeal ruling, adoption agencies were told they were able to accept applications from same-sex and unmarried couples and those in civil partnerships.
At the time, the Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) said the ruling would bring NI into line with the rest of the UK.
Representatives of the Rainbow Project, Northern Ireland's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy organisation, expressed dismay that the department is now seeking to go to the Supreme Court over the issue.
Rainbow Project director, John O'Doherty said they were disappointed with the minister's decision.
"Both the High Court and the Court of Appeal have noted the practice of banning same-sex and unmarried couples from adopting is discriminatory," he said.
"Enough public money has been spent on this fool's errand. The minister should focus his time on ensuring the best available homes for children in care in Northern Ireland."
Site Intelligence, a US militant monitoring group, cites an AQAP statement as saying Ansi was killed in April in the port city of Mukalla.
There is no US confirmation. Ansi had appeared in a number of AQAP videos.
In one, he claimed the group was behind the attack on the Paris offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January, in which 12 people died.
Site also said Ansi appeared in videos claiming AQAP was holding - and had then killed - the American journalist Luke Somers.
Mr Somers, and South African teacher Pierre Korkie, were killed by al-Qaeda militants in Yemen last December.
They died during a failed rescue bid by US and Yemeni special forces.
Site said Ansi's eldest son and other fighters also died in the air strike in Mukalla.
Al-Qaeda seized Mukalla, the capital of the eastern Hadramawt province, in early April, along with a large army base nearby. Dozens of Aqap members were freed from the city's prison.
But within three days, most al Qaeda troops had been forced out of the port city by local tribesmen.
In another video, Ansi called for Sunni Muslims to attack Houthi forces, who took over large parts of Yemen last September.
A Saudi-led coalition has been taking part in air strikes against Houthis for the last six weeks.
Last month, the US Secretary of Defence Ash Carter said Aqap were "making direct gains on the ground" in Yemen thanks to instability elsewhere in the country.
All of those held are teenagers, officials said.
Mr Henríquez, 33, was shot dead as he was leaving his home in the city of Nuevo Colón on Saturday. A 36-year-old man, Delano Wilson, was also killed.
The motive for the killing is still unclear, but police say it appears to have been carefully planned.
Officers said the gunmen had laid in wait at a home opposite that of Mr Henríquez.
A 70-year-old woman and three teenage girls living at the home have been told not to leave the country while the investigations are under way.
Local media first reported that Delano Wilson, the man who died alongside Mr Henríquez, was a friend of the footballer.
But Mr Wilson's sister has since come forward to say her brother was just crossing the street on the way to buy a burger when he got caught in the crossfire.
Another man, Josimar Gómez, was injured.
Mr Henríquez, a midfielder, had played for the Panamanian national side as well as for Panamanian team Árabe Unido.
Before that, he had played in Colombia for América de Cali and Real Cartagena.
President Juan Carlos Varela condemned the murder on Twitter, saying that justice would be done.
According to Panamanian police figures, the country had a homicide rate of 9.3 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2016, which is below many other countries in the region.
However, the province of Colón, where Mr Henríquez was killed, is known to be a hotspot for gangs.
The Environment Agency is reviewing the use of equipment kept by lock-keepers' offices that could endanger non-trained staff in emergencies.
Jonny Pleace, from the Thames River Users' Group, called the plans "absolutely ludicrous".
The agency said it was reviewing their use but had not made a final decision.
Lock keepers have access to the equipment, including ladders that have been in use for 40 years, in case people fall into the lock chamber.
However, some staff had raised health and safety issues about the heavy ladders, the Environment Agency said.
Donna Dowling, from the GMB union, which represents many of the lock keepers, said this was "absolutely, fundamentally, and categorically untrue".
"Lock keepers are vehemently opposed to it and actually want the lock ladders to remain in place," she said.
Mr Pleace said: "The Environment Agency through their wisdom and their health and safety audit, have decided the ladders are too heavy for people to lift, and the fire extinguishers are too dangerous to let off by the boats, so what they've decided is to do away with them.
"These ladders have been there forever… I think common sense has to prevail."
An Environment Agency spokesman said: "If a boat catches fire in a lock, our instruction to staff is to immediately call 999 and then provide assistance to get people away from the fire wherever it is safe to do so.
"We do not provide any training or equipment for them to use to put out boat fires, as this is not a requirement of their role."
He said other safety features were in place, including life rings, throw lines, egress steps, grab chains and pool hooks.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said 122,116 cars were built in April, an 18% fall compared with the same month last year.
It said Easter, which fell in April this year compared with March in 2016, had cut the number of production days.
However, the SMMT said the underlying picture remained "strong", with output up 1% for the year to date.
The UK's industry body said 593,796 cars were made in the first four months of the year - the highest number for the period since 2000.
Overseas buyers have helped to lift the market, with demand up 3.5%, which has helped to offset a 7% drop in demand from the UK.
Figures released earlier this month from the SMMT also showed a sharp fall in car sales in April.
However, the near-20% drop in new car registrations was blamed by the SMMT on consumers bringing forward purchases to March to avoid a rise in Vehicle Excise Duty.
As well as the later Easter, the industry's output in April was also affected by strikes at three BMW plants in the UK in a row over pensions.
Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive, said: "Car production fell significantly in April due to the later Easter bank holiday weekend which reduced the number of active production days that month and also due to unplanned production adjustments.
"Overall, British car manufacturing remains in good health with the production outlook still very positive and significant new models due to go into UK production shortly.
"To guarantee future growth and investment into our industry and its vital supply chain, however, we need the next government to safeguard the conditions that have made us globally competitive, keeping us open and trading and delivering an ambitious industrial strategy for our sector."
Burnell was at Sardis Road, initially as academy director and then as senior coach in 2003, before joining the Blues.
The 49-year-old, who was capped by Wales A, has also coached London Welsh, Rotherham Titans and Wales Under-19s.
He will also be director of rugby at Coleg y Cymoedd as well as Pontypridd head coach.
The scheme, which will be administered by the GAA in conjunction with the GPA, will see a significant increase from the current annual 900,000 Euro grants.
1.6m Euro will be provided to players in 2017 which will rise to 2.3m in 2018 and 3m in 2019.
Most players got grants in the region of 300 to 750 Euro in recent years.
That figure sometimes increased to four figures for players involved in teams who progressed to the later stages of the championship.
Outing GPA chief executive Dessie Farrell said the increased grants would enable GAA players to increase their "role model status".
"This new arrangement will facilitate the development of an important programme between government and players in tackling some of the more intractable societal challenges in Ireland today," added Farrell.
"Players look forward to taking an even more prominent role in making a meaningful difference, particularly, in the lives our young people across the country."
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the funding agreement provided "continued recognition for the contribution of gaelic inter-county players to the economic and social fabric of the nation".
"Our inter-county players showcase the skill, excellence and commitment of our national games at home and abroad," added the Irish Prime Minister.
"As well as promoting increased levels of physical activity, our Gaelic players can act as important role models in a number of other key policy areas at local and national level.
"These include the promotion of mental health wellbeing, the fight against obesity and the prevention of alcohol and drugs misuse.
"I look forward to the continued support of our inter-county footballers and hurlers in these and other areas and as role models which young people can emulate."
Farrell helped negotiate the new deal in one of his final acts before stepping down from his GPA role.
The 25-year-old, who had been with Reading since leaving Huddersfield in 2014, started all four of Northern Ireland's matches at Euro 2016 in June.
The former Manchester United trainee joins on a three-year deal at Brighton.
"He's a box-to-box midfielder and an excellent passer of the ball," manager Chris Hughton told the club website.
"He has a good grounding, coming from Manchester United, and gives us extra options in midfield and adds further depth to our squad."
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The EU was heading towards closer integration - a path the UK "will not and should not follow", the leader of the Commons wrote in the Telegraph.
It is being seen as the first sign of a minister preparing to campaign to leave the EU in the UK's referendum.
A government source said Downing Street was "very relaxed" about the article.
David Cameron is to allow ministers to campaign for either side of the debate.
However, cabinet ministers will only be able to start campaigning once a new deal has been reached by the prime minister with other EU leaders on the UK's terms of membership.
BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg said Mr Grayling's article "will test the truce Number 10 had hoped would last until the negotiations with the rest of the EU were complete".
"It's clear several other cabinet ministers, perhaps as many as seven, share Mr Grayling's view. Whether they are ready to follow him and go (almost) public is another matter," she added.
Mr Grayling, the leader of the House of Commons and former justice secretary, stopped short of saying Britain should leave the EU in his Telegraph article - but it suggested he was ready to campaign for an exit if he is not satisfied with Mr Cameron's renegotiation deal.
Mr Grayling's Labour shadow Chris Bryant said Mr Grayling was now "leader of the out campaign" but did not have the courage to call for Britain's exit because "he is desperate to keep his place in the cabinet".
He told MPs Mr Grayling's Telegraph article was the "most mealy-mouthed, myth-peddling, facing-both-ways piece of pedestrian journalism that has ever come from his pen".
The Labour MP said the EU referendum was not a "game" about the future of the leadership of the Conservative Party but about jobs and the UK's standing as a nation.
"He says it is disastrous for us to stay in. I think it will be disastrous for us to leave," he told MPs.
Pete Wishart, the SNP's Commons leader, also mocked Mr Grayling as the "leader of the Eurosceptics and putative leader of the Britain out campaign".
Mr Cameron's four key negotiating objectives cover economic governance, competitiveness, immigration and sovereignty.
A referendum must be held before the end of 2017 but Mr Cameron is expected to hold it this year, if he can secure a deal on his reform demands.
Jonathan Faull, who is leading the European Commission's negotiations with the UK, said there was a "good prospect" Mr Cameron would get a deal at the next European Council meeting in February.
He told European Parliament members negotiations had been "difficult" and the Commission would not accept anything that threatened the "four freedoms" - including freedom of movement - the EU was founded on.
On a visit to the Turkish capital Ankara, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the UK and EU leaders were "getting closer" to reaching a deal on the sticking point of curbs to European migrants' benefits, but added "we are not there yet".
He said the UK was trying to "come up with a satisfactory proposal" on welfare, adding that there was "broad agreement" on the other three areas identified by the PM for reform.
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In his article, Mr Grayling said the UK was at "a crucial crossroads" and "cannot be left in a position where we have no ability to defend our national interest" within the EU.
"I am someone who believes that simply staying in the EU with our current terms of membership unchanged would be disastrous for Britain," he added.
"That's why I have always believed that it is imperative that (Mr Cameron's) renegotiation takes place and delivers as much potential change as possible.
"It is in the interests of all Eurosceptics and of our country," he added.
Analysis, by BBC political correspondent Ross Hawkins
Westminster is not reeling at the shock revelation Chris Grayling is a Eurosceptic. It was hardly a secret. But his declaration in print still matters.
It proves cabinet ministers can start a good row, even when they're supposed to be agreeing. Just listen to the former minister Damian Green accuse him of "peddling myths". It all but confirms that there will be at least one cabinet member campaigning to leave the EU.
But it's hardly a disaster for Number 10. Some senior Eurosceptics felt only pro-EU cabinet voices were being heard, and blamed bias in Downing Street. For them, this piece will help correct the balance.
What really matters though is what happens next. When are better-known political beasts - Theresa May and Boris Johnson - forced to show their hand? And will a bitter row between Tory tribes begin rather sooner than the PM expected?
Mr Cameron hopes to secure a new deal for the UK in Brussels next month.
A number of cabinet ministers are thought to favour an out vote in a referendum, with Mr Cameron expected to campaign for the UK to remain in the EU.
Another minister who is seen as a Eurosceptic, Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers, told the BBC she "really supports" the PM's renegotiation efforts.
Mr Cameron has said he rules nothing out if he does not get what he wants from the talks.
However, former Foreign Secretary Lord Hague said he believed it was unlikely Mr Cameron would recommend a vote to sever ties with Brussels.
Bethan Rhys Roberts hosts Ask the Leader on BBC One Wales at 19:00 BST on Monday.
Andrew Robert Tudor Davies relishes his larger-than-life reputation, and once described himself as "19 stone of prime Welsh beef".
When elected Welsh Tory leader in 2011, he was thought of as being on the right of the party and perhaps a little sceptical of devolution.
However, time and again he has supported more powers for the assembly, seeking the ability to cut taxes to attract business to Wales.
Mr Davies has also gone against many within his own party, most recently in a rift with the prime minister over the referendum on Europe.
While David Cameron campaigns to remain in the European Union, the Welsh Tory leader is backing Brexit.
He is also more liberal on some matters than other Tories, such as his support for gay marriage.
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Wednesday 13 April - Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams in Aberystwyth
Thursday 14 April - Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood in Aberystwyth
Friday 15 April - Welsh Labour leader Carwyn Jones in Llangollen
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Transport Minister Robert Goodwill said the private concession on the bridges is on course to finish in 2018.
But he said it would still take up to two years to pay off other debts worth around £88m.
Monmouth MP David Davies welcomed the news, in a letter from Mr Goodwill, but noted he had not said tolls would fall.
Current toll charges range from £6.40 for cars to £19.20 for lorries, 20% of which is made up of VAT.
In the letter to Mr Davies, who also chairs the Welsh Affairs Committee at Westminster, Mr Goodwill said:
"Once in public ownership VAT will no longer be payable on the tolls.
"Under the Severn Bridges Act 1992 it would be possible to reduce tolls to reflect the fact that VAT was no longer payable."
Mr Davies said the letter followed a meeting with the minister last month, also attended by other MPs on the committee.
"All of us would like to see action taken to reduce the tolls," he said.
"Unfortunately, the minister has not said whether the tolls would fall and that is the issue I would like to pin down the government on."
The MP said the committee has estimated ongoing maintenances costs for the bridges would be around a third of the current toll price and nobody had contradicted that.
"I therefore think we must now demand a clear plan for the post concession period with a significant reduction in the tolls," he said.
MPs are debating the future of the bridge tolls in a debate at Westminster Hall on Wednesday.
Last month there were cross-party calls for the charges to be cut drastically from 2018.
The Welsh government has called for control of the bridges to be devolved.
Reclining on a sofa, fashionable flat-peak cap, designer sunglasses, white shorts. As if he did not have a care in the world.
If the tension of one of the most important races of his career was getting to him, Hamilton was hiding it well.
Apart from his Mercedes team shirt, he looked like a film star relaxing on a beach. And he was certainly not acting like a man who by the end of the weekend will be facing one extreme of emotions or another.
Hamilton, like his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg, will leave Abu Dhabi either on top of the world or in the pits of despair.
By Sunday evening, one of them will be world champion, riding a wave of confidence into the close season; the other a beaten man who must spend the winter building himself back up to do it all over again next year.
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Whether by design or not, both Hamilton and Rosberg have generally projected an air of composure and calm so far at the Yas Marina circuit - smiling and matter of fact in their many media interviews on Thursday, walking about the paddock with typically quick, directed intent during the first practice day on Friday.
The mask has slipped just once, just enough to lay bare the pressure that has been building up through this hyper-intense season.
In the official news conference on Thursday, a provocative question to Hamilton brought a reply in kind - and an even spikier rejoinder from Rosberg.
Two controversial incidents have proved turning points in one way or another this season - in Monaco, where Rosberg ran wide on his final qualifying lap and prevented Hamilton from having a chance to beat him to pole; and in Belgium, where the two collided.
For both, Hamilton feels Rosberg was guilty of gamesmanship, to put it politely.
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And when he was asked whether they needed to talk before the race to ensure there was no 'argy-bargy' here in Abu Dhabi, Hamilton said: "We don't need to. It's already been discussed at the beginning of the season and several times through the season and particularly after Spa.
"So there's no reason to revisit it. We're not children; we should know what is wrong and what is right."
Rosberg, for his part, has all season smarted over various incidents in which he feels Hamilton has wronged him - particularly in chopping across his nose to prevent himself being passed in Bahrain and in not acceding to a request to let Rosberg pass him in Hungary, when they were on different strategies.
Do you have anything to add, Rosberg was asked?
"Just that, yes, Lewis can do something to keep it clean, which is drive cleanly himself," he said.
Sitting in the row in front, McLaren driver Jenson Button widened his eyes and smiled at that. It was not hard to work out where he stands on the incidents in question.
This, it is clear, is not "just another race", as the two Mercedes drivers have been at pains to paint it in the run-up.
But there is a reason for their feigned nonchalance.
"You need to go through the processes, as boring as it sounds," says former F1 driver Mark Webber, who has his own experience of an Abu Dhabi title decider.
"You need to get through your Friday session, get to qualifying and have a clean grand prix.
"In 2010, I was running lots of scenarios through my head, which I believe Nico and Lewis will be as well.
"There is the double points in the background. Lewis can sit in second place. He will have rolled that through his head many, many times: 'Will it be enough just to sit there and close the championship out?'
"I found myself going through those scenarios more than you would do in any other race because you know this race when the flag drops there is going to be a championship decided."
Webber's experience of a title decider came in 2010, with his own team-mate Sebastian Vettel and two other drivers, Hamilton and Fernando Alonso.
"The tension inside the whole team starts to build up to a point it has never been to in the year," said the Australian, in an interview for a film to be shown in the BBC One coverage this weekend.
"All the engineers and mechanics are focusing on their job like they never have done in their lives. They can see the rivalry between the drivers get to this pivotal point."
The fear for everyone at Mercedes, bar Rosberg, is that a mechanical problem of some kind will hit Hamilton and prove decisive in the championship.
Team boss Toto Wolff has already described this as a "nightmare" scenario, not least because Hamilton has already had more car failures this year than Rosberg, to the extent that three times he has had to come back from about a victory's worth of points deficit.
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The advantage between the two has ebbed and flowed through the season, heightened by each man's frustration at the other's behaviour, and the battle has tested the relationship of these two former friends to its limit.
"Those two guys are learning more about themselves," Webber says. "How it has ebbed and flowed, the dynamics between the pair of them and how they're dealing with each other under extreme pressure; you only learn that stuff when the kitchen is absolutely boiling and that has absolutely been the case this year.
"The relationship will probably never be the same again. In twenty years, over a glass of red, maybe, but at the moment it is personal and they both want to win the world title."
Hamilton is the man in the best position to achieve that goal. Double points will be awarded controversially here but even so, with a 17-point lead, Hamilton needs only to finish second to be sure of the title even if Rosberg wins the race.
With the best car in the business by far, that should be eminently do-able, reliability permitting.
But that's not the only reason to suspect that the most likely outcome is Hamilton doing what he says he has set out to do, and taking the title in style with a victory.
Hamilton was in better shape on Friday, both on single-lap pace and in race trim, but he was again beaten to pole position by Rosberg - and by the substantial margin of 0.386secs.
But plenty of times this season Hamilton has proved capable of beating Rosberg after qualifying behind him and this time he does not even need to. It would be out of character for Hamilton not to try if he sees the opportunity but he has already hinted he may just sit behind his team-mate, saying in his BBC Sport column this week: "I am certainly not going to take any stupid risks, because I don't need to."
"Lewis has been on fire around Abu Dhabi in previous years," Webber said. "I've seen him do things around there… He's destroyed the field in many seasons in a car that has been pretty mediocre to be honest.
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"So Nico's going to have his work cut out because Lewis is phenomenally quick around Abu Dhabi."
Rosberg arrives in Abu Dhabi fresh from a convincing weekend in Brazil, in which he topped every session and won the race, halting a run of four consecutive successes by Hamilton.
"Nico has proved this year many times he has what it takes to be a world champion," Webber says. "Brazil was a pivotal weekend. Lewis had many victories leading up to it. Brazil is not an easy track to nail. it had a resurfaced circuit, they had to get on top of things really quickly. Nico dealt with that race extremely well.
"But Lewis has the upper hand, of course he does. He has the points on the table."
"They've both done super jobs," said Red Bull team principal Christian Horner, "but if Lewis doesn't win it after winning 10 grands prix you'd have to say there is something wrong. He deserves it. But a puncture, these power-units are coming to the end of their lives, anything can happen."
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A Ryan Allsop own goal plus strikes from John Marquis and Alfie May had Rovers in front on three occasions - only for Sean Longstaff, Oliver Turton and Callum Cooke to peg them back.
Doncaster took the lead after 37 minutes when Tommy Rowe's fine strike rattled back off the crossbar and ricocheted in off goalkeeper Allsop and into the goal.
But within a minute the visitors were level when Longstaff smashed in an unstoppable shot from 30 yards.
Marquis put Rovers back in front in first-half stoppage time when he hooked in a volley from close range.
After a tight start to the second half, Blackpool equalised with 65 minutes gone as a stunning curling effort from Turton shocked the home side.
The Seasiders were on top after levelling but fell behind again when May nipped in to slot past Allsop after 75 minutes.
Blackpool were not behind for long as substitute Cooke finished off a fine passing move two minutes later.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Doncaster Rovers 3, Blackpool 3.
Second Half ends, Doncaster Rovers 3, Blackpool 3.
Attempt missed. Alfie May (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Clark Robertson (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Andy Butler (Doncaster Rovers).
Foul by Clark Robertson (Blackpool).
John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Blackpool. Bright Samuel replaces Kyle Vassell.
Attempt blocked. Alfie May (Doncaster Rovers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Colin Daniel (Blackpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Colin Daniel (Blackpool).
Rodney Kongolo (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Benjamin Whiteman (Doncaster Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
Benjamin Whiteman (Doncaster Rovers) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Foul by Benjamin Whiteman (Doncaster Rovers).
Jimmy Ryan (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Doncaster Rovers 3, Blackpool 3. Callum Cooke (Blackpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Sean Longstaff.
Goal! Doncaster Rovers 3, Blackpool 2. Alfie May (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Jimmy Ryan (Blackpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Doncaster Rovers. Rodney Kongolo replaces James Coppinger.
Attempt missed. Callum Cooke (Blackpool) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Hand ball by John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers).
Substitution, Blackpool. Viv Solomon-Otabor replaces Nick Anderton.
Foul by Colin Daniel (Blackpool).
Niall Mason (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal! Doncaster Rovers 2, Blackpool 2. Oliver Turton (Blackpool) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Callum Cooke.
Foul by Kyle Vassell (Blackpool).
Andy Butler (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Curtis Tilt (Blackpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Matty Blair (Doncaster Rovers).
Foul by Alfie May (Doncaster Rovers).
Curtis Tilt (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Doncaster Rovers. Alfie May replaces Liam Mandeville.
Curtis Tilt (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers).
Corner, Blackpool. Conceded by Danny Andrew.
Foul by Curtis Tilt (Blackpool).
Matty Blair (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Joe Wright (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kyle Vassell (Blackpool).
The dispute centres on Cupar postman David Mitchell, who was sacked after being accused of stealing mail.
Mr Mitchell has not yet been given his job back despite winning his unfair dismissal case at an industrial tribunal in September.
Members of the CWU union at Cupar sorting office started a 24-hour strike at 08:30 on Saturday.
A spokesman for Royal Mail said it had "robust contingency plans in place" and would continue to deliver to all of its customers in Cupar despite the strike going ahead.
The industrial tribunal had concluded that there was insufficient evidence that Mr Mitchell had stolen money and gift cards from his delivery round, and said he should be given his job back.
Royal Mail has challenged the ruling.
Stuart McIntosh of the CWU said staff at the sorting office were "angry and disappointed" at Royal Mail's treatment of Mr Mitchell, and had voted "almost unanimously" for industrial action.
He called on Royal Mail to abide by the tribunal's ruling, and said there were plans to take further industrial action if necessary.
John Davies, 94, died earlier this month after spending his final years at a care home in Gorleston, Norfolk.
He served in World War Two, in North America and India, but only a few people had been expected to attend his burial until the social media appeal.
Mick Smith, who backed the Facebook plea, said it was a "fitting funeral".
Mr Smith, from Newmarket, Suffolk, spotted a message on a serviceman's forum post and then shared it with all his friends as he felt it was "sad" the funeral would be so poorly attended.
Mr Davies was born and bred in Burgh Castle, near Great Yarmouth, and left school at 14 to work on a poultry farm for seven shillings a week.
He was a hotel chef in London before and after World War Two, and later a maintenance engineer at The Star Hotel in Great Yarmouth until his retirement.
He continued to work into his mid-80s, running a market stall selling CDs in aid of the Caister Lifeboat.
"I saw a posting on social media and it didn't seem to be getting a lot of attention, so I pushed it out to everyone I knew," said Mr Smith.
"Such a big character - he must have known so many people - he did charity work and in his time everyone would have known him, but they forget because he goes into a home.
"It's a fitting funeral for a war hero - someone who built this country."
Mr Davies had two brothers and two sisters, who all died before him, and never married after missing his planned wartime wedding due to an overseas posting.
His hearse was escorted from Great Yarmouth by a group of bikers, including Mr Smith, to Gorleston's Magdalen Lawn cemetery.
Standard bearers led the procession into the graveyard, before the Reverend Albert Cadmore took the short graveside service.
"It is good that while he outlived his family, so many have come here today to pay tribute to him," said Mr Cadmore.
Friend Beryl Baker, who lived with him at The Gables care home, said: "He was a lovely man and a good friend and I miss him very much.
"It was nice to see all these people come and say goodbye."
The Slovenian champions, thrashed 6-0 at Stamford Bridge, took the lead through Agim Ibraimi's sublime curler.
But the Blues equalised when Nemanja Matic poked in John Terry's header at the far post.
Hazard was fouled by Mitja Viler to win a penalty, but the Belgian's weak effort was saved by Jasmin Handanovic.
Hazard's rare miss - he has scored 27 out of 30 penalties in his career - summed up a frustrating evening for the Blues, who had been denied an earlier spot-kick for what appeared a foul on Oscar and had a Diego Costa goal wrongly disallowed for offside.
Both had been brought on at half-time as manager Jose Mourinho tried to inject some energy into an under-par display.
The result, combined with Sporting Lisbon's 4-2 victory over Schalke, leaves Chelsea three points clear of the Germans and needing to win one of their remaining two games to guarantee their passage to the knock-out phase.
The Blues also equalled a club record by extending their unbeaten start to the season to 16 matches.
Mourinho, whose side face Liverpool at Anfield in the Premier League on Saturday, made four changes to the team that beat QPR 2-1 on Saturday.
Centre-back Kurt Zouma, brought in for Gary Cahill, should have opened the scoring inside 10 minutes but he headed Cesc Fabregas's dinked cross wide of the near post.
Maribor served early notice of their threat on the break when Tavares weaved through three Chelsea defenders and bore down on Petr Cech, only to over-hit his attempted pass to strike partner Luka Zahovic.
Chelsea responded strongly, as Andre Schurrle fired a shot narrowly wide before Hazard's fierce drive was pushed aside by Handanovic.
Despite Mourinho's tactical re-jig, Chelsea fell behind within five minutes of the restart. Zouma's headed clearance landed at the feet of Ibraimi, whose sumptuous curling shot found the top corner of Cech's goal.
After Costa blazed high and wide, Chelsea were given a huge let-off at the other end when Zahovic side-footed over the bar from three yards after a perfect cross from left-back Viler.
With 20 minutes remaining, the visitors were denied a penalty when Oscar appeared to be tripped by his fellow Brazilian Arghus.
Chelsea's sense of grievance was short-lived. From a Fabregas corner, Terry's downward header presented Matic with the simplest of tap-ins to equalise.
As the Blues pushed hard for a winner, Handanovic made superb saves to deny Hazard and Costa, who then had a goal ruled out for offside.
But Maribor stayed in the game and almost snatched it when Tavares slashed Jean-Philippe Mendy's square pass wide of goal.
In the 85th minute, the outstanding Hazard was tripped by Viler in the box, but Handanovic dived to his left to keep it out and secure a famous point.
Match ends, NK Maribor 1, Chelsea 1.
Second Half ends, NK Maribor 1, Chelsea 1.
Substitution, NK Maribor. Welle N'Diaye replaces Sintayehu Sallalich.
Offside, NK Maribor. Zeljko Filipovic tries a through ball, but Marcos Tavares is caught offside.
Substitution, NK Maribor. Damjan Bohar replaces Agim Ibraimi.
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Zeljko Filipovic (NK Maribor).
Attempt saved. Eden Hazard (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Diego Costa.
Attempt blocked. Marcos Tavares (NK Maribor) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Agim Ibraimi.
Penalty saved! Eden Hazard (Chelsea) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.
Mitja Viler (NK Maribor) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty Chelsea. Eden Hazard draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Mitja Viler (NK Maribor) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt saved. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Offside, Chelsea. Cesc Fàbregas tries a through ball, but Didier Drogba is caught offside.
Didier Drogba (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Arghus (NK Maribor).
Attempt missed. Marcos Tavares (NK Maribor) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Jean Philippe Mendy.
Offside, Chelsea. Oscar tries a through ball, but Cesc Fàbregas is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Diego Costa (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Nemanja Matic.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Jasmin Handanovic.
Attempt saved. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
Offside, NK Maribor. Sintayehu Sallalich tries a through ball, but Jean Philippe Mendy is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Eden Hazard (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Oscar with a through ball.
Attempt blocked. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Branislav Ivanovic.
Offside, NK Maribor. Agim Ibraimi tries a through ball, but Marcos Tavares is caught offside.
Foul by Branislav Ivanovic (Chelsea).
Jean Philippe Mendy (NK Maribor) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal! NK Maribor 1, Chelsea 1. Nemanja Matic (Chelsea) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by John Terry following a corner.
Attempt missed. John Terry (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas with a cross following a corner.
Substitution, NK Maribor. Jean Philippe Mendy replaces Luka Zahovic.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Aleksandar Rajcevic.
Attempt blocked. Oscar (Chelsea) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
Attempt missed. Didier Drogba (Chelsea) with an attempt from very close range misses to the right. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Petar Stojanovic.
Attempt missed. Diego Costa (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
Attempt blocked. Didier Drogba (Chelsea) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
Offside, Chelsea. Oscar tries a through ball, but Didier Drogba is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Oscar (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
Foul by Branislav Ivanovic (Chelsea).
Football's world governing body said on Thursday that it paid the FAI 5m euros (£3.6m) after France controversially beat Ireland in a World Cup play-off.
Mr Boyce has called on Fifa's executive committee to begin an investigation.
"How anyone can authorise a payment of 5m (£3.6m) to stop legal proceedings is totally beyond me," he said.
Fifa is currently in crisis as it faces criminal investigations having been engulfed by claims of "systemic and deep-rooted" corruption, and its president Sepp Blatter is stepping down.
FAI chief executive John Delaney said he had believed they had a case against Fifa after French striker Thierry Henry's handball in the build-up to a decisive goal in the 2009 match in Paris which caused Ireland to miss the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
He said he and Mr Blatter "came to an agreement" after the Fifa president publicly dismissed the country's appeal to be made a "33rd team" at the tournament.
A Fifa spokesman confirmed it had "entered into an agreement with FAI in order to put an end to any claims" against it.
Mr Boyce, a former Irish Football Association president who completed his term of office as Fifa vice-president last week, said he wants the FAI's payment investigated.
"If this was authorised by the president of Fifa without the knowledge of the executive committee this is something that has to be looked into," he said.
"I'm absolutely astounded. I have never heard anything as ridiculous in my life.
"If a payment of 5m [euros] has been paid because of a handball and threatened legal action then I hope a full investigation will be carried out into this and any other such arbitrary payments."
The money was to be repaid if Ireland qualified for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, but they failed to do so and Fifa wrote off the loan on 31 December 2014.
The FAI said the money was spent on the new Aviva Stadium that opened in May 2010 after the old Lansdowne Road ground was redeveloped.
Mr Boyce described Mr Delaney's admission as "incredible".
"I've never known in my experience of football someone giving a payment like that for a referee's mistake to stop someone taking legal action," he added.
On Friday, the Republic of Ireland assistant manager Roy Keane refused to comment on the payment.
"Not today, I'm not in the mood for all that stuff today," he said when asked about the controversy.
But when asked whether Mr Delaney was "a distraction" to the national team's on-field matters, he joked: "Isn't he always?"
About six men, apparently from Iran, stripped down during the demonstration near the village of Eidomeni.
Hundreds of migrants have been protesting after Macedonia limited passage to only those fleeing conflict.
Europe's border controls have come under renewed scrutiny since the attacks in Paris on 13 November.
Balkan countries said last week they would only open their borders to people fleeing countries affected by war such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The restrictions came after a forged Syrian passport was found next to the body of one of the perpetrators involved in the Islamic State attacks in the French capital.
The latest action by migrants stranded on the Greece-Macedonia border follows days of protests.
The men - some of whom appear to be from Iran's Kurdish minority - sewed their mouths shut, scrawled messages such as "Just freedom" on their foreheads and chests, and sat down on railway tracks in front of riot police.
Men from Bangladesh and Morocco also joined the protests after they too were deemed "economic migrants" and denied passage.
Hundreds of thousands of migrants, many of them Syrians fleeing war, have made the perilous journey through the Balkans after arriving in Europe by boat in Greece from Turkey.
Most head for the more affluent countries of northern and western Europe, mainly Germany and Sweden.
German federal police said on Monday that the number of asylum seekers arriving in the country in November was expected to exceed the previous monthly high recorded in October.
They said some 180,000 asylum seekers had already entered the country so far this month - compared with 181,000 in the whole of the previous month.
Meanwhile the numbers crossing from Greece into Macedonia fell on Monday amid the new restrictions, according to the Associated Press.
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Around 2,900 people crossed into Macedonia in the 24 hours before 0600 (local time) on Monday, down from more than 6,000 on the previous day, the news agency quoted local police as saying.
The move by Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia and Croatia to impose stricter entry criteria left thousands stranded and sparked human rights concerns.
The Iranian government has disproportionately targeted the country's Sunni, ethnic Kurdish minority with arbitrary arrest, prolonged detention, and physical abuse, according to the US state department.
The EU's Schengen agreement, which allows passport-free travel between 26 European nations, has come under increased strain since the attacks in Paris.
Right-wing European politicians called for border closures following indications that one of the suicide bombers at the Stade de France had crossed into Greece using a fake passport.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.
The visitors won the toss and England hopeful Sam Robson was bowled by Brydon Carse for a brisk 26.
Malan (74) and Voges' 90-run fourth-wicket stand followed a quickfire 60 from Gubbins as the hosts toiled.
England all-rounder Ben Stokes had Voges (50) caught in the slips but Middlesex closed on an imposing 358-7.
Despite starting brightly Durham struggled on a good wicket and Gubbins hit 10 fours before falling lbw to Graham Onions.
Nick Compton, who will be hoping to retain his place in the England line-up for the upcoming series against Sri Lanka in May, fell for 38 - dragging on off Ryan Pringle.
Durham struck in consecutive overs with Malan and Voges departing, after Malan edged Chris Rushworth to Michael Richardson behind the stumps and Voges was well held by Steve Borthwick.
Middlesex pushed past 300 as Jack Simpson and Paul Stirling (41 not out) put on 71 for the sixth wicket, as the away side remained in the ascendency.
The film depicts the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama led by Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
It is a contender for best picture at next month's Academy Awards, alongside seven other films including Birdman, Boyhood and Grand Budapest Hotel.
Cast and crew, including director Ava DuVernay, are expected to attend the screening on Friday.
The film picked up just two nominations for the Oscars, the second being a nomination for best original song, Glory, by John Legend and Common.
But British actor David Oyelowo missed out on a best actor citation, for his depiction of Martin Luther King, and Ava DuVernay failed to make the cut for best director.
Had she been nominated, DuVernay would have become the first African-American woman to be nominated in that category.
The Oscar nominations have come under fire from some commentators for their lack of diversity, after it was revealed that all 20 contenders for the acting categories were white.
However, the Academy's first African-American woman president, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, told New York magazine's Vulture blog that the organisation does not have a diversity problem "at all".
Family cinema
Previous Oscar contenders to be shown at the White House include last year's Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Stephen Spielberg's Lincoln in 2012, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln.
The screening will take place in the 40-seat family cinema, part of Obama's private family quarters, according to Variety.
The first movie screened at the White House was in 1915, when Woodrow Wilson hosted a showing of Birth of a Nation.
The Obamas have also screened Danny Boyle's Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Julie & Julia (2009), starring Meryl Streep and He's Just Not That Into You (2009), starring Jennifer Aniston, Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore.
Plaid leader Leanne Wood has said she could do a deal to put Labour in power even if the SNP was not involved.
She said Mr Miliband was irresponsible to rule out an SNP deal, claiming it could "open the door" to the Tories.
The Labour leader said he was "not interested in deals or coalitions", but in being "a Labour prime minister who puts forward a Labour programme".
Speaking at a Labour party rally in Cardiff on Friday, Mr Miliband said it was a "pretty dead cert" that David Cameron wanted to cut child benefit.
Accusing the Conservatives of planning to reduce tax credits for families if they win next week's election, the Labour leader said his first act as prime minister would be to find money to scrap the so-called bedroom tax.
Family finances, he said, were "on the ballot paper at this election".
Mr Miliband said: "For the hundreds of thousands of families in Wales, they should know David Cameron is planning to cut your child benefit. That is the choice in six days' time.
"You've got six days to save your child benefit, and the way to do that is to vote Labour.
"Because Mr Cameron denied he was going to means test child benefit at the last election and then did.
"He's not even denying further cuts to child benefit at this election. So it's a pretty dead cert that that is exactly what he's going to do."
Visiting the marginal Cardiff North seat for the Conservatives, Home Secretary Theresa May said Mr Miliband would need to negotiate with the Scottish nationalists on every parliamentary vote to run a minority government.
"He said there wouldn't be a formal coalition or a formal deal, but actually what has become clear from Nicola Sturgeon, but also from other members of the Labour shadow cabinet, is that there would be arrangements on a vote by vote, issue by issue basis," she said.
"So what we would see if Labour is in government is a Labour government propped up by the SNP."
That would mean higher taxes, more borrowing and "weaker defences", she said.
Mrs May also brushed off Labour's claims that her party would cut child benefit.
She said David Cameron had been "very clear, he rejected those plans when they were first proposed and he rejects them now".
She added: "If we've said that child benefit will be frozen that is a very real difference."
Elsewhere in the election campaign, Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood is promoting party pledges to scrap zero-hours contracts and raise the minimum wage.
Marking International Workers' Day, she said her party was committed to increasing the minimum wage of £6.50 an hour to the so-called living wage - currently £7.85 an hour - by 2020.
Ms Wood will also be taking part in the second and final TV election debate involving Welsh leaders of the six main parties in Cardiff on Friday evening.
Demonstrators set up barricades and hurled firebombs in Valparaiso, where Chile's Congress meets. Police fired tear gas and water cannon.
A security guard died from fume inhalation when masked protestors burned a pharmacy and supermarket.
Chileans are angry because of an economic downturn and a corruption scandal involving Ms Bachelet's family.
Some of the fires continued burning for hours and smoke could be seen rising from several places in the city.
Ms Bachelet, who was elected in 2013 promising to reduce inequality, said the country was on a path of reform "from which there is no turning back".
She said policies guaranteeing everyone a free education showed the country was heading in the right direction.
"If we don't make the changes now with everyone working together, the tensions and obstacles will grow and our opportunity to progress will be frustrated," she said.
However, she also said other reforms would be delayed because of the economic slowdown in the country.
Correspondents say there are often protests on the day of the presidential address.
Disqualification proceedings issued by the Department for the Economy over the directors' roles began on Thursday.
The application follows critical reports into the oversight and running of the body which folded in 2007.
The court heard some of the respondents plan to contest the proceedings.
Others were said to be considering whether to give undertakings.
The eleven named in the papers are: Samuel Mervyn Elder, Jasper Perry, Gerry Lennon, Jim Rodgers, James Clarke, Thomas Alan Clarke, Paul Henry McWilliams, William David White, Aideen Corr, Victor Campbell Haslett, and Catherine Williamson.
Gerry Lennon is Visit Belfast chief executive and Jim Rodgers is High Sheriff of Belfast.
Thomas Alan Clarke is a former chief executive of the Northern Ireland Tourist Board and James Clarke is the current chief executive of the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools.
The NI Events Company (NIEC) was formed in 1997 to support major sports and music events.
Lawyers for some of those who sat on the NIEC's board have claimed they were being made scapegoats to deflect attention from civil servants who failed to provide proper scrutiny.
Following a brief hearing, the case was adjourned until November.
Bill de Blasio said the public snubbing had been disrespectful to the families of the two men and to the city.
Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were shot dead last month by a gunman with a grievance against the police.
Many police have resented the mayor's expressions of sympathy for anti-police protesters in recent months.
"Those individuals who took certain actions the last two weeks, they were disrespectful to the families involved. That's the bottom line," Mr de Blasio told reporters at police headquarters.
"They were disrespectful to the families who lost their loved ones. I can't understand why anyone would do such a thing in the context like that."
Mr de Blasio also dismissed suggestions that police had been working to rule since the killing of the two officers.
He described the apparent fall-off in arrests and court appearances for minor offences as an aberration.
"I certainly don't think a few very aberrant days suggest anything compared to what you see over the course of the whole year," he said.
Mr de Blasio's remarks were supported by New York's police commissioner, William Bratton, who said that the officers who turned their backs on him had "embarrassed themselves".
"The idea of what is effectively a labour action being taken in the middle of a funeral where we are honouring the death of two police officers - I just don't understand it," Mr Bratton said.
Speaking after the policemen were shot, the head of the city's largest police union, Patrick Lynch, hit out at the liberal mayor, saying there was "blood on many hands".
The shootings followed a wave of demonstrations over killings of unarmed black men by white police officers, beginning in the Missouri town of Ferguson last summer.
There was anger in New York after a grand jury decided not to press charges against a white police officer over the death of unarmed black man Eric Garner, who was placed in a chokehold while being restrained by police officers.
Mr de Blasio had expressed solidarity with the protesters and had publicly wondered if his son, who is mixed-race, was safe from police.
Critics have argued that such rhetoric helped to create an environment that encouraged violence against police.
The man who shot the two officers - Ismaaiyl Brinsley - killed himself in a subway station as police were closing in.
Brinsley, 28, had a history of violence and mental instability. On the day of the shooting, he went on social media to say he was planning to kill police officers.
It is now six months since ex-energy minister Charles Hendry's report was published, concluding that the £1.3bn lagoon would be a "no regrets" option.
The UK government is yet to respond to his findings but said it needed time to assess the lagoon's merits.
Investors have warned it risks stalling unless a green light is given soon.
The latest state of play with the project is:
Though ministers are yet to set out where they stand, Mr Hendry told BBC Wales he believed their message had been "consistent".
"They say they are carefully considering the scheme. The election has delayed that process and there may be other factors too," he said.
"But now with Greg Clark back in place as business secretary I'm hopeful of a definitive answer soon."
Mr Hendry added that he had been "very enthused" by the degree of cross-party support for the world-first power generation project.
The proposal for a 320MW lagoon off Swansea Bay, involving a 9.5km seawall embedded with 16 turbines, is being developed by Tidal Lagoon Power (TLP).
The project was included in the Conservatives' 2015 manifesto and was granted planning permissions by then Energy Secretary Amber Rudd that same year.
However government support seemed to wane as discussions continued over the so-called strike price, a guarantee to subsidise the cost of electricity from the scheme.
The latest proposal by TLP involved a price of £89.90 per megawatt hour, guaranteed for 90 years.
By comparison, the price agreed for the new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C in Somerset was £92.50 per megawatt hour for 35 years.
An independent review was commissioned in February 2016 to look into the viability of tidal lagoon schemes and it reported almost a year later.
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Mr Hendry concluded that moving ahead with the prototype lagoon in Swansea Bay was in the national interest.
The developers had argued that it would kick-start a new industry and that a "fleet" of larger, more cost-effective lagoons across the UK coastline could follow.
TLP is based in Gloucester and the city's Conservative MP Richard Graham is the chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Marine Energy and Tidal Lagoons.
He told BBC Wales he had met with Greg Clark this week and had "a good discussion".
"I think he absolutely gets it that we cannot prevaricate as a government indefinitely on this - and a decision should be made as soon as possible," he said.
Mr Graham said he had consistently made the point to Mr Clark that the tidal lagoon was "probably the most popular energy project of our lifetimes."
He added: "If we want a government that's got an industrial strategy, that's going to do innovative things, this is the project, this is the time - let's go for it."
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Richard Howard, head of energy for the Policy Exchange think-tank told BBC Wales the delay in responding to the review showed that TLP was yet to "put together a proposition to government that is sufficiently compelling".
"In the time in which this project has been developed we've seen massive, radical reductions in the cost of solar energy, offshore and onshore wind and that will continue," he said.
"So actually locking yourself into a tidal lagoon for 90 years might not actually be the right option."
As the wait for a go-ahead goes on, money is drying up for TLP with the scheme's backers now refusing to release further funds, the Financial Times reported.
David Clubb, director of Renewable UK Cymru said he was concerned that private investment that was "strongly needed" in south Wales would go elsewhere.
"Clearly every new project of this scale suggests risks - and it is right that the government should consider those risks."
"But the Hendry Review was a very in-depth, comprehensive study which took account of all of those risks and it still came to the conclusion that this was a no regrets option."
"So we would say to the government, let's act now - these sorts of opportunities don't come along very often."
A decision is needed this summer, TLP says, for work to start on the lagoon in 2019.
New evidence on the impact on fish
Another hurdle remains in Wales, which is the issuing of a marine licence by the environmental regulator Natural Resources Wales (NRW).
The process started in 2014, with TLP and NRW saying they have been in "exhaustive discussions" about the impact on fish.
In December 2016, NRW published figures suggesting the lagoon would mean 21% of salmon and 25% of sea trout dying each year, as they migrate to and from local rivers.
The developers strongly refuted that analysis which they claimed had "no scientific basis", branding the figures "grossly misleading".
Now they have submitted what they claim is a "finalised projection" of the development's likely impact on the marine environment, having agreed a new modelling method with NRW.
Andy Schofield, TLP's head of fisheries said the work had been "particularly challenging" as this was a world-first scheme and there was little research already available about fish behaviour in the Bristol channel.
He said the developers had looked for other examples across the world and spoken to leading experts in the field.
"The results we are now presenting show that the lagoon will have a very low impact on fish."
"The other reassurance is that when the lagoon is constructed we will have an adaptive environmental management plan in place and we will be constantly monitoring for any impact."
"We believe that these figures will now enable NRW to grant us a marine license and we hope that they will be able to do that in early 2018."
NRW will now launch a fresh consultation on the marine licence application in light of the new evidence submitted by TLP.
Ceri Davies, executive director of evidence policy and permitting for NRW, said: "We support the development of sustainable renewable energy. This development is a world-first, and the scale and the technology involved makes determining the marine licence complex."
A spokesman for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said the UK government was considering the recommendations and the issues which arise from a broader programme.
"We will require time to assess the merits of such a programme and determine what is in the best interest of the UK energy consumer and taxpayer in the long term and will publish its response to the Hendry Review in due course," he said.
Their seven-wicket victory in the third Test gave England an unassailable 2-0 lead in the four-match series.
Stuart Broad took 6-17 to help bowl the number one Test side out for 83 on a pulsating third day in Johannesburg.
"If we keep doing the right things we should be able to do something special," Cook told Test Match Special.
"It's a privilege to captain these guys because they can change games as quickly as that."
The Test series victory is England's first overseas since they beat India in 2012-13.
Broad took the man-of-the-match award for his sensational spell on the third afternoon, which included taking five wickets for one run in 31 balls.
"Winning in South Africa has been a dream of mine, so to do it in their own back yard is very special," he said.
South Africa, having bowled England out for 323 to limit them to a first-innings lead of 10, were 23-0 shortly after lunch.
But Broad claimed the first five wickets with a hostile spell on a Wanderers surface offering pace and bounce to effectively settle the contest.
Cook said coach Trevor Bayliss had given the team a "kick" in the lunch interval, adding: "Rather than sulking about it the lads looked at themselves, led by Broady, and there was a real intensity in the field for that two-hour session.
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"It was a realisation from a guy that doesn't say too much that this is the time: if you want to win the series then you've got an opportunity."
South Africa captain AB de Villiers said: "I haven't seen a team bowl like that for a long time. We were outplayed in the second innings - credit to them."
Broad added: "I'd take that wicket everywhere with me. It offered a bit of seam, a bit of bounce, and it was swinging a little bit."
Broad, 29, said Joe Root "probably deserved" the match award for his counter-attacking 110, which rescued England from 91-4 on the second day in alliance with Ben Stokes, who made 58.
Broad said: "It's sort of what you've come to expect from Joe. That will go down as one of his best hundreds."
Although Steven Finn took a wicket with his second ball on Saturday, he spent part of the South Africa innings off the field with a side strain.
Cook said the pace bowler is "unlikely" to play in the final Test in Centurion starting on 22 January.
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The defending champions crushed Glasgow 38-13 on Sunday to set up a last-four tie in Dublin on 22 April.
Munster have been playing on a wave of emotion since the death of head coach Anthony Foley in October.
McCall said: "I don't think our players realise what is coming. It's important they do by the time we get there."
He believes handling the emotion of the occasion will be a significant challenge for his players as they seek back-to-back European titles.
"I think it's going to be one of the most special atmospheres anyone has ever played in," McCall added.
"There is going to be an emotional element to it, and we must make sure we are ready for that and can cope with that.
"It's going to be a very, very special occasion to be part of, but that's not enough for us, we want to keep on going in this competition."
A number of Saracens players will be returning to Dublin a matter of weeks after England were denied a Grand Slam, while Wasps were also heavily beaten by Leinster at the Aviva on Saturday.
"The fact a lot of our players played in that England against Ireland game is going to help," McCall said.
"We have a very experienced group who relish these big occasions."
Saracens are still on course for a second successive domestic and European double, and captain Brad Barritt says the squad is hungrier than ever.
"We are a trusted group of friends who are honest with each other and push each other hard to be the best team we can be," Barritt told BBC 5 live.
"We have obviously set ourselves a mountain to climb from the success last year, but the pleasing thing is the hunger and the desire in the squad is bigger than it's ever been."
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Street-based charity fundraisers will also be targeted from Sunday.
Anyone found breaching the conditions of the Public Spaces Protection Order could get a £100 fixed penalty.
Insp Kevin Warren said the aim was to "enhance" visitors' experience in the city centre and improve the "feeling of safety" within the Stow Hill ward.
Gwent Police and Newport City Council are working together on the initiative.
The conditions of the order for the restricted area are:
The last two days have seen junior doctors walk out of routine and emergency care in protest against the imposition of new working conditions.
NHS bosses said hospitals had coped "admirably" during the stoppages.
But there looks to be no end in sight to the dispute with doctors' leaders not ruling out more strikes.
Sources at the British Medical Association said they would now spend the coming days and weeks considering their next options.
But they were adamant this would not be the end of the protest against the imposition of a new contract.
Options on the table include everything from a series of rolling strikes to refusing to do vital paperwork. Meanwhile, two legal challenges are still working their way through the courts.
Some doctors have even talked about encouraging mass resignations from the health service.
A source said: "The government is adamant it won't give in, but so are we. Doctors are not ready to back down."
But government sources responded by saying both the Department of Health and Number 10 had made it clear any escalation in strike action would not stop imposition of the contract from this summer.
"The government is confident in its position and we've made that clear to the BMA."
Wednesday's stoppage ended at 17:00 BST, bringing to an end two days of industrial action which saw 78% of doctors who were expected to work not turning up.
But hospitals told the BBC services had run smoothly during the stoppages - some even said it had been quieter than expected - with consultants and nurses covering emergency care.
It meant no NHS trust had to trigger the emergency protocols which allowed them to call for junior doctors to return to work if patients were at risk.
NHS England's Anne Rainsberry said this was down to careful planning in the lead up to the strike - more than 100,000 routine appointments and nearly 13,000 operations were postponed to allow staff to be redeployed.
"We're not going to pretend the last two days have been easy, but the NHS has remained open to business for patients. The health service has coped admirably."
Patients who ended up in hospital reported they had received good quality care.
Liam Walker, 35, from London, said his partner had been well cared for while in labour.
"There are three consultants instead of three juniors," he said. "We've had fantastic treatment."
Retired health visitor Maureen Gaunt, from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, went to accident and emergency for a dog bite.
"The staff were very welcoming," she said. "I waited no longer than 20 minutes. Even the staff said it was quiet."
But patients who have seen their treatment delayed have spoken about the problems it has caused.
Senior nurse Wendy Ginsing's daughter Hannah, 21, has been waiting for treatment for a brain tumour since before Christmas. She was due to be admitted on Tuesday, but that was postponed.
"Understandably Hannah is devastated and very annoyed about this," her mother said.
But Ms Ginsing said she still supported the junior doctors' action, adding: "I have seen how dangerous sleep disruption in doctors can be."
There are a variety of factors. The NHS has had five weeks to prepare for these strikes and by cancelling routine appointments and operations in advanced it was able to free up consultants and nurses to work in emergency care.
Consultants have been largely supportive of their junior colleagues - in some cases even encouraging them to go out - and so have been only too willing to make sure services run smoothly.
The increased presence of senior doctors may have actually speed up processes. For example, Milton Keynes Hospital said having more consultants in A&E enabled quicker decisions to be made about what treatments patients needed.
The public also seem to have heeded warnings to stay away unless absolutely necessary. But that doesn't mean hospitals have got away with it. The number of delayed routine treatments - including cancer care - is piling up, while some hospitals fear there could be a spike in demand in the coming days.
Barry Edwards, who has had open heart surgery and had a follow-up appointment and scan postponed, was more critical.
"I am left in a situation of not knowing if my medication is appropriate, if I am on the mend and recovering as I should," he said.
Mr Edwards said he did not support the strike, adding junior doctors were no longer held in great esteem.
Meanwhile, patient groups have warned the accumulation of postponed treatments - nearly 40,000 operations have now been delayed during the whole dispute - is taking its toll and causing harm. Alongside routine treatments, there have been reports of cancer patients facing delays.
The dispute is over a new contract that the government announced in February would be imposed from the summer. This followed the breakdown of talks between the two sides in January.
The contract makes it cheaper to rota doctors on at weekends - something ministers say is needed to improve care on a Saturday and Sunday.
The BMA has argued it is unfair and the NHS needs extra investment to pay for seven-day services.
Before this week's strikes, there had been four walkouts but all involved emergency care being maintained by junior doctors.
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Police found several weapons in their car including a shotgun, a rifle, "several hundred rounds" of ammunition and a hunting knife.
The men, who were due to compete in the finals, were named as 18-year-old Kevin Norton and 27-year-old James Stumbo.
They told police only that they had driven to the event from Iowa.
They have now been arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition, as well as other firearms offences, Boston Police said.
Superintendent Paul Fitzgerald, commander of the Boston Police District's Bureau of Intelligence and Analysis, praised the private security firm for working with the authorities.
And he went on to describe the arrested pair and their weaponry as a "very real threat".
"The BPD detectives and collaborating agencies did a great job in the stop and prevention of a potential tragedy," he said.
James Stumbo had posted a picture of the pair's car, with two guns on the boot, on Facebook at the start of the week.
The championships, which took place at the weekend, were by invitation only.
Top video and trading card players from more than 30 different countries take part in the annual tournament, competing for top prizes of scholarship money, trophies and merchandise.
Pokemon events attract over 400,000 entrants each year, according to the company behind the brand.
The franchise, which includes card trading and video games made exclusively for Nintendo consoles, has an enormous global following.
There were 193 "episodes" of malnutrition in 12 months at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust alone, according to new figures.
Freedom of Information (FOI) figures show a rise of 259 between the 43 trusts compared with three years ago.
The Trussell Trust food bank charity said it feared families were struggling to afford to feed themselves.
The government said that malnutrition was "unacceptable", but there are warnings that parents are going without food so their children do not go hungry.
The figures were revealed as Tameside Hospital, also in Greater Manchester, became the first NHS hospital in the UK to set up a permanent food bank on site.
Medical staff reported a significant increase in the number of malnourished patients turning up for treatment and care.
Trisha Jarman from Tameside East food bank said: "There are a lot of people out there that are malnourished.
"It's not just people coming into hospital, it's across the board. People are struggling to feed themselves and their families, particularly at this time of the year."
NHS bosses in Salford have warned that thousands of people in the city, which is included in a pilot scheme aimed at tackling the problem, may be struggling.
Kirstine Farrer, head of innovation and research at Salford Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), said: "A report by the BAPEN (British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition) in 2013 suggested that of Salford's population of 35,000 aged 65 years or older, 14 per cent - or almost 5,000 people - may be at risk of malnutrition."
She said health services were working with the community to raise awareness and prevent people going hungry.
The figures were revealed following an FOI request by Birmingham City University student Eiryo Saeki to NHS foundation trusts, of which 43 responded.
Hospitals were asked to provide numbers of patients who had been in hospital with symptoms of malnutrition such as Kwashiorkor, a swelling under the skin often found in countries where there is famine or a limited food supply.
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust said its figures related to "episodes" of malnutrition, and could include patients being counted more than once if they were transferred between consultants.
The figures also showed that Birmingham Children's Hospital reported 31 instances of malnutrition last year, almost double the number for 2013.
Charity The Trussell Trust said between 31 March and 1 April 2015 food banks in Greater Manchester fed 16,083 people, of whom 6,206 were children.
Chairman Chris Mould said: "Our food banks see tens of thousands of people who have been going hungry, missing meals and cutting back on the quality of the food they buy.
"We meet families across the UK who are struggling to put enough food on the table, and at the extreme end of that you get people who are malnourished.
"We often see parents who are going without food so that they can feed their children, and these parents often struggle to afford enough nutritious food for their children too."
He said the Trust did not believe anyone should have to go hungry in the UK, and was working with the public, charities and politicians to "find solutions to the underlying causes of food poverty".
The figures do not break down the ages of the patients but the charity Age UK is concerned about malnutrition in older people.
Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK said: "In a civilised society people should not be suffering from malnutrition - these figures are shocking.
"Malnutrition in older people, both in the community and in hospitals, is often left undetected.
"Health professionals and those in social care need to get better at spotting the signs and then making sure that a suitable care plan is put in place to ensure those at risk of malnutrition do not slip through the gaps between services and get consistent treatment and support.
"Eating and drinking well is critical when it comes to staying healthy and independent, yet this can become more difficult as we get older.
"It is also important that older people, along with their friends, family and health care professionals, challenge assumptions around malnutrition and don't ignore the problem.
"For example, people shouldn't assume that losing weight is automatically part of ageing."
In Tameside, the hospital's chief executive, Karen James, said staff had noticed patients are "often coming through malnourished" and when talking to patients "we find out that they are suffering and there is a need".
She said people were making choices about whether to pay a bill or feed the family.
Three food collection points have been set up at the hospital, with donations delivered to a central warehouse.
Natalie Welsh, a nutrition specialist nurse at Tameside, said: "It's really important that these people are highlighted in our community because quite often by the time they come through our doors and need to be admitted, the damage is already done.
"It can take us a long time to get them to recover from illness and disability because of the malnutrition they have suffered."
A Department of Health spokesperson said: "Malnutrition is unacceptable. Though the rising figures we have seen may well be in part due to better diagnosis and detection, even more action is required.
"That is why we have ensured that everyone over the age of 40 can have a free NHS health check to spot the warning signs of poor nutrition, and have provided £500k funding to Age UK to reduce malnutrition among older people."
Fernando Llorente had levelled on the stroke of half-time after Cesc Fabregas had put Chelsea ahead.
Pedro's curling effort deceived Fabianksi to restore Chelsea's lead before Diego Costa sealed victory for the Premier League leaders.
"That's my mistake," Fabianski said of Pedro's goal.
"I should have caught it or pushed it away.
"It went underneath my body and it's a goal I'm at fault for.
"We are disappointed with the result because for long spells of the game we were in it.
"We had some chances, defended well, but the second goal basically killed the game for us and for me was very disappointing."
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Chelsea's win stretched their lead at the top of the Premier League table to 11 points while Swansea are 15th and three points above the relegation zone.
Despite defeat at Stamford Bridge, Fabianski said Swansea could take encouragement from their performance against Antonio Conte's side.
"They're top of the league, going for the title and probably will be the champions so that's very encouraging especially playing away from home," the Poland international said.
"If it wasn't for the second goal who knows what could have happened.
"We should take all the positives from our performance."
Swansea host Burnley at Liberty Stadium on Saturday, 4 March at the start of what Fabianski acknowledges is a big month in their battle to avoid relegation.
Burnley, a team Swansea beat on the opening day of the season, are seven points ahead of Paul Clement's side in 11th position.
Swansea then face three relegation rivals - Hull City, Bournemouth and Middlesbrough - in their next games.
"It's a massive month and we'll be playing against teams that are in and around us," said Fabianski.
"That will be very important especially after we've been through a difficult period when we played against really good teams.
"We have to do our best to get maximum points out of it.
"It will be a massive period for us and we have to focus on the Burnley game
"We'll be playing at home and everyone will be expecting us to get maximum points."
The former Aberdeen and Rangers full-back was part of the side that beat Hibernian in the League Cup final to deliver County's first major trophy.
Foster, 31, has been registered by Saints and is available for Saturday's early Premiership match against Celtic.
No fee was involved in the transfer, with Foster becoming Saints' fifth new arrival this summer.
He follows midfielders Paul Paton, Blair Alston and Michael Coulson, and fellow defender Keith Watson in joining the Perth outfit, who have finished fourth for the past two seasons.
"I am really happy to have made the move," Foster told BBC Scotland. "St Johnstone is a club that every club outside the top four look at as what they want to be.
"With Rangers out of the top division they've been in the top four and consistently in the top six. They've also won the Scottish Cup recently so it was an easy decision to make.
"[Saints manager Tommy Wright] seems to have a way of getting the best out of the players. The atmosphere seems really good and his relationship with the players."
Foster played 40 games for County last season after being released by Rangers last summer.
"I loved my time at County, it was really good for me," he added.
"I played most of the games, enjoyed my time there, won a cup and achieved top six which was the aim right at the start.
"It's come to an end but now I'm looking to replicate that sort of success with St Johnstone."
A health committee found that Jason Garnham told a call handler to "stop panicking" when they asked if they should keep calling the man back.
Alan Hamilton, 65, phoned the St John Ambulance on Guernsey at 18:13 on 9 July 2014, but the call was cut off.
There was no suggestion the failings contributed to the man's death.
Mr Hamilton was found dead in the groundsman's hut at King George V playing fields at 07:40 the following day.
An inquest found he died from ischemic heart disease, cardiac arrest and complications with diabetes, according to the Guernsey Press.
Matthew Kewley, representing the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), said that ambulance control assistant Ms Crocker took the short call and attempted to call Mr Hamilton - referred to only as "patient A" during the hearing held in Southampton, Hampshire - back twice but was unsuccessful.
He said: "Ms Crocker's evidence is that she asked the registrant [Mr Garnham] whether she should carry on trying patient A's number but was told by the registrant to 'stop panicking'.
"There is a significant factual dispute between Ms Crocker and the registrant. The thrust of the registrant's case is that he categorically stated to Ms Crocker that she needed to document the call in the relevant documentation."
A HCPC spokeswoman said: "Jason Garnham has been suspended from the HCPC register for a period of one year on the grounds of misconduct. All allegations were found to be proved."
The HCPC register is published to provide a list of health care professionals that meet the organisation's standards.
The group, which earlier tried to sell the encrypted cache of hacking tools in an online auction, released a password for it via a blog on 8 April.
Some cyber-security experts have said some of the malware is real, but old.
The NSA has not commented on the hacker group or the material that was released over the weekend.
The Shadow Brokers said they had published the password as a "protest" about US President Donald Trump.
The group wanted "America to be great again", the blog added.
It criticised, among other things, "[Steve] Bannon's removal from the [National Security Council]" and the "US military strike on Syria".
A list of alleged NSA hacking targets and the malware allegedly installed at them was also included in the release, according to some cyber-security experts.
The Shadow Brokers say they are "not fans of Russia or Putin", but some experts have suggested the group may have links with the Russian government.
"Russia is quickly responding to the missile attacks on Syria with the release of the dump file password that was previously withheld," said Jake Williams, chief executive of cyber-security firm Rendition Infosec in a blog.
A similar opinion was shared on Twitter by Dan Gonzales, a senior scientist at the Rand Corporation think tank.
The Shadow Brokers were "probably a front for or infiltrated by #Russia #cyber groups," he said.
Neither commentator gave any evidence to support such claims. Russian officials have not commented but have strenuously denied involvement in other hacking cases associated with the US.
"If Russia had stolen the hacking tools, it would be senseless to publicise the theft, let alone put them up for sale," cyber-security expert James Bamford wrote in an article for Reuters news agency.
He suggested that the Shadow Brokers could be an NSA "insider".
In a separate case, a series of cyber-attacks on 40 targets in 16 countries have been linked to a cache of hacking tools, according to cybersecurity firm Symantec.
The cache, known as Vault7, was published online by WikiLeaks and said to contain malware used by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
The agency has not confirmed whether it authored the tools.
The malware analysed by Symantec had been used to infect computers in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
"On one occasion a computer in the United States was compromised but, following infection, an uninstaller was launched within hours, which may indicate this victim was infected unintentionally," Symantec noted.
The malware contained logs documenting changes that closely mirrored such records in Vault7 malware, the firm claimed.
Major differences remained and they were "well away from an agreement", IMF spokesman Gerry Rice told reporters.
Greece is seeking a cash-for-reform deal, to avoid defaulting on a €1.5bn debt repayment to the IMF.
But the European Council president said there was no more time for gambling and the game would soon be over.
"The Greek government has to be, I think, a little bit more realistic,'' Donald Tusk said.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras held talks with European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels on Thursday afternoon but little progress was made.
He also held a late-night meeting with the French and German leaders on Wednesday, after which Mr Tsipras said they had decided to intensify talks.
The EU and IMF are unhappy with the extent of economic reforms the Athens government is offering in exchange for the release of a final €7.2bn (£5.3bn) in bailout funds. Their bailout deal with Greece runs out at the end of June.
Mr Tsipras's left-wing Syriza party came to power in January on an anti-austerity platform.
IMF's Gerry Rice in Washington said there had been "no progress" in narrowing differences during the talks between IMF and Greek negotiators in Brussels, and both teams had packed up and left for home.
But he stressed that "the IMF never leaves the table. We remain engaged - but the ball very much is in Greece's court right now."
He said the sticking points remain pensions, taxes and financing.
Analysis: BBC's Chris Morris in Brussels
Sometimes the toughest talking happens just before a deal is done.
But occasionally it means things are about to fall apart.
So the public pressure on Alexis Tsipras is growing - reflecting concern within the EU and the IMF that he has miscalculated the extent to which he can orchestrate a change in policy.
But there are countervailing pressures on the prime minister at home. His supporters swept his party to power in January and now they expect him to deliver - and some are taking a hard line.
Tsipras's impossible position
Greek spokesman Gabriel Sakellaridis said in a statement that government negotiators were ready to intensify talks "even in the coming days" and would carry on working on the remaining issues "such as the fiscal issue and the sustainability of the debt".
Earlier in the day, Greek stocks had soared by more than 8% after EU Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said a debt deal was close and needed a "happy ending".
However, as the mood darkened, stock markets elsewhere began to retreat. By then, the Athens market was already closed.
One EU diplomat called the meeting between Mr Tsipras and Mr Juncker a "last attempt" to reach a debt deal.
"If the process was working properly the president would not have had to have a meeting with Tsipras today," he was quoted as saying.
Mr Tsipras told reporters after meeting Mr Juncker that they were "working in order to bridge the remaining differences" and reach an agreement "which will ensure that Greece will recover with social cohesion and viable public debts".
The Greek government needs an urgent deal as it is running out of cash and needs the last slice of its bailout money.
One possible solution would be a temporary deal with EU creditors until March, when the IMF part of the bailout also runs out. But if that does not work out, Greece could default and there is a risk it could fall out of the euro.
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Earlier this week, Athens submitted a revised reform plan to the EU and IMF, after Mr Tsipras rejected a set of reforms put forward by Jean-Claude Juncker.
It is believed Athens has conceded some ground on VAT reforms, pensions and the country's primary surplus target.
A major sticking point in the talks appears to be Mr Tsipras's demand for some debt relief for Greece, the BBC's Damian Grammaticas in Brussels reports.
European leaders will not countenance writing off debts before Greece commits to reforms, our correspondent says.
Last week, Greece postponed until the end of June a €300m payment to the IMF, deciding to bundle up four payments amounting to €1.5bn.
Mr Tsipras has warned that a failure to reach a deal on Greece's bailout by the end of June would be the beginning of the end for the eurozone.
Greek state broadcaster goes back on air
Mr Tsipras's left-wing Syriza party fulfilled one of its campaign pledges on Thursday when state broadcaster ERT resumed broadcasts, exactly two years after it was replaced by a smaller-scale operation called Nerit.
Nerit's channels were replaced on Thursday by ERT's programming.
With Cristiano Ronaldo suspended, Bale tapped in from Karim Benzema's scuffed shot to put Madrid ahead.
Casemiro ended a move with 44 passes by converting Marcelo's cross, before Toni Kroos smashed in from Bale's pass.
Keylor Navas then saved Florin Andone's penalty, before Ramos was dismissed.
The Madrid defender picked up his second yellow card for a high elbow in an aerial challenge, having received his first for shoving Fabian Schar's face.
Depor centre-back Schar had pushed his head close to Ramos' in an angry confrontation - for which he too was shown a yellow card - but the Spaniard's violent retaliation might easily have been punished with a straight red.
Ramos, 31, has now been sent off 23 times for Madrid, and 18 times in La Liga, a joint record he shares with ex-Sevilla defender Pablo Alfaro and Xavi Aguado, formerly of Real Zaragoza.
Earlier, Barcelona also got their league campaign off to a winning start as Ernesto Valverde's side beat Real Betis 2-0 on an emotional night at the Nou Camp.
Barcelona were playing for the first time since the terror attack in the city on Thursday and both teams paid their respects to the victims with a minute's silence before kick off.
Match ends, Deportivo de La Coruña 0, Real Madrid 3.
Second Half ends, Deportivo de La Coruña 0, Real Madrid 3.
Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Bruno Gama (Deportivo de La Coruña).
Second yellow card to Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid) for a bad foul.
Foul by Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid).
Borja Valle (Deportivo de La Coruña) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Offside, Real Madrid. Marco Asensio tries a through ball, but Lucas Vázquez is caught offside.
Corner, Deportivo de La Coruña. Conceded by Keylor Navas.
Penalty saved! Florin Andone (Deportivo de La Coruña) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.
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Penalty conceded by Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Deportivo de La Coruña. Bruno Gama draws a foul in the penalty area.
Florin Andone (Deportivo de La Coruña) is shown the yellow card.
Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Florin Andone (Deportivo de La Coruña).
Attempt saved. Marco Asensio (Real Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Luisinho (Deportivo de La Coruña).
Attempt saved. Florin Andone (Deportivo de La Coruña) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Borja Valle.
Pedro Mosquera (Deportivo de La Coruña) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Pedro Mosquera (Deportivo de La Coruña).
Offside, Deportivo de La Coruña. Florin Andone tries a through ball, but Borja Valle is caught offside.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Marcelo (Real Madrid) because of an injury.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Fabian Schär.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Lucas Vázquez replaces Gareth Bale.
Substitution, Deportivo de La Coruña. Borja Valle replaces Fede Cartabia.
Attempt missed. Luka Modric (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Gareth Bale.
Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Bruno Gama (Deportivo de La Coruña).
Attempt missed. Luisinho (Deportivo de La Coruña) left footed shot from long range on the left is too high. Assisted by Guilherme.
Attempt missed. Marcelo (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the left side of the box is too high.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Marcos Llorente replaces Casemiro.
Foul by Marco Asensio (Real Madrid).
Fede Cartabia (Deportivo de La Coruña) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Nacho (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Bruno Gama (Deportivo de La Coruña).
Attempt missed. Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Karim Benzema.
She said the move did not mean "the fight is over", although numbers of new infections were no longer increasing.
The confirmed death toll from the virus is now 5,160 people, almost all of them from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
Meanwhile, clinical trials to find an effective treatment for Ebola are due to start in West Africa next month.
The medical charity Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF), which has been helping lead the fight against the virus, says three of its treatment centres will host three separate research projects.
In nationwide address, President Johnson Sirleaf said that night curfews would be reduced and weekly markets could take place across Liberia.
She added that preparations were being made for the re-opening of schools.
The state of emergency imposed in August had allowed the local authorities to curb movement in the worst-hit areas of the country, including the capital Monrovia.
The lifting of the emergency comes after the World Health Organization (WHO) said "there is some evidence that case incidence is no longer increasing nationally in Guinea and Liberia".
However, some reports suggest that new fresh hotspots have emerged in Liberia, the Associated Press reports.
In a separate development, MSF announced the new clinical trials: two in Guinea and another one in an unconfirmed location.
One trial will involve using the blood of recovered Ebola patients to treat sick people in the Guinean capital Conakry.
"This is an unprecedented international partnership which represents hope for patients to finally get a real treatment," said MSF spokeswoman Dr Annick Antierens.
About 400 people will take part in the trials, and they will be extended to other centres if the early results - expected in February 2015 - are promising.
The WHO announced in September that experimental treatments and vaccines for Ebola should be fast-tracked.
Two experimental vaccines, produced by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the Public Health Agency of Canada, have already been fast-tracked into safety trials.
The GSK vaccine is being tested in Mali, the UK and the US. Research on the Canadian vaccine is also under way in the US.
*Figures are occasionally revised down as suspect or probable cases are found to be unrelated to Ebola. Figures for Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea up to 9 November, while those for Mali, Nigeria and the US up to 11 November.
The firm has written to Stormont's finance committee which is investigating its purchase of Nama's NI loan book.
Cerberus paid more than 1.2bn for the loans in June 2014 which had an original unpaid balance of more than £4bn.
It said £1.87bn of the original sum has been written off.
This includes the release of some personal guarantees.
The firm also revealed that 430 assets linked to the loans have been sold or refinanced, which is about half the portfolio.
It said it has stimulated activity in the Northern Ireland property market with "key developers now active again."
One of its borrowers, Gareth Graham, is currently taking legal action against Cerberus over the appointment of administrators to a number of his companies.
In its submission the firm said "the vast majority of outcomes are achieved without recourse to litigation."
The company also discloses details of two loan portfolios it has bought from Ulster Bank.
It bought Project Aran in December 2014 which consisted of more than 1,300 borrowers relating to 5,400 properties.
About 20% of the loan balance relates to property in Northern Ireland.
Project Rathlin, which it bought in 2015, consists of 116 borrowers and 680 properties, more than 85% of which are in Northern Ireland.
The group also urged the release of opposition leaders who were jailed for allegedly inciting violence.
The letter was signed by 26 ex-leaders from Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Venezuela has not yet responded to their appeal
The signatories are members of the Madrid Club, an independent organisation made up of former heads of state and government.
They include former Brazilian President Henrique Cardoso, the ex-leader of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, as well as former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, Dutch ex-Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers and the former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo.
In their letter, they call for the release of "all those citizens who are in prison today for having exercised their right to freedom of expression", including Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma and opposition leaders Leopoldo Lopez and Daniel Ceballos.
They go on to demand that former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez be allowed to travel to Venezuela to work with Mr Lopez's defence counsel.
They also claim their "right to appear in the oral hearing of Leopoldo Lopez", scheduled for mid-May.
Mr Lopez handed himself in to the authorities in February last year.
He is on trial on charges of inciting violence at mass protests which swept through Venezuela in the first half of last year.
Forty-three people from both sides of the political divide died during several months of protests.
Venezuela's National Assembly last week declared Mr Gonzalez "persona non grata" after President Maduro accused him of waging a "psychological war" with the aim of destabilising Venezuela.
Last month, President Maduro called Felipe Gonzalez a "lobbyist, who is getting a huge salary in euros for publicly joining the campaign against Venezuela, backing a coup against the country, a coup against me".
Felipe Gonzalez, who trained as a lawyer before becoming Prime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996, had announced earlier that he would join the team defending Mr Lopez and Mr Ledezma.
Mr Ledezma was arrested in February and charged with conspiracy. He is accused of backing an alleged plot to depose President Maduro.
Mr Ledezma, like Mr Lopez and Mr Ceballos, is a member of the opposition.
Their supporters say the charges against them are politically motivated, but the government argues they want to violently overthrow the democratically elected government of Mr Maduro.
The marsupial's milk contains important peptides that appear to be able to kill hard-to-treat infections, including MRSA, say the Sydney University team.
Experts believe devils evolved this cocktail to help their young grow stronger.
The scientists are looking to make new treatments that mimic the peptides.
They have scanned the devil's genetic code to find and recreate the infection-fighting compounds, called cathelicidins.
PhD student Emma Peel, who worked on the research which is published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, said they had found six important peptides.
These appear to be similar to peptides in the milk of other marsupials, which means these animals are worth studying too.
"Tammar wallabies have eight of these peptides and opossums have 12," she said, adding that studies into koala's milk had now started.
Experts believe marsupials are good to study because their babies have to thrive in a relatively dirty environment.
Tasmanian devil mothers give birth after only a few weeks of pregnancy. The tiny offspring then spend the next four months maturing in their mother's pouch.
The Sydney team recreated the six devil peptides that they found and tested them on 25 types of bacteria and six types of fungi.
One of the synthetic peptides - Saha-CATH5 - appeared to be particularly effective at killing the superbug methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA.
MRSA
Many people carry MRSA on their skin and inside the nose and throat.
Most of the time, the infection is harmless.
But if it enters the body through an open wound for example, it may cause problems, which is why people staying in hospital are at a higher risk.
MRSA is treatable, but only with a combination of antibiotics that can get round the resistance problem.
It also appeared to kill another resistant bug, called Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus, as well as fungi, called Candida, which are commonly involved in skin infections.
Experts agree that we urgently need new drugs to fight treatment-resistant infections.
A recent review warned that by 2050, superbugs could kill one person every three seconds across the world unless urgent action was taken.
Dr Richard Stabler, Associate Professor in Molecular Bacteriology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: "We need to do this hunting in unusual places for new antibiotics. People are beginning to explore and find new molecules."
The body of Victoria Comrie Cullen, 39, was found in the grounds of a fishing club in Sydney in January 2014.
She had been stabbed repeatedly and had her throat cut.
Christopher Cullen, 51, had admitted inflicting the injuries, but pleaded not guilty to murder on the grounds of self-defence and provocation. He will be sentenced at a later date.
His plea of guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter was rejected by prosecutors.
A few months before her death, Cullen ordered his wife out of their home and threatened to kill her, accusing her of having an affair.
Cullen was arrested after emerging from mangroves at the anglers club in Taren Point, in southern Sydney, in January 2014.
The body of his Mrs Cullen was found kneeling face down on grass behind the car that had been used to drive her to the location.
An Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) had previously been taken out against Cullen, after an incident at his wife's workplace, a hair and beauty salon in Sylvania Waters.
Cullen had gone to the business while his wife was at work, and held up signs saying she was sleeping with clients.
Former minister and Wirral West MP Ms McVey was chosen to contest the Cheshire constituency at a Conservative Party selection meeting on Wednesday.
Mr Osborne said he was leaving Parliament "for now" as he becomes the Evening Standard editor.
Ms McVey lost her seat as MP for Wirral West to Labour in the 2015 elections.
Mr Osborne congratulated Ms McVey on Twitter, saying: "A real star. I couldn't have a better successor. A one-woman Northern Powerhouse."
He had held the seat with a majority of more than 18,000.
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But his zest for life and inspiring charity work, which has now seen him raise more than £1m, continues to drive him on.
And a unique rehabilitation centre treating people with catastrophic injuries which is under construction and set to be opened in September means many more will benefit in the years to come.
The Get Busy Living Centre near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire will see Hampson's long-term dream become a reality.
Hampson, now 32, told BBC East Midlands Today: "To see something tangible for the Foundation and for our beneficiaries to come along to, and to be able to offer them a place for home, a purpose, is so, so important.
"We'd spoken about it on numerous occasions, how we wanted to build a centre and things have moved on so quickly. Now it's actually a physical building it's pretty impressive."
Former Leicester Tigers and England youth international Hampson was injured when a scrum collapsed while training with the England Under-21 squad in 2005 and he can only breathe with the help of a ventilator.
But he set up the Matt Hampson Foundation when he came out of hospital which has already helped hundreds of people in similar situations. The Get Busy Living Centre is the next step.
"When I left hospital I got stuck in a rut and didn't really have a purpose and didn't know what to do with the rest of my life," Hampson explained.
"I was very lucky to have a foundation to channel my energy in, to to do something purposeful, but a lot of people haven't got that purpose and that light at the end of the tunnel. This building will offer that help and purpose."
The £1m total has been reached since the Foundation was given charitable status in 2011.
Now the Foundation is laying foundations of a different kind at a derelict old aircraft hanger at Burrough on the Hill.
The site is being transformed into a state-of-the-art facility where beneficiaries will be able to receive physical rehabilitation, spend time with their families and share experiences.
The project has been made possible thanks to a number of local firms and construction companies, many of whom have offered their time services and expertise for free.
And Hampson has an impressive list of stars who have lent their support in all sorts of ways, including ex-England rugby union stars Martin Johnson, Johnny Wilkinson, Mike Tindall and Austin Healey, Leicester centre Manu Tuilagi and England cricketer Stuart Broad.
Former England captain and 2003 World Cup winner Tindall, who is patron of the Matt Hampson Foundation, said the new facility will provide a complete service and that Hampson's journey and charitable work remains a huge inspiration.
"I'm in awe of him in terms of how he's coped with the cards he's been dealt and how he's spurred others on," Tindall said. "He doesn't let anything stop him.
"I don't think there's many places out there that are able to provide not just the physio side, the exercise side, maximising that, but also the community side.
"That's one of the main goals of the centre, to pull families in, because I think people forget about that, how hard it becomes for them. It's not just the beneficiaries. Families get confused, they don't understand where's the best place to go to help, what should they be doing?
"Everyone talks about mental health nowadays, bottling things up, being able to have that outlet. Here you are going to naturally create that and I think that will benefit everyone."
Roy Jackson, chairman of the Trustees at the Matt Hampson Foundation, added: "It's always been Matt's dream since his accident to do things for other people. This Get Busy Living centre is going to supply that need.
"It's been nothing but a building site since October, and now to go up there and see the steel up, to walk in, you can actually feel what's going to happen in that building.
"It will be a fantastic place for Matt to continue to inspire people, and realise there is life after a spinal injury.
"I know we've helped over 100 beneficiaries and we've donated more than a million pounds and that will increase when the centre opens. But it's not just the cash. We do more than that. It's the inspiration Matt gives to people. More than just buying wheelchairs or that sort of thing."
Natalie Jackson, BBC East Midlands Today sports editor, first interviewed Hampson in hospital 12 years ago, just months after his injury.
"When the accident first happened he couldn't move or speak and only communicate with his eyes," she said.
"Matt spent 17 months in hospital and I spent his last week filming with him before he came home. What stood out even in the months after the accident was his awe-inspiring positivity and love for life.
"He was the life and soul in the Spinal Injuries National Centre at Stoke Manderville. Some people had got their injury while tripping or slipping in the shower. Matt said he was lucky that he got the injury doing something he loved and felt the injury would make him a better person.
"He explained being a sports person you need to be very selfish. He said now he sits and listens to people and has more time for them and felt that he now had an opportunity to help others and change lives. He has lived that sentiment every day since and never ceases to amaze me with his incredible attitude and determination to inspire others."
Euan Johnston, 26, was in the driver's seat of a black Audi RS4 estate when he was shot, on Shields Road, near Scotland Street, at 23:45 on Tuesday.
He later died in hospital. His 29-year-old male passenger was not injured.
The shots were fired by an occupant of a dark-coloured Audi Q5 that later sped off into Scotland Street heading for the M8 motorway and Kingston Bridge.
Police said that just before midnight on Tuesday, officers were called to a report of a car on fire in Bracken Street, in the Parkhouse area, in the north of Glasgow.
The car is currently undergoing forensic tests to establish if there is any link to the murder in Shields Road.
Detectives have appealed for anyone was saw a vehicle being driven at speed in the area to come forward.
Det Supt Jim Kerr, from Police Scotland's major investigations team, said: "Our priority remains tracing whoever is responsible and a team of highly experienced detectives are working on this murder inquiry.
"Although we do believe that this was a targeted, planned attack and Euan Johnston was the intended target, the shooting was carried out with absolutely no regard for public safety, and I completely understand that people will be concerned regarding this.
"I would stress that everything is being done to track down whoever is responsible for this shooting and this includes a number of officers examining CCTV footage from the area around the scene of the shooting."
Police said that forensic and search inquiries hand been completed at the scene of the shooting on Shields Road and the area had fully reopened.
Supt Kerr added: "We are doing everything we can to trace whoever is responsible for this murder, but we would appreciate any assistance that the public can provide, as the even the smallest piece of information could be vital to our investigation.
"We have support mechanisms in place, should people feel vulnerable about contacting us and I would urge people to do the right thing and report any information they have."
Police have set up an incident room at Baird Street Police Office in Glasgow to deal with information.
Supt Kerr revealed on Wednesday that Mr Johnston, who was from the Maryhill area of Glasgow, was "known to police" but he did give details.
He said the victim had been returning home after a meal when he was targeted.
The 29-year-old man who was a passenger in Mr Johnston's car is being treated as a "significant witness", the detective said.
He also revealed that the shooting had been witnessed by members of the public.
Ysgol y Preseli in Crymych was given the national award on Tuesday as part of Safer Internet Day.
The My Username Generator phone and tablet app prevents youngsters from disclosing personal information online.
Dyfed-Powys Police is hosting a Twitter Q&A session while North Wales Police is running anti-web bullying sessions in schools to mark Safer Internet Day.
Ysgol y Preseli pupils won the competition organised by the Welsh government and South West Grid for Learning (SWGfL) Trust, co-ordinators of the UK Safer Internet Centre.
Meanwhile, NSPCC Wales has used Safer Internet Day to call for action to be taken as soon as online hate messages are reported by children,
Boss Des Mannion said: "In recent years online abuse has inevitably surged and it's crucial that the internet industry plays its part in stamping it out.
"Safer Internet Day provides Wales, the UK and the world with a clear opportunity to highlight positive use of technology and to explore the role we all play in helping to create a better and safer online community."
Wales' Children's Commissioner Prof Sally Holland said young people needed to learn to navigate relationships "in the modern context", which included social media.
"The online world presents opportunities for children and young people to access education, to express themselves and to socialise," she said.
"We need to listen to young people's experiences and provide the right support and education for this environment, ensuring their safety online and offline so that they can access their rights as digital citizens of the modern world."
James Bisset, 23, of Yatton, drove his Volvo into the people in Nailsea near Bristol in February.
Alex Gould, 18, later died in hospital and another man was seriously injured.
Bisset also admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving and possessing a Class A drug when he appeared at Bristol Crown Court.
Bisset was driving a Volvo along Clevedon Road in the early hours of 14 February.
His car hit Mr Gould and another man before striking a man and a woman and smashing into a telegraph pole.
Speaking after the incident, Mr Gould's family said he was "the perfect son, brother, nephew, grandson and cousin".
Bisset was released on conditional bail and will be sentenced on 3 January.
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Toure, making his first Premier League appearance of the season, combined with Nolito before firing City ahead.
Palace's pressure paid off when Wilfried Zaha set up substitute Connor Wickham to smash home a second-half equaliser.
But Toure, who has not figured at all for City for almost three months, had the final word when he turned home Kevin de Bruyne's corner from close range.
The win moves City second in the table, level on points with leaders Liverpool and with an identical goal difference.
Palace, who suffered their fifth straight league defeat, remain one point above the relegation zone.
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Yaya Toure's team-mates surrounded him at the final whistle to show their appreciation for his efforts, while the travelling City fans had been singing his name virtually all afternoon.
The 33-year-old Ivorian has been out in the cold since the end of August, with his manager Pep Guardiola saying he would not be picked until his agent, Dimitri Seluk, apologised for comments he made when Toure was left out of City's Champions League squad.
Toure, rather than Seluk, issued a statement about the situation at the start of November.
But that evidently satisfied Guardiola and Toure marked his return to favour in style.
Few people knew he had even travelled to Selhurst Park, so seeing his name on the team sheet at all was a huge surprise.
But Toure's lack of recent action did not affect his finishing power and, as so often before in his six years at City, he secured a vital victory for his side.
Palace went into the game with the worst points-per-game record of any team in the top four divisions in 2016 - just 0.73. This defeat sees it drop further, to 0.71, and also means their current crisis continues.
The Eagles caused City plenty of problems, notably with their pressing game and lightning-fast breaks down the wings.
But even when they were putting Pep Guardiola's side under pressure in the second half, Palace looked vulnerable and were ultimately punished for their lack of organisation at the back as they looked to see the game out.
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Palace are full of ideas when they come forward but they have failed to keep a single clean sheet in the league this season.
At the moment, their attacking prowess is being undermined by the amount of goals they are leaking.
While Toure's return was a shock, seeing Vincent Kompany injured again is becoming a depressingly familiar sight for City fans.
His latest setback was nothing to do with his troublesome calf, more just plain bad luck as he was left concussed by a first-half collision with his goalkeeper Claudio Bravo.
Kompany's vision was affected and he had to be replaced a few minutes later, with frustration etched on his face as he trudged towards the tunnel at Selhurst Park.
The 30-year-old Belgian was making only his second league start of the season, and is yet to complete 90 minutes in any of his five appearances in all competitions this campaign.
City travel to Germany to take on Borussia Monchengladbach in the Champions League on Wednesday, then make the much shorter journey to play Burnley in the Premier League next Saturday for the early kick-off.
Palace also hit the road with a trip to Wales where they meet fellow strugglers Swansea on the same day.
Match ends, Crystal Palace 1, Manchester City 2.
Second Half ends, Crystal Palace 1, Manchester City 2.
Attempt missed. Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Wilfried Zaha with a cross.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Fernandinho (Manchester City) because of an injury.
Foul by Raheem Sterling (Manchester City).
Bakary Sako (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Aleksandar Kolarov (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Yaya Touré (Manchester City) because of an injury.
Offside, Crystal Palace. Wayne Hennessey tries a through ball, but Connor Wickham is caught offside.
Substitution, Manchester City. Fernando replaces Sergio Agüero.
Substitution, Crystal Palace. Bakary Sako replaces Martin Kelly.
Offside, Manchester City. Kevin De Bruyne tries a through ball, but Sergio Agüero is caught offside.
Goal! Crystal Palace 1, Manchester City 2. Yaya Touré (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Martin Kelly.
Yaya Touré (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace).
Substitution, Crystal Palace. Lee Chung-yong replaces Christian Benteke.
Attempt missed. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a set piece situation.
Connor Wickham (Crystal Palace) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Connor Wickham (Crystal Palace).
David Silva (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace).
Foul by Yaya Touré (Manchester City).
Joel Ward (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Aleksandar Kolarov (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Jason Puncheon.
Fernandinho (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James McArthur (Crystal Palace).
Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) with an attempt from very close range is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Connor Wickham.
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Martin Kelly (Crystal Palace).
Substitution, Manchester City. David Silva replaces Nolito.
Goal! Crystal Palace 1, Manchester City 1. Connor Wickham (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Wilfried Zaha.
Attempt blocked. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.
Nolito (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
He said: "In the context of the present situation in relation to the budget, we will be giving conditional support to this budget bill."
The move would "create space which hopefully will see a resolution" of issues threatening the future of the assembly and the executive, he added.
The second stage of Mrs Foster's new bill was debated by MLAs on Monday.
A vote on it has been delayed until later in the week.
The DUP's Sammy Wilson described the deputy first minister's comments as illogical.
"We've got the deputy first minister talking about the need to have a sustainable budget and he doesn't even recognise the contradiction in his own objective," he said.
"On one hand, a sustainable budget while, on the other hand, doing everything he can to make sure the budget is not sustainable and indeed that we pay back money on a weekly basis to Westminster."
The Budget Number 2 Bill has been described as a fantasy budget as it was drawn up on the basis that welfare reform - which Sinn Féin and the SDLP have opposed - has already been agreed.
Last week, the Stormont finance committee granted accelerated passage to the bill.
That would allow it to become law by the end of July.
The SDLP said they cannot support the budget bill "in its present form" but would not vote against it.
"The SDLP remains committed to negotiating on the issues within this budget and on welfare reform specifically, however we believe that this needs to be a mature negotiation which is not bound by side room deals or short term party political tactics," party leader Alasdair McDonnell said.
Judith Cochrane of Alliance said her party supported the budget "as the only option to give Northern Ireland a chance of pulling itself out of the deepening financial black hole".
The bill will pass with the backing of the DUP and Sinn Féin.
The passing of the budget will avert a short-term financial crisis and means a senior civil servant will not have to administer an emergency budget.
More discussions are expected on resolving the parties' outstanding differences over welfare reform and the Stormont House Agreement.
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The important aspect of the game in Rotorua was the victory. I genuinely believe the performance comes second.
The momentum required to bounce back was important after the midweek side lost to the Highlanders on Tuesday.
Generally if you win, it means the forwards have done their job - and that is what this team is looking like.
It's a side led by the forwards and half-backs, dominating in the areas those players are going to be involved in the most - decision-making and set-piece.
The line-out was good, the scrum was good and scrum-half Conor Murray was excellent in the execution of his box kicks, which is so important to the Lions getting out of their own half.
It's very much an Irish strategy that works well for the Lions, and that's one of the main reasons Murray is the number one scrum-half and definitely the starter next week.
He has the experience and he's beaten the All Blacks.
While it wasn't an edge-of-your-seat game, it was enthralling in another way in that the Lions pretty much shut the Maoris out.
Defensively it was tight and they showed good line speed to shut down someone like Damian McKenzie at 10.
Beauden Barrett will be a totally different proposition New Zealand fly-half on Saturday, but the Lions showed they can shut dangerous players down.
I don't think the Lions' tour captain Sam Warburton will start, he may be on the bench. That's because Sean O'Brien had such a big game and it would be a strange selection if he didn't continue at open-side flanker.
Blind-side flanker Peter O'Mahony, who captained the Lions on Saturday, is one of those guys who can inspire the team by doing the basics very well.
The French call it a 'spirit', the Kiwis and Maoris call it 'Mana'. It's a will, a mental capacity, to make his body do things that the normal person would struggle to do.
He is naturally brave and players like O'Mahony do a lot of work that isn't Hollywood.
As a former bricklayer, I would call it a DPC - damp-proof course. It's unseen, but it is the foundations of which wonderful buildings can be built.
Peter is one those foundations on which a team grows and develops. Without those players a team won't be successful.
George Kruis has been impressive since he has come back from injury for Saracens and this tour has been a continuation of that.
He's another one of those players like O'Mahony. His engine is perpetual, his thinking is clear with what he has to do and the line-out calls he makes.
All the players that get in this position have to have an X-factor and Kruis' is certainly his ability to play at an intensity for long periods of time, his clear thinking when it comes to calling the line-out and his decision-making.
He got caught a couple of times one-out stood still, which is a big error at this level. I hope that improves.
I thought Ben Te'o made some good breaks from inside centre, he looked hungry for the ball.
I think he can be more aggressive in the tackle. He can hurt people, legally - so he ought to.
For a man his size, he is not quite tackling his weight. I would have expected him to absolutely crumple someone by now - it would give the team such a lift.
His attacking play has been superb. He's got decent feet and good acceleration. He's a unit, and certainly grabs the attention of anyone's defence.
He went into contact well and there was only one time he looked like a rugby league guy, where he didn't know whether to challenge for the ball at the breakdown.
From that, the ball went away and the Maori All Blacks scored. Te'o could have gone in earlier and challenged it.
The Lions are creating opportunities but still not finishing them. For me, it's not so much not getting support to the line break, it's what happens at the next breakdown.
That's where you have disorganised the defence. Unfortunately, the reloading and realignment of that Lions attacking shape takes far too long. You don't see a lot of composure in that area.
Who should be Warren Gatland's first choice number 10?
It is a surprise, because you've either got Johnny Sexton, Owen Farrell or Dan Biggar at 10, who are used to commanding those positions.
There is no shape, no composure and that would be a concern - that's what I would work on this week.
You are looking at scoring a minimum of two tries against the All Blacks to give yourself a chance. You need 25 or more points and I don't see the Kiwis giving Leigh Halfpenny nine or 10 kickable penalties.
We saw a Lions side that dominated the pace of the game from the set-piece on Saturday, specifically from the line-out where they were able to catch and drive.
We've seen a similar game plan against the Crusaders and the Maori All Blacks.
Nothing will change for the Test match. What changes is intensity, accuracy and execution in getting support to the line-break and in reloading, realigning and getting your shape to enable you to score the try you should be scoring.
It's extremely important for the Lions to get that area sorted out and that shouldn't be too difficult to do.
This All Blacks side, if they execute passes and up the tempo, can score four or five tries in a match whether it's blazing sunshine or hammering down with rain.
That first wave of the Lions' defence is very good. If New Zealand have a way of getting around that it will probably be inside and they will attack the edges of that Lions line speed.
It's unlikely they can get around it passing. They might try the cross-kick pass - which we've seen a lot in the Super 18 tournament - but you won't see the same mercy given by New Zealand.
They will finish off at least 50% of the opportunities they get. So that Lions defence needs to be imperious. If the All Blacks manage to get any tempo and speed into the game, I feel the Lions will struggle.
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The Lions see the scrum as a chance to win a penalty; the Kiwis see it as a way of starting their game.
I've not seen anyone tear apart the All Blacks on a regular basis. There might be one or two penalties that go against them, but they will rectify it.
They are too savvy and have too much nous to let that be the reason they lose a game.
They won't get hammered in the line-out for any length of time. The Kiwis are too clever, smart and technically gifted.
They have too large a skill-set to continually make errors that will lose them momentum and lose them games.
Of course, they are capable of having an off day - but the likelihood of it is very small.
The ward at the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, where the patients were treated, has been closed to new admissions as a precaution.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC) said one of the patients who died had significant underlying health issues.
The other had been discharged but later died in another hospital.
A third patient is said to be giving "cause for concern".
NHS GGC said that seven patients had tested positive with Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV).
It described RSV as a "common germ that causes lung and airway infections in infants and young children".
The health board said that in young children and ‎adults with compromised immune systems, the illness can be more severe and cause pneumonia.
Dr Teresa Inkster, infection control doctor with NHS GGC, said: "Initially four patients tested positive for RSV, one was community acquired and the other three were healthcare acquired, and appropriate infection control measures were put in place including closing the ward to new admissions.
"We also tested the other patients in the ward and a further three patients tested positive."
Dr Inkster said two of the patients who had tested positive for RSV died this week.
"One of the patients who died had significant underlying health issues," she said.
"This patient was extremely unwell as a result of these significant health issues and RSV was not the cause of their death.
"The second patient who died had been discharged from the Beatson after being assessed as clinically fit,. However, this patient's condition subsequently deteriorated and they were admitted to a hospital out with the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area where they sadly passed away."
Dr Inkster said that a third patient who was "giving cause for concern" was in a stable condition after being transferred to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
She added: "Two patients remain in the ward who have tested positive but are not giving any cause for concern as a result of the RSV.
"The other two patients have already been discharged home. We also tested staff of which two tested positive and are at home recovering."
The health board said RSV is spread by tiny droplets and sneezing or by touching surfaces with the virus on it.
Symptoms in babies include difficulty breathing, high fever, nasal discharge, cough mucus, irritability or inactivity and refusal to feed.
The best way to control it is to use tissues when coughing and sneezing and washing hands regularly.
The incubation period for RSV is five to seven days and the illness usually lasts about a week.
People with concerns are advised to see a GP or ring NHS 24.
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The Ivorian special forces, who report directly to the president's office, have accused their commanders of stealing part of their salaries.
It comes a month after regular soldiers staged a mutiny over pay and conditions.
"Gunfire began earlier in the special forces' camp and then the town began panicking as armed soldiers left the barracks," a high school teacher told the Reuters news agency.
The BBC's Alex Duval Smith in the main city of Abidjan says the special forces number up to 800, are rarely seen in public and are considered loyal to the government.
A delegation from the chief of staff's office has flown by helicopter to the base to negotiate with the commandos, she says.
Local media reports one soldier as saying that he has received only $80 (£64) of his $400 monthly salary.
Adiake is home to a maritime base that trains commandos and provides coastal surveillance.
Last month, the government agreed to the demands of the other mutinous soldiers, some of whom were former rebels who backed President Alassane Ouattara.
But the payout has angered other segments of the military, raising fears of a resurgence of the violence seen during Ivory Coast's 10-year civil war, which ended in 2011.
Vertue, who is executive producer of the hugely successful show, was honoured for her contribution to television, in which she has worked for more than 50 years.
Her other shows including Up Pompeii, Steptoe And Son and Men Behaving Badly.
Sherlock star Cumberbatch said it was an "absolute honour" to give the prize.
"We have known each other a long time and not only have I had the pleasure of working with her, but I'm very lucky to know her and call such a brilliant woman my friend," he said at the London ceremony.
Vertue said she felt "rather proud", adding that the awards were "wonderful because there a lot of clever women and a lot of them are behind-the-scenes people, and this is their way of being recognised. I like that and they've been chosen by their peers".
She is founder and chair of the independent television production company Hartswood Films, which makes Sherlock.
The awards' chief executive Kate Kinninmont said Vertue was a "true legend", adding: "We have seen some fantastic women achieving great things this year and the diverse range of winners is testament to that."
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg was given the news and factual award by former shadow chancellor and Strictly Come Dancing competitor Ed Balls.
Diver Tom Daley gave broadcaster Gabby Logan the UK presenter award, while actress Sarah Lancashire won the best performance award.
Other winners included Suffragette director Sarah Gavron, who won the director award, while Julia Davis won the creative skillset writing prize.
Here is the list of winners in full:
The Dutchman achieved the perfect leg twice as he beat Ryan Murray 6-2 in a UK Open Qualifier third round in Wigan.
World number one Van Gerwen, 27, scored 180, 177 and 144 to win the fourth leg, before sealing victory with scores of 177, 180 and 144 in the eighth.
Sixteen-time world champion Phil Taylor is the only other player to achieve the feat in 2010.
Van Gerwen won his second PDC World Championship in January and followed that with his third successive Masters title.
Gwent Police and Crime Commissioner Ian Johnston said speed camera vans should be "where the public say they're needed not where GoSafe say they're needed".
Chris Hume, from GoSafe, said it was "a partnership in which Gwent Police are full involved".
He said three parties agreed all sites.
Mr Hume said each police force in Wales has a safety camera unit and sites are agreed by the force, the local authority and Swansea council, which acts as lead for the partnership.
"Camera sites are selected in accordance with the Welsh government guidelines and each site is reviewed on an annual basis by the relevant partners, including Gwent Police," he added.
"It is therefore a little perverse that there is a suggestion by Mr Johnston that the sites are inappropriate."
Hopes that Mr Trump will introduce a pro-business agenda have blunted earlier concerns about his win.
Stock traders sought out firms standing to gain from his presidency, with American banks among the winners.
But shares in some of the biggest tech firms took a hit, pulling the Nasdaq index into negative territory.
The Dow Jones ended the day 1.17% higher at 18,807.88 points, while the S&P 500 index rose 0.2% to 2,167.48 points.
Investors have shifted to a focus on Mr Trump's priorities, including tax cuts, an increase in defence and infrastructure spending, and bank deregulation.
Bank shares, buoyed by hopes that Mr Trump will relax financial regulation, were among the biggest Wall Street gainers.
But the Nasdaq index, which has a large number of technology stocks, finished down 0.81% at 5,208.80. Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook shares all took a hit.
Analysts said tech companies would be hurt by any trade barriers brought in by Mr Trump, and would not benefit as much from his plans for lower taxes and higher infrastructure spending.
"Tech has the most important export exposure of any sector, so there are some fears of rising trade barriers that would hit tech pretty meaningfully," said Mike Bailey, director of research at FBB Capital Partners.
In Europe, the FTSE 100 closed lower after a rally which took it near the 7,000 level ran out of steam. The UK index finished down 1.2% at 6,823 points.
Germany's Dax and France's Cac indexes, which had earlier been more than 1% ahead, each closed about 0.2% lower.
Mark Dampier, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, told the BBC that some investors were taking profits. He forecast continued volatility as the markets digested what a Donald Trump presidency would mean.
But Lee Wild, head of equity strategy at stockbroker Interactive Investor, said: "Perception now is that the controversial multi-billionaire TV presenter and property mogul could be good for business; and talk of tax cuts and heavy spending on infrastructure would certainly be good for growth."
CMC Markets strategist Michael McCarthy said it appeared a consensus was building that much of Mr Trump's rhetoric during the campaign "was a sales pitch rather than a commitment to act".
Earlier, Asia's markets had continued the stock market rally that gathered pace on Wednesday. Japan's Nikkei index closed up 6.7%, more than recovering losses from the previous session. Hong Kong's Hang Seng closed 1.9% higher.
On the currency markets, sterling rose 0.8% against the dollar to $1.2514, and was up 1.2% against the euro at €1.1507.
Traders had expected Hillary Clinton to beat Mr Trump to become the next US president. His victory initially sent money flowing into stocks that were deemed to be safer, as well as traditional haven assets such as gold and currencies including the yen.
"Investors were risk averse yesterday, then after seeing that Americans were optimistic and chasing the market higher, they wasted no time reversing their positions," said Takuya Takahashi, a strategist at Daiwa Securities in Tokyo.
And Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Markit, said that "after the initial shock, investors seem to feel that a Trump administration could be good news for US businesses, with lower taxes and a reduced regulatory burden".
He added that while Mr Trump had set out several broad economic policies, including corporate tax breaks and the renegotiating or scrapping of trade deals, there was no certainty these would go ahead.
"As in the past, it is unclear how much of the campaign bluster will translate into actual policy initiatives."
The social media giant had uploaded two short videos on Vine that featured a looping, rapid succession of flashing colours.
"Twitter's ads were dangerous to people living with photo-sensitive epilepsy," said Epilepsy Action's deputy chief executive, Simon Wigglesworth.
Twitter told the BBC it had removed the videos on Friday morning.
Around one in 3,500 people in the UK has photosensitive epilepsy, according to Epilepsy Action. Seizures can be triggered by flashing lights and bold patterns.
An episode of Japanese cartoon Pokemon was famously blamed for triggering convulsions in 1997.
"Eighty seven people are diagnosed with epilepsy every day and that first seizure can often come out of nowhere," said Mr Wigglesworth.
"For a huge corporation like Twitter to take that risk was irresponsible."
The Advertising Standards Authority told the BBC that "marketing communications", even those uploaded on a company's own website, should not include "visual effects or techniques that are likely to adversely affect members of the public with photosensitive epilepsy".
It said both online and broadcast adverts in the UK had to adhere to rules made by the Committees of Advertising Practice.
"We take very seriously ads in online media that might cause harm to people with photosensitive epilepsy," an ASA spokeswoman told the BBC.
Twitter's flashing Vine videos were online for 18 hours before the company removed them.
Epilepsy Action said it was "pleased" that Twitter had replied to its messages and removed the posts.
Rachel Bremer, Twitter's international communications director, thanked the charity for highlighting the issue.
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Eleven people were detained in raids in three states.
Among those held is Allan Simoes Toledo, a former vice president of the state-owned Bank of Brazil.
Correspondents say that Brazil is struggling to combat financial crime especially the smuggling of drugs, weapons, DVDs and computer software.
A recent US state department report said that it was difficult to get comprehensive numbers on money laundering patterns because Brazil does not keep records on convictions or arrests.
Police say that in the latest case, a criminal the network used various tactics to launder cash.
These included the illegal withdrawal of hard currency from Venezuela through bogus imports from Brazilian companies. The only objective was the movement of money.
Correspondents say that the value of the goods was inflated by up to 5,000% so that hard currency transfers from Venezuela, which has strict currency controls, could be by-passed.
The "criminal organisation specialized in evading currency regulations and laundered money in various countries", operating for at least three years, the police said in a statement.
Searches were conducted in several cities in Sao Paulo state, as well as in Curitiba, the capital of Parana state, and Resende, a city in Rio de Janeiro state.
The investigation started in 2014 at the request of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, police said.
They said that the criminal network arranged loans or fake import orders to send the money to Hong Kong, from where it was distributed internationally.
Last month former Petrobras executive Nestor Cervero was sentenced in Brazil to five years in prison for money laundering.
Federal Judge Sergio Moro said prosecutors' evidence suggested he spent bribes on an apartment in Rio de Janeiro.
Cervero was the second Petrobras executive to be convicted amid an ongoing investigation. More than 100 people have been indicted and 50 politicians are under investigation for taking bribes.
Paulo Roberto Costa, former Petrobras director of refining and supply, was sentenced to seven and a half years in April.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the measures were to protect some of the 6,000 people at the camp from cold temperatures as winter approaches.
Another 460 police officers are to be deployed there from Thursday, he added.
Numbers at the "New Jungle" camp have swelled in recent months, as the Europe migrant crisis has intensified.
Most of them have fled conflict and poverty in Africa, the Middle East and Afghanistan and are trying to seek refuge across the Channel in the UK.
Some people have opted for dangerous routes in their bid to make the crossing, with a number of deaths inside the Channel Tunnel in recent months.
Mr Cazeneuve announced the new measures on Wednesday after his seventh visit to the camp.
He said a centre sheltering women and children that currently has space for 200 people would allow in up to 400 by the end of the year.
"In the meantime, heated tents will be set up... by the end of the week," he told reporters, vowing that "no woman, no child will remain without a shelter in this city".
The French minister also confirmed that police numbers would go up from 665 to 1,125 to help manage security in the area.
Tighter security measures introduced at the Channel Tunnel's entrance in August have helped to slow down the number of illegal crossings to the UK in recent weeks, which at its peak reached 2,000 attempts per night.
Eurotunnel services were disrupted for a fourth consecutive day on Thursday after "intrusions" at its terminal in France.
Eurotunnel Chief Executive Jacques Gounon blamed lax security on the French rail network for allowing people to target its terminals.
"If I have only one concern, it is that the very efficient security we have on the Eurotunnel terminal does not exist on the SNCF part," he said.
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Meanwhile, European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has summoned European leaders to a special summit on Sunday to find a better strategy to manage the flow of migrants.
The European Commission said President Jean-Claude Juncker had called Sunday's meeting because "there is a need for much greater cooperation, more extensive consultation and immediate operational action" to deal with what it called "the unfolding emergency".
It comes amid growing tensions over border controls in the western Balkans where thousands of migrants have been pouring through in a bid to reach northern Europe.
On Wednesday, tents at a transit camp on Slovenia's border with Austria were allegedly set on fire by people angry over poor conditions, who complained of lack of food, water and blankets.
Thousands have been diverted through Slovenia on their way to western Europe after Hungary closed its border with Croatia and Serbia last week.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says more than 650,000 migrants have reached Europe this year.
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.
Candidates for bishop of Southwell and Nottingham are being interviewed on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Applications from women have been considered for the vacancy. After the interviews, a preferred candidate and a second preference will be put forward.
No announcements will be made until 2015 as the appointment needs to be approved by the Queen on the recommendation of the prime minister.
In November, the Church of England formally adopted legislation allowing women to become bishops.
The first women priests were ordained in 1994, but they had not been able to take on the Church's most senior roles.
It has been a divisive issue for the Church - some Anglicans feel the move is consistent with their faith but the traditionalists disagree.
In November the general synod, the Church's law-making body, gave the final seal of approval to the legislation, which had passed through Parliament in October.
The vacancy in Southwell and Nottingham arose after Bishop Paul Butler left to become the Bishop of Durham in January.
Gloucester, Oxford and Newcastle are among the other dioceses where new bishops will soon be appointed.
An anonymous offer to sell data involving up to 600 Danish citizens was made to the tax authorities over the summer, he said in a statement.
"We owe it to all Danish taxpayers who faithfully pay their taxes," he said.
The decision was attacked as "deeply reprehensible" by a spokesman for one of the opposition parties.
Mr Lauritzen did not reveal the exact sum to be paid but it is believed to be about 9m kroner (£1m; $1.4m; 1.2m euros).
It is not clear whether Denmark is buying the information from the original source of the leak, who remains anonymous, or from another party.
Mr Lauritzen said that the Danish government communicated with its source via encrypted channels after being put in touch by a foreign tax authority.
The Panama Papers leak was the biggest in history. Some of the documents have been published by various media organisations but many remain unpublished.
Germany, France and the UK are all believed to have paid for data on bank customers in the past, including a German payment in 2014 for data leaked from the law firm involved in the Panama Papers, Mossack Fonseca.
Some 11.5m documents previously leaked from the firm to international media revealed huge offshore tax evasion.
Mr Lauritzen said that Denmark "must take the necessary measures in order to catch tax evaders who hide fortunes in, for instance, Panama. Therefore we agreed that it is wise to buy the material".
But he accepted that there "may be fundamental problems associated with buying leaked information" and said tax authorities "should be cautious".
The proposal by the centre-right Venstre party - which rules as a minority government - is said by Danish media to have the support of the other two main parties in parliament, the centre-left Social Democrats and anti-immigration Danish People's Party.
But the Liberal Alliance, Venstre's former coalition partner, sharply criticised the idea. Tax spokesman Joachim Olsen said it might encourage the theft of private information to sell it on to the Danish authorities.
The Panama Papers, first detailed in April, revealed the hidden assets of hundreds of politicians, officials, current and former national leaders, celebrities and sports stars.
They listed more than 200,000 shell companies, foundations and trusts set up in tax havens around the world.
Mossack Fonseca said it had been hacked by servers based abroad and filed a complaint with the Panamanian attorney general's office. It said it did not act illegally and that information was being misrepresented.
Eleven million documents held by the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca were passed to German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung, which then shared them with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. BBC Panorama and UK newspaper The Guardian were among 107 media organisations in 76 countries which analysed the documents. The BBC does not know the identity of the source
Transport for London (TfL) will also begin consultations into air quality and making a pedestrian-only zone in Oxford Street in central London.
Other 100-day milestones - agreed by TfL - are the launch of a safer trucks programme and the completion of 12 junction upgrades to improve safety for cyclists.
It is also claimed the Night Tube will be ready to run on two lines "from this summer" and TfL will also recommend the best way to structure a fares freeze beginning in January 2017.
The aims are set out in the Delivering Your Manifesto document drawn up by TfL commissioner Mike Brown and were presented to Mr Khan after their meeting at City Hall on Monday.
The ticket office closures had promoted strikes in the past but TfL said it would save £50m annually.
In a sign of how the new Labour mayor is hoping to show some early momentum, there are also plans for the following before the middle of August:
The document also reveals the mayor wants to set up a new advisory body - Homes for London - within the first three months, in order to help the capital reach a target of 50,000 new homes per year.
The measures come on top of the one-hour bus hopper ticket fare announced by the mayor on Tuesday with a planned roll-out for September.
The air quality consultation will be 'the most ambitious in London's history', the document says.
There is also a pledge to set "a new course for cycling in London which is inclusive and open to all," with an emphasis on cycle training.
The document continues: "We will deliver a fundamental change in how we are structured and how we operate.
"We are taking action to merge our engineering functions, be more commercially focused and reduce expensive contractors."
It said a penny-in-the-pound rise on all income tax bands and on dividends would raise around £6bn a year.
The Tories said 30 million people would be hit by the tax rises. Labour said its NHS plans would be in its manifesto.
The Lib Dem pledge is complicated by devolution, such as Scotland having its own tax-raising powers.
The NHS is facing one of its toughest-ever financial challenges as it struggles with a growing and ageing population.
In the UK, £140bn was spent on health last year and around £25bn on social care.
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The proposed tax rises are the Lib Dem's first significant policy announcement of the general election campaign.
Party leader Tim Farron said he wanted "to be honest with people and say that we will all need to chip in a little more".
He told the BBC: "This is an average of £3 a week for the average earner in this country, so a pint of beer a week to pay for a health and social care service that will last us from cradle to grave."
A Lib Dem government would raise all tax bands by one percentage point.
The party estimates someone earning £15,000 would pay an extra £33 a year in tax, with someone on £50,000 paying an extra £383.
This would not apply in Scotland as income tax levels are devolved to the Scottish Parliament, where the Lib Dems are the fifth largest party.
The plans also include a UK-wide rise of 1p on dividend income taxes if you hold shares in a company.
In the 2018/19 financial year, the party says the extra taxes would raise:
The total raised is projected to reach £6.6bn a year by the end of the parliament.
The money would be guaranteed for the NHS and social care in England, but it is up to the devolved governments in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland to choose whether to spend the money on health or elsewhere.
Mr Farron added: "Theresa May doesn't care about the NHS or social care. People are lying on trolleys in hospital corridors and she has done nothing. The truth is you can't have a strong NHS with a hard Brexit."
The Liberal Democrats say the money raised will primarily be invested in social care which will get £2bn a year, as well as care outside of hospital, mental health and public health.
But it says its ultimate ambition is a dedicated health and care tax.
Norman Lamb, for the party, added: "Simply providing more money on its own is not enough and that's why this is just the first step in our plan to protect health and care services long-term.
"We also need to do much more to keep people fit and healthy and out of hospital, and that is why this new funding will be targeted to those areas that have the greatest impact on patient care such as social care, general practice, mental health and public health."
The outgoing Conservative government has promised to increase funding for the health service by £8bn by 2020 and £2bn for social care. The Lib Dems say their extra £6bn a year would be in addition to these plans.
A £6bn a year rise in income for the NHS and social care would be "generous" compared with recent increases in their budgets, but against the historical average it is "quite small scale", the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said.
IFS spokesman George Stoye told BBC News that about half of adults in Britain pay income tax, so a penny in the pound rise would mean incomes in these households cut on average by 0.6%.
Conservative Jane Ellison said: "Now we know - a vote for anyone other than Theresa May means you will pay more tax.
"Jeremy Corbyn, the Lib Dems and SNP will hit 30 million people in the pocket with higher income taxes.
"Only a vote for Theresa May on 8 June can provide the strong and stable leadership we need to get a good deal in the Brexit negotiations, keep taxes low, and secure our growing economy.
"It is the only way we can build on the record funding we've given the NHS."
Labour said its plans for funding the NHS would be in the party's manifesto although it has already said it would halt hospital cuts.
The pair debuted alongside each other in Saturday's 19-14 win at Twickenham.
Lancaster is expected to name four centres in his squad on 31 August, with the hosts beginning their World Cup campaign on 18 September.
"There are a lot of decisions to be made but we still have two weeks to make them," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
Brad Barritt and Jonathan Joseph are considered Lancaster's first-choice pairing at centre, with Luther Burrell also expected to make the final cut.
It has been thought that would leave Slade, 22, Burgess, 26, and Billy Twelvetrees contesting the final berth.
But the England boss said: "I've never really bought that. That's been created in the last week or so."
Former rugby league player Burgess put in a tough-tackling performance on his England debut, but showed he is still adjusting to life in union when he was yellow-carded for pulling back France's Morgan Parra after a quick tap penalty.
"Obviously he was disappointed to be sin-binned. It was an instinctive reaction," said Lancaster. "I've seen rugby union players who have played for years do the same thing."
Sam Burgess (Club: Bath, Position: Centre/flanker, Caps: One, Age: 26)
"You can't take him to the World Cup for me," said former England scrum-half Dawson.
"The great thing about Burgess is he doesn't make mistakes with ball in hand.
"But unfortunately, if you're going to be really picky, positionally he wasn't great. He played like a six rather than a 12. There are things that are instinctive that he doesn't know what to do."
Henry Slade (Club: Exeter, Position: Fly-half/centre, Caps: One, Age: 22)
"Henry Slade looks like a young Brian O'Driscoll. He's talking to everyone. He fits really well," said Dawson.
"If Henry Slade is not in the World Cup squad I will call Stuart Lancaster and say 'what are you doing man?'"
Alex Goode (Club: Saracens, Position: Full-back/fly-half, Caps: 18, Age: 27)
"Alex Goode is pure class. He has an ability to dance on his feet and still see what is going on," said Dawson.
"There are players that have to impress and step up and Alex Goode has definitely made Stuart Lancaster think 'he's doing things that Mike Brown doesn't do'."
The 21-year-old has agreed a one-year deal at Valley Parade and could feature in Tuesday's League One game at MK Dons after getting international clearance.
Rabiega began his career with Hertha Berlin and moved to RB Leipzig in 2013.
"He's come in on trial and done well - we feel he has something we could work with," Bantams boss Stuart McCall told the club website.
"We are still in the market for another more experienced forward but Vincent could give us an extra option."
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Australia's Channel Nine said reporter Tara Brown and three colleagues faced four charges, including kidnapping.
Five people arrested alongside them - including the children's Australian mother - have also been charged.
The mother, Sally Faulkner, says her estranged Lebanese husband moved the children to Lebanon without permission.
Channel Nine said it had been "seeking to highlight" cross-border custody disputes.
The Australian journalists and Ms Faulkner were detained by Lebanese police on Thursday along with two British employees of the UK-based company Child Abduction Recovery International (CARI), and two Lebanese men, officials said.
On Tuesday, the official National News Agency reported that Mount Lebanon's Attorney General, Claude Karam, had filed charges, including participating in an abduction, against the nine suspects and referred to the case to an investigating magistrate.
CCTV footage broadcast by Lebanese TV appears to show six-year-old Lahala and four-year-old Noah being bundled into a car by several men on a busy street in southern Beirut on Wednesday morning.
They had been heading to school with a domestic worker and their paternal grandmother, who says she was knocked to the ground during the abduction.
On Saturday, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters that diplomats had been in touch with Lebanese officials and were providing consular assistance to Ms Faulkner and the TV crew.
"Given the sensitivities of this case and the fact children are involved, we are handling this very carefully," she said.
Channel Nine has refused to say whether it paid CARI to recover the children for Ms Faulkner.
However, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Tuesday cited Lebanese officials as saying they had a signed statement from a member of the "recovery team" saying the network had paid A$115,000 ($88,100; £61,600).
Channel Nine said in a statement: "It is extremely important to stress that we are severely limited in what we can say given that matters are now part of a legal process in Lebanon. We are co-operating fully with the Lebanese authorities and it is important to stress that we respect the laws of Lebanon and its judiciary.
"Regrettably a number of inaccurate media reports are exacerbating the concern and confusion of the families of those being detained."
A Lebanese judicial official told the Associated Press news agency that the investigating magistrate would gather testimony from the suspects beginning on Tuesday.
The magistrate would explore whether Ms Faulkner had custody of the children under Australian law, which might serve as a mitigating factor, the official said.
The custody dispute between Ms Faulkner and her ex-husband, Ali Elamine, has reportedly been going on for several years.
She says he took the children to Lebanon for a holiday last year but did not return.
Mr Elamine told Lebanese media that Ms Faulkner and Australian security agencies knew he was leaving Australia with the children and denied kidnapping them.
He also revealed that he did not plan to sue his former wife, explaining: "She is the mother of my children... if I were her I would have done the same."
Lebanon is not party to the Hague Convention, a treaty designed to ensure the swift return of children abducted internationally by a parent.
A high-altitude search and rescue team found Liang Sheng Yueh in a canyon at around 2,600m (8,500ft) near Tipling village in Nepal's Dhading district.
The body of his companion, 19-year-old Liu Chen Chun, was lying nearby.
Mr Liang is being treated at Grandee International Hospital in Kathmandu and is said to be out of danger.
Dr Sanjaya Karki, who is treating Mr Liang, told Surendra Phuyal of BBC Nepal: "He can speak slowly. He told me his girlfriend died three days ago. He doesn't have trauma injuries, but his body has injuries stemming from worm-bites."
The trekker is said to have lost 30kg (4.5 stone) since going missing seven weeks ago. His hair was full of lice when he was found, and one foot was covered with maggots.
Doctors said he appeared to have survived largely on water and salt.
The BBC has learned that the stricken travellers were first sighted at 11:00 local time (05:15 GMT) by local people. A helicopter was immediately sent to the scene.
Mr Liang and Ms Liu, first year students at Taiwan's National Dong Hwa University, had arrived in Nepal in February from India.
They were last seen in northern Dhading on 9 March, where they had gone out trekking despite heavy snowfall.
The website Missingtrekker.com reported that the couple had experienced some hardships before their trek, including missing luggage, and argued over "trivial matters".
Ms Liu reportedly wrote on Facebook: "I wish I had never ended up here."
The pair's families became concerned when they failed to call Taiwan as arranged on 10 March, and requested official help to find them five days later.
Nepalese police hired three guides and a helicopter to search for the students, who were believed to be travelling to meet Taiwanese friends in Langtang village.
According to the Taipei Times, Himalayan travel guides and local news outlets were also alerted to the situation, but ongoing snowfall and sporadic avalanches made an extensive search difficult.
Madhav Basnet, who was part of the rescue operation, told the BBC the two trekkers appeared to have "slid off a slippery trail while making an ascent towards Ghatlang village from Dhading".
"It looks like they fell off and got trapped in a cave-like formation and couldn't climb back up again," he added.
Jak and Ben will be on opposing sides for the first time on Saturday.
"My dad switches and goes to the game closest to Newcastle, so for us to be on the same pitch he'll be delighted," 22-year-old Jak told BBC Radio Stoke.
"My mum won't be coming as she gets too nervous. She'll have a heart attack with both of us on the same pitch."
He continued: "It'll still be a special day, even for those that aren't coming, just to see both the names on the same teamsheet."
Jak has made 16 appearances since moving to Vale Park from Newcastle United and signed a two-and-a-half year contract on Thursday.
His 28-year-old brother commended Jak's character for "making a career for himself", but said he is more focused on the result than playing against his sibling.
"I'm trying not to think too much about it," the Peterborough keeper told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. "I don't want to get wrapped up in it or because it's my brother or having to do anything different.
"It's another game for me, I still want to win, nothing changes - but it'd be nice if Jak could do well and we could still get the win."
Former Sunderland and Tottenham youngster Ben, who has played for 12 clubs in his career, joined Posh in 2014 after leaving Leyton Orient for personal reasons.
And Jak says he looks up to his elder brother for career advice, the pair speaking to each other after every game.
He added: "As a lot of people will see he's made a lot of mistakes in his career and life - he passes that down and I don't have to make those mistakes.
"Every game he'll ring me after we've seen the goals, and we'll discuss little things. It's nice for him to pass it down."
The comedian has announced two dates at the Manchester Arena on 31 January and 1 February.
He revealed the news to Steve Wright on BBC Radio 2 and admitted he wasn't sure it would be possible.
"I rang all the cast and they overwhelmed me with their generosity. Everybody's doing it for free, everybody's involved," he said.
"We're all looking forward to doing it. It's been lovely getting together with everybody and working out ideas and what we're going to do."
Phoenix Nights Live will reunite the full original cast from the award-winning television series, with Kay back as both Brian Potter, the owner of the Phoenix Club, and doorman Max.
Take Me Out host Paddy McGuinness will return as the other doorman Paddy, while Dave Spikey will be back as the compere Jerry St Clair.
Kay said he came up with the idea in February this year and thought it would take a year to organise.
All the original cast are busy with their own careers and Kay admitted it was hard to organise.
"It's been so hard getting everybody together at the same time, it's really hard, but we've all set the time aside and we've been working on it since February, writing it and getting together.
The second series of Phoenix Nights finished in 2002 and he admitted he is constantly being asked whether there would be any more episodes.
But Kay said he wasn't sure whether the live shows would lead to anything else.
"It's lovely to do it and I hope people support it because I think it'll be a belter. I don't know if anymore will come off the back of it we'll just have to see.
"I don't know about a series I don't think so, I've no plans to. There are lots of things written but I think it's a case of doing one thing at a time, little steps.
"I think the main reason for doing this for Comic Relief is because if it sells it could make an absolute fortune.
"You're always trying to think of new ways of doing things and I just thought nobody has done this before, nobody's got together the cast of a sitcom and done a show on stage and given all the money to Comic Relief, and I thought if we can all agree, the money it could raise would be fantastic."
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The disagreement is over how Uber's drivers are hired by the company.
Uber considers them contractors: they work when they want, for as long as they want. Drivers must pay for their cars, fuel, maintenance - everything.
The alternative - and the one successfully argued in the case - is that Uber drivers should actually be employees. This could mean a heap of benefits: cars provided, holiday pay, perhaps even health insurance.
On the face of it, that sounds like a better deal for drivers. But is it what they want?
Just down the road from San Francisco's international airport is what can only be described as a holding pen for Uber drivers.
When I visited this week, the car park - which can hold more than 100 cars - was so full they had to close the road leading up to it. Drivers were livid. They're not allowed to wait anywhere else. They certainly can't sit in the taxi rank or they'll get a fine - the driver pays, of course, not Uber.
Those lucky (!) enough to be in the holding pen were in a long queue. Each time a request was made, a car was dispatched. Some had been there for over an hour, they said, with a suspicion that the queue system was broken.
Uber driving is very much a solo pursuit. Unlike cabbies, who have ranks around towns and cities, Uber drivers are normally found cruising around for the next fare. So the holding pen is one of the few places they get to socialise with each other.
Uber's defence in the employee/contractor debate is that its workforce is pretty diverse. Some want to work part-time, others full-time. Some want to work intensely for a few weeks, then take a few weeks off.
It's on their own terms, and Uber says only a contractor set-up makes this possible.
And the vast majority of drivers I spoke to agreed. Passionately.
"If we were employees we'd have to have a boss," said Kirk, a full-time Uber driver for over a year.
"We'd have to clock in, clock out for breaks. It's not a viable solution for what we do.
"You essentially run a small business, but without the overhead of a brick-and-mortar business."
Overhearing our conversation was Nate, who has been an Uber driver for two months, as is his wife, who drove off as I was arriving to go and pick up a passenger. The hours go far more quickly when you're calling your own shots, Nate said.
There's more than one exception to the positivity, though, and it's the drivers who've had more than two years on the job who are more keen on the idea of being an employee.
One man - who didn't want to be named as even his family are unaware of his worry - told me that he feels trapped in Uber, caught in a spiral he's not sure how to control.
Like many drivers, he took up Uber's offer of a loan to get a new car. That was in October last year, and it already has 80,000 miles on the clock.
The money for the car is deducted automatically from his earnings each week. It's about $1,000 (£655) a month. It's crippling him - so he works more hours, over 12 a day, putting even more strain on the car.
"I would prefer to be an employee with pay and benefits," he said. "And they could help me look after the car."
The financing plan runs for five years - and he's sure the car won't last that long. New tyres every four months. A new set of brakes. It's all going on credit, and he's running out of options.
"And then Uber drops its rates."
Recently, Uber offered a special deal for trips that went to the East Bay - the stretch of land east of San Francisco, over the water, that includes major cities such as Oakland and Berkeley.
For a limited time, rides to this area were 25% off. It enraged many drivers for whom a trip from the airport to Berkeley (and perhaps back again) is ordinarily a terrific earner - the difference between an average day and a great one.
Every driver said they felt they needed better representation, a system that could perhaps give drivers more of a say on how and when to reduce fares. One man, Napoleon, said some drivers could do with support when they feel they have got unfair ratings or other issues that affect their ability to pick up jobs.
And every driver said that as Uber was getting more popular, it was getting harder and harder to earn a living.
"It used to be 10 hours a day," said Nang, from Myanmar, who started Uber driving just over two years ago when she was studying.
"Now I have to work 16 or 17 hours. It's exhausting. I'm thinking of quitting next year. I'm working crazy - seven days.
"They are hiring so many people. I don't know where to go. I was in downtown for one hour and I didn't get a customer. Sometimes [at the airport] I wait two hours."
Nobody I spoke to said they were considering getting involved in the lawsuit.
Most wouldn't be eligible - Uber thinks only about 15,000 of its 160,000 drivers could qualify - but even if they were, there's little suggestion that many would follow it up.
Being independent for the overwhelming majority of Uber drivers in that blustery car park was what made them sign up in the first place.
But the pressures of covering all the costs, while prices for rides get lower and lower, and more and more Uber cars compete for jobs - it's keeping some drivers awake at night.
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The Finn's Law campaign is named after the Hertfordshire police dog who, along with his handler, was stabbed in Stevenage while chasing a suspect.
It wants people who attack police animals to face charges similar to those for attacking a person.
It will be debated on 14 November after topping 100,000 signatures in a month.
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German shepherd Finn was stabbed in the head and chest and his handler, PC Dave Wardell, received a hand injury in Denton Road after they pursued a suspect in the early hours of 5 October.
A 16-year-old boy from London has been charged with the assault of the officer and criminal damage relating to the dog.
The petition, set up on the UK government's petition site days after the attack, proposes that police animals "be given protection that reflects their status if assaulted in the line of duty" and has now received more than 120,000 signatures.
Mark Tasker from the campaign said: "We are absolutely elated, we always knew this was something that would capture the public's imagination and it seems that Parliament recognises just how offensive it is to classify the killing or serious attack on a police dog or horse as criminal damage."
Assistant Chief Constable Dan Vajzovic from the Joint Protected Services for Beds, Cambs and Herts said: "It has been uplifting to see how much the public have got behind the issue and given their support.
"Naturally we support any legislation that offers an effective mechanism for reducing the likelihood of officers and their police dogs being subject to assault and injury."
The injured dog underwent emergency surgery and is now recovering at home.
The officer required treatment in hospital.
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The team, bidding to become the first British crew to win the America's Cup, earn two points for the next phase, the qualifying series in May and June.
The winners of that will face Oracle Team USA in the main event, the 2017 America's Cup later in June.
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Ainslie's team won after a tie-break in the regatta in Japan by virtue of a better result in the last race.
Land Rover BAR finished the series with 512 points, 19 ahead of Oracle Team USA, the two-time defending America's Cup champions, in second place.
Emirates Team New Zealand, who lost an 8-1 lead to Oracle in the 2013 America's Cup, finished third overall with 493 points.
Ainslie, the most successful sailor in Olympic history, is attempting to end Britain's long wait to bring the America's Cup back to the UK, where the oldest trophy in international sport was first contested in 1851.
"It's a massive day for us, proving we can win at the top end. It's a big step towards the America's Cup next year in Bermuda," said Ainslie, who was part of the winning Oracle team three years ago.
"We are under no illusions over just how tough it is. We hope to have the fastest boat next year."
Land Rover BAR held a one-point advantage after the first day of the Fukuoka regatta but Artemis Racing of Sweden won the first two races on Sunday.
Ainslie's crew needed to finish ahead of the Swedes in the last race of the day to clinch the title and came in third, with Artemis one place further back.
She was walking through the subway tunnel in Duke Street around 22:30 BST on Sunday when two men and two women asked her for a cigarette.
When she declined, one of the men punched her in the face and shouted sectarian abuse, while a woman cut her face with some type of weapon.
The victim was treated in hospital for a large wound and bruising to her face.
Sites using service provider Freedom Hosting to deliver their material have had code added to their pages, which could be used to reveal the identities of people visiting them.
Freedom Hosting delivered sites via Tor, a network designed to keep net activity anonymous.
The news has led some to claim that Tor no longer offers a "safe option".
"This challenges the assumption people have made that Tor is a simple way of maintaining your anonymity online," Alan Woodward, chief technology officer at security advisors Charteris, told the BBC.
"The bottom line is that is not guaranteed even if you think you are taking the right steps to hide your identity. This is the first time we've seen somebody looking to unmask people rather than just security researchers discussing the possibility."
Invented by the US Naval Research Laboratory to help people use the web without being traced, Tor (The Onion Router) aids anonymity in two ways.
First, it can be used to browse the world wide web anonymously. It does this by routing traffic through many separate encrypted layers to hide the data identifiers that prove useful in police investigations.
Second, there are hidden sites on Tor that use the .onion domain suffix. These are effectively websites but, as they sit on Tor, are almost impervious to investigation.
Although many media reports about Tor have focused on how it is used to spread pornography and images of child abuse as well as to sell drugs via sites such as the Silk Road, it is also used for many legitimate means.
Journalists and whistle-blowers use it to communicate with each other, with the New Yorker magazine's Strongbox being one example of a "dead drop" service based on the technology.
It is also used by military and law enforcement officers to gather intelligence.
The project's developers also suggest it be used as a way for people wishing to research Aids, birth control or religion anonymously in areas where information on such topics is restricted.
Tor has been funded by, among others, the EFF, Google, Human Rights Watch and the US National Science Foundation.
Mr Woodward added that the way the added code had been designed suggested a US law enforcement agency was behind the breach.
Tor users expressed mixed feelings about the news.
"This exploit targets kiddie porn viewers only. If that's not you, you have nothing to worry about," suggested one.
An "exploit" refers to software that makes programs, websites and other code do something they were not originally designed to do.
But another said: "This week it's child porn, next week it may be a whistle-blower or an activist."
News of the action was confirmed by an administrator of the Tor Project on its blog.
It said that over the weekend people had contacted it to say that a large number of sites using Tor, which were hidden from other net users, had gone offline simultaneously.
"The current news indicates that someone has exploited the software behind Freedom Hosting," it said.
"From what is known so far, the breach was used to configure the server in a way that it injects some sort of Javascript exploit in the web pages delivered to users. This exploit is used to load a malware payload to infect users' computers."
Freedom Hosting was previously targeted by the Anonymous hacktivist collective, whose members temporarily forced it offline in 2011 after claiming it was the largest host of material showing child abuse on Tor.
The Daily Dot news site reports that paedophiles continued to use the hosting service and have been warning each other of the breach since the news emerged.
They also told each other to stop using TorMail, a service used to allow people to send and receive email anonymously, which used Freedom Hosting's servers.
Freedom Hosting also provided access to HackBB, a hacking-themed discussion forum, and the Cleaned Hidden Wiki, an encyclopaedia of Tor and other dark nets.
The hosting service's terms and conditions had stated that illegal activities were not allowed on the sites it supported, but added that it was "not responsible" for its users' actions.
Tor's developers have stressed that "the person, or persons, who run Freedom Hosting are in no way affiliated or connected to The Tor Project".
Analysis of the Javascript exploit suggests that it takes advantage of a vulnerability in Firefox 17, which meant that people using that version of Mozilla's browser could be identified, despite the protections built into Tor.
"It appears to connect the machine using the compromised browser to an address which appears to originate from Reston, Virginia, US, and sends the hostname and MAC [media access control] address of the machine," Mr Woodward said.
"Unlike IP [internet protocol] addresses, media access control addresses are considered unique to a particular piece of hardware, although they can be spoofed under certain circumstances.
"It seems unlikely that the malware was written by criminals as the information it is sending back to its masters is of little use to anyone other than law enforcement agencies who are trying to track down machines that are using the Tor network to remain anonymous."
News of the breach came shortly after the Irish Times reported that a 28-year-old Dublin-based man had been arrested and accused by the FBI of being "the largest facilitator of child porn on the planet".
It said that Eric Eoin Marques faces allegations that he had aided and abetted a conspiracy to advertise material showing the abuse of prepubescent children.
The paper reported that the US authorities are seeking his extradition on four charges.
It said the judge in the case ruled that while Mr Marques was entitled to the presumption of innocence, he should remain in custody pending a further hearing because he posed a flight risk.
A spokesman for the FBI told the BBC: "An individual has been arrested in Ireland as part of an ongoing criminal investigation in the United States. Because this is matter is ongoing, longstanding Department of Justice Policy prohibits us from discussing this matter further."
Belfast City Council has approved a plan for a studio thought to be worth up to £14m to be built on the shores of Belfast Lough.
County Antrim man Mark Huffam said it would help Northern Ireland to compete in the "world market for studio space".
"Let's get it built and let's see if we can expand when it's up," he said.
"I think it's really what is needed to keep the industry going which has been doing fantastically well in Northern Ireland.
"From the films that we've already done in Northern Ireland, everybody has left with a very enjoyable experience and have always been keen to come back."
Game Of Thrones, the fantasy adventure series, is filmed at Belfast's Titanic Studios and at other locations in Northern Ireland.
Last year, the film agency Northern Ireland Screen said Game Of Thrones had contributed £110 to the local economy, while other international film projects have also been based in Northern Ireland.
Mr Huffam, who has also worked on major Hollywood films Saving Private Ryan and The Martian, said the industry was giving people opportunities for sustainable creative careers.
"You can't do it without local talent, you can't be competitive without using local talent," he said.
"The great thing with the film and television industry is it trains that talent very quickly, so we've grown that talent pool in 10 years by a multiple of 10."
The new studio will be built at Giant's Park on Belfast Lough's north foreshore and will include production space and workshops.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has just released data on baby names for England and Wales in 2014.
Their figures show that some children will grow up bearing the names of characters from the fantasy adventure.
Arya is the most popular girl's name, with 244 babies named after the character played by Maisie Williams.
There were also 53 babies named Khaleesi, nine Daenerys, six Sansas and four Briennes.
The blonde Daenerys Targaryen, played by actor Emilia Clarke, is one of the most recognisable figures in the drama, and her image is often used on publicity material for the show.
Daenerys is also known as Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, which has obviously caught the imagination of a number of parents across the UK.
The Starks, Lannisters and Greyjoys are battling it out for popularity among the male Game of Thrones names.
In 2014, 18 boys were called after the treacherous Theon, while 17 were named after the dwarf Tyrion.
In addition, four boys each bear the names Bran and Sandor.
The hugely-popular series is mostly filmed in Northern Ireland and contributes millions to the local economy.
While the number of babies with cast names is relatively small, the ONS say there has been an increase since George R R Martin's original novels first appeared on TV screens in 2011.
The boy band One Direction also remains popular with many parents across England and Wales, but it appears that Irish member Niall Horan is the least notable.
Only 155 boys were given his first name in 2014, compared to 231 Zayns, 902 Liams, 999 boys called Louis, and 5,379 called Harry.
The most popular names in England and Wales in 2014 were Oliver for a boy and Amelia for a girl.
That is in contrast to Northern Ireland where statistics released earlier this year showed that the most popular baby names in 2014 were Jack and Emily.
Those figures also showed no evidence of a Game of Thrones impact locally, but among the baby names used here were Devin, Kaanye, Peanut, Princeton and
Rocco for boys, and Blessing, Piper, Coco, Texas, Suri and Mazie for girls.
It is 10 years since the fictional Edinburgh detective John Rebus last appeared on television.
But now independent producer Eleventh Hour Films has announced that it has acquired the television rights to Ian Rankin's best selling crime novels.
The deal coincides with the 30th anniversary of the publication of the first Rebus novel, Knots and Crosses.
Award-winning writer Gregory Burke has been tasked with adapting the novels for TV, according to the production company.
The Scottish playwright won plaudits for his play Black Watch and for his screenplay for the critically-acclaimed film '71.
Eleventh Hour Films said he will work up a "bold and visionary take for a contemporary international TV audience".
Mr Burke's attachment to the project has been warmly welcomed by Rebus' creator, Ian Rankin.
He said: "I'm so thrilled and honoured that Gregory Burke is bringing his outstanding storytelling talent to Rebus.
"As far as I'm concerned it's the perfect match, allowing the character of John Rebus to emerge in all his complex three-dimensional glory."
Mr Burke added: "It is an honour and a privilege to have the opportunity to work on adapting an iconic character like John Rebus for television.
"As someone who has grown up and lives in south east Scotland, Ian Rankin's best-selling books provide the perfect material to make a thrilling series about crime in the modern world."
In a series of tweets to fans, Mr Rankin also said that he had his "fingers crossed" that actor Ken Stott would reprise his role as the gruff detective.
Stott took on the lead role in an earlier TV incarnation of Rebus, an STV production for ITV which ran from 2000 until 2007, replacing John Hannah.
The author also suggested that more time would be given to each story, with longer episodes.
Armed police were called to the property on Knockatern Grove on Tuesday afternoon.
The man was detained on suspicion of possessing of an offensive weapon with intent to commit an offence and assault on police.
Researchers trained an algorithm using more than 1,500 photos of Chinese citizens, hundreds of them convicts.
They said the program was then able to correctly identify criminals in further photos 89% of the time.
But the research, which has not been peer reviewed, has been criticised by criminology experts who say the AI may reflect bias in the justice system.
"This article is not looking at people's behaviour, it is looking at criminal conviction," said Prof Susan McVie, professor of quantitative criminology at the University of Edinburgh.
"The criminal justice system consists of a series of decision-making stages, by the police, prosecution and the courts. At each of those stages, people's decision making is affected by factors that are not related to offending behaviour - such as stereotypes about who is most likely to be guilty.
"Research shows jurors are more likely to convict people who look or dress a certain way. What this research may be picking up on is stereotypes that lead to people being picked up by the criminal justice system, rather than the likelihood of somebody offending."
The researchers took 1,856 ID photographs of Chinese citizens that fitted strict criteria of males aged between 18 and 55 with no facial hair or markings. The collection contained 730 ID pictures - not police mugshots - of convicted criminals or "wanted suspects by the ministry of public security".
After using 90% of the images to train their algorithm, the researchers used the remaining photos to see whether the computer could correctly identify the convicts. It did so correctly about nine times out of 10.
The researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University said their algorithm had identified key facial features, such as the curvature of the upper lip and distance between eyes, that were common among the convicts.
But Prof McVie said the algorithm may simply have identified patterns in the type of people who are convicted by human juries.
"This is an example of statistics-led research with no theoretical underpinning," said Prof McVie, who is also the director of the Applied Quantitative Methods Network research centre.
"What would be the reason that somebody's face would lead them to be criminal or not? There is no theoretical reason that the way somebody looks should make them a criminal.
"There is a huge margin of error around this sort of work and if you were trying to use the algorithm to predict who might commit a crime, you wouldn't find a high success rate," she told the BBC.
"Going back over 100 years ago, Cesare Lombroso was a 19th Century criminologist who used phrenology - feeling people's heads - with a theory that there were lumps and bumps associated with certain personality traits.
"But it is now considered to be very old and flawed science - criminologists have not believed in it for decades."
Prof McVie also warned that an algorithm used to spot potential criminals based on their appearance - such as passport scanning at an airport, or ID scanning at a night club - could have dangerous consequences.
"Using a system like this based on looks rather than behaviour could lead to eugenics-based policy-making," she said.
"What worries me the most is that we might be judging who is a criminal based on their looks. That sort of approach went badly wrong in our not-too distant history."
The 350 coins have lain on the Atlantic sea bed off the coast of Florida for the past 300 years.
The coins are from a fleet of 11 Spanish galleons that sank during a hurricane while making the journey from Cuba to Spain.
Treasure hunting is a popular activity in the waters around Florida.
The discovery is the second major find by treasure hunters in recent months. In June, they found about 50 coins worth about $1m.
The 350 coins, which were brought to the surface at the end of July, turned up in just a metre of water close to the shore, buried under the sand.
Under US state law, Florida will keep 20% of value of the find.
The diver who discovered the coins, William Bartlett, declined to say what his cut would be, telling a local newspaper: "I'm just a guy on a boat living the dream."
Brent Brisben, who owns the rights to the wrecked ships, says the find includes nine rare pieces known as "royal eight escudos". Only 20 were known to be in existence before this latest find.
"These royals are perfect specimens of coinage of the time and they were made on royal order for the king of Spain," Mr Brisben said.
Home side Montpellier dominated and led 14-3 at the interval after tries from Vincent Martin and Nemani Nadolo.
Nadolo scored an opportunistic third while Rob Kearney was in the sin-bin.
Leinster trailed 22-9 with seconds left before captain Nacewa squeezed over and ran in under the posts to make the conversion a formality.
Montpellier's huge pack caused problems for Leinster in the first half and dominated the physical exchanges.
Leinster's forwards were under pressure and Cian Healy fumbled possession from a pick-and-go with Montpellier, lethal on the turnover, capitalising with the opening try through Martin after 29 minutes.
The centre spotted a mismatch in midfield and ripped through Leinster forwards Mike Ross and Jamie Heaslip.
Nadolo crashed over in the corner for Montpellier's second try in the 35th minute.
Kearney was sin-binned after 57 minutes for a late hit and with the visitors down to 14 men, Heaslip made an uncharacteristic blunder from the base of a maul.
His blindside pass to Zane Kirchner was brilliantly intercepted by Nadolo, who clinched the match-winning third try.
Fly-half Johnny Sexton was deemed fit to start after missing last weekend's 33-15 home win over Castres after feeling a tightness in his hamstring, with rookie replacement Joey Carberry impressing in his absence.
The Ireland number 10 didn't take any chances in the heavy conditions allowing Nacewa to kick at goal but fitness is clearly still an issue and he was replaced at half-time by Carberry.
With an autumn international series and Tests against New Zealand (twice), Canada and Australia looming in a few weeks' time, worries over Sexton's hamstring injury will be a concern for Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt.
Back-row Sean O'Brien was playing his first senior game since last season's Six Nations following a hamstring injury and also limped off.
Montpellier wing Nemani Nadolo: "We were a bit disappointed last week to lose at the final whistle.
"We had one of the best teams in the world here at home and we had to front up.
"We did well, we ran it a bit and I just did what I had to do."
Leinster head coach Leo Cullen: "We're happy to take a point and move on.
"We were just being ultra-cautious [with Sexton and O'Brien] at this time of year. Both will come through fine."
Montpellier: J Michel; M O'Connor, V Martin, A Dumoulin, N Nadolo; Frans Steyn, N White; Y Watremez, S Mamukashvili, J Du Plessis, J Du Plessis, P Willemse; F Ouedraogo, A Qera, P Spies.
Replacements: R Ruffenach, M Nariashvili, D Kubriashvili, N van Rensburg, W Liebenberg, T O'Leary, B Botica, J Mogg.
Leinster: R Kearney; Z Kirchner, G Ringrose, R Henshaw, I Nacewa (capt); J Sexton, L McGrath; C Healy, J Tracy, M Ross, D Toner, M Kearney, S O'Brien, J van der Flier, J Heaslip.
Replacements: S Cronin, J McGrath, M Bent, I Nagle, J Murphy, D Leavy, J Gibson-Park, J Carberry.
Radio Cymru is also cutting its airtime by two hours a day after losing the right to play more than 30,000 songs.
The musicians broke away from the Performing Right Society (PRS) to join a new agency, claiming they were being short-changed for their work.
The agency, Eos, says it wants a "fair price for Welsh music".
The right to broadcast the songs of 331 Welsh-language musicians and music publishers rests with Eos - the Welsh word for nightingale - from today.
The dispute arose from a change by the PRS in 2007 which many Welsh language artists claim cut their royalty payments by as much as 85%.
Since then, an alliance of Welsh musicians and composers has sought to improve the payments made by broadcasters, launching the new agency in August to handle the licensing of their work.
The BBC said Eos had rejected a substantial offer to settle the dispute shortly before Christmas.
As no agreement was reached, Radio Cymru has implemented changes to its broadcasting hours and programme content.
Daily output is being reduced by two hours, as the station will start broadcasting an hour later in the morning at 06:30 GMT, finishing an hour early at 23:00 GMT.
Playlists will include popular classical and instrumental music, as well as a number of English-language and international artists.
Some Welsh-language pop music not affected by the rights dispute is being included.
The C2 evening programmes - which showcase new Welsh music - will be cut to an hour.
BBC Cymru Wales said in a statement on Monday it was "very disappointed" an agreement had not been reached and confirmed Radio Cymru programmes would be affected.
"Radio Cymru's commitment to support and develop Welsh music is a longstanding one - and we have listened carefully to the concerns of Welsh-language composers and artists during this dispute," the statement said.
"Both the BBC and Eos want to ensure that a fair outcome is achieved - and it is a fair outcome for all parties that we will be focusing on when further talks with Eos take place next week."
The BBC Trust - the BBC's governing body which is independent of the corporation's management - has urged a settlement claiming it was in nobody's interest for the dispute to continue.
BBC National Trustee for Wales Elan Closs Stephens said: "I urge both parties to reach a fair and affordable settlement so that Radio Cymru can quickly return to providing its usual comprehensive and much loved service."
Eos chair Gwilym Morus has said it was a "shame that the BBC have chosen to damage the national radio service because they are unwilling to pay a fair price for Welsh music".
He said he did not want any more harm done to Radio Cymru because both the station and the musicians shared the same audience.
"Regretfully, I believe the BBC in London is showing a lack of respect towards their own staff in Wales and towards Welsh culture," he said.
Radio Cymru reaches about 142,000 listeners a week, or 6% of the adult population of Wales, according to the latest Rajar audience survey.
On Saturday the Welsh-language TV station S4C confirmed it had reached agreement with Eos over the use of its artists' music.
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The former Celtic and Chelsea defender was asked if would rather attend the Old Firm clash (12:00 BST) or encounter between United and City (12:30 KO).
"Manchester's a great game, great city, great managers, great players," said Elliott, who had two years in Glasgow.
"But I'd love to be among the Celtic supporters in that intensity."
The Old Firm rivals have only met twice in cup competitions since financial problems led to Rangers playing four seasons in the lower divisions.
"Scotland suffered commercially, environmentally, socially because of that," Elliott told BBC Scotland's Sportsound ahead of Celtic and Rangers' first Scottish Premiership meeting of the season.
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"It is a huge game and especially with the circumstances.
"I think it is wonderful that this weekend the two biggest clubs in Scotland have reconnected and we've got a fantastic game in prospect, not just for Scotland but for Britain and maybe for the whole of Europe as well.
"Being in that environment, in that intensity, after a five-year absence, being part of an Old Firm game - that's where I would want to be."
Elliott, who also played for Charlton, Luton, Aston Villa, and Pisa in Italy, says he "never experienced such a rivalry, a day-to-day intensity" as his time with Celtic from 1989 to 1991.
"Two huge clubs, two global brands within a three-mile square radius," he noted.
"I was in Italy before, playing at a slow, far more moderate tempo and build-up.
"Coming from that tempo, at times in Glasgow I felt like I needed an extra lung to keep up with the play. It took me three or four months to just get used to the tempo."
Former Netherlands full-back Arthur Numan joined Rangers in 1998, nine years after Elliott arrived at Celtic, despite knowing little about Scottish football.
His Old Firm debut was a 5-1 drubbing at Celtic Park.
"The atmosphere was unbelievable," recalled the 46-year-old, who spent five years with Rangers after joining from PSV Eindhoven. "Sometimes I was looking around me and thinking 'what is happening?'.
"I had just come back from the World Cup, so I was playing at the highest level against the big teams and against the best players.
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"Nothing can beat the Old Firm and all my friends who came over said it was absolutely fantastic and all wanted to come back, even now."
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Paul Elliott says he would rather be at Celtic Park than Old Trafford as the Glasgow and Manchester derbies compete for worldwide attention on Saturday.
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Manned checkpoints, rising street bollards and crash-proof barricades are among the measures proposed.
It follows advice from MI5 and counter-terrorism police.
A Corporation of London report said they "had identified that the area was highly sensitive to... a hostile vehicle-borne security threat".
The advice comes in the wake of the Berlin Christmas market terror attack on Monday in which Tunisian Anis Amri, drove a lorry at shoppers, killing 12 and injuring 49 people.
The ring of steel is believed to be the best way to protect the heart of London's financial district.
London's first ring of steel was a response to IRA bombs in the Baltic Exchange in Bishopsgate in 1992.
It would be the first time since the late 1990s that manned checkpoints were used.
Such checkpoints were phased out after the IRA announced a ceasefire in 1994.
The new protective ring will border Liverpool Street, the Bank of England and Fenchurch Street - an area which is home to some of the capital's newest and most recognisable skyscrapers.
"This eastern section of the City of London is especially of importance in as much as there are going to be a number of major landmarks developed around the area that could be of interest," the report said.
The new plan would be subject to a consultation but could be fully implemented by 2022.
Will Geddes, founder of International Corporate Protection said: "Although we've seen of late 'lo-fi type' attacks, like the Berlin Christmas market where a lorry that was hijacked and driven into a crowded area, we cannot discount the type of attack that will... include a large truck packed with explosives"
The visitors almost went in front in the ninth minute but Shay McCartan was denied by a brilliant one-handed stop from Bobby Olejnik.
However, Olejnik was beaten three minutes later when McCartan fired home a brilliant free-kick.
Exeter were disappointing in the first half - David Wheeler missing their best chance with a downward header which was tipped over the bar.
In the second half McCartan was foiled again by another smart stop from Olejnik, but from the resulting corner Matty Pearson headed into an empty net as the goalkeeper went walkabouts.
Ollie Watkins fired a free-kick wide and Joel Grant also failed to hit the target as Exeter tried to find a way back into the contest, but Accrington held firm to claim a well-deserved win.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Exeter City 0, Accrington Stanley 2.
Second Half ends, Exeter City 0, Accrington Stanley 2.
Attempt saved. Jake Taylor (Exeter City) header from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Ryan Harley (Exeter City).
Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Joel Grant (Exeter City) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Ollie Watkins (Exeter City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
David Wheeler (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mark Hughes (Accrington Stanley).
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Jake Taylor.
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Jake Taylor.
Foul by Pierce Sweeney (Exeter City).
Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Ollie Watkins (Exeter City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Matty Pearson (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Liam McAlinden (Exeter City).
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Omar Beckles replaces Sean McConville.
Substitution, Exeter City. Liam McAlinden replaces Craig Woodman.
Attempt missed. Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner from a direct free kick.
Foul by Jake Taylor (Exeter City).
Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Exeter City 0, Accrington Stanley 2. Matty Pearson (Accrington Stanley) header from the right side of the six yard box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Sean McConville with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Robert Olejnik.
Attempt saved. Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Harvey Rodgers (Accrington Stanley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ryan Harley (Exeter City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Harvey Rodgers (Accrington Stanley).
Jordan Moore-Taylor (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley).
Substitution, Exeter City. Jack Stacey replaces Luke Croll.
Substitution, Exeter City. Ryan Harley replaces Lloyd James.
Attempt missed. Ollie Watkins (Exeter City) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Marek Rodak.
Attempt missed. Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from long range on the left is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Foul by Jake Taylor (Exeter City).
Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Jordan Clark (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
David Wheeler (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Janoi Donacien (Accrington Stanley).
Luke Croll (Exeter City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
The plan means up to 10 of its 176 UK stores may be closed over the next five years.
A central distribution warehouse and about 10 smaller warehouses could also be shut.
Meanwhile, the group said its half-year pre-tax profits fell by 6.4% to £88m.
Debenhams shares were down by nearly 5% following the announcement.
Chief executive Sergio Bucher, who joined the company last October, said its customers were changing the way they shopped and therefore Debenhams was also changing.
"We will be a destination for social shopping, with mobile the unifying platform for interacting with our customers," said Mr Bucher, who was appointed with a view to shaking up the business.
Debenhams said that leisure activities accounted for an increasing share of consumer spending and that the "leisure experience is an important part of shopping", while "mobile interaction" was growing fast.
In an effort to capture this market, Debenhams plans to step up investment in its in-store cafes, restaurants and beauty services.
Retail analyst Steve Dresser, of Grocery Insight, said it would be tricky for Debenhams to make its new approach work.
"Without a core reason to visit Debenhams, or a point of difference, footfall and sales fall, which in turn impacts profitability," he said.
"Shopping centre locations overcome footfall concerns, but in turn, rents are expensive."
Debenhams said it had no "tail of loss-makers" in its 176 UK store estate and, in fact, many were "highly profitable".
However, it added, it wanted to "ensure they are fit for the future".
The 10 stores under review for closure, if they are deemed not profitable enough, have not been named.
Debenhams said the rest would be "refreshed" and "remerchandised" to raise their profitability.
In January, it began "decluttering" its stores by reducing the number of lines for sale.
It is also switching about 2,000 of the stores' backroom staff to jobs where they deal directly with customers.
The group also has plans to open four new shops in the UK.
Debenhams has 82 stores in 26 other countries.
It said it would leave some "non-core" international markets, with details due to be announced in October.
The department store chain announced earlier this year that it had begun consulting on the closure of one central distribution centre in Northamptonshire which employs about 200 people.
It is hoped all staff will be redeployed.
Debenhams is also consulting on the closure of about about 10 smaller regional warehouses which are connected to stores.
Those staff will be moved into the stores.
Sir Ian Cheshire, the chairman of Debenhams, said "this is a strategy about growth", not job losses, and that the plans should lead to the creation of more jobs.
However, independent retail analyst Nick Bubb said he was "disappointed" that the strategy did not include any targets for sales and profits, despite the talk of growth and efficiency.
This would be enough seven-inch records to stretch 16 times round the earth, the study of sales since 1952 stated.
The Official Charts Company said purchases peaked in the 1980s, before digital formats were established, when 640 million singles were sold.
Its managing director Martin Talbot said the figures gave an insight into singles sales never seen before.
He said: "Working on historic statistics from so long ago to create data reflecting sales to consumers has required diligent research and attention to detail.
"And, while it is unlikely to ever be possible to arrive at exact totals for those early years due to the nature of the data available, we are confident that these figures give us the clearest picture yet published of the development of singles sales across the six decade history of the Official Singles Chart."
The biggest selling single in the boom time for chart sales was Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas?, released in 1984.
There have been more than 1,200 number one singles since the first chart was published in the NME six decades ago.
Take That frontman Gary Barlow, who has topped the chart 14 times in his career, said: "Number ones are incredible and I don't care how many you've had in the past it still feels amazing to have a number one, in some cases even better if it's your 12th or 15th or whatever it is. It's a brilliant feeling."
Surveys conducted by Kyodo news agency and major newspapers found Mr Abe's ruling coalition could retain its two-thirds majority in parliament.
Such a win could help boost Mr Abe as he pursues unpopular policies.
But observers suggest the figures reflect opposition weakness, rather than a wave of support for Mr Abe.
The prime minister called the 14 December election last month, two years ahead of schedule.
He is seeking a new mandate for his "Abenomics" economic reform agenda - loose monetary policy, fiscal stimulus and structural reforms - which he launched two years ago.
Under the policy Japan's GDP growth initially saw a lift, but the economy continued to slide and Japan entered a technical recession this quarter.
This was partly because of a rise in sales tax in April, from 5% to 8%. It was aimed at curbing Japan's public debt, the highest among developed nations, but instead stopped consumers spending.
A second increase, to 10%, was set for October 2015 but Mr Abe has said that will be delayed by at least 18 months.
Campaigning on Tuesday, opposition Democratic Party leader Banri Kaieda said the election "was launched to hide the failure of Abenomics".
"It has been two years now since Abe put forth his economic policy. In these two years, has it really helped the people's lives? This is the question that needs to be reflected upon when voting."
But while Mr Abe's approval ratings have fallen, trust in the opposition remains low in the wake of its comprehensive 2012 election defeat after an unstable three years in office.
On Tuesday, Mr Abe said the poll would judge his economic policy.
"I promise to win this election, push through the recovery efforts, return the economy to a strong state and put this region and Japan back at the glowing centre of the world," he said.
The polls showed that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party could win more than 300 of the 475 seats in the lower house, with more coming from junior coalition partner New Komeito.
Lawro's opponent for the Boxing Day fixtures is You Me At Six singer Josh Franceschi.
When Arsenal fan Josh last took on Lawro, in February 2014, the Gunners were top of the Premier League and his band's fourth album, Cavalier Youth, was top of the UK album charts.
With Arsene Wenger's side fourth, nine points behind leaders Chelsea, it looks unlikely that they will be top of the table again by the time You Me At Six's latest album, Night People, comes out at the beginning of January.
Could Josh top Lawro's guest leaderboard as well as the charts this time, though? He will have to do a lot better than his last effort, when he scored zero points - although he did fare better when he returned to predict the outcome of that season's FA Cup final.
The Gunners have suffered two defeats in their past two games, at Everton and Manchester City, and also got a tough draw in the last 16 of the Champions League despite winning their group.
Franceschi told BBC Sport:"Getting Bayern Munich was classic Arsenal, really, and it has been a bad week but I am not sitting here like some of our fans thinking it is all doom and gloom for us.
"Everton and City were two tough away games but it is not the end of of our season. We have got three very winnable games over Christmas - against West Brom, Crystal Palace and Bournemouth - and it is important we do win them to get some momentum back."
You can make your Premier League predictions now, compare them with those of Lawro and other fans, and try to take your team to the top of the leaderboard by playing the BBC Sport Predictor game.
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
Last week, Lawro got five correct results, with one perfect score, from 10 Premier League matches. That gave him a total of 80 points.
He lost to tennis legend Boris Becker, who got seven correct results, with two perfect scores, for a total of 130 points.
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Watford 1-1 Crystal Palace
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Josh's prediction: With the players they have, Crystal Palace should be doing better than they are. Watford are not in great form at the moment either, though, so I am going for a draw. 1-1
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Arsenal 1-0 West Brom
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Josh's prediction: West Brom are having a good season. Tony Pulis's teams might not play great football but they are hard to beat and they have got some excellent players like Nacer Chadli, Matt Phillips and Salomon Rondon.
But we are at home and, with the form Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil are in at the moment, I do fancy us to win regardless of how well set up the Baggies are. 3-1
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Burnley 1-0 Middlesbrough
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Josh's prediction: Burnley are the sort of team that have a real go at a top-six side at home but lose to a lesser team. I can see them being beaten by Boro, especially with Alvaro Negredo looking sharp. 1-2
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Chelsea 3-0 Bournemouth
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Josh's prediction: Chelsea's confidence is through the roof at the moment and the other teams at the top need someone to come along and batter them. Either that or the Blues have to lose a couple of games at home that they are expected to win comfortably, to knock their self-belief a bit.
I am not sure Chelsea will slip up here but I think Bournemouth can cause them some problems. Cherries boss Eddie Howe is doing a great job and maybe their on-loan Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere has got an extra incentive to do us a nice little favour. 2-1
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Leicester 0-2 Everton
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Josh's prediction: Leicester will be feeling good after spanking Manchester City in their last home game and, overall, their form at King Power Stadium has been very strong.
I am going for a Leicester win but I think it will be a tight one. Everton are not the prettiest team to watch but, as they showed against Arsenal, they are another side who should be doing better than they are. The Toffees have got some great players but they don't always click. 2-1
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Man Utd 3-1 Sunderland
Lawro's prediction: 3-0
Josh's prediction: Everyone was writing United off not so long ago but they are getting stronger and stronger and closing in on the top four. A big part of that is the quality of their midfield.
Paul Pogba, Ander Herrera and Henrikh Mkhitaryan have all been playing well, and Michael Carrick is important too. Our drummer Dan, who supports United, is probably Carrick's biggest fan of all time - he always complains Carrick never gets the credit he deserves for always playing the right pass whenever he gets the ball.
I feel a bit sorry for Moyes, but I get the feeling a big United win is coming. 3-0
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Swansea 1-4 West Ham
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Josh's prediction: West Ham have climbed up the table in the past few weeks but only on the back of a couple of jammy wins - I still think they are lacking that spark.
Swansea are even worse off, though, and have been all over the place in the last couple of weeks. I don't see this one being a very high quality game. 0-0
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Hull 0-3 Man City
Hull played well in their defeat against West Ham last time out and created plenty of chances.
The Tigers might be bottom of the table but their manager Mike Phelan has got them playing - he does not lack organisation or tactical nous.
Phelan's team lacks a bit of quality, however, and I do not see them causing Manchester City too many problems.
City are finding it hard to keep clean sheets under Pep Guardiola - they have managed only three in 17 league games this season - but they should be able to keep Hull quiet.
Lawro's prediction: 0-3
Josh's prediction: Things are looking pretty grim for Hull and, after the way they beat Arsenal last weekend, I can't see anything other than a Manchester City win - unless they all have a heavy one on Christmas Day. 1-3
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Liverpool 4-1 Stoke
Lawro's prediction: 3-0
Josh's prediction: Even without the injured Philippe Coutinho, Liverpool look very dangerous when they come forward and I don't think Stoke have much of a chance here. The Potters keeper is going to be busy. 2-0
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Southampton v Tottenham (19:45 GMT)
The good thing from Southampton's point of view is that it does not look like they will miss injured striker Charlie Austin - they have a few other options up front.
Jay Rodriguez and Sofiane Boufal have done well recently and I think Shane Long gives a lot for the team too - he is not a regular goalscorer but he would chase a paper bag down the street all day for you, even in a hurricane.
Saints will be a test for Tottenham on Mauricio Pochettino's return to his old club, but his Spurs side have won their past two games and I just get the impression that they might just go on a bit of a run again now.
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Josh's prediction: The only member of the Spurs team that I would have at Arsenal is Hugo Lloris - partly because he is a classy goalkeeper and also because I am half-French so I have a bit of soft spot for French players, even when they play for Spurs - I felt the same about David Ginola too.
As an Arsenal fan I am obviously going to go for a Southampton win here anyway, but I don't think it will be as comfortable as I would like it to be. Christian Eriksen has hit a bit of form for Spurs and they will cause Saints a few problems. 2-1
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Lawro's best score: 160 points (week thirteen v Tim Vine)
Lawro's worst score: 30 points (week four v Dave Bautista)
Datta Phuge shot into the global limelight in 2013 when he bought a shirt made with more than 3kg of gold and worth $250,000 (£186,943).
A money lender based in western Pune, Mr Phuge was called "the gold man".
Four persons have been detained for questioning. Police suspect a dispute over money led to the murder.
The police said some 12 people attacked Mr Phuge, 48, in Pune on Thursday night.
One of the suspects had invited Mr Phuge and his 22-year-old son to celebrate a birthday at an open ground in Dighi area when the men attacked him with stones and a sharp weapon.
Police said the son had witnessed his father being murdered and had been spared by the alleged killers.
"However, we are investigating how Mr Phuge reached the open ground where he was murdered," Dighi police station inspector Navnath Ghogare told the Press Trust of India news agency.
Mr Phuge often wore gold all over his body: his knuckles, neck, and wrists were weighed down by signet rings, chunky bracelets, and a medallion.
"Some people ask me why I'm wearing so much gold but it was my dream. People have different aspirations. Some elite people want to own an Audi or Mercedes, and have big cars. I chose gold," he told the BBC in 2013.
Thousands of people lined the streets to watch throughout the afternoon.
The theme of this year's parade was 'Demand Change' and focused on efforts to overturn Northern Ireland's ban on same-sex marriage.
Northern Ireland is the only region of the UK in which same-sex marriage is not allowed.
The parade was led by Belfast Lord Mayor Nuala McAllister and was the main event of the nine-day long Pride festival, which finishes on Sunday.
Festival goers and musicians gathered in Custom House Square before parading through the city centre.
PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) and Gardaí (Irish police) officers marched in uniform in the parade for the first time.
A small protest against the Pride parade was held outside City Hall.
Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar, the Republic of Ireland's first openly gay taoiseach, told a Pride breakfast event on Saturday morning that it is "only a matter of time" before the law in Northern Ireland is changed.
In 2015, the Republic of Ireland voted to legalise same-sex marriage in a referendum.
Denise Hart, from the Pride organising committee, said that the theme was chosen because the LGBT community are demanding the "same rights as the rest of the United Kindom".
"Having looked at the rest of the UK, Northern Ireland is still lagging behind the rest of the UK in terms of laws that have enacted there that have not been enacted here.
"It really is time that we as a community demand change."
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DUP MP Emma-Little Pengelly was among those to tweet well wishes to those taking part in Pride.
The DUP is opposed to same-sex marriage and has used a Stormont veto known as a petition of concern to block motions to change the law.
The party has previously rejected accusations it is homophobic and said that it is protecting the "traditional" definition of marriage between a man and a woman.
The issue of same-sex marriage is one of the major stumbling blocks in the ongoing Stormont crisis, with Sinn Féin demanding that the DUP stop blocking a law change.
Other politicians who attended the Pride march included Sinn Féin's northern leader Michelle O'Neill, Alliance Party leader Naomi Long and SDLP leader Colum Eastwood, who tweeted a picture of him with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.
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Judge Carlos Castro Martins barred any work that would interfere with the natural flow of the Xingu river.
He ruled in favour of a fisheries group which argued that the Belo Monte dam would affect local fish stocks and could harm indigenous families who make a living from fishing.
The government says the dam is crucial to meeting growing energy needs.
Judge Martins barred the Norte Energia company behind the project from "building a port, using explosives, installing dikes, building canals and any other infrastructure work that would interfere with the natural flow of the Xingu river, thereby affecting local fish stocks".
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He said the building of canals and dikes could have negative repercussions for river communities living off small-scale fishing.
The judge said building work currently underway on accommodation blocks for the project's many workers could continue as it would not interfere with the flow of the river.
The consortium behind the project is expected to appeal against the decision.
In June, the Brazilian environment agency backed the construction, dismissing concerns by environmentalists and indigenous groups who argue that it will harm the world's largest tropical rainforest and displace tens of thousands of people.
The agency, Ibama, said the dam had been subjected to "robust analysis" of its impact on the environment.
The 11,000-megawatt dam would be the third biggest in the world - after the Three Gorges in China and Itaipu, which is jointly run by Brazil and Paraguay.
Lake Tanganyika is Africa's oldest lake and its fish are a critical part of the diet of neighbouring countries.
But catches have declined markedly in recent decades as commercial fleets have expanded.
However this new study says that climate warming and not overfishing is the real cause of the problem.
Estimated to be the world's second-largest freshwater lake, Tanganyika is an important resource for the countries that border it: Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Zambia.
As well fish from the lake providing up to 60% of the animal protein consumed in the region, it is also an important biodiversity hotspot.
But there have been growing concerns about the impact of overfishing, land use change and changes in climate on this key ecosystem.
In an attempt to understand what's happening, researchers have examined samples of sediment from the bottom of the lake.
The chemical analysis of the cores and the fossils found there indicate that fish numbers have been dropping in parallel with a rise in global temperatures.
The scientists say that in tropical lakes a warming of the waters reduce the mixing between the oxygenated top layer and the nutrient-rich layer at the bottom.
This increasing stratification of the waters means fewer nutrients get to top, meaning less algae which means less food for fish.
The authors conclude that sustained warming is associated with reduction in mixing in the lake, stagnation of algal production, and significant shrinking of the habitat of the lake's key bottom dwellers, such as molluscs and crustaceans.
"Our idea was to look at the fish fossil record and to see when that decline actually started," said Prof Andrew Cohen from the University of Arizona,
"If it happened before the start of the industrial fishing in the 1950s, you'd have strong evidence that the decline is not simply driven by this fishing activity and that's exactly what we found."
The scientists don't discount the impact of fishing over the past six decades. They recognise that there has been a significant increase in the 1990s as refugees from numerous regional conflicts poured into the areas around the lake.
"Fishing in the lake is a Wild West activity, there are nominal controls but no teeth," said Prof Cohen.
"Given the current trends of warming, the lake stratification will get stronger and the productivity will continue to be affected by that. The people in charge of these decisions need to be thinking about alternative livelihoods for people in the region."
Other researchers are alarmed about the future of the lake. One said: "We are sleepwalking into a disaster."
Others point to the fact that the in Europe and North America, a warming climate is increasing production in lakes. But the tropics are very different.
"In tropical regions, the increased stratification is doing the reverse, at least in some lakes," said Prof John Smol from Queen's University in Kingston, Canada.
"Decreasing algal production means that the base of the food chain is being affected - and this can cascade though the food chain up to fish and organisms - like humans - who depend on these resources."
Besides the threat to food supplies and jobs, the impact of warming on the biodiversity of Lake Tanganyika is of great scientific concern as well. Prof Cohen argues that we should think of the lake as being as significant as some of the world's key hotspots.
"Think about the Galapagos, and how iconic they are, Lake Tanganyika has many times more endemic species and nobody knows about it," he said.
"It's coming to bite us in terms of really impacting livelihoods for people around the lake, and the fact they have so many unsettled people in the region.
"These social and environmental trends are converging and I would say it's a really urgent issue to be aware of and start doing something about."
The research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.
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Ali Qasemi, 45, of Birchtree Avenue, Peterborough, was delivering pizzas when the attack happened in Shrewsbury Avenue, in the early hours of Sunday.
He was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital, in Cambridge, but died on Tuesday afternoon.
In a tribute to her husband, Mrs Qasemi said: "My husband was my everything; my best friend, my soul mate, my life partner and an amazing father."
Anyone with information is asked to call Cambridgeshire Police.
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Defender Vincent Sasso starts a three-game suspension, but Tom Lees could return after missing nine games with a knee injury.
Reading hope to have defenders Liam Moore (hamstring) and Paul McShane (back) available after injury.
Midfielders Liam Kelly and Jordon Mutch are both doubts with hamstring problems and Tiago Ilori (knee) remains out.
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"We're in the position we are now because we've played well throughout the course of the season.
"Of course you want to win every game, but you have to be realistic as well. We're not in a position where we can beat everybody.
"The thing is in how we've played and lost in the past couple of games away, is the little mistakes we've made not because the other teams were better than us."
The 30-year-old was out of contract and was offered a new deal following Vale's relegation to League Two.
But, having appeared 83 times in two seasons for Vale after joining from Yeovil, he has opted to sign a two-year deal at Sixfields Stadium.
The move reunites him with Cobblers boss Justin Edinburgh - his manager at Newport County.
Foley told BBC Radio Northampton: "Justin being here has been the big lure for me. I've worked hard in my career with Justin previously, I know what he wants from his players and football and sort of aligns with what I want.
"Also, Northampton being a League One club, it's where I want to play my football and I'm thankful they wanted to sign me. The opportunity to play at a higher division was too good to turn down."
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The force says its effort has "almost entirely" stopped UK campaigns by the car, food/drink and property sectors being placed on the illegal web pages.
The scheme involves a blacklist, which is shared with ad brokers whose software determines what ads go where.
But one expert said the effect on the sites' earnings might be "negligible".
Operation Creative was launched by the City of London Police's Intellectual Property Crime Unit (Pipcu) in the summer of 2013.
It led to the creation of the Infringing Website List (IWL) - a database of online services that the police have confirmed provide access to unauthorised content.
Hundreds of sites now appear on the list, which has not been made public. Owners are given a chance to remove illegal material before their platforms are included.
Two years on, Pipcu says there has been a 73% drop in advertising from the UK's "top ad spending companies" on the affected sites, which it suggests both reduces their income and removes their "look of legitimacy".
The figure is based on research carried out by Whitebullet - a firm that provides online intellectual property services.
It surveyed the ads placed on 17 sites that offer unauthorised access to TV shows, movies, music and games - both over a 12-week period between June and September 2013 and again between March and June 2015.
The firm's chief executive explained that ads are typically targeted at a local audience - so, a UK-based web user will normally see ads funded by a British campaign, even if the site in question is based elsewhere.
"The effort in the UK means that the advertising profile changes considerably," Peter Szyszko told the BBC.
"You start getting less and less high value advertising - big brands, household name - and you start moving towards either no advertising or different formats of advertising that tend to pay less or are less credible from a consumer perspective - adult sites or sites advertising 'free games' that ultimately contain malware, are fraudulent or are generally just inappropriate."
Mr Szyszko acknowledged, however, that some big-name ads were still getting through.
Brokers used by the leading media buying agencies are supposed to filter the sites they direct ads to, in order to screen out those on the blacklist.
But Mr Szyszko explained that sometimes brokers sub-contracted the work out to other third-parties who were less diligent, meaning the process was not foolproof.
"Holes can appear, and that's why you can still get the premium advertising appearing," he said.
One expert had mixed feelings about the effort.
"It shows copyright enforcement activities are no longer focused on violating internet user's fundamental and civil rights by monitoring all internet traffic, censorship, and shady political deals, as was the case just a few years ago," said Bendert Zevenbergen from the Oxford Internet Institute.
"However, if a few [advertising] sectors do indeed pull out, others will automatically take their place, and the effect on the website's income may be negligible.
"The strategy also does not tackle the underlying problem.
"Internet users demand ubiquitous access to quality content - for which they would gladly pay - so the creative industries would do better to focus their efforts on making their catalogues available on innovative internet-based distribution channels, like Spotify and Netflix, or invest in creating new user friendly services online."
A police spokesman said the man - earlier named as Adem Karadag - was the figure in a yellow shirt seen on CCTV leaving a bag at the shrine.
Thai police had earlier said neither of two men in their custody were the main suspects for the 17 August attack.
The motive for the bombing, which killed 20 people, remains unclear.
Fourteen foreigners were among those killed.
Police have released warrants for a total of 17 people over charges stemming from the attack.
The suspects are believed to carrying Chinese, Thai, Turkish and Pakistani passports, though their exact origins are unclear as some are thought to be using fake documents.
Mr Karadag, who has also been named as Bilal Mohammed, was arrested in late August in a raid on a flat on the eastern outskirts of Bangkok.
Thai police had said DNA samples taken from him did not match the DNA found on evidence that the bomber is believed to have left behind on the night of the attack.
Police also appeared to rule out that a second man in their custody - identified as Yusufu Mieraili - was a main suspect in the attack.
However, on Friday, police spokesman Prawut Thornsiri said one of the warrants issued was for "Bilal Mohammed, who is the man in yellow who placed the rucksack at the Erawan shrine".
"All the information we have leads back to him."
Many of the suspects named by Thai police have Muslim-sounding names, prompting speculation that they may be linked to jihadist networks or to Uighur separatist militants from China.
However, the police have not suggested that the attack was politically motivated.
The Erawan shrine - centred around a four-faced golden statue of the Hindu god Brahma - is considered sacred by Thai Buddhists, and attracts many foreign visitors.
Resuming on 141-3, Glamorgan collapsed to 223 all out, only Aneurin Donald (57) offering any real resistance.
Openers Daryl Mitchell and Brett D'Oliveira fell cheaply, but Tom Fell's 15 not out saw the visitors to 28-2.
Glamorgan were beaten in under two-and-a-half days, having failed to last two days in their opener with Northants.
Six ft 5 in paceman Tongue, 19, was making only his second Worcestershire appearance, having taken four wickets in the match in his first-class debut against Oxford MCCU earlier in April.
Glamorgan coach Robert Croft told BBC Wales Sport:
"It is frustrating to everybody. There is a group of players that are very disappointed. As support staff we are, and I am sure every supporter that followers Glamorgan is.
"It is certainly not the start that we envisaged or imagine or hoped for, but it is where we find ourselves. The crucial thing is as a squad, and I include support staff and players in that, is we work our way out of it. And when we work our way out of it we remember how it feels so we don't go back here.
"It is inevitable that confidence gets dented when you have got hurt badly in the first innings in Northampton and the same happened here. We've been very much behind the eight ball from the first session of the game."
Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"I'm really proud of the boys. It was a terrific effort. The toss was important, and we soon had them in trouble in helpful conditions.
"It was so good to see the young players such as Josh Tongue and Tom Kohler- Cadmore perform so well. It bodes well for the remainder of the summer.
"There's more to come from Josh Tongue. He's certainly got some pace in him. We saw that when he hit Donald on the helmet. However, he still has two screws in his back, following a stress fracture, and it's very important that we do things right for him."
That would be an increase from the tally of five places that the continent currently holds.
A tenth African country will take part in a six-nation play-off tournament to decide the last two spots.
Football's world governing body has revealed its plans for how all 48 places will be allocated, with 16 Europeans teams set to qualify.
"The Bureau of the Fifa Council, comprised of the Fifa President and the president of each of the six confederations, agreed on (the) proposed allocation," said a Fifa statement.
The recommendations will be voted on by the Fifa Council at its next meeting on 9 May.
Fifa members voted in January to expand the World Cup from 32 to 48 teams, starting with the 2026 edition.
Proposed allocation:
NB: Currently teams from Asia, north and central America, South America and Oceania play-off for two places hence .5 spots above.
Gareth Malachy Doris, 39, of Gortnaskea Place, Coalisland, disputed any involvement in fuel laundering.
The charges followed an incident at J & K coaches in Ardboe on 19 March 2014 which was attended by police and an HMRC official.
Doris was found guilty of fraudulent evasion of duty on hydrocarbon oil.
Separately, Kevin Quinn, 40, of Ardean Close, Cookstown, pleaded guilty on Monday to fraudulent evasion of duty on hydrocarbon oil and having vehicles with laundered fuel, in relation to the incident.
Another man, John Thomas O'Neill, 46, of Sandy Row, Coalisland, pleaded guilty to a single count of fraudulent evasion of duty.
Doris's case has been adjourned for sentence along with the two co-accused next month.
Mr Tusk, who is overseeing the negotiation, urged European leaders to handle the situation "with care".
UK PM David Cameron is seeking a deal at this week's crunch EU summit before holding the UK's referendum.
Earlier he bowed to pressure to hold a cabinet meeting straight after the summit if a deal is agreed.
A Number 10 spokesman said the prime minister and French President Francois Hollande had held "constructive discussions" on the UK renegotiation when they met in Paris late on Monday.
"They agreed that we are making good progress... and that the draft text from the European Council provides a firm basis to reach agreement at this week's summit," the spokesman said.
Mr Tusk is on a tour of European countries ahead of the two-day summit of EU leaders, which begins on Thursday.
Speaking after holding talks with the Romanian and French presidents, he said negotiations on Britain's future inside the 28-member bloc were "difficult but… hugely important".
Reflecting on the talks, he said: "This is a critical moment. It is high time we started listening to each other's arguments more than to our own.
"It is natural in negotiations that positions harden, as we get closer to crunch time.
"But the risk of break-up is real because this process is indeed very fragile. Handle with care. What is broken cannot be mended."
BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said Mr Tusk was trying to "concentrate minds" ahead of the EU summit as leaders of the different member states stake out their positions.
The French government is said to be concerned about UK calls for protection for non-eurozone countries, but No 10 said the French had shown "willingness" to find a solution.
As part of his diplomatic push, Mr Cameron - who met German Chancellor Angela Merkel for talks on Friday - will discuss the renegotiation with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Tuesday, as well as senior MEPs.
If a deal is agreed on the PM's reforms, which also include curbs on migrants' welfare entitlement, he will hold a cabinet meeting on Friday evening, sources have told the BBC.
Downing Street has said ministers cannot speak out until the cabinet has met to agree a government position, and it was claimed this would give the Remain campaign an unfair head start if a meeting was delayed until the following week.
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Former singing teacher Ali Cameron Daw aims to show people how to hold a note and to enrol them in a backing group for The Rooterz.
She said: "I know people believe they can't sing, and my mission really is to prove them wrong and get them to come along."
The group will be performing live on stage in January at a weekend music festival in Bradford on Avon, in Wiltshire.
BBC Points West's Ali Vowles reports.
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City will pay an initial £44m for the 20-year-old, making him the most expensive English player ever.
Sterling had asked to leave Anfield and was the subject of two bids from City in June, both of which were rejected.
City boss Manuel Pellegrini described Sterling, who has signed a five-year deal, as "one of the best attacking players in world football".
Sterling, who is only behind Gareth Bale on the list of most expensive British players, will wear the number seven shirt.
Pellegrini added: "He is a young player with outstanding ability, and I am sure the Manchester City fans will be very excited about seeing him in action for the team."
The England international had been under contract at Liverpool until 2017 but turned down a £100,000-a-week deal to extend his five-year stay at Anfield.
Sterling joined Liverpool from QPR in February 2010 for an initial fee of £600,000, and the Loftus Road club will receive 20% of his fee.
Several former Liverpool players have criticised the player since he told manager Brendan Rodgers and chief executive Ian Ayre he wanted to leave the club this summer.
Former captain Steven Gerrard said he was "disappointed" in the England international.
A recent study ranked Sterling as the most valuable young player in Europe, ahead of Paris St-Germain defender Marquinhos and Manchester United's recently acquired Dutch forward Memphis Depay.
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Jerome scored City's consolation in a 5-1 thrashing at Sheffield Wednesday - their 10th away defeat this season.
Norwich have picked up 36 points at Carrow Road, but just 16 on their travels this term.
"You've got to be honest with yourself and as players we're not honest with ourselves," he told BBC Radio Norfolk.
"I think we lack respect for our team-mates, we're not fighting for each other.
"We lack respect for the coaching staff. All the things they do for us we don't follow our instructions or orders. It's like everyone plays for themselves."
The defeat left Norwich in eighth place, nine points adrift of the Owls in sixth - the final play-off spot - with 11 matches of the season remaining.
Jerome, the Canaries' leading scorer with 12 league goals, said it would be an "uphill task now to make the play-offs".
"We've not got enough about us as a squad to roll our sleeves up unfortunately and we've been found out on more than one occasion, that's why our away record's so poor," 30-year-old Jerome said.
"Ultimately we've been embarrassing, and a lack of everything on the pitch has let us down.
"We'll keep fighting, we'll keep going to the end. We owe it to ourselves, we owe it the fans, we owe it to the club."
Jordan Begley, 23, died in hospital two hours after he was shot by a police officer with the stun gun at his home in Gorton, Manchester, in July 2013.
His mother Dorothy called police after a row escalated with neighbours.
Manchester Civil Courts of Justice heard Mr Begley threatened to stab a neighbour as the 999 call was made.
Hugh Davies QC, representing PC Terence Donnelly, who is said to have shot the stun gun, and four other officers involved in the incident, read part of the transcript from Mrs Begley's 999 call to the court.
She had barred Jordan from leaving the house they shared after he had been accused of stealing a handbag by a neighbour amid threats of revenge.
Her son, who was a heavy drinker and used cocaine, was heard protesting his innocence and shouting at his neighbour, saying he will get a "knife right in his face".
Mrs Begley told the call handler: "There's going to be murder."
Mr Davies said: "He was a threat to other people with the knife in the mood he was in."
She replied: "If I let him go out he probably would have used it."
The court heard when police arrived Mr Begley was calm at first but became "extremely agitated" and swore at officers to get out of "his house".
Mr Davies reminded the jury Mrs Begley previously said as she left the house her son had a look on his face that said, 'mum help me' as the officer pointed the Taser at him.
Asked why she did not help, Mrs Begley said she did not think they would Taser him "because he was not doing anything" and he "did nothing that deserved being Tasered".
Mr Begley was Tasered from a distance of 70cm (27ins) then hit with "distraction strikes" as police restrained and handcuffed him, the inquest has heard. He was not armed.
Mr Begley then become unwell and was admitted to hospital, where he died.
The inquest continues.
It's a formal state visit. He will be the Queen's guest at Buckingham Palace.
There will be plenty of pomp and circumstance, but also a lot of hard-nosed commercial work.
Both sides are keen to see more trade, and the UK in particular wants to encourage Chinese investment here.
Before any of the business gets under way there has been some news that will affect the atmosphere of President Xi's visit. We have had new data for China's economic growth in the third quarter of the year.
And it came very close to what was expected. According to the official figures China's economy grew by 6.9% compared with a year earlier. That's just below 7% for each of the first two quarters, and significantly down from the 10% average of the previous three decades.
The figures feed into what is arguably the biggest global economic issue of the moment - will China's growth slowdown be a smooth or bumpy ride? Or as it is often put - a hard or soft landing?
That there is a slowdown is beyond doubt, and in principle, as long as we do get the soft landing, it's generally seen as welcome.
For three decades China's annual economic growth averaged 10%. Since 2010 it has slowed. Last year's figure was 7.4%, and it's generally accepted this year will be slower, followed by a further deceleration in 2016.
Yes, these are Chinese official figures whose reliability is widely criticised. Willem Buiter, chief economist at the giant financial firm Citigroup has suggested this year's true figure could be less than 4%. Danny Gabay of Fathom Consulting told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that it's more like 3%. He says China is already into a hard landing and there's a financial crisis on the way.
There are plenty who don't think it's that bad. But there is no real doubt that growth is slowing, perhaps by a good deal more than those official figures suggest.
Meanwhile, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, wants to deepen the UK's commercial relationship with China.
Back in 2013 he took steps to encourage trading of the Chinese currency in London.
More recently, while in China, he told the BBC he wants the country to become Britain's second-biggest export market within 10 years. It's currently sixth.
Is that wise, you might ask? If China is slowing perhaps British exporters have missed the boat if they have not already established themselves there.
And will China be such an important source of business for British financial services?
Well, it may be slowing but it is continuing to grow. The International Monetary Fund projects growth of more than 6% up to 2019.
As China is either the largest, or second largest, economy on the planet, depending on how you convert national figures into dollars (or some other currency), it means China growing at more than 6% would contribute more growth to the global economy than any other country.
In fact China alone growing at 6% would mean global economic growth of more than 1%. On the basis of IMF projections for growth over the next few years, no other country comes close.
Even if you take sides with the statistical sceptics and take a lower figure for China's growth outlook, it still looks like an important business opportunity.
It's true some countries are already feeling the pinch from China's slowdown.
Producers of industrial commodities - energy and metals - are especially exposed. China's slowdown has undermined demand for their exports, and prices have fallen dramatically.
Not that Britain has been completely immune to this kind of problem.
The crisis and the job losses at the SSI steel plant in Redcar - and more expected at Tata Steel operations in Scunthorpe and Lanarkshire - have been blamed in part on cheaper Chinese steel sales and the fall in global steel prices
But China is not just slowing. It's trying to change the driving forces behind its expanding economy.
The aim for China's leaders is to shift from an economy driven by exports and very high levels of investment. The focus it's shifting away from - industry and big construction projects - is the kind of business that is hungry for these industrial commodities.
Instead the Chinese authorities want an economy that's increasingly driven by Chinese consumers.
So perhaps that will open up new types of opportunity.
Foreign Office economists have looked at where the gains might lie for British industry if China opens its economy up.
The report suggested that cars, pharmaceuticals, and financial and business services have a lot to gain.
That certainly makes sense in terms of sectors you would expect to experience growing demand as a country's economy develops. As Chinese businesses become more sophisticated they are likely to need more specialist services, an area where Britain is strong.
More prosperous people will want more medicines, and of course more cars.
The UK's Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said (in February): "China is the largest single market for British-built cars after the UK".
The manufacturers are not British-owned, but they do make cars in the UK and sell them abroad.
China still has a long way to go to catch up with the developed world in terms of average living standards.
Even if the whole economy is arguably the biggest of all in terms of gross domestic product (GDP), it is far behind in GDP per person, which is a rough and ready indicator of prosperity.
China's GDP per capita is just over a third of the UK's, and a quarter of the US figure. But the gap is closing.
Slowdown or not, China's economy is increasingly one of the biggest games in town, even if it's not the only one.
That is the cover of the Meat Atlas, a yearly publication by the Heinrich Boell Foundation - a German environmental NGO - and Friends of the Earth. The first English version for the international market was released on Thursday.
But the Meat Atlas is not necessarily meant to turn you veggie - although the cover title "facts and figures about the animals we eat" might appear blunt to the more squeamish.
The aim is to inform consumers about the dangers of increasingly industrialised meat production, says Barbara Unmuessig, the foundation's president, herself a self-confessed enjoyer of the occasional organic steak.
"In the rich North we already have high meat consumption. Now the poor South is catching up," she said. "Catering for this growing demand means industrialised farming methods: animals are pumped full of growth hormones. This has terrible consequences on how animals are treated and on the health of consumers."
In the United States more than 75kg (165lbs) of meat is consumed per person each year. In Germany that figure is around 60kg. Huge amounts compared to per capita meat consumption rates of 38kg in China, and less than 20kg in Africa.
But whereas in the developed world meat consumption has stabilised - or in some countries such as Germany, is even falling - in other parts of the world, particularly in India and China, consumers are taking enthusiastically to a meat-heavy Western diet.
There are social consequences, according to the Meat Atlas: the more meat we eat, the more animals we have to feed.
As a result increasing amounts of agricultural land are being given over to grow animal feed, such as soya. Globally 70% of arable land is now being used to grow food for animals, rather than food for people, says the Heinrich Boell Foundation.
This is undermining the fight against starvation and poverty, says Barbara Unmuessig, as individual farmers are pushed off their land by huge competitive corporations. And industrialised methods have led to an overuse of damaging chemicals, she believes.
But Germans are torn.
On the one hand, this is a country with a powerful meat industry which slaughters 700 million animals a year - as well as a strong tradition of eating meat: wandering round chomping on a sausage is a normal part of most street festivals, and dried pieces of salami, wrapped in plastic wrappers like chocolate bars, are popular snacks.
German consumers are also used to the cheap food which is a direct result of industrial farming methods. The average German household spends around 10% of its entire income on food today, one of the lowest figures in the world, compared to more than 30% three decades ago.
At the same time, though, environmental concerns rank high in Germany. The Green Party is a powerful political force here, with 63 seats in the national parliament.
And saving the planet is not just a left-wing or fringe issue: it was a centre-right government, led by Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, which decided to phase out nuclear power within the next decade because of fears of damaging the environment.
And culturally, German society has an almost fetishised love of all things deemed to be natural.
So eating meat has become a guilt-inducing balancing act for your average socially conscious, environmentally aware German consumer.
But attempts to force the issue have fallen flat. An initiative proposed by the Green Party before the recent election to introduce a weekly vegetarian day in work canteens was ridiculed by opponents as an unwarranted infringement of personal choice.
Steffen Hentrich from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, a free market think-tank, disagrees with the connection made by the Meat Atlas between meat-eating and environmental damage.
"We all want a cleaner environment. But meat-eating in itself is not the problem. It's rather the political frameworks in developing countries which cause the environmental damage. So we shouldn't have a bad conscience."
Estimated consumption per person in kg, based on dressed carcass weight Source: Meat Atlas
He says that meat-eating is being stigmatised in Germany, and that a lot of the statistics in the Meat Atlas are interpreted in a subjective political manner - criticising phrases like "in slaughterhouses the battle for the lowest prices is being fought on the workers' backs" as politically-biased anti-capitalist language.
And he believes that too often in Germany there is a romanticised idea of the traditional meat industry which ignores the reality of the past.
"A complete rejection of modern farming methods is just not legitimate," he argues. "I grew up near a sheep slaughter house. I saw how sheep were killed. And it wasn't kind or pretty. In the past the welfare of the animal was the bottom priority."
"Our aim is not to make anyone feel guilty," counters Barbara Unmuessig. "It's not about preaching or moralising to people. What we eat is a private matter. But it's important to remember that what we put on our plates has political consequences."
Eat less and eat better, appears to be the message for tortured environmentally conscious meat-eaters.
So, the day after she passed away, he made the multiple telephone calls required, hoping that her affairs could be tied up swiftly to allow the family time to grieve.
"Everybody could not have been more helpful," he says.
Everyone, that is, except the cable and telephone company.
It wrote a letter addressed to Mr Stevenson's late mother, Jean Campbell, which was then followed up with a email asking why she was leaving. Staff were sent to the wrong address to pick up the TV box, and a rebate cheque was made out to her instead of her son.
It took weeks and many telephone calls to get these mistakes corrected. The company never replied to Mr Stevenson's letter of complaint at the end of the whole saga.
"Things like this are a one-off for people like us, but companies have to deal with these situations every day," he says. "It could have been so much easier if they got it right first time."
Mr Stevenson, from Falkirk, was one of many BBC News website readers who shared their stories of poor customer service after losing a loved one, having read about the case of Jim Boyden.
Mr Boyden had posted a photograph on Facebook of a broadband bill sent to his late father-in-law by Virgin Media, which included a fine for late payment even though the direct debit note said "payer deceased". The company apologised.
Some of these stories appear to be the result of computers generating the letters in a world of big business dealing with millions of customers.
One reader told of how his family was sent a final bill by a communications company, while they were still grieving, demanding a payment of 1p.
Other cases seem beyond belief. Jean Barton, of Stockport, rang a company to explain that her mother had died and the account needed to be closed.
They sent an invoice, addressed to her late mother, which said "Sorry you have chosen to leave".
It is not just those who have suffered the loss of a loved one who have been on the receiving end of insensitive letters and calls.
Reader Andrew Wilson, of Wigan, writes: "My mum called me to say her [cable] services had been disconnected. When we called we were informed that the account had been closed as my mum had passed away.
"We informed them that my mother was very much alive."
In the highly automated and regulated world of customer services, mistakes like this do occur. Yet, Jo Causon, chief executive of the Institute of Customer Service, says this should never be used as an excuse during brief contact with families who are bereaved and often feeling vulnerable.
Source: Money Advice Service
"This is a moment of truth in terms of getting it right," she says.
"The process can be seen to be quite mechanical, cold and insensitive."
She says operators, who have to keep to certain rules regarding sensitive personal data, still need to show "emotional intelligence" by appreciating the position the caller is in and respond with empathy and respect.
Even if they are just doing their job, some understanding of the vulnerability of customers might prevent people being offended.
Chris Pratt, of Nottingham, outlined a case of this kind. He was sent an "insensitive and ironically prompt" request to send part of a pension payment back because his father, who had retired after 38 years of service, had died halfway through the month.
In some cases, the bereaved family might want the matter just to be dealt with in a functional and prompt way, Ms Causon says.
With the internet and social media pushing the balance of power further towards the consumer, the consequences of getting it wrong may now have a wider effect, as Mr Boyden's case proved.
So, Ms Causon says, the key to avoiding such mistakes is good training.
Kristina Hultgren, a lecturer in English language and applied linguistics at the Open University, has conducted research into how call centre staff are coached to talk to customers.
She says staff receive "empathy training" and need to compensate for the personal relationship being diluted in the name of call centre efficiency.
First Direct, the online and telephone bank, employs nearly 3,000 people at its enormous call centre in Leeds, and has won various awards for customer service.
It has a team who are trained specifically in taking calls from bereaved relatives of customers. They sit in a quieter corner of the call centre.
As soon as it is clear that the caller is a bereaved relative, then the call is diverted to one of at least two of these specialist staff members who are on shift at any one time.
But mistakes still occur, and like many other institutions, the bank has a "grovel list" that staff can use if a mistake has been made.
Call operators can offer wine, chocolate, flowers or a cheque up to the value of £50 to compensate people left upset or distressed.
Staff make the call depending on what is said on the phone, but can also refer the case to senior management in more serious circumstances.
So, what can customers do to save themselves from this extra upset if they lose a loved one?
The paperwork involved after a death can be cumbersome and confusing, and lead to bigger problems. This was illustrated in the case, sent to BBC News, of Kathryn Dewar's newly widowed mother. She was pursued by debt collectors for an unpaid bill of £11, despite her belief all the outstanding bills had been paid.
Rebecca Hirst, of First Direct, suggests that it is important to keep a will up to date. Loved ones should also be aware of their close family members' financial affairs, such as knowing which accounts they hold.
There are lots of guides for those who are recently bereaved, such as the Money Advice Service's checklist of dealing with money after a death, which includes tips on clearing up tax and pension issues, and meeting the immediate costs of funerals.
Citizens Advice also has help on financial affairs when somebody dies, and specific information on redirecting post of a late family member.
And among the paperwork, there is the expense.
Matthew Kelly told the BBC of how his mother was told she would be charged to insert her name on an account in place of that of her late husband - the fee was greater than that for a death certificate.
The company eventually waived the charge. Given the chance, these companies and their staff want to make amends for any upset they have caused.
Innisfil will subsidise a portion of the fare for all trips with the taxi firm taken by residents within the town's boundaries.
Officials say the deal offers more flexibility for residents and is cheaper than adding a town bus service.
Uber Canada public policy manager Chris Schafer says the project has sparked global interest.
The cost of a ride to any four of the community's transport or recreation hubs will cost residents between C$3 (US$2.20/£1.70) and C$5 (US$3.60/£2.80).
They will also get a C$5 discount on any custom trip within Innisfil, a lake-side Ontario town of about 36,000 people 100 km (62 miles) north of Toronto.
Tim Cane, the town's land use planning manager, said Innisfil had been struggling to figure out an affordable transport model that would serve an area over 290 square km (110 square miles).
A bus would have cost the town $270,000 annually for one route and $610,000 for two, which they thought would be too expensive, Mr Cane added.
Mr Cane said the town council wrestled for years with the question: "How do we afford a transit model that on a good day would serve maybe 20% of the population?"
Senior Innisfil official Jason Reynar issued his staff the challenge, and the idea for a "demand-responsive transit service" was born.
But one cab company owner has expressed frustration.
Global Taxi owner Manjot Saini told the CP24 news station that Uber puts local taxis at a disadvantage. He worries he might lose drivers to the competition.
"Uber is destroying the industry," he said.
Mr Cane said the town consulted with the three local companies early in the process and the programme was "never about Uber versus taxis" but about providing a service to residents.
"Let's just try this on," said Mr Cane. "Whatever service we provide is better than a service we don't have."
The community has set aside $100,000 for the programme's initial 6-9 month phase and another $125,000 for the indeterminate second phase.
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Author Sir Terry Pratchett was among 50 signatories of a letter to the Daily Telegraph saying Britain was a largely "non-religious society".
The PM said the UK should be "more confident" about its Christianity, a view No 10 says he has stated before.
Faith leaders have said they are "very comfortable" with Mr Cameron's views.
The open letter's signatories included author Philip Pullman, performer Tim Minchin, journalist Polly Toynbee, philosopher AC Grayling and presenter Dan Snow.
Its lead signatory was Professor Jim Al-Khalili, president of the British Humanist Association.
The group said it respected the prime minister's right to his own religious beliefs, but said: "We object to his characterisation of Britain as a 'Christian country' and the negative consequences for politics and society that this engenders."
"Apart from in the narrow constitutional sense that we continue to have an established Church, Britain is not a 'Christian country'.
"Constantly to claim otherwise fosters alienation and division in our society," the letter said.
Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the assertion Britain is a Christian country was "not factually accurate".
He said a YouGov poll found 65% of people questioned described themselves as "not religious", while 29% said they were. He said those people would have come from a range of faiths - not just Christianity.
Mr Tatchell said the evidence shows the is not a Christian country, saying: "We are a multi-faith society, we are also a no-faith society."
His claims come after figures released by the ONS following the 2011 census found that, despite a drop of four million in the number of people who said they were Christians in England and Wales from 2001, 59% of residents still described themselves as Christian.
Christina Rees, a member of the General Synod, the highest governing body of the Church of England, said she was glad Mr Cameron had the "confidence" to talk about his faith and was "absolutely right" to call the UK a "Christian nation".
She said the UK was "historically and culturally" Christian.
Farooq Murad, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said nobody could deny that the UK remains a largely Christian country with "deep historical and structural links" to Christianity.
He said "a sense of the sacred is to be cherished" but added that the UK would be stronger by "recognising and celebrating" people of multiple faiths and of no faith "living in harmony".
Anil Bhanot, managing director of the Hindu Council UK, said he was "very comfortable" with the UK being described as a Christian country.
In an article for the Church Times earlier this month Mr Cameron said Christians should be "confident" in standing up to defend their values.
The prime minister also spoke of his faith in his Easter message, saying he found "peace" in Christianity.
Downing Street spokeswoman referred to a speech made three years ago by the prime minister where he said the UK was a Christian country and should not be afraid to say so.
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BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said Mr Cameron's comments could be politically "useful", coming as the UK Independence Party (UKIP) has been "emphasising traditional values".
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Peacock overcame a stumble at the start to win the T44 100m final at the IPC World Championships in 10.99 seconds.
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The 20-year-old finished 0.02 secs clear of Browne, with reigning champion Jerome Singleton third in Lyon.
Browne had beaten Peacock's single leg amputee world record of 10.85 by 0.02 secs in Monday's semi-final.
"The last few days have been stressful but I came here to get a job done," Peacock told BBC Sport.
"I didn't execute the start how I should have done and he got a couple of steps ahead of me, but from then on it was just head down and push and get to the line.
"At the end I thought I had won, but it was close. For the last 20m I just had to relax. I knew if I did that I would go faster."
Browne, who had been vocal on Twitter in the build-up to the race about his rivalry with Peacock, was visibly annoyed and initially left without speaking to the media before returning a few moments later to pay tribute to the winner.
"That was a phenomenal race and performance from Jonnie. After the semi-finals, my heart said he would win, but my head said Browne. Then the guys were on the track for a long time ahead of the race and the music was playing and you saw Browne expending all of his energy, dancing and cheering at the crowd while Jonnie just sat on his blocks looking up the track. At that point, Jonnie looked like the winner. He did stumble out of the blocks, but to be that composed under a lot of pressure - coming here as favourite and losing his world record - was fantastic."
"It was such a close race, it was a great race. I tried to dip at the line but he got me and I can't complain," said the 22-year-old.
"I've only been an amputee for three years, and on the track for one year, so I can't be upset with myself."
Peacock, who finished sixth at the last World Championships in New Zealand in 2011 before grabbing gold in London, hit back at Browne's Twitter remarks.
"It is about finals at the end of the day," he added. "I don't understand all this talk, where you talk about it before. It's about whoever wins the race, then you can start talking."
The pair are set to meet again on Sunday at the London Anniversary Games in the Olympic Stadium, where they could also be joined by Brazilian double amputee Alan Oliveira, who won gold in his event on Tuesday, the T43 100m.
The Brazilian triumphed in a time of 10.80 - just outside the 10.77 world record he set in Berlin in June - to complete the 100m and 200m double.
Earlier, Richard Whitehead and Aled Davies won golds for Britain in the T42 200m and F42 discus respectively.
Whitehead had a poor start but stormed through late on to win in 24.79 seconds, ahead of Australia's Scott Reardon (25.29).
"That was the hardest last 50m I have ever done," said the GB team captain.
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Whitehead broke one of the feet of his prosthetic legs while training last week and was also suffering from a quad muscle injury in the build-up to the race.
"It was tough today but the support was great," he added. "It was all about crossing the line first. I dug deep and at one stage it was about how much I really wanted it and I wanted it more than the others.
"I just wanted to show that a 37-year-old can still be a competitor."
In the morning session, Davies, who won shot put gold on Sunday, looked out of sorts early on with fouls in his first two rounds.
But he regained his composure and threw 47.62m in the final round to win by over six metres.
"I didn't make it easy for myself but to come away as a double world champion is a good week's work," he said.
"It was a tough competition and I wanted to start with a big throw because I knew I was in good shape but I won in the end and that is all that matters.
"I had to make a standing throw just to make the cut and once I threw 43.51 in the fifth round I knew I was safe and it wasn't bad to come away with the second-longest throw of my career in the last round."
The Twaddell Avenue protest has been ongoing since July 2013.
But an agreement has now been reached between Ligoniel Orange Lodge and the Crumlin and Ardoyne Residents Association.
It means that three lodges and two bands playing hymns will pass the Ardoyne shops next Saturday 1 October.
Later that day, the loyalist protest camp at Twaddell Avenue will be dismantled.
The dispute - which has cost an estimated £20m to police during the past three years - began after a Parades Commission determination not to allow the return leg to pass a section of the Crumlin Road in 2013.
However on Friday, talks facilitators the Rev Harold Good and Jim Roddy released a statement saying a resolution had been found.
Politicians and police have reacted warmly to news of the breakthrough.
First Minister Arlene Foster called it "a significant step". Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness commended the two facilitators.
However, another nationalist residents group, the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective (Garc), has made it clear that it is opposed to the deal.
The group's Dee Fennell said: "In our opinion, this goes against the wishes of the vast majority of people living in Ardoyne, Mountainview and the Dales."
Eugenio Figueredo was one of seven officials with Fifa, world football's governing body, who were arrested in Zurich on 27 May.
He is accused of receiving bribes worth millions of dollars relating to Copa America tournaments, Switzerland's Federal Office of Justice said.
He has 30 days to appeal against his extradition to the US.
Mr Figueredo is a former vice-president of the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) and was a vice-president of Fifa.
The Swiss statement said he is accused of:
Mr Figueredo had earlier contested attempts to extradite him.
What's in the Fifa indictment?
So far, only one arrested official - former Fifa Vice-President Jeffrey Webb, from the Cayman Islands - has agreed to be moved from Switzerland.
At a hearing in June, Mr Webb pleaded not guilty to accepting bribes worth millions of dollars in connection with the sale of marketing rights.
He was placed under house arrest on $10m (£6.4m) bail by a New York judge.
Eugenio Figueredo was born in Uruguay in 1932.
He played for the Uruguayan club Huracan Buceo and served as its president between 1971 and 1972.
In 1997 he was named president of the Uruguayan Football Association.
Pastor James McConnell, 78, of Shore Road, Newtownabbey denies two charges relating to a sermon he gave in a church last year.
The judge said he was not convinced that there were no circumstances under which the preacher could be convicted.
He held that Pastor McConnell had a case to answer.
The defence's application to halt proceedings was made on the second day of the trial at Belfast Magistrates Court.
It came at the end of the prosecution case, when a defence barrister said he believed the pastor had no case to answer.
He argued that Pastor McConnell's criticism of Islam in a sermon last year was covered by legal protection for freedom of expression.
He also pointed to the fact that the pastor had shown "genuine remorse" if his comments had caused offence to Muslims.
Earlier, the court was played a tape recording of an interview Pastor McConnell took part in on Talkback on BBC Radio Ulster in June this year.
In it, he said he had no regrets about his sermon but said he was sorry if Muslims had been hurt by what he said.
Pastor McConnell is charged with improper use of a public electronic communications network and causing a grossly offensive message to be sent by means of a public electronic communications network.
The trial began on Monday and is expected to conclude on Wednesday.
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Two penalties apiece from Toby Flood and his replacement Owen Farrell brought England to within four points after Pat Lambie's boot and Willem Alberts' fortuitous try had opened up a 10-point Springbok lead.
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But England's efforts ended in controversy when they opted to kick a late penalty rather than go for the try that would have put them in front.
While Farrell landed the three points there was insufficient time to mount another attack, and a more battle-hardened, streetwise Springbok unit had the win.
It means England have now failed to beat the Springboks in their last 11 meetings, and effectively ends their hopes of a top four seeding going into the draw for the next World Cup.
No team outside of a top four ranking has ever won the World Cup and England will be drawn with one of the top four teams in the group stages of the tournament they will host in 2015.
Wholehearted and hard-working, Stuart Lancaster's men nonetheless lacked both composure and a cutting edge.
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And with the New Zealand All Blacks to come at Twickenham next Saturday, there is a strong possibility that they will end their autumn campaign with just a solitary victory over Fiji to show for their efforts.
England had come out of the traps at pace, Geoff Parling charging down Ruan Pienaar's clearing kick from the very first ruck to set up a penalty chance that Flood pulled across the posts from wide right.
Moments later a simpler chance following a side-stepping run from Mike Brown and dynamic series of drives from the forwards allowed Flood put the home side 3-0 up, only for Lambie to level things up from South Africa's first spell in England's 22.
Flood was mangled by three defenders as he attempted to run possession from deep and was helped off the pitch, returning to bang over a second, straightforward penalty before Lambie returned the compliment after skipper Chris Robshaw was penalised at the turning scrum.
England were dominating at the scrum, Flood missing a simple penalty when the Springbok pack was split asunder.
"These are the moments that can haunt a leader for night after sleepless night. Decide in an instant, live with the repercussions for an age. Stick or twist? Red or black? Kick or corner?"
But South Africa were making their few chances count. Lambie made it 6-9 after referee Nigel Owens spotted hands in the ruck, and Tom Youngs was penalised for a crooked line-out to cost his side further momentum.
Better was to come. A slicing break from Alex Goode after a frantic spell on halfway brought the crowd to full voice; Flood tried a grubber into space for Manu Tuilagi to run on to but over-cooked it.
Turnover deep in home territory opened a possible overlap that Ben Youngs - perhaps conscious of his over-adventure last week - chose to kick deep instead, and full-back Zane Kirchner did well to cover and kick clear.
If South Africa were a touch fortunate to lead at the break, there was a significant slice of luck about the try that followed soon after the interval.
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A rebound from an attempted kick through gave them territory, and when Juandre Kruger dropped the ball five yards out Youngs' hack clear hit JP Pietersen, eluded Ben Morgan and fell into the grateful grasp of a surprised Alberts a yard out as he flopped over the line.
Lambie added the conversion for 6-16, and as the rain fell the outlook darkened for the men in white.
Only when Manu Tuilagi burst away on an intercept from his own 22 did the atmosphere lift. The centre found Chris Ashton on his inside as he ran out of gas, but the winger's pass to Brown outside him was poor and the opening was gone.
England's struggles at the line-out were intensifying. A fourth loss off their own throw brought a grimace from hooker Youngs, and there was a lack of precision when the ball was put through hands.
Farrell brought it back to 9-16 with 18 minutes left on the clock after Springbok hands in the ruck, but there was a distinct absence of composure and the kicking from hand was poor.
Prolonged pressure and territory failed to yield points. Farrell was struggling to fire the attack; the difficult conditions led to handling errors, and stout defence - with Eben Etzebeth outstanding - snuffed out the rest.
Replacement prop Mako Vunipola spilt the ball when looking to rumble, yet a Springbok error on their own scrum and forwards going off their feet at subsequent ruck gave Farrell an easy penalty for 12-16.
"Let's not forget South Africa are the second best team in the world and England will be absolutely devastated they couldn't go on and win it. I think we must remember Chris Robshaw is a relatively inexperienced player and doing a great job, but kicking for the corner was the right option at the end. I was a little bit surprised at the decision to turn down a penalty on the halfway line before that which would have given them the opportunity in the last five minutes to go on and win the game. I do think England did a lot better today and played the conditions very well. They will count themselves unlucky and rue a fortuitous South Africa try, which kind of dealt them a hammer blow, and some of those Toby Flood missed penalties in the first half, as well as those key decisions in the second half."
At last the capacity 81,000 crowd began to believe. A scrum penalty on halfway was kicked to touch to set up an attacking line-out on the Springbok 22, and the forwards took it up until replacement hooker David Paice knocked on to howls of dismay.
The seconds ticked away, England battering against a green wall and making minimal inroads.
With two minutes left, a lifeline. South Africa were penalised again, but rather than kicking to touch, Farrell was instructed by Robshaw to take the three points that made it 15-16.
It was a calculated gamble greeted with boos from many in the crowd and when the Springboks took control from the restart it was one that failed.
A game that was winnable had slipped away, and England's weary players sank to their knees as the final whistle sounded.
England: Goode, Ashton, Tuilagi, Barritt, Brown, Flood, B. Youngs, Corbisiero, T. Youngs, Cole, Launchbury, Parling, Wood, Robshaw, Morgan.
Replacements: Farrell for Flood (45), Care for B. Youngs (67), Vunipola for Corbisiero (53), Paice for T. Youngs (67), Wilson for Cole (75), Botha for Launchbury (72), Haskell for Wood (53).
Not Used: Joseph.
South Africa: Kirchner, Pietersen, de Jongh, de Villiers, Hougaard, Lambie, Pienaar, Steenkamp, Strauss, J. du Plessis, Etzebeth, J. Kruger, Louw, Alberts, Vermeulen.
Replacements: H. van der Merwe for Steenkamp (62), Brits for Strauss (74), Cilliers for J. du Plessis (40), F. van der Merwe for Etzebeth (69), Coetzee for Alberts (56).
Not Used: Jantjies, Taute, Mvovo.
Att: 81,151
Ref: N Owens (WRFU).
Referee: Nigel Owens (Wales)
Assistant referees: Glen Jackson (New Zealand) & Peter Fitzgibbon (Ireland)
TV: Jim Yuille (Scotland)
But it comes at a time of huge uncertainty for the sector.
The UK is leaving the EU. Our future trading arrangements with Europe and the rest of the world are far from clear.
The car industry has warned that prohibitive tariffs could result in "death by a thousand cuts".
So why has Toyota decided to make this investment? What kind of guarantees has the government given the Japanese carmaker?
And has Toyota received the same sort of assurances that persuaded Nissan to commit to building new models in Sunderland?
What is clear is that for a quarter of a century the UK has been a key part of Toyota's global operations.
The Burnaston plant was Toyota's first car manufacturing facility in Europe.
The first vehicle produced at the plant - the Carina E - rolled off the production line in 1992.
Over almost 25 years it has produced more than four million cars, many of which have been exported to mainland Europe and around the world.
Today, Burnaston is home to the Toyota Auris, one of the biggest selling British-made cars in the world. Together with the Avensis, the plant produced about 180,000 vehicles last year.
Crucially, the decision to upgrade the plant to take Toyota's New Global Architecture, the firm's new system for producing vehicles worldwide, suggests it sees the UK as part of its long-term future.
But the UK's car industry knows that Brexit is coming, and with it the possibility of tariffs and complex customs arrangements.
That threatens the competitiveness of carmakers that rely upon the kind of just-in-time manufacturing that Toyota pioneered.
And there are signs that the prospect of Brexit is hitting investment too.
In January the industry trade body, the SMMT, said that there was £1.66bn of committed investment announced by the industry in the UK in 2016. That was down from £2.5bn the previous year.
It wants tariff-free access to European markets. And it has warned that reverting to World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, with a 10% standard tariff on cars exported to and imported from the EU, would threaten the viability of the industry.
The SMMT says that such import tariffs could add £1,500 to the list price of imported cars.
It could cost the industry and consumers up to £4.5bn, adding £2.7bn to imports and £1.8bn to the cost of exports.
That didn't stop Nissan from committing to expanding production in the UK though.
In October, Nissan announced that it would build two new models - the new Qashqai and X-Trail SUV - in Sunderland after receiving "support and assurances" from the government.
Nissan's boss Carlos Ghosn has since said that it would "re-evaluate the situation" once the Brexit negotiations have concluded.
Those assurances came in a letter to the firm from the Business Secretary, Greg Clark, which has never been published.
Mr Clark has said that the letter contained a number of commitments around making funds available for skills or training, supporting research and development (R&D), bringing more of the supply chain back to the UK and keeping the British car industry competitive.
He also said that the UK would seek to maintain tariff-free trade with the EU.
That's what Toyota and other carmakers want.
Speaking to the BBC recently at the Geneva motor show, Toyota's European boss Dr Johan van Zyl said that the focus for any Brexit deal should be frictionless trade with no tariffs or duties and common regulatory standards.
And he reiterated his commitment to the UK, in the event of a hard or soft Brexit.
"We must prepare ourselves for the worst-case scenario, be as efficient as possible, to still be able to continue with our operations in the UK," he said.
Investing in Burnaston to produce cars using Toyota's New Global Architecture appears to be part of that process. The system allows the company to utilise standardised platforms, systems and components.
Toyota also has a track record in developing lower emission hybrid electric/petrol vehicles. So the firm may have been encouraged by the government's ambition, outlined in its recent industrial strategy green paper, to make the UK a hub for next generation electric cars and battery technology.
But in the end the carmaker may simply have made a pragmatic decision about the future based on almost a quarter of a century of manufacturing in the UK.
It must now hope that both the UK and the EU will see the value in agreeing trading arrangements that will benefit all.
The project has been heavily debated for a number of years, but Scottish ministers have said it offers significant strategic and economic benefits for Scotland.
The government said this would include up to 16,000 new jobs.
Heathrow Airport and the Scottish government have signed a Memorandum of Understanding.
This will highlight a number of commitments by Heathrow Airport, including the new jobs.
If the expansion goes ahead, about £200m would be spent on construction in Scotland, £10m for new domestic routes, and there would be a commitment to investigate Prestwick Airport as a potential site for a logistics hub to support the building of the third runway.
Keith Brown, the cabinet secretary for economy, jobs and fair work, told BBC Radio Scotland that it was the "best deal for Scotland".
Speaking on the Good Morning Scotland programme, he said: "In the absence of action from the UK government, we have made this decision and we would urge them to act as quickly as possible."
The UK government said that it will "shortly announce" a decision on airport expansion, with another runway at Gatwick also in the running.
Environmental campaigners, local authorities near Heathrow and some MPs have raised concerns about the project.
Asked if this was a "green policy", Mr Brown said increasing the number of direct long-haul flights to Scotland could reduce the number of more "damaging" short-haul connections to Heathrow.
He said many people flying directly to Scotland would want to know about onward connections to London.
Mr Brown said the UK needs to have an international hub airport, but was facing "real pressure" from Schiphol, Istanbul and Dubai - and that short-haul connections with those airports would be "even more environmentally damaging" than those to Heathrow.
A spokesman for Gatwick Airport said he was "surprised" by the Scottish government's decision to back a third runway at Heathrow, which he said would "undermine Scotland's connections with the world, making it more dependent on London and the South East of England".
He added: "Some of the suggested benefits to Scotland are unlikely to bear serious scrutiny, which makes the decision all the more curious.
"However, we are confident that expansion will happen at Gatwick and that competition will prevail over the old-fashioned monopoly being planned by Heathrow. That would be the best outcome for Scotland."
The operators of Edinburgh Airport said they believed Gatwick "offered the better deal for Scotland" and described the Heathrow plan as "undeliverable" and potentially "bad for passengers".
A spokesman added: "We are now urging the Scottish government to give greater clarity on their planned cut to Air Passenger Duty (APD) - and we are calling on them to confirm that proposals will deliver a 50% cut in one move to create the greatest growth, generate jobs and support the economy."
Richard Dixon, director of Friends of the Earth Scotland, said the Scottish government's announcement was disappointing.
He told Good Morning Scotland that a third runway at Heathrow would increase passenger traffic by about 70% by 2030.
"If you're concerned about climate change, the last thing you want to do is let aviation grow even more," he said.
"It's the fastest source of greenhouse gases, it's not really under control, and if we're to meet international targets... we can't possibly expand aviation much more than where it is today globally."
Mr Dixon also raised questions over the promises of mass job creation.
"If you're better connected, if it's easier to fly somewhere else, then people will do their business elsewhere," he said.
"This actually takes business, jobs and money out of Scotland as well as bring it in and it kind of balances out."
Heathrow Airport has also committed to a reduction of £10 per passenger on landing charges paid by airlines operating services from Heathrow to Scotland from January.
This will benefit existing services from Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness and incentivise the introduction of new services.
It has also agreed to a significant, long-term marketing campaign at Heathrow to promote Scotland and a procurement event in Glasgow to enhance opportunities for Scottish firms to win business with Tier 1 Heathrow suppliers.
Mr Brown said: "We have engaged extensively with both airports during this process and considered all options very carefully. Gatwick's proposals are also to be commended.
"However, Heathrow's plan offers significant job creation, major investment opportunities and, crucially, seeks to address how all of Scotland's airports benefit from the new runway capacity when it comes and also in the lead-up period.
"The potential for a logistics hub to be based at Glasgow Prestwick Airport is also an important part of the Heathrow offer. It would support the pre-fabrication of components for the construction phase, with potential for future work beyond the launch of the third runway, bringing strong economic benefits to the airport and the wider Ayrshire economy."
John Holland-Kaye, chief executive of Heathrow Airport, said: "It would facilitate more airlines flying routes to Scottish airports, meaning more flights, more competition and choice for families and businesses across the nation. That also means more visitors to Scotland, more destinations for Scottish tourists and more opportunity for Scottish businesses to reach new export markets.
"This partnership demonstrates how Heathrow expansion can work for every region and nation of the UK."
The pedestrian was walking with a man from a broken down vehicle when she was struck by a brown Mercedes Sprinter on the A465, between Pant and Dowlais, at about 19:15 GMT on Thursday.
Police said she suffered fatal injuries and her family are now being supported by specially-trained officers.
The Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK) has told Newsbeat they hope to work with universities to spread the message: "Don't drink and drown."
It comes after a number of students died after falling from river banks on their way home from a night out.
RLSS UK says their national statistics suggest that in a quarter of all drowning incidents the victim has alcohol in their system.
The charity, which gives education and training to help people stay safe around water, says 55 young people aged 15-to-24 drowned in 2014.
Lee Heard, one of the charity's managers, advises people to think ahead.
"Make sure you plan your route so it's away from the water. People are stumbling and slipping because they're under the influence of alcohol and they're not able to stop themselves falling in.
"Don't go near the water, plan ahead and make sure you have people with you so if you do fall in, there's someone to raise the alarm."
The charity supports the idea of building fences in known danger spots to limit access to the water - and also has spent time training bouncers working at waterside bars so that they know what to do in an emergency.
This week plans were announced in Durham to start breathalysing drinkers at pubs and bars to make the riverside safer. Critics said it was a "naïve attempt to change student drinking culture".
But RLSS UK says it's vital to get this important safety message out there.
"We want to make people aware of the dangers of alcohol. When they're under the influence they have slow reactions. It affects their swimming ability and even their ability to make decisions," says Lee Heard.
The body of law student Euan Coulthard was discovered in the River Wear in Durham in January.
The 19-year-old from Leicestershire had gone missing after a night out. His family described him as a "friendly, out-going and fun-loving young man who had a very bright future ahead of him".
Luke Pearce, 19, was reported missing in May 2014 after a night out in Durham.
The student, originally from London, was last seen walking along the river bank. His body was found in the River Wear just over a week later.
In March last year the body of 22-year-old Ben Clarkson was found in the River Foss in York.
He'd last been seen outside a nightclub three weeks earlier. His partner, Rachel Peatfield, said: "I am truly heartbroken that I have lost the love of my life."
Twenty-year-old Megan Roberts disappeared during a night out drinking with friends in York in January 2014.
Her body was found in the River Ouse in March. It's feared she'd been separated from friends on a night out and fallen into the river while under the influence of alcohol.
Durham University student Sopefoluwa 'Sope' Peters went missing in October 2013. His body was found two months later in the River Wear.
The second-year economics student was last seen outside Klute bar near Elvet Bridge at about midnight.
Three people drowned along a stretch of the River Avon in Bath in 2014, including students Sam Amin and James Bubear. Both had been on their way home from a night out. Signs had already been put up on the towpath warning drinkers to extra take care.
In 2010, 20-year-old student Richard Straight drowned in the sea after being asked to leave a nightclub in Portsmouth for being drunk.
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The BBC's coverage drew a bigger audience, averaging 12.1 million viewers and peaking with 16.7 million during the match's final five minutes.
ITV averaged 2.9 million viewers, peaking at 3.9 million in the last 10 minutes before the 90-minute whistle.
Germany scored seven minutes before the end of extra time to win 1-0.
Across the coverage, the BBC's audience share was 50.3%, accounting for about three out of four football viewers.
ITV's share was 12.1%, overnight figures show.
The BBC said it was "delighted" with its World Cup coverage and were "particularly pleased to have reached such a wide audience for the final".
"Brazil 2014 has really captivated the nation and we're very proud to deliver this to audiences across the UK," it said.
The total numbers are slightly down on 2010's World Cup final, where a peak of 17.9 million fans saw Spain beat the Netherlands on BBC One and 3.8 million on ITV.
England's defeat at the hands of Uruguay on 19 June was the most-watched match on a single British TV channel during the tournament.
According to overnight figures, an average 13.1 million viewers saw that game on ITV, peaking at 20.2 million when Wayne Rooney scored his first World Cup goal.
It was the most-watched event since the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony, which attracted a peak audience of 27.3 million.
East Lindsey District Council approved plans to move control of the So Festival, Embassy Theatre in Skegness and Meridian Leisure Centre in Louth to a charitable trust.
Officials said it would allow the facilities to access new funding.
The authority claimed it would also save at least £1m over five years.
Councillor Adam Grist, portfolio holder for culture, leisure and tourism, said: "It should save a significant sum of money, which is obviously important given the revenue challenges we face.
"But it actually opens up other opportunities, including access to grants, so I think it's a win-win in that respect.
"If we keep our leisure services in-house, I think we would be under severe pressure to shed jobs, so by doing this we are protecting staff. This is not about job losses."
The council has seen a £1.9m (13.9%) cut in central government funding this financial year, on top of £1.2m the previous year.
It said the Meridian Leisure Centre, which only opened in 2010, currently required a £250,000 annual subsidy.
About £350,000 is spent on its events programme, which includes the So Festival.
As well as access to grants, charitable status would bring business rates and VAT relief.
Mr Grist explained the proposals were for the council to pay the trust a management fee, which would decrease over time.
The authority would have members on the trust's board, would retain ownership of the buildings and also insist on guarantees for employees' pay and conditions.
It is hoped the trust will be up and running by January 2015.
Javier Duarte, the former governor of Veracruz state, is suspected of corruption, involvement in organised crime, and embezzling millions.
He was arrested in Guatemala in a joint operation between Interpol and Guatemalan police, Mexico's attorney general said.
He is expected to be extradited to Mexico at a later date.
Guatemalan police said Mr Duarte was found and arrested in a hotel lobby in the city of Solola.
He is suspected of having siphoned off at least 645 million Mexican pesos ($35m; £28m) of public money that was put into a series of shell companies.
Mr Duarte resigned his post to face corruption allegations - but then disappeared in October 2016.
When authorities raided a warehouse belonging to him, they discovered a wide array of valuable assets, including many paintings.
A search of his luxury ranch also found 17 paintings believed to be by famous artists such as Joan Miro, Fernando Botero and Leonora Carrington.
Under Mr Duarte, Veracruz also became the most dangerous region of the country for journalists, with 17 killed during his term.
He was suspended from this party, PRI - which is also the party of President Enrique Pena Nieto - before his disappearance.
His political opponents from the National Action Party won the election to fill his position in December.
Rudolph faced 230 balls, striking 15 fours and two sixes in his 142, as he showed more signs of a return to form.
Aneurin Donald hit a quick-fire 63 while David Lloyd (35) and Kiran Carlson (26) also contributed.
There were three wickets for the students' teenage Welsh seamer Oli Pike on first-class debut.
A lunchtime downpour wiped out the afternoon session, while murky conditions would probably have kept the teams off longer in a competitive match.
Rudolph timed the ball fluently on the drive despite the poor light, although he almost played on to Pike on 98, and the Glamorgan Academy teenager struck three times with the new ball to restrict the county's progress in the evening session.
Both teams will hope for better weather conditions on the third and final scheduled day.
Glamorgan have a two-day practice match against Nottinghamshire in Cardiff on Sunday 2 April, before opening their Championship campaign at Northampton on Friday 7 April.
The Cardiff students play their other first-class match against Hampshire in Southampton, starting on Sunday 2 April.
Glamorgan batsman Aneurin Donald told BBC Wales Sport:
"I was pretty pleased with how I played, it's always nice to get a first-class game under our belt before points and tables start coming into it- it was pretty dark but the pitch played well.
"More importantly it was nice to see Jacques get a big one early on, we all know he had a tough year last year but he's looking in great form.
"It was fantastic (playing club cricket in Western Australia), very lucky to get opportunities like that with a great batting coach, a good club and a family that looked after me.
"I made the most of my time there, made a few changes in my game and hopefully I can bring a few more runs than last year."
Cardiff MCCU bowler Oli Pike told BBC Wales Sport:
"It was a tough day, but I thought we held our own quite well. It felt pretty good (to get wickets on debut), the ball that got Chris Cooke, he couldn't have done much with it as it swung out and nipped back in.
"It's great to test yourself against some of the (senior Glamorgan) boys, especially Jacques who proved how good he is with that magnificent hundred.
"I hope to stay fit and play some nice cricket with the seconds, and I'm studying Geology at Cardiff Uni so it's a pretty full-on course."
Macy Hogan was discovered in a house on Packett Street in Fenton on Monday, Staffordshire Police said.
Furthers test will be carried out after a post-mortem examination did not reveal a clear cause of death.
Cody-Anne Jackson, 19, from Packett Street, is due to appear at North Staffordshire Justice Centre on Thursday morning, the spokesman said.
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Det Insp Dan Ison said: "I urge members of the public not to comment or speculate about this on social media and to remember that a little girl has tragically lost her life.
"Our thoughts are with the little girl's family at this time. This is a very distressing incident and we are doing all we can to support those affected."
A 22-year-old man arrested in connection with the death at the time was released on bail on Tuesday.
Newcastle Diamonds rider Lewis Kerr, from Snettisham in Norfolk, collided with another rider before hitting a fence at an event on 3 August.
The 25-year-old, also known as Lewi, was airlifted from the stadium in Peterborough to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.
Mr Kerr's wife Jessie posted on Twitter she was "so happy" to have him home.
Mrs Kerr, who is pregnant with the couple's first child, said: "It's official... Lewi is Addenbrooke's hero! So happy!
"Lewi is recovering from home with the help of specialists.
"We realise it's a long, frustrating and difficult recovery for his brain to get back to normal after such a terrible trauma, but he's in the best place to start and we have the best help available.
"He is absolutely amazing and doing so well, but the brain will take nothing but time to heal now."
A spokesman for the rider's team said: "It's been a traumatic and hugely worrying week since our man crashed.
"But thanks to his will and determination and the truly amazing care he received he is continuing to make fantastic progress.
"All the medical staff treating Lewi are delighted with how far he has come in such a short space of time, given what he has been through."
Mr Kerr joined the Newcastle Diamonds on loan from King's Lynn at the start of 2013.
Coles (3-54) removed Dan Christian and captain James Taylor at the end of the 48th over and bowled Luke Fletcher with the first delivery of the 50th.
Taylor (109) and Alex Hales (81) helped Notts post 335 all out at Trent Bridge.
Billings then smashed 118 not out off 89 balls after Daniel Bell-Drummond hit 73 as Kent reached 340-5.
Pace bowler Coles' hat-trick came in a remarkable end to the hosts' innings which saw them lose their final six wickets in 10 balls for just four runs.
However, Taylor's fine hundred, which included four boundaries and four sixes, Hales' 77-ball knock and Dan Christian's 59 off 36 balls had already helped Notts to a huge score before the clatter of wickets.
Kent then looked to be heading towards defeat with 106 runs required off the final 10 overs with five wickets in hand.
But England one-day batsman Billings was instrumental as Kent took 54 off the next three overs, before bringing up his hundred off 77 balls.
Alex Blake was equally as aggressive in his unbeaten 50 as the visitors raced to victory with eight deliveries to spare.
Kent move up to fourth in Group B, while leaders Notts have already qualified for the quarter-finals.
The Scottish Labour party will target the female vote as it launches its manifesto for women in Glasgow.
In Edinburgh, the SNP will challenge Labour to match their NHS spending plans, with health budgets also a key issue for the Scottish Conservatives
And the Scottish Liberal Democrats said their plans to fight tax evasion would allow them to boost NHS funding.
Margaret Curran, Yvette Cooper and Kezia Dugdale will launch Scottish Labour's women's manifesto, pledging to stop cuts to tax credits.
Ms Curran will warn the SNP's plans for full fiscal autonomy could see the benefit cut by £806, which she said would affect women and families.
Speaking ahead of the launch, she said: "Tax credits protect people on low incomes and they lift people out of poverty. They are one of the last Labour government's greatest legacies. Labour will protect tax credits, with increases every year in line with inflation, supporting hard-working families."
The women's manifesto will also include:
Meanwhile, Nicola Sturgeon will challenge the Labour party to match the SNP's commitment to increase the NHS budget across the UK by £9.5bn above inflation.
She said: "Our NHS is our most important public resource and the SNP will do everything we can to ensure that it is properly funded and protected as a public service. That's why we've been clear that we will vote to boost NHS funding by £9.5bn across the UK - delivering a total increase for Scotland's NHS of £2bn.
"The SNP's plans for modest public spending increases would give our NHS staff the support they need and ensure our health service continues to deliver a first-class service for patients.
"Labour in Scotland now need to back our plans on the health service or explain to people why they are more committed to cuts than to our NHS.
On the same theme, Scottish Conservative deputy leader Jackson Carlaw will highlight his party's plans to boost NHS spending during a visit to a care home in East Renfrewshire.
He said: "The Conservatives have pledged to put an additional £8bn a year into the NHS.
"That means an extra £800m for Scotland's hospitals and care facilities.
"Only with a strong economy can you have a strong NHS, and that's why a vote for the Conservatives is so essential.
"Anyone else would either jeopardise the economy, risk the future of the UK, or both."
Meanwhile Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie, said his party's plans to cut tax avoidance and tax evasion would free up £800m to invest in the NHS in Scotland and increase spending on early years education.
Speaking to BBC Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme, he said he believed no party would win an overall majority in the general election and a strong SNP were a threat to the country.
He said: "The choice at the election is straight forward. Who do we want to have the biggest influence in the next parliament?
"We don't want to veer off to the left with the SNP or veer off to the right with the Tories."
He added: "The alternative choice is the Liberal Democrats holding the centre ground."
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The boy, who was 14 at the time, was approached by Savile whilst waiting for an X-ray in 1994.
The new victims identified themselves following the publication of a report on Savile's activities at the infirmary was published in June.
It said 60 people were abused by him at the hospital over a 50 year period.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust investigation team were provided with a further eight names, six victims and two witnesses, following the publication of the initial report.
The teenage boy, known as KM, was one of them.
He told investigators he had been taken to the X-ray department on his own and was left sitting in a wheelchair wearing a dressing gown, when he was approached by Savile.
"He came and lent over me and told me to cheer up and said, 'Things can't be that bad'," he said.
"He put his hand on my leg, as he said it and then all of a sudden just moved his hand under my gown because I had a hospital gown on, I just had me dressing gown draped over me, put his hand on my genitals and squeezed them.
"It wasn't a long time and then looked at me and said, 'Now then I bet that's cheered you up'."
He said he had come forward in order to make it clear Savile had also abused male victims.
Another male victim, 29, also reported being groped whilst waiting for an X-ray, in 1988.
The new accounts also include a student nurse who said she was assaulted in a linen closet, in the early 1980s.
One witness also said she had been warned about a "pink-haired man" by a ward sister as she was sent to the hospital's mortuary in 1954.
She was convinced the man was Savile, though no evidence of his association with the LGI as far back as the 1950s has been established, and was angry senior staff seemed to know about him.
Reports into Savile's activities at The Yorkshire Ambulance Service, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust, Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust all found no evidence of abuse.
The Department for Education has also published a report by Leeds City Council into allegations of abuse at children's homes and schools.
However, the investigation found no evidence to corroborate any of the allegations.
Still, I can't help noting that the Labour leadership has been having an attack of the vapours.
Commentators, both well-meaning and mischievous, have been playing the role of maiden aunt to our fainting heroine, alternatively rushing around shrieking about the shame they are bringing on the family, and waving under their nose, Blairo (patent expired) "the stronger acting smelling salts" to bring them to their senses.
What has caused this alarm could be summed up in a crossword clue: "Exclamation of surprise, party ends in trash" (Cor! Bin).
The possibility that the next Labour leader will be the old stalwart of the Islington left, Jeremy Corbyn.
My course was in "hostile environments" and one of the things you learn is the danger of minefields - stick to the well-trodden middle path, don't go into the areas either side marked with red flags, for there death lurks.
This is Labour's sin in the eyes of the commentariat: that they are being lured, by the vision of a man with a beard, into the explosive land of red flags.
"You can only win on the centre ground!" is the complacent chorus.
No-one can doubt elections are won in the centre. Just ask Alexis Tsipras. Or Marine Le Pen.
The commentators are not exactly wrong. It's just they are right for all the wrong reasons, misunderstanding, unwittingly or for ideological purpose, the meaning of the centre.
But before we eviscerate the middle ground let us lie the swooning Labour party down on the sofa, usher out the maiden aunts, and urge everyone to take a pace back.
Complacency is never wise, but perhaps a bit of perspective is valuable.
We may be at a critical break point, but we may not. Democratic politics tends to go in cycles.
After a longish time in government, which ends in defeat and disappointment, it takes a while for the electorate to trust that party again.
It always feels terminal at the time. After Obama's victory in 2008 there were magazine headlines "the death of the Republican Party", without even a cautious question mark.
Two years after that they won the House, then in 2014 the Senate. Along the way they have collected a clutch of governorships.
They are not in the White House, they have serious problems, but dead, they ain't.
Or ask William Hague about baseball caps, saving the pound and what it was like to be Conservative leader of the opposition in 1997.
Labour are perhaps simply having their William Hague moment.
The grim news for them is that they still have to endure their equivalent of IDS and Michael Howard before finding a Cameron analogue.
The Conservatives' slow crawl back to electability was straight from the Tony Blair playbook, so it is hardly surprising that people have drawn the lesson that wooing your own hardliners fails, and moving to the middle works.
But times change.
I am not playing down the fact that a Corbyn victory would be a moment of extreme trauma for Labour, would leave them branded unelectable by friend and foe alike and would raise ghosts from those who lived through the Bennite civil war and the formation of the breakaway SDP.
But that inevitability says something about the narrowness of debate, and the dangerous lure of the centre ground.
Corbyn after all, appears to be calling for a higher tax rate for the better-off, not the nationalisation of the commanding heights of the economy.
It is hardly surprising that Westminster journalists crave the ideologically soft centre.
None is on the minimum wage, let alone tax credits, nor are any, to my knowledge, owners of third homes on the Cayman Islands, or running big corporations.
They are nearly all university educated and live in London or the South East of England (Yes, all that goes for me, too).
There is group-think in the muddled middle, a fear of thinking outside a comfortable box.
They, like the politicians they write about, may dwell too much on the mechanics of winning, maintaining and exercising power, rather than why they want it in the first place.
This rather mechanistic approach excludes the real reason why most people get involved in politics - it also explains, why, increasingly these days, they don't bother.
It underscores why Jeremy Corbyn appeals to many Labour members.
He, like they, wants to change things.
You may label these ideas old-fashioned, or unworkable, but they are passionately held.
To them principle is important.
Fruitlessly opposing what they see as attacks on the poorest seems more noble than cunningly shadowing the Conservatives, in the apparent hope that no-one will spot the difference between the two parties.
Not long before I left the US, I was talking at a Tea Party convention to a couple of activists about who they wanted as the next Republican candidate.
One said, echoing the Buckley rule: "I want the most conservative guy who's electable."
"That's where I'm different," chimed in his friend. "I want the most conservative. Period."
There will be Labour Party members who echo the sentiment, if not the political direction.
To them it looks as if becoming a leading Labour politician has become about how many of your core beliefs you are willing to jettison to get into power.
This suspicion, from activists, creates uncomfortable echoes in the wider electorate.
There is a sizeable proportion of voters who don't like any of the main parties very much, and don't trust politicians.
What they don't like is the idea that politicians are in it for themselves, don't tell the truth, and will say anything to get elected.
A Labour leader who gives the impression that they are getting rid of most of the distinctively Labour bits of their policy, perhaps with the intention of smuggling them back in again at a later date, starts out doing the splits over the authenticity gap.
Social Democrats once had the luxury of rather impatiently accusing old-style socialists of clinging to the wreckage of the past.
Now social democrats themselves are holding tight to levers that are no longer attached to anything.
All but the most rarefied politicians must have noticed that real, walking, breathing voting human beings have a luxury they don't - to believe several contradictory things at the same time.
The world outside Westminster is a confusing place.
Is it really true that many people who voted Liberal Democrat in 2010 voted UKIP this year? Well, yes it is.
Constructing centre-ground politics to attract these wayward souls is more complex than pick-and-mix.
It is axiomatic that elections are won on the centre ground - it is obvious that to win you have to shift people from one party to another.
If you like, that is the centre ground. But it is where metaphor can be misleading.
The Venn diagram does not only consist of circles marked left and right.
People may be divided almost equally between preferring Marmite or marmalade on their morning toast, but it isn't a winning formula to mix the two spreads.
I'd suggest the centre is something more profound - shared desires that go way beyond ideology.
The centre ground of Tsipras (who ironically does now govern from the centre, but that's another story) was hope and a rejection of despair.
For Le Pen, it is perhaps a fear of change and a frustration with a grim economic future.
Cameron won the centre ground of competence - Ed Miliband was seen as extreme, but not because of the mansion tax.
He was seen as extremely unlikely to be a good prime minister.
Elections are won in the centre ground - but that means shared perceptions of competence and charisma, hopes and fears, not a nauseating mixture of Marmite and marmalade.
The move is seen an attempt to stem the economic fallout from the outbreak that has killed nine people in Asia's fourth largest economy since it was first reported last last month.
Its policy rate was reduced by 0.25 percentage points to 1.5% - the bank's fourth rate cut in less than a year.
The move was expected by economists.
"We were expecting a rate cut in July, or at least within the third quarter, so we believe the [Bank of Korea's] decision was affected by the MERS outbreak," said Kim Myong-Sil, an analyst at KB Investment & Securities.
The rate cut is also the seventh since the central bank began its easing cycle three years ago.
Economists said the outbreak of Mers could stop the country's economic recovery, which had appeared to pick up momentum in recent months.
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"There have already been signs of public alarm, with schools closed, public events called off, and tens of thousands of visitors cancelling their travel plans. To compound matters, the outbreak has come at a time when exports are struggling," said Krystal Tan, economist at Capital Economics in a note.
Thousands of people have been quarantined in the country with 14 new cases of Mers reported by health officials on Thursday.
The total of infections has now reached 122 - making it the largest outside of Saudi Arabia.
Hong Kong authorities have also confirmed that they are testing two people for the disease - both of whom had recently travelled to South Korea. Another 31 people have all tested negative.
Authorities in the export-driven country have already been under pressure to introduce more stimulus measures on the back of weak global demand and a stronger won impacting exports.
"Looking at the Korean economy, the Committee notes that the trend of decline in exports has accelerated and that consumption, which had been showing a recovery, appears to have contracted since the outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome," the central bank said in a statement.
Earlier this month, government data showed that exports saw their worst annual fall in nearly six years in May on a combination of slower growth in China, weaker oil prices and fewer working days - sparking calls for a rate cut.
Exports fell 10.9% from a year go, the biggest drop since an over 20% decline in August 2009 during the global financial crisis.
However, the central bank has been concerned about how cheaper credit would impact South Korea's already massive household debt.
South Korean households have debt amounting to about 160% of annual disposable income on average, one of the highest among major economies.
In its policy announcement, the central bank said it would "closely monitor the trend of increase" in household debt.
The Bureau of Meteorology warned of strong winds, heavy surf and the possibility of flash floods.
The Queensland Premier Annastacia Palasczuk advised people to stay indoors if they could.
The bad weather comes barely a week since storms battered New South Wales, killing four people.
The bureau warned of winds peaking at 100km/h (62mph) on Friday night along the coast.
The weather is expected to intensify as it moves south, before moving off the coast on Sunday.
Friday's rugby league test match between Australia and New Zealand was called off hours before kick off.
The game was rescheduled for Sunday. It is the first time since 1948 that a league match has been postponed because of weather.
Ten dams operated by Seqwater in southeast Queensland are spilling over, the water agency said.
Massive flooding struck areas in and around Brisbane in 2011, with 38 people killed and more than 30,000 properties swamped.
Then, the authorities faced questions about why waters in the Wivenhoe dam, west of Brisbane, were not reduced in preparation for the flooding.
The dam was 98% full on Friday. Seqwater said it was monitoring levels and that it would likely release water from Wivenhoe and another dam on Friday night or Saturday morning, according to the Queensland Times.
A survivor who was not identified said that the coach had been travelling too fast, despite the concerns of passengers.
The crash happened near Aconcagua, the highest mountain outside of Asia.
The Chilean company that operated the vehicle says it is striving to ascertain the identities of the dead.
Mendoza Provincial Governor Alejandro Gulle was quoted by AFP news agency as saying that two Chilean coach drivers who survived the crash were being questioned in the town of Uspallata, a tourist location near the 6,960m (22,835ft) Mt Aconcagua.
The dead - including three children - are mostly from Argentina but also from Chile, Colombia and Haiti, officials say. The accident happened in good weather on a well maintained road but on a dangerous curve.
"I was sleeping when the bus began to flip over," the unidentified teenaged passenger told Argentina's Channel 13. "[When] I woke up and I was falling.
"[The bus] was going at a high speed. It hit the roadside, first it moved a little bit and then continued. It went very fast, very fast."
The passenger said the bus had continued to travel at speed even though passengers volubly complained.
At least 41 people, most of them police officers, were killed when a bus fell off a bridge in north-west Argentina in December 2015.
The 26-year-old Dutch forward has agreed a two-and-a-half-year deal with the west London side.
El Khayati is reunited with R's head coach Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, who signed him last January when he was in charge of the Brewers.
The former PSV Eindhoven trainee scored 11 goals in 44 appearances during his spell at the Pirelli Stadium.
"I am very happy to work again with Jimmy," El Khayati told the club website.
"He has been a big help for me on and off the pitch during my time here in England and I have developed as a player with him."
El Khayati is QPR's third signing of the transfer window after goalkeeper Matt Ingram and striker Conor Washington joined.
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People knew about the tomb in the early 20th century but it had never been excavated before because its entrance was only found in March 2017.
It seems to have belonged to an important man who was a judge.
The tomb in Luxor contained lots of mummies, pots and small figures made of clay.
Experts are going to look at the mummies to find out who they were and how they died.
Tim and Sarah Southwell from Hamilton, Montana, told the Belfast Telegraph what happened in a letter.
They said said they spoke to PSNI Con Jim Millar within 15 minutes of last seeing their son.
Mr Millar and fellow officers found the boy "a mile away from the museum".
The US couple said their son had "slipped away among the crowd at the Titanic museum" during a family visit earlier this week, as part of a three-day trip.
They said they contacted Con Millar over his lunch break at the Dock Cafe and explained what had happened.
"Without giving it a second thought Con Millar was up and engaged in priority one - finding our boy," they added.
"Con Millar displayed an air of calmness, professionalism and downright excellence as he went about engaging his network of fellow officers to implement a plan for locating our son.
"I was impressed with his compassion and inventive thought in implementing a plan of action."
The couple said that when their son was discovered 45 minutes later by the police officers he was "scared and shaken, but in good health".
They added: "We are forever grateful for their service and will look forward to another visit to this wonderful city in the years to come."
The PSNI's Ch Insp David Moore said the service was "grateful for the kind comments from the family".
"The neighbourhood police officers involved in the search acted quickly and professionally and were delighted to be able to reunite the family," he added.
The Cameroon-born striker set up the opener as he played Craig Tanner's cross into the path of Graham Carey.
He powered his way through the Exeter centre-backs 20 minutes later to score the second before Robbie Simpson missed an excellent chance for City.
Garita was forced off with a knee injury just after half-time before Lee Holmes hit the post for Exeter.
Exeter have not won at St James Park since they last beat Argyle on 2 April, a run of just two wins in their last 20 home games in League Two.
All the hype before the game surrounded Exeter's newest signing - former Plymouth striker Reuben Reid - but it was Argyle's newest frontman that stole the headlines as Carey slotted home from Garita's knock down to get his fourth goal of the season in front of the jubilant 1,545 fans that made the 46-mile journey north east.
Sonny Bradley had a header cleared off the line by Exeter's Jordan Moore-Taylor two minutes before Garita got the second, as Craig Tanner's perfectly-weighted through-ball set the forward away before he powered through the centre of City's defence to slot in under Bobby Olejnik.
City should have halved the deficit four minutes before the break, but Simpson's header from close range went over when it seemed easier to score.
Garita was forced off early in the second half after injuring his hamstring, and with it much of the attacking impetus left the game.
His replacement Jake Jervis has an effort saved by Olejnik while Jake Taylor headed wide for City soon after.
Reid came on with just under half an hour to go, but it was Holmes who had City's best chance to score as he hit the outside of the post with an excellent strike from an angle before Argyle's other goalscorer Carey was forced off with injury.
Match ends, Exeter City 0, Plymouth Argyle 2.
Second Half ends, Exeter City 0, Plymouth Argyle 2.
Lloyd James (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Craig Tanner (Plymouth Argyle).
Foul by Lee Holmes (Exeter City).
Oscar Threlkeld (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Robbie Simpson (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Yann Songo'o (Plymouth Argyle).
Foul by Jake Taylor (Exeter City).
Yann Songo'o (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Robbie Simpson (Exeter City) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Attempt missed. David Goodwillie (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. David Fox (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Reuben Reid (Exeter City).
Ben Purrington (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Robbie Simpson (Exeter City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Lloyd James (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Yann Songo'o (Plymouth Argyle).
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Oscar Threlkeld replaces Graham Carey because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Reuben Reid (Exeter City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Yann Songo'o.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Luke McCormick.
Attempt saved. Lee Holmes (Exeter City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Gary Miller.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Foul by Jack Stacey (Exeter City).
Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Exeter City. Reuben Reid replaces Joel Grant.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Sonny Bradley.
Attempt saved. Sonny Bradley (Plymouth Argyle) header from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Luke Croll.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Jake Jervis.
Foul by Joel Grant (Exeter City).
Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Robbie Simpson.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Robert Olejnik.
Attempt saved. Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Robert Olejnik.
Attempt saved. Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. David Goodwillie replaces Paul Garita.
Under the plans, the cost of alcohol would be determined by a formula based on its strength and volume.
The proposal depends on the result of a Supreme Court challenge against similar plans by the Scottish Government.
It is one of five laws included in Welsh ministers' legislative programme for the year ahead.
The minimum pricing plans are expected to be policed by local councils, if implemented.
The Welsh Government said it is confident that the legislation would be within the powers of the assembly.
Plans to regulate the price of alcohol in Wales were first introduced in July 2015 but were put on hold because of the assembly election in 2016 and a decision by judges in Scotland to refer the government in Edinburgh's alcohol cost plans to the Supreme Court.
A spokesman for UKIP in the assembly said the plan was "another example of nanny-statism" and accused the Welsh Government of invading people's lives by increasing the cost of one of their favourite activities.
"The Welsh Government opts for price controls which hit the poorest and fail to tackle the underlying social issues which create alcoholism and overconsumption," he said.
The Scotch Whisky Association's appeal against a minimum price in Scotland is expected to be heard by Britain's highest court next month.
Research suggested a charge of 50p per unit in Wales would save nearly £900m over 20 years by cutting crime and illness, with 50 fewer deaths a year.
But when the Welsh Government first introduced its plans, a drinks industry spokesman said they would "ramp up" prices while "doing nothing" to tackle alcohol harm.
Other proposals in the Welsh Government's legislative programme include scrapping letting agents' fees, which have already been banned in Scotland, while the UK government has consulted on doing the same in England.
Over the next 12 months, the Welsh Government will also legislate to introduce its offer of 30 hours of free childcare for 48 weeks of the year for working parents of three to four-year-olds.
Six councils will test the childcare scheme from September 2017 before a wider roll-out at a later date.
Ministers also intend to put local government reform on the statute book and consult on introducing a ban on smacking children next year.
The Welsh Government proposes the following assembly bills for the next 12 months:
First Minister Carwyn Jones has also said ministers could introduce a so-called Continuity Bill - proposed by Plaid Cymru AM Steffan Lewis as a measure to enshrine all existing EU regulations in Welsh law - if the UK government does not respect the devolution settlement post-Brexit.
Mr Jones said: "The bills we intend to introduce during the second year of this assembly will support our efforts to build a Wales that is healthy and active, prosperous and secure, ambitious and learning and united and connected."
"As I have repeatedly made clear, the UK government must respect the devolution settlement," he added.
"If this does not happen, we will consider other options, such as a Continuity Bill, to protect Wales' interests."
Plaid leader Leanne Wood said: "Minimum pricing and banning letting agents fees are Plaid policies which the Labour government has been very slow to act upon.
"I am also very concerned that it will take in effect almost an entire assembly term to get a new system of childcare up and running."
Wilberforce's campaigning led to the passing of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which ended Britain's involvement in the Transatlantic slave trade.
To mark the 210th anniversary of the law, a 3D figure of the Hull-born abolitionist will appear in four films.
The videos will be shown around Hull as part of the city's year of culture.
They are to be projected onto the side of the Wilberforce Institute, opposite Wilberforce House where he was born, from 18:00 GMT.
The films will then to be shown at Paragon Station and the Wilberforce House Museum.
John Oldfield, of the University of Hull's Wilberforce Institute, said: "We are telling his story again for a new audience.
"There is a lot of interest around the issue of slavery, both historical and contemporary.
"His success was hard-fought. It is a fight that still goes on."
The University of Hull and the Glasgow School of Art have created a digital 3D version of Wilberforce showing him at different stages of his life.
The Wilberforce figure is voiced by a drama student with his movements captured for the new video.
The Home Office estimated in 2014 there are up to 13,000 people in the UK still working in slavery,
"Enslaved persons are hidden in plain sight and it's about poverty and deprivation," said Mr Oldfield.
Source: BBC History
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McLaughlin suffered the injury in an impact tackle against Portadown in a pre-season friendly.
"We are devastated for him as a club as I know what he is going through," said Bannsiders boss Oran Kearney.
Full-back Lyndon Kane is sidelined until October at the earliest after a breaking a foot bone.
Kane broke a metatarsal bone against Derry City while midfielder David Kee is ruled out until the middle of September with a knee injury.
McLaughlin, who also has a medial ligament injury, scored the winner for Coleraine in the Irish Cup semi-final against Glenavon in April.
"He knee is currently swollen, so we will wait two or three weeks before he has an operation," Kearney told the club website.
"James' aim will be to be ready for next pre-season."
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Coleraine will be without James McLaughlin next season after the forward sustained a cruciate knee ligament injury.
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It now expects to make an operating loss of 35bn yen ($335m; £205m) for the financial year ending 31 March 2014.
Its initial estimate was for an operating profit of 100bn yen.
Nintendo said the key reason behind the downgrade was weaker-than-expected sales during the holiday season.
"In the year-end sales season which constitutes the highest proportion of the annual sales volume, software sales with a relatively high margin were significantly lower than our original forecasts," the firm said in a statement.
It said weak software sales were "mainly due to the fact that hardware sales did not reach their expected level".
The company cut its global Wii U sales forecast for the business year from nine million to 2.8 million units - a cut of nearly 70%.
It also reduced the sales forecast for its 3DS console from 18 million to 13.5 million units.
Three months ago Nintendo was standing by its sales projections for the Wii U, despite signs, from the UK at least, that retailers were losing faith in the product.
In July last year, UK supermarket chain Asda said it would no longer be selling the Wii U in its stores.
Nintendo has faced tough competition from rival games console makers, such as Microsoft with its new Xbox One, and Sony with its new PlayStation 4.
There is also a general trend towards online streaming of games to make them available over a variety of devices, such as mobiles and smart TVs.
At the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Sony announced that PlayStation Now subscribers will be able to play some of the platform's greatest hits without the need to own a console.
Sony said it may offer its games to third-party products as well.
This month Nintendo's shares received a boost after China lifted a sales ban on foreign video games consoles.
The Chinese government said it would allow foreign firms to make consoles in the recently-launched Shanghai free trade zone and sell them across the country.
Nintendo's shares have risen 56% over the last 52-week period, reaching a two-and-a-half year high in January, but this latest profits warning - issued after the Tokyo markets closed - is likely to affect the share price on Monday.
"The fact that the Wii U strategy has failed is disappointing and will likely trigger a sell-off as soon as the market opens," said Makoto Kikuchi, chief executive of Myojo Asset Management.
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The survey also included a record number of women from the UK, though German Chancellor Angela Merkel remains in the top spot.
Hillary Clinton, the US presidential candidate, and Janet Yellen, chair of the Federal Reserve, were second and third.
The US dominated the list with 51 women represented, while China was second.
There are a record nine women from the world's most populous nation on the 2016 Power Women list. Lucy Peng, a senior executive at e-commerce giant Alibaba, and Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, are the highest-ranked. Also on the list are Pollyanna Chu, chief executive of Hong Kong financial services firm Kingston Securities, and China's first lady, Peng Liyuan.
The survey features 100 women from 29 countries who represent sectors such as politics, business, technology and philanthropy.
Forbes said the women on the list control $1tn (£694bn) in revenue and influence more than 3.6bn people around the world.
There are 32 chief executives on the list, 12 world leaders and 11 billionaires, including nine who have built billion-dollar companies from scratch. The average age is 57, with Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer the youngest at 41 and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II the oldest at 90.
The number of UK women who made the rankings doubled to six. Besides Queen Elizabeth, they include Nemat Shafik, deputy governor of the Bank of England, and Katharine Viner, editor of the Guardian. The newcomers are Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's First Minister, Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor of the Economist, and Eliza Manningham-Buller, chair of the Wellcome Trust.
This is the sixth consecutive year Mrs Merkel has topped the list and the tenth time in total.
Moira Forbes, president and publisher of Forbes Woman, said it was "extraordinary" that Mrs Merkel had been able to maintain power for so long.
"She's not only the head of the fourth largest economy in the world but she's defied existential political and economic challenges to the EU, for example trying to ensure that countries like Greece and Spain adhere to the fiscal logic she espouses," she told BBC News. "She's also dealing with EU crises such as immigration...She's someone whose power extends far beyond traditional borders."
Ms Forbes noted that nearly half of the women on this year's list were from outside the US, while a quarter were from the Asia-Pacific region, the highest number since the survey's inception. "These are positive trends as women are ascending more into positions of traditional business corporate power but also political power," she said.
Among the most high-profile drop-offs is Dilma Rousseff, the former president of Brazil, who was impeached in May over allegations of violating fiscal rules, which she denies.
Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the blood-testing firm Theranos, also failed to make the list. US federal agencies are investigating Theranos over allegations its tests are inaccurate. Last week, Forbes lowered its estimate of Holmes' personal fortune from $4.5bn to nothing, after previously declaring her America's richest self-made woman.
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Figo, 42, a former world player of the year, is one of three candidates who will challenge Sepp Blatter on 29 May.
"Luis Figo was a fantastic player, a world-class player," said Bwalya, Zambia Football Association president.
"I'd have loved to see Figo go into the Portuguese football association, learn the ropes then come out."
Bwalya, who is also the executive member of the Confederation of African Football (Caf), added: "There are other former footballers, like Davor Suker, who's heading an association in Europe [Croatia].
"It's the logical way but he [Figo] has decided to go for the big position. It's going to be very difficult in my opinion."
Bwalya, the 1988 African Footballer of the Year award winner, said most of the associations have already decided who they will vote for, for the Fifa presidency.
He said Africa has decided to back Blatter for another four-year term despite the Swiss having been at the helm since 1998.
"We as Africa - myself included - have said we will back Blatter for another term because he has the requisite passion to carry football in the next four years," Bwalya said.
"From where we're standing, it would have been better for him [Figo] to start at association level to know the challenges. He would have been better prepared.
"In this situation we have made a commitment to president Sepp Blatter. We are happy with the way he has run things."
Figo, 42, whose career included successful stints with Spanish clubs Barcelona and Real Madrid, will also face competition from Dutch football federation president Michael van Praag and Jordanian Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein.
On whether he himself would consider running for either the Caf or Fifa presidency, Bwalya laughed off any immediate plans.
"Everything in its time," he said.
"I think we have good leaders in Issa Hayatou [caf president] and Sepp Blatter."
Meanwhile, Van Praag believes there is less chance of unseating Blatter with both himself and Figo standing for election on 29 May.
"What Figo thinks about that I don't know, but it would be much better for Europe if we presented one candidate," said the Dutch FA chief.
"Figo is more photogenic. All the South American member association presidents wanted to take their photo with him.
"But they didn't want to say if they would vote for him," he added.
We are used to seeing reports warning of an "obesity time-bomb". But the extent of the problem is often exaggerated.
Figures for 2010-11, from the National Child Measurement Programme, suggest 9% of five- to six-year-olds are obese.
That equates to 2.7 children in each class of 30. In 1990, it was 1.5.
Does a 20-year increase of just over one child per class seem like an epidemic?
Other data suggests childhood obesity levels are starting to plateau or even fall slightly.
Overweight and obesity levels among two- to five-year-olds stayed relatively stable at 25% for boys and 23% for girls between 2003 and 2013.
But public health's continual focus on food and obesity leaves the more harmful effects of inactivity overlooked and ignores the role of physical fitness in health promotion and monitoring.
Despite its absence from the title, "obesity" was mentioned 193 times in the 150-minute parliamentary select committee on The Role of Diet and Physical Activity in Health.
Dietary advice changes almost continually: eat less fat, ban junk food, tax fizzy-pop.
The Local Government Association has proposed a tax on "unhealthy" foods to enable local authorities to help overweight and obese children.
But are we missing the point?
Healthy eating is important, but it is not the answer to obesity. Most interventions, such as breakfast clubs or free school dinners, may actually increase the calories consumed.
Arguably, inactivity is a better predictor of ill health than obesity.
Figures from the Physical Activity Statistics 2015 - British Heart Foundation (BHF) published this January show less than a fifth of children say they move enough - a figure that's still falling.
Shockingly, the BHF's own direct assessment of activity, using accelerometers, showed that none of the 11- to 15-year-old girls and only 7% of boys they measured actually did enough exercise.
All children and young people should engage in moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity for at least 60 minutes a day.
But I think a better approach would be to measure fitness.
Changes in activity levels often fail to have a big impact on body mass index (BMI). But it is very rare that anyone who becomes more active, for example by walking to school or work, or training for a fun-run, does not become and feel much physically fitter.
I routinely test the fitness of elite sports people, the public, cardiac patients and entire schools. Our research in schools shows decline in children's fitness.
What is needed is a wide-ranging set of changes to help children be habitually more active, more often.
If we measured fitness, as the chief medical officer recommended in 2009, we would see the problems that physical inactivity is causing and realise just how successfully some of the fantastic initiatives supported by Sport England, the BHF and UK Active really are.
BMI is a symptom of inactivity, but it should not be used as the last word in measuring success of interventions to increase physical activity.
Anybody of any size can benefit from being more active whether they see a change in their weight or not.
John McCarthy, 35, of Cambridge, and Richard Leslie, 37, of south London, attacked the couple in Cambridgeshire in November 2014.
The duo were part of a gang of four who tied up and tortured the victims with pins and a sledgehammer at the couple's Coton home.
The Old Bailey heard them described as "every householder's worst nightmare".
After a retrial, the duo were found guilty of aggravated burglary and given a 15-year term with five years on extended licence.
Four men dressed in forensic suits smashed their way into the house.
The owners were bound, beaten, threatened and locked up for more than four hours.
A sledgehammer was used to break one of the wife's toes and her husband was stuck with pins to extort more valuables, the court heard.
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Judge Richard Hone QC said at first the householders thought they were under attack from "alien invaders" or a "swat team".
The judge told them: "You are every householder's worst nightmare."
In mitigation, the court heard Leslie was involved in the burglary but was not inside the house.
Meanwhile McCarthy's behaviour was borne out of "personal difficulties".
The two former cleaners were linked to Marc Smith, 43, from Cambridge, who admitted handling stolen goods.
The victims were targeted through Smith who previously worked for a taxi firm the couple used. His case was adjourned until 8 December.
Jacob O'Dell, 20, from Cambridge, who admitted sending malicious communications to a witness on Facebook last year was handed a two-year community order at an earlier hearing.
Other men involved in the burglary have never been caught.
Detective Inspector Alan Page from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire crime unit said it was a "despicable crime".
The former Northampton fly-half's work has been key to Exeter's rise in recent years, which culminated in a first Premiership final appearance in May.
He also led England Saxons to a series win in South Africa this summer.
"If I was a coach or a CEO at another rugby club I'd certainly have a look at him," Baxter told BBC Sport.
"But what you do need to remember is Ali's just played a very big part, and has done over a number of years, in a team that have just lost a Premiership final and just got knocked out of a European quarter-final, so we're a pretty good side in ourselves.
"If you want to leave Exeter there are not many clubs better than us to go to, and I think that plays a big part in what our players want to do and what our staff want to do."
Hepher is contracted to to Exeter until the summer of 2018, having signed a deal at the same time as Baxter.
He was brought into the coaching set-up when Baxter took over as head coach in 2009 and has helped mastermind the club's rise from the Championship to second in the Premiership, as well as nurturing talents such as Jack Nowell, Henry Slade and Phil Dollman.
"If you want to be a successful sporting business you want your club packed with people that everyone else wants," added Baxter.
"It's not a doubled-edged sword, if nobody else wanted our players or our staff we wouldn't be a very good rugby club and we wouldn't be a very good team, so that's just how it has to be."
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The 39-year-old made 121 in the 24-run victory over Yorkshire at Headingley, his 39th limited-overs hundred to go with 61 first-class centuries.
Sangakkara, who retired from international cricket in 2015, says he will quit first-class cricket after this season.
The left-hander has scored 45,529 runs in all forms of cricket.
He brought up his hundred - his eighth of the season in all formats - with a single to third man off Matt Fisher as Surrey posted 313-7. Yorkshire managed 289-9 in reply.
Sangakkara has enjoyed a stellar summer in County Championship Division One, averaging 90.60 in six matches.
Last month he fell 16 runs short of becoming only the fourth player to make six consecutive first-class centuries.
The former Sri Lanka captain is fifth on the all-time list of leading Test run scorers with 12,400 in 134 Tests, and only India legend Sachin Tendulkar has made more than Sangakkara's 14,234 runs in 404 one-day internationals.
Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy is on track for a majority, taking about 80% of declared seats.
But a quarter of parliamentary seats are allocated to the military, meaning it will remain hugely influential.
Mr Obama called Ms Suu Kyi to congratulate her and her party, saying he hoped the result would lead to "a more peaceful and prosperous future".
While previous statements by British Prime Minister David Cameron and US Secretary of State John Kerry praised only the running of the election, Mr Obama directly acknowledged "the success of the National League for Democracy".
He also praised what he called Ms Suu Kyi's "tireless efforts and sacrifice over so many years to promote a more inclusive, peaceful, and democratic Burma", referring to Myanmar's other name.
Mr Obama, who has visited Myanmar twice during his presidency, said he hoped the official election results would be respected by all parties.
Myanmar's military chief Min Aung Hlaing said the military would "do what is best in co-operation with the new government during the post-election period".
President Thein Sein has also pledged that his government "will respect the people's decision and choice and will hand over power as scheduled".
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Last weekend's vote was Myanmar's first openly contested general election for 25 years.
The NLD won elections decisively in 1990 - only for the result to be nullified and Ms Suu Kyi placed under long-term house arrest.
President Thein Sein and Min Aung Hlaing have congratulated Ms Suu Kyi on her party's performance in the polls, though have not formally conceded defeat. They have agreed to hold talks on national reconciliation with her after the final results are announced.
More than 47% of results have been declared so far, and on Thursday morning, the NLD were said to be 38 seats short of a majority.
The ruling military-backed Union Solidarity Development Party (USDP) - which won the last, widely criticised election five years ago - has so far gained about 5% of the seats being contested.
About 30 million people were eligible to vote and turnout was estimated at about 80%.
However, hundreds of thousands of people - including the Muslim Rohingya minority, who are not recognised as citizens - were denied voting rights.
A quarter of the 664 parliamentary seats are set aside for the army and a handful were not contested, leaving 491 seats.
For the NLD to have the winning majority and be able to select the president, it will need at least two-thirds of those seats.
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In September, Iran's parliament began investigating his business dealings after he was accused of withholding $1.9bn (£1.2bn) of oil revenue meant to be channelled through his companies.
Mr Zanjani, who claims he is worth $13.5bn, has denied the allegation.
The US and the EU have both blacklisted him for helping Iran's government and several firms evade an oil embargo.
The US and the EU have imposed crippling sanctions on Iran's oil industry since 2012 as part of a drive by the international community to put pressure on the government in Tehran over its controversial nuclear programme.
On Monday, Iran's official Irna news agency quoted judiciary spokesman Gholamhoseyn Mohseni-Ezhei as saying that Mr Zanjani had been arrested and taken to Tehran's Evin prison.
Mr Mohseni-Ezhei did not provide any further details about the case, but Irna said it was related to "financial crimes".
Mr Zanjani has acknowledged that since 2010 he has used a web of more than 60 companies based in the UAE, Turkey and Malaysia to sell millions of barrels of Iranian oil on behalf of the government, generating $17.5bn of desperately needed revenue.
After being accused of withholding money earlier this year, Mr Zanjani said that he had already transferred $700m, but that the international sanctions were preventing him from handing over the remaining $1.2bn.
"I will pay it back if they give me an account number tomorrow that accepts up to 1bn euros," he was quoted as saying in an interview with an Iranian magazine. "How can I transfer the money when the oil ministry and the central bank are under sanctions? We also are not able to transfer the money, but the money is in the account."
Last week, the Central Bank of Iran said Mr Zanjani had not transferred the outstanding amount.
The tycoon's arrest came a day after President Hassan Rouhani ordered his government to fight "financial corruption", particularly "privileged figures" who had "taken advantage of economic sanctions".
Earlier this month, Mr Zanjani was also forced to deny any involvement in a major corruption scandal in neighbouring Turkey.
An Azeri businessman and gold dealer, Reza Zarrab, has been accused of bribing ministers to cover up a deal that allegedly saw Iran sell oil and gas to Turkey in return for cash that was then converted into gold by a Turkish bank and exported to Tehran, often via Dubai.
Boat hire firm Blue Funnel Cruises has agreed to buy Hythe ferry, which crosses Southampton Water, for an undisclosed sum.
The deal includes the purchase of Hythe Pier and the railway that runs along its 640m (2,000ft) length.
The ferry's previous owners warned in October of declining passenger numbers and possible job losses.
More than 9,000 people signed a petition to save the 19th Century pier and ferry.
They won support from television historian Dan Snow, who said the ferry and "the oldest running pier train anywhere in the world" were "national treasures".
Blue Funnel Cruises said it would introduce a second, smaller vessel in two months' time, to improve reliability and attract more passengers.
It said the ferry service lost "a lot of custom" after a previous vessel was damaged when it hit the pier in May 2016.
The crash was caused by mechanical failure, investigators found.
Blue Funnel director Lee Rayment said the "cold and uncomfortable" vessel would be upgraded, with heating and new seats instead of wooden benches.
He said there were no plans for redundancies or increased fares.
Mr Rayment said the pier could eventually be sold or leased to a community group to restore it.
Peter King from the Hythe Pier Train and Ferry Action Group said the pier and ferry service's immediate future had been secured.
He said the group would hold discussions with Blue Funnel about the pier, which he said needed "substantial long-term investment".
Mr King said a redevelopment project could cost £2m to £3m but a trust would be able to access other sources of finance, including lottery grants.
Lord Wigley dismissed claims housing pressures were because of immigration in a heated BBC Radio Wales debate on the EU referendum on Wednesday.
But UKIP MEP and AM Nathan Gill said immigration was the "number one issue" brought up on doors and in the street.
"We're an island, we're not making any more land," he said.
Lord Wigley said: "We have pressure in the housing market in all parts of Wales, and it's not because of immigrants in all parts of Wales.
"We have pressure on schools, and in certain areas of England particularly, there are really serious problems. But that means building more schools and greater capacity.
"In pointing a finger towards the outsider as the basis of the faults that exist within our economy and within our society, its a very dangerous road to go down
"I don't want to see the United Kingdom going down that road."
In response, Mr Gill said: "The reality is that immigration is a real concern for a lot of people.
"Its the number one issue that gets brought up whenever we go knocking on doors and speak to people in the streets.
"One of the founding principles of the EU is free movement of people. It's the reality, it will never change. We've been told categorically that will not change.
"If we vote to remain, the EU is going to take that to mean full speed ahead chaps, there's no way these people are ever going to get a referendum again."
United played for more than an hour without Juan Mata, who received two bookings inside three minutes.
But Albion created little until Rondon found space to fire in substitute Sebastien Pocognoli's dangerous first-time cross from the left wing.
United rarely looked like equalising as they lost ground on the top four.
The Red Devils are sixth in the Premier League table, failing to move back above West Ham and remaining three points adrift of fourth-placed Manchester City.
Victory moved Albion up to 11th, their tally of 39 points almost certainly securing top-flight survival for a sixth successive season.
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Manchester United looked assured in the opening 25 minutes as they dominated possession against the Baggies, albeit without really troubling home keeper Ben Foster.
But the entire complexion of the match turned on the stupidity of the normally-intelligent Mata.
The Spain international was shown his first yellow card for rashly blocking Darren Fletcher's quick free-kick, then he was given a second when he needlessly clipped the heels of the former United midfielder within three minutes.
Within seconds of Mata's dismissal, Albion almost took the lead when Craig Dawson's ambitious 25-yard punt looped over David De Gea but dropped just past the wrong side of the left-hand post.
An Albion onslaught failed to materialise in a dour end to the first half, while United almost opened the scoring through Marcus Rashford's instinctive drilled shot and Jesse Lingard's dipping angled drive before the hour mark.
But the home side gradually grew in stature as United tired, finding the breakthrough through Rondon's smart finish.
"I thought we looked flat when they went to 10 men but the advantage of 11 v 10 seemed to get us through in the end," said Scotland midfielder Fletcher afterwards.
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Many Albion supporters have not warmed to Tony Pulis since his arrival in January 2015, complaining about the style of football the ex-Stoke manager has brought to The Hawthorns.
But what they cannot dispute is the fact the Welshman has steered them away from a relegation scrap for the second successive season.
Pulis faced heavy criticism last month after a dire 1-0 defeat at Newcastle left them six points above the drop-zone and without a win in five games.
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However, their fortunes have dramatically improved and they have now taken 10 points - three wins and a draw - from their past four matches.
In addition to almost securing survival, Pulis has also achieved something that no Albion manager has since March 1984 - a home win against the Red Devils.
Once the home side went ahead - with their only on-target shot of the second half - they did not look like relinquishing their slender lead.
United switched to a 4-4-1 formation after Mata's dismissal, leaving French youngster Martial as an isolated lone striker.
Despite a brief spell where United threatened through Martial and Lingard, the visitors failed to force Albion keeper Foster into a single save.
West Brom manager Tony Pulis: "Them going down to 10 men affected the game. We watched Liverpool go down to 10 before this game and they won 2-1. You're never comfortable against top teams with pace up front and they have pace. Once we got the goal we kind of settled down.
"Second half we were definitely off the pace a bit but the goal was a smashing finish [by Rondon]. It has taken him time to settle in and he has had ups and downs but they love him to death here.
"At the start of the season before the nonsense with Saido I was looking forward to them playing together. Since Saido has come back in the two of them have looked really lively together and we look a threat.
"The most important thing is the next game - as you've seen this year, results have been off the radar. Let's get 40 points, I think that's definitely enough to be safe."
The Baggies are back in Premier League action on Saturday, travelling to title-chasing Arsenal knowing that a win could move them into the top half.
Meanwhile, Manchester United's attention switches to the Europa League and the away leg of their last-16 tie against Liverpool. Their next league game is a trip to neighbours City on Sunday, 20 March.
The Bletchley Park Trust has put a "roll of honour" online, with details of over 10,000 people who worked at the Government Code and Cypher School.
Now the museum wants more veterans, whose identities were closely guarded secrets, to add pictures and stories about their work.
A trust spokeswoman has assured them, "you can tell us now".
Workers at Bletchley Park used the Bombe machine, which was developed by a team including mathematician Alan Turing, to break codes generated by the German Enigma machine.
It was used by the German navy, air force and army to send encrypted messages.
Some historians believe the work done at the Buckinghamshire site may have shortened the war by up to two years.
All the workers had to sign the Official Secrets Act when they first arrived, and their stories only started to come to light in the 1970s.
An online database now lists all those believed to have worked in signals intelligence there, and at other locations.
The trust wants those on the list to add pictures and experiences, plus anybody not already mentioned to come forward.
Katherine Lynch from the trust said: "Although the habit of secrecy has remained for some veterans after it was so ingrained into them, it would now help us bring to life this unique heritage site by telling the stories of the people who achieved incredible success and shortened the war.
"The more we know about not only what [veterans] did but who they were and how they lived, the richer this vital archive will become."
Ms Lynch says the archive allows veterans to find out how they fitted in with the rest of Bletchley's work, as they were only kept informed about their own input.
"Many are fascinated to learn what else was going on," she said.
"We have had Bombe operators who only heard about the Enigma machine when its story was revealed in the 1970s."
The work has been carried out to deepen and widen a four-mile (7km) channel to allow the the navy's new 65,000-tonne aircraft carriers to dock.
It also uncovered eight cannon, an aircraft engine and 36 anchors.
A German sea mine and five bombs uncovered caused major disruption to the area while each was made safe.
The devices, found on the seabed, were towed out to sea and detonated by the Royal Navy's Explosive Ordnance Disposal team.
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The human skull, which is thought to date back to the Napoleonic Wars, has been passed to police in Portsmouth.
Capt Iain Greenlees, who is in charge of the dredging project said: "There was a burial ground on one of the islands in the harbour and it was almost certainly washed away from there."
Other items included bottles, plates and ceramics - all of which have been passed to archaeologists at Wessex Archaeology for study.
The dredging, which started in September 2015, was carried out to allow HMS Queen Elizabeth - due to arrive later this year - and its sister ship, Prince of Wales, to be based at Portsmouth Naval Base.
The MoD said specialist dredging vessels have removed 3,200,000 cubic metres of sediment - the equivalent to 1,280 Olympic swimming pools.
Kieron Dyer led an Ipswich Town veterans side for the match against Newmarket Town, for Shaun Whiter and Joey Abbs.
Mr Whiter, 27, had both legs amputated after he was struck by a car while helping friend Joey Abbs change a flat tyre in Newmarket, Suffolk.
Newmarket player Mr Whiter and Soham Town Rangers player Mr Abbs attended.
Mr Whiter was discharged from Addenbrooke's Hospital on Friday, while Mr Abbs, who also suffered a serious leg injury during the crash on 1 July, was released from the hospital after six days.
"You don't think this is ever going to happen to you but unfortunately it has," Mr Abbs said.
"It has been a horrible, horrible thing... but everyone's been brilliant and shown their support."
Ex-England manager Terry Butcher also played for the Ipswich team in the game at Newmarket's ground, which is thought to have raised around £15,000.
A fundraising page set up by Mr Whiter's fiancée, who he is due to marry next July, has already raised nearly £73,500 of its £120,000 target.
Reg Winch, partner of Mr Whiter's mother, said: "It's been overwhelming and it's restored our faith in human kind.
"His aftercare is incredibly expensive and is very long-term. The prosthetics - while being amazing now - are also amazingly expensive.
"Plus, there are alterations to his living conditions and occupational health for work."
Cambridge United has also revealed plans to host a fundraising day in aid of the footballers on 9 October.
A 40-year-old man from Haverhill, Suffolk, has been charged with two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and is due at Cambridge Crown Court on 8 August.
Ticket-holders complained the French sports star appeared for only 45 minutes, halfway through the show at Bournemouth International Centre.
Punters praised the footballer, but said they first had to sit through an unadvertised auction and a warm-up act some deemed offensive.
Organisers A1 Sporting Speakers said only a "small minority" had complained.
The show, which is due at venues in Salford and London, was billed as "an evening" with Cantona.
Some people said the show started 30 minutes late and an interval before the athlete appeared prompted booing.
On the event's Facebook page, which has since been removed, many people demanded refunds, including Lee Garrett who described the event as "a disgrace".
Others criticised the auction, including Amy Neild, who wrote: "We paid £245 for our tickets to an audience with Eric Cantona not to sit through your money-making auction scheme!"
About 1,500 people attended the event, where tickets ranged from £45 to £1,000.
Luke Dawe, who had a £200 ticket, said it was due to include a signed Cantona picture but was told on arrival the former Manchester United striker would not be signing anything.
The interview with the footballer-turned-actor was also criticised.
"The questions asked were tedious and delivered with no poise," said Matthew Abrey.
Terry Baker, from A1 Sporting Speakers, said Cantona received a standing ovation and "hundreds of people were thanking us for the production".
"This has to be a small minority that are complaining," he added.
The BIC apologised and said it had received "a handful of complaints" which would be fed back to the show producer.
Western Power Distribution (WPD) said the substation, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, was damaged on 18, 23 and 24 May.
About 8,000 homes and businesses in Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire suffered power cuts.
Nottinghamshire Police believes an air rifle was used.
The electricity company used a helicopter to patrol the area after the first power cut.
It was able to "pinpoint a damaged component which was consistent with having been caused by a firearm," the firm said.
Two further similar incidents were reported to police.
Eirian Llewellyn, from WPD, said: "Power lines carry extremely high voltages and interfering with them in any way is potentially lethal.
"It can put at risk the lives of our engineers who have to repair and replace them if they have been left in an unsafe condition."
Properties in Bingham, Sibthorpe and Newark in Nottinghamshire; Bottesford, in Leicestershire; and Caythorpe, in Lincolnshire, experienced power cuts of up to an hour each time.
A police spokeswoman said: "At this stage it appears the substation was struck by a projectile, most likely fired from an air rifle.
"Damaging an electricity substation is a mindless and dangerous act which also has the potential to impact on the electricity supply to many houses in the nearby area."
Anyone with any information is asked to contact the force.
The unmanned craft, which has no one aboard, spun out of control minutes after it was launched last Tuesday from Kazakhstan.
The spacecraft is carrying three tonnes of equipment and will break up as it enters Earth's atmosphere.
Any parts to reach Earth should hit the sea and not land and scientists have said people do not need to worry.
The Progress M-27M was supposed to deliver food, water, fuel, oxygen and clothing to the crew of six people on the International Space Station (ISS), that orbits about 250 miles above Earth.
But after scientists on the ground couldn't communicate and talk to the craft it began spiralling out of control.
Since then, it has been slowly coming back to Earth, and orbiting our Planet in a pattern that takes it over the eastern United States, Colombia, Brazil and Indonesia.
Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, said on Wednesday it expected the spacecraft to enter Earth's atmosphere between 10.23pm on Thursday and 6.55am on Friday.
It said: "Only a few small parts of elements of its construction could reach the surface of our planet."
A special investigation has been set up in Russia to investigate why Progress was lost.
In 2011 another craft was destroyed when it crashed soon after take-off in Siberia.
The astronauts on board the ISS have enough supplies to keep them going until the next expected delivery on 19 June.
Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service said it was called to Bakers Quay at 18:47 BST and had now brought the blaze under control.
Two 19-year-old men from Gloucester have been arrested on suspicion of arson and are in police custody.
The shell of the 19th Century building is said to be structurally unsafe and a section has collapsed.
A fire service spokesman said rugby supporters had been at a nearby fan zone in the docks area watching the England v Australia match, but there was no risk to them or a need to evacuate the site.
The service later tweeted: "Bakers Quay fire out. Crew will stay on site. Engineers will advise re building safety. Thanks all for hard work & patience".
Gizmo was found in an "emaciated state" near a caravan park, in Yeldham Road, Halstead, Essex, on 17 February.
More than 1,000 people donated to an RSPCA appeal to raise £11,000 for his care. The total now stands at £22,600.
Last week the foal was able to stand for the first time and vet Carolyn Wyse said he was "miraculously 80% fit".
Five-month-old piebald cob Gizmo was "in a very poorly state" when Catley Cross equine specialist vet, Carolyn Wyse, was called in by the RSPCA.
He had been "left to die", Mrs Wyse said, and his condition was described as "touch and go". Gizmo was "hypothermic, dehydrated and collapsed - and essentially dying".
Horse lovers from around the world rallied to the RSPCA's appeal to help pay for his care at the Wickham St Paul surgery.
For weeks Gizmo was too weak to use his legs and a winch was used to move him regularly.
"He was able to walk two weeks after he arrived but it was only recently he managed to stand by himself," Mrs Wyse said.
She said she was amazed Gizmo's fans were still following his progress on Facebook.
More than 130,000 people watched a video of him kicking up his hooves in a field, posted on 28 March.
The surgery is considering keeping him for the next two years as Mrs Wyse said he would then be more suitable for rehoming.
They plan to hold a "meet Gizmo" day next month to thank people who have helped.
The surgery has so far been able to help seven other horses with the extra funds from Gizmo's appeal.
But over the past decade the cancer doctor has gone from dabbling in triathlon for a dare, to winning long-distance races against full-time professionals.
While many of her fellow competitors were training all day, Gossage was spending endless hours in Cambridge laboratories doing research for a PhD into kidney cancer.
Yet the ritual chores of both fields, she claims, are not so different.
When I'm working as an oncology doctor, treating cancer patients, it put things in to perspective
"They are actually so similar," she says. "A lot of the day-to-day stuff of what you do is fundamentally pretty boring.
"You could be pipetting in a lab for four hours at a time or staring at cells down a microscope - and it's the same with doing long interval sessions on an indoor bike trainer."
Her dedication and hard work has paid off on both fronts.
Not only has Gossage has just completed her PhD, but with two Ironman wins in 2013 she was voted female Long Distance Triathlete of the Year by British Triathlon.
Now, with her studies finally out of the way, the 34-year-old is taking a well-earned two-year sabbatical to train and race full time.
"It's going to take some getting used to," she says. "At first it's going to be novelty value; having time to have coffee with friends and not having to set an early alarm.
"I just hope I can cope with the pressure and cope with having it as the main focus in my life. It's probably my biggest worry that I won't have work to keep me sane!"
The Ironman is a gruelling test of physical and mental endurance which involves a 2.4 mile swim, followed by a 112 mile bike ride, before a 26.2 mile run.
In 2012, while juggling her PhD with racing part-time, Gossage won one event in under nine hours - a remarkable feat that only a small group of British women have achieved.
Gossage says that what she might lack in raw athletic ability, she makes up for it with perseverance and mental toughness; vital skills she has been honing in her medical career.
"To get to medical school and to get through it you have to be very driven and a lot of the things you learn are applicable to triathlon," she says.
"But ultimately the skills I learn in triathlon - the determination, drive and focus - will also make me a better doctor."
In her first year as a full-time professional, Gossage hopes to qualify for the famous Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii. She has raced there twice before, but as an age group athlete.
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"Overall, my number one aim is to do that and keep enjoying it," she adds. "If I keep enjoying it, I will get the best out of myself."
Gossage has added inspiration because of the outstanding record British women have at the Ironman World Championship in recent years.
won the event four times between 2007 and 2011, was crowned world champion in 2012, while were both on the podium in 2013.
"It's amazing really and I think we could realistically have six Brits in the top ten in the next few years at Kona," says Gossage. "I think you push each other to success.
"I think Chrissie raised the bar and everyone is trying to get up to where she was."
The oncologist knows her full-time professional triathlon career will be shorter than most, but she is fully focussed on making the most of her two-year sabbatical.
"When I was working as an oncology doctor, treating cancer patients, it put things in to perspective and made me realise that's it's very important to be clear with what you want to do in your life," she says.
"I feel like I'm halfway through a journey I've started. I'm under no illusions there'll be times in my triathlon career when I think 'it'd be nice just to be a cancer doctor and do something for someone else now and then, because triathlon is quite selfish.'
"And, equally, there will be times when I'm doing a busy clinic and its overrun, things aren't going well and you look outside and the sun is shining and I'll think 'I'd do anything to be out on my bike.'"
Gossage's first race on the road to qualifying for the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii is Ironman South Africa on Sunday 6 April.
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Rogers, 21, has enjoyed a successful season on loan at Falkirk, keeping 14 clean sheets in 35 appearances.
The US-born Republic of Ireland U21 international spent the previous campaign loaned out to Dumbarton.
Defender Scott McKenna, 19, has also signed a two-year contract extension, having made his first-team debut for the Dons in February.
McKenna featured as a late substitute in the 4-3 win at St Johnstone, having played four games on a short-term loan at Alloa in January.
"It is great news for the club that both lads have committed their futures to Aberdeen," said manager Derek McInnes.
"The challenge for both Danny and Scott now is to establish themselves in the first team. We feel that both have the chance to do so."
Rogers, who moved to Pittodrie in 2011, was due to be out of contract at the end of this season.
Sotheby's has said it will repatriate about $381m to help fund its share buyback programme.
As a result it will take a charge of between $63m and $68m to cover US taxes, it said in a regulatory filing.
The company estimates it will record a loss of between $10m and $19m (£7m-£13m) for the fourth quarter of 2015.
Sotheby's will also take a $37m pre-tax charge for staff payoffs.
The company said it needed to bring the cash back to the US for "corporate strategic initiatives".
The move to repatriate earnings is unusual for a US-based multinational - many choose to re-invest cash earned overseas due to relatively high US tax rates.
On Thursday, Sotheby's board voted to scrap its quarterly dividend, and increase its share buyback programme by $200m, taking its total to $325m.
The board also voted to scrap its fourth quarter dividend.
Wendy Willson claimed to have been violently attacked in her King's Lynn home just days before Christmas 2013.
The inquiry into her false claims cost police £70,000 to investigate, Norwich Crown Court heard.
Willson was convicted of perverting the course of justice and fraud after trying to claim £6,000 from insurers.
Although she originally claimed nothing had been stolen during the incident, it later emerged she had failed in a bid to claim from an insurance company.
Detectives told the court a total of 76 officers had worked on the case throughout January and February 2014.
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Willson was jailed for five months for perverting the course of justice and given another month for fraud.
She claimed two men broke into her Spenser Road home by forcing a conservatory door.
They supposedly forced into the kitchen where she was attacked, hit with a metal bar and punched in the head which caused her to fall against a unit knocking her unconscious.
Det Sup Paul Durham said: "Willson deliberately fabricated this extremely serious incident for her own personal financial gain.
"She has done a real disservice to genuine crime victims."
A proposal for a staff-owned company to run Salford City Council services has been approved "unanimously" by the council cabinet.
The 400 staff who currently run the services will be transferred to an independent, not-for-profit firm.
Other authorities have set up similar schemes, including Blackburn with Darwen Council, in 2011.
A report by Peter Connor, assistant mayor for services for adults and older people, was presented to the cabinet earlier.
The Labour councillor said: "The idea is to create a not-for-profit company owned by its staff and run for the benefit of the people it serves.
"Both staff and service users would decide what services are offered, be involved in developing innovative responses to present and future needs and have a strong voice in how the company develops.
"The company could also generate income which would reduce the need for core council funding over time while protecting services and jobs."
He said services for adult social care for people with complex needs had already been hit by budget cuts of more than £2m.
Labour-run Salford City Council serves approximately 800 people who have substantial or critical needs, estimated at a cost of £10.5m in the 2015-16 financial year.
Last month, the authority approved cuts of £31m for the next year, with a further 15% reduction the following year.
It plans to cut 200 posts in 2015-16 from its 8,500 workforce and the same number again during the following financial year.
The deal marks the latest initiative in China's keen pursuit of overseas high-speed rail deals.
Analysts say the project could open up the underdeveloped US high-speed rail market.
There are about a dozen high-speed rail projects in the US, but they have struggled to gain traction.
Private rail venture XpressWest will form a joint venture with China Railway International USA.
The firm is owned by a consortium made up of subsidiaries from state firms China Railway Group, CRRC, China State Construction Engineering Corporation and China Railway Signal & Communication Corporation.
Guotai Junan analyst Gary Wong estimated the XpressWest project was worth $5bn.
He said the deal would offer little financial benefit to China Railway International USA, but could help give the firm a foothold in the US high-speed rail market.
"If this opens up the United States market for them, opportunities for future expansion will increase. And if [their technology] is used in the United States, it will be easier for them to sell to other countries," he said.
Simone Joseph, 36, of Willesden Green, branded Hanane Yakoubi and her two friends "Isis bitches" on the 206 London bus in Brent on 13 October.
She also threatened to kick pregnant Ms Yakoubi in the stomach so she would "never have children again".
Joseph pleaded guilty to causing racially aggravated distress at Hendon Magistrates' Court.
She will be sentenced on 13 November.
The court heard the mother-of-three accused the women of having "bombs up their skirts" and shouted at them to go "back to your own country".
In a statement read to the court, Ms Yakoubi said: "As a consequence I find it difficult to sleep and cannot take medication because I'm pregnant.
"Every time I go out I'm afraid I might find myself in this situation as something similar has happened on a bus on another occasion because I am Muslim."
Prosecutor Darren Watts said the verbal abuse, described as constant swearing, continued for about five minutes with other passengers "shocked and distressed by the footage".
The driver stopped the bus to try to stop Joseph but she carried on, the court heard.
Mr Watts said the incident was reported to the police after the footage was posted on social media.
Tony Meisels, representing Joseph, said: "She is appalled, shocked and disgusted by what happened on that day. She wants to convey her regret to the victims."
Patrick Johnston made the comment in an interview with the Belfast Telegraph.
"I don't talk about producing graduates, I talk about producing citizens that have the potential for leadership in society," he said.
The controversial remarks sparked a backlash of anger from students online.
It also led to the creation of the Twitter account @QUBsixthcentury.
Mr Johnston went on to say that society "needs a 21-year-old who really understands how to analyse things, understands the tenets of leadership and contributing to society, who is a thinker and someone who has the potential to help society drive forward.
Shannon Downey, a history student at Queens University, said that the chancellors comments were "inappropriate".
"I was shocked", she said, "I know first-hand that history students have to do a great deal of work and I appreciate everything that the staff and faculty of the history department do for us.
"Historians analyse all of history, not just the sixth Century.
"During my course I have learned about politics, culture, religion, languages and even law."
Shannon tweeted: "Awkward moment when my VC, who will give me my degree in history in July, thinks society doesn't need historians anymore."
Paul Loughran, is the vice-president for community QUB Student Union, he said Senator George Mitchell, who chaired the Good Friday Agreement and was once the Chancellor of QUB had studied history.
"It de-values the faculty and I think it was hypocritical of him", he said.
"I think it was his mask slipping and it shows how he really feels about the arts and the humanities."
The vice-chancellor announced major cuts earlier this year, including slashing almost 240 jobs and more than 1,000 student places.
He also said the university had resized and reshaped itself, amalgamating several schools and has stopped offering single honours degrees in sociology and anthropology.
Rachel Sloan, a history graduate from Queen's University and now teacher, said that she finds the comments "ironic".
"He basically described all the qualities of an historian when explaining what he wanted from a graduate, in the same quote where he said society didn't need them.
"He's completely contradicting himself.
"If humanity subjects like history weren't important, then why have they made it compulsory for students to study at least one of them at GCSE?"
Mr Johnston met members of his school of history yesterday afternoon and later issued an apology on Twitter.
"I was happy to have the opportunity to provide clarification on comments made within the Belfast Telegraph article of May 30, 2016 which related to the study of history," the statement read.
"In the interview I wanted to stress that a university education is more than the study of any one subject and that the aim is to produce graduates who have the potential to become leaders within our society.
"History graduates at Queen's are thinkers who have the capacity to help drive society forward.
"I sincerely apologise if there was any misunderstanding in the interview and would place on record that I have regard for students, colleagues and alumni from history."
Earlier in the day, the company had been leading the FTSE 100 for the second day running, following a rise of 25% on Tuesday.
Tesco was the biggest riser, up 3.8% after wholesaler Booker reported strong sales figures. Tesco's deal to buy Booker awaits approval from regulators.
Overall, the FTSE 100 closed up 10.37 points or 0.14% at 7,367.60.
Housebuilder Persimmon rose 2.4% on the strength of solid first-half results.
The company said sales rose by 7% year-on-year in the period, unaffected by general election jitters.
Persimmon's performance lifted the sector, with rivals Barratt and Taylor Wimpey also trading higher.
On the currency markets, the pound was up 0.11% against the dollar at $1.2933 and also up 0.11% against the euro at 1.1399 euros.
A joint statement says: "All groups formed abroad without having returned to the country do not represent us."
They also call for the opposition to unite under an "Islamic framework".
Islamist rebel forces have become increasing prominent in the conflict in Syria, and they are believed to command tens of thousands of fighters.
The signatories include members of the Free Syrian Army as well as more radical Islamists - among them the powerful al-Nusra Front, which has links to al-Qaeda.
It comes amid fighting on the ground between the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), an offshoot of al-Qaeda, and more moderate rebel forces, especially in areas along Syria's northern and eastern borders.
In a video statement published online on Tuesday, 11 of the most powerful Islamist groups declared that they rejected the idea that opposition leadership could come from any organisation based outside Syria that was not working closely with those on the inside.
The Istanbul-based Western-backed National Coalition was formed in November 2012 and is recognised by more than 100 countries as a legitimate representative of the Syrian opposition.
"These forces believe that it they are most legitimately represented by those who have lived the same experience and shared in the same sacrifice of their honest sons."
"Therefore the National Coalition and its transitional government led by Ahmed Tomeh do not represent it and will not be recognised."
Mr Tomeh was appointed last month to form an administration to govern rebel-held areas of Syria and co-ordinate the provision basic services and supplies.
The statement also called on "all military and civilian forces to unite under a clear Islamic framework based on Sharia [Islamic law], which should be the sole source of legislation".
It urged members of the opposition to "reject division" and put "the interest of the Ummah [Islamic nation] over the interest of each group".
The BBC's Kevin Connolly in Beirut says the declaration reflects two growing trends.
One is the increasing influence of Islamist rebel movements within the coalition fighting President Bashar al-Assad; the other is the "Islamisation" of some of the other groups, including members of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), our correspondent says.
The statement is an attempt to shift the political balance of power in favour of those doing the fighting on the ground and is also an indication that jihadist groups like the al-Nusra Front are very much centre stage in the conflict, an awkward reality for Western powers, he adds.
Charles Lister of IHS Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre said the three moderate Islamist groups which signed the statement - Liwa al-Tawhid, Liwa al-Islam and Suqur al-Sham - had represented the National Coalition's main rebel presence on the ground in Syria.
"The inclusion of the core of [the National Coalition's] force... effectively depletes [its] armed wing, the Supreme Military Council," he told the Reuters news agency. "It is likely that the moderate Islamist coalition has ceased to exist as a single organisation structure."
In a separate development on Wednesday, United Nations inspectors returned to Syria to continue their investigation into the alleged use of chemical weapons during the conflict.
Last week, they confirmed that the nerve agent sarin was used in an attack on several suburbs of Damascus on 21 August, in which hundreds of people were killed.
They plan to visit three further sites - Khan al-Assal, Sheikh Maqsoud and Saraqeb - where smaller scale chemical attacks are alleged to have taken place earlier this year.
The Ballymoney racer posted a lap of 110.899mph on his 1000cc Suzuki to head the timesheets on the opening evening.
He is aiming to secure a fourth Solo Championship title at the event, held over the 4.25-mile Billown circuit.
Manx racer Dan Kneen was second quickest (110.488 mph), with Bradford's Dean Harrison also topping 110 mph before the session was red flagged.
Organisers said one rider, who has not been named, was taken to Nobles Hospital with suspected fractures following an incident at Church Bends.
Earlier in the session, James Cowton was fastest in 600cc practice with 108.365 mph, and local pair Dave Molyneux and Dan Sayle led the way in the sidecars with 100.288 mph.
Fourteen solo races and two sidecar events make up a busy schedule, which begins later on Tuesday with three races, followed by four on Wednesday evening and nine on Thursday morning and afternoon.
A prize fund of £36,015 is on offer, including £3,400 for the winner of the feature Solo Championship.
The plane, based at Robin Hood Airport, is due to be grounded this month after engineering backers, including Rolls-Royce, withdrew support.
The bomber made a flypast over northern areas of the UK on Saturday and will visit southern areas on Sunday.
South Yorkshire Police said the airport could not "accommodate a large influx of people hoping to see the Vulcan".
The force said: "We must warn you that the chances of seeing XH558 take-off and land are slim. There are no plans for any displays or repeated circuits over the airfield and the aircraft will come straight-in to land on her return.
"There is great risk of severe restrictions being imposed on flight operations if matters persist. We do need to minimise the risk of enforced flight cancellations on the grounds of public safety."
Local authorities and emergency services were starting to become "overwhelmed" by crowds who were flocking to the airport to see the famous Cold War nuclear warplane, police said.
Following the flypast tours, the XH558 bomber will make one final flight towards the end of October, details of which have yet to be confirmed.
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The Briton, who replaced Novak Djokovic of Serbia at the top of the rankings last week, won 6-3 6-2 at the O2 Arena for his 20th win in a row.
Murray and Djokovic are vying for the year-end number one spot.
Japan's Kei Nishikori beat Swiss Stan Wawrinka 6-2 6-3 in Monday's other John McEnroe Group match.
The evening session saw Murray step onto court as the world number one for the first time - and he delivered the result that most of the 17,000 spectators wanted.
"A big thank you for all of the support, it was an incredible atmosphere today," Murray said as the crowd saluted him. "I really appreciate it."
Both men misfired from the baseline in the early stages, with Murray making two winners to 14 unforced errors in the first set, but it was a similar story across the net.
The Scot, 29, took his chances when they came, breaking twice and coming through despite four double faults.
There were more signs of the form that has brought Murray such success this year as the second set unfolded.
After saving an early break point with an ace, the Wimbledon champion broke at 2-2 thanks to two mighty forehand winners, and again at 4-2 with another heavy cross-court forehand.
Murray, who has yet to win this title, put his erratic start to the match down to the pace of the court, rather than any added tension.
"I didn't feel any more nervous than usual," he said.
"It's just quite different conditions in there than what we've been practising in during the week. It's a lot slower than it has been.
"I think maybe some of the errors at the beginning were more getting used to playing in new surroundings again."
Murray will face Nishikori, live on BBC Two and Radio 5 live sports extra, on Wednesday at 14:00 GMT.
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While Murray and Novak Djokovic battle for the year-end number one spot, Japan's Nishikori took a significant step towards replacing Wawrinka as the world number three with a surprisingly easy win.
"That's my goal for this week," said fifth seed Nishikori, 26.
"Try to win a lot of matches and reach number four or number three. I see the opportunity to go up the ranking."
Wawrinka, 31, was playing with strapping on his left knee and struggled to make any impression on the return, despite Nishikori making just 47% of first serves.
The Swiss, who beat Nishikori on the way to winning the US Open in September, leaked 31 errors over the course of 67 minutes.
Two break of serve allowed Nishikori to take the first set with a sharp volley after 29 minutes, and a lunging forehand return in game five provided the decisive break in the second.
Asked if he had been struggling physically, Wawrinka said: "I was feeling better on the court, so I thought I could play at a better level today.
"I was expecting a good match. Didn't happen today."
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The device was discovered on an eastbound Jubilee Line train at North Greenwich in south-east London at about 11:00 BST.
North Greenwich station, which serves the O2 Arena, was evacuated but reopened at about 18:50 BST.
The Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command is leading the investigation.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman told BBC London the device looked "real enough" for the controlled detonation to be carried out.
In a statement, the force said: "Specialist officers from the Met and BTP [British Transport Police] are in attendance and a controlled detonation has since taken place to ensure the item is safe.
"While we are keeping an open mind, the Met's Counter Terrorism Command is leading the investigation because it has the expertise to deal with incidents of this kind."
Canadian rock band Nickelback were performing at the O2 Arena despite the disruption on the Jubilee Line.
In a statement, the O2 said it remained open for the performance and urged people to also use other forms of transport such as the Thames Clippers, the DLR to Royal Victoria and the Emirates Airline to North Greenwich.
The current threat level for international terrorism in the UK is severe - meaning an attack is "highly likely".
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Thousands of homes across northern England were affected after Storm Eva hit on Boxing Day.
The £40m package for Yorkshire comes on top of £50m funding to help local authorities' response to the floods.
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has accused David Cameron of providing only a "short-term fix" for the problem.
The leader of Leeds City Council, Judith Blake, said the funding was a "first step" in tackling the issue but was not going to be enough to repair all vital infrastructure.
Amber warnings for rain, meaning the public should "be prepared", are in place for parts of north-east and central Scotland for Sunday and Monday, and further flooding is likely with rivers expected to peak later.
Parts of northern England and north-east and central Scotland have been among the worst affected by flooding after several weeks of heavy rain, with hundreds of people forced to leave their homes over Christmas and thousands left without power.
It has also emerged that ministers were presented in November with a document from the Association of Drainage Authorities which said not enough money was being spent on the day to day maintenance of equipment to prevent floods.
Since 2000, the UK has had its five wettest years on record, yet the Environment Agency's overall spending on flood management fell by 14%, the association said.
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About £10m of the new funds will be spent on improving defences in York. The Environment Agency was criticised after officials decided to lift the Foss Barrier, designed to protect the city, after finding its pumps were at risk of electrical failure because of water entering the building.
The rest of the money will be spent on repairing defences on the Calder, Aire, Ouse, Derwent and Wharfe rivers in Yorkshire.
Mr Cameron said: "We are already spending £280m over the next six years to protect thousands of houses from flooding in Yorkshire as part of our £2.3bn investment to protect 300,000 houses across the country.
"But now more than £40m will be spent to fix those defences overwhelmed by the record rainfall we've seen in recent weeks and to make them more resilient."
The government has been criticised after proposals for a £190m project to protect homes and businesses along the River Aire in Leeds were axed in 2011 on cost grounds.
Council leader Ms Blake queried the detail of how the £40m would now be allocated "so residents and businesses can be offered some reassurance".
Money has also already been pledged to help those in Cumbria, Lancashire and Northumberland affected by Storm Desmond.
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, whose Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency was hit by flooding, questioned how much of the £40m was new money and described it as a "small down payment" compared to the £500m bill faced in Cumbria.
He said: "Time and time again, David Cameron offers warm words and a little bit of funding for a short-term fix.
"This money wouldn't be needed now if he had followed through with so many previous commitments to truly protect homes threatened with flooding."
Shadow environment secretary Kerry McCarthy said there had been cuts in flood defence spending every year since 2010 - apart from after the Somerset floods in 2013-14 - with further cuts of £115m due this year.
"A lump sum of £40m is a short-term, sticking-plaster approach," she said.
According to the Observer, the document issued to ministers by the Association of Drainage Authorities said that annual flood and storm damage costs are estimated by the Association of British Insurers to be £1.1bn.
It also says the number of households at significant risk of flood damage could increase from 330,000 currently to 570,000 in 2035, as a result of "a reduction in our capacity to manage water levels".
But Treasury minister David Gauke said the leaked report had been written before the announcement of a £2.3bn investment in flood prevention made in the Autumn Statement.
He said: "We're spending an unprecedented amount on our flood defences... Now the reason we can do that is because the economy is stronger and we've got the resources to do it. But even in the last Parliament where we faced significant difficulties with the public finances - capital spending on flood defences increased in real terms. "
Transport minister Robert Goodwill has been made a "flooding envoy" for Yorkshire and it has also been announced that charities raising cash for communities hit by floods will have contributions matched by the government, up to a total of £2m.
The European and External Affairs Committee heard evidence from four experts on the possible options for Scotland in Europe.
There was broad consensus among the experts that it would be extremely difficult for Scotland to be a member of both the UK and the EU after Brexit.
And they agreed the EU currently had "goodwill" towards Scotland.
Last week's referendum saw Scotland vote by 62% to 38% in favour of remaining in the EU - but it faces having to leave the union after the UK as a whole voted in favour of Brexit.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon held a series of meetings with senior EU officials after pledging to do all she can to protect Scotland's position in Europe.
She has said she will explore all of the possible options - but has raised the prospect of a second independence referendum if it was felt to be the best way of ensuring Scotland's access to the single market.
The external affairs committee asked a panel of expert witnesses what they felt the best scenario was to protect Scotland's relationship with the EU.
Dr Kirsty Hughes of Friends of Europe responded by saying that Brexit had in her view caused "extraordinary damage" to the UK, Europe and the wider world.
She said that in terms of preserving Scotland's EU status, "the simplest and most obvious way would be to be an independent state and transition in and stay in the EU".
She said any other options would depend to a large extent on the deal negotiated by the UK as a whole during its withdrawal negotiations.
Dr Hughes added: "It is worth looking into but it would be very hard for me at this moment to imagine how Scotland could be in the UK and still in the EU rather than just still in the UK or still in the single market.
"You are meant to be a state to have a seat in the council of ministers, not a sub-state, and I don't see at the moment any way around that."
She said there had been "scaremongering" from the EU ahead of the independence referendum in 2014, but she believed that the situation was now different.
Dr Hughes said it would be "logical" for any independence referendum to be held in the summer of next year to ensure it was done before the UK completed its negotiations and left the EU.
But she acknowledged that whether or not to hold a referendum was "obviously a very big political judgement".
And she warned the EU "does not want a mini-UK" and said Scotland is unlikely to keep the UK's "awkward squad" opt-outs of the euro, justice and home affairs and the UK budget rebate.
Prof Sionaidh Douglas-Scott of the Queen Mary School of Law at the University of London agreed it was very difficult to see how one part of the UK could be in the EU and not the other parts.
She said: "Legally there are precedents. I think politically it is another question because it would be a matter not only of negotiating with the other EU states but also with the UK to a certain amount as well."
But she said there were also political difficulties with the independence option as "there are some states in the EU that are not so happy with that", particularly Spain with is concerned about a strong pro-independence movement in Catalonia.
Former European Court of Justice judge Prof Sir David Edward said none of the options for either Scotland or the UK could be adopted without the consent of other EU member states.
But he added: "It doesn't seem to me possible to envisage a position of Scotland remaining part of the UK but having a separate relationship in relation to the single market."
Sir David said he believed it would be worth exploring whether Scotland would be better to join the European Economic Area and the European Free Trade Association rather than the EU, which he said would offer full access to the single market but not all of the commitments.
He added: "It seems to me that Scotland makes quite a good fit with Iceland and Norway."
Prof Drew Scott of the University of Edinburgh posed the question: "Why could Scotland not be the successor state? That would mean the rest of the UK would leave but Scotland would retain its seat and inherit the successor state status of the UK."
He said this scenario was "not impossible" if Scotland did vote in favour of independence in any referendum.
Channing Tatum, star of the film, confirmed the news on Twitter. Released in 2012, the film was based on the actor's early days as a male stripper.
Tatum, 33, will produce the musical alongside Soderbergh, Magic Mike writer Reid Carolin, Gregory Jacobs and Nick Wechsler.
The production team are also working on a sequel to the film.
Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, creators of award-winning show Next to Normal, have been signed up to write the songs, while Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa will pen the book.
The Glee writer co-wrote Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and the upcoming musical version of American Psycho.
Magic Mike was self-financed by Tatum and Soderbergh and was made for $7 million (£4.5m).
It went on to become a surprise hit, making $167m (£109m) from global ticket sales.
This month Tatum was named the second highest-paid actor in the world by Forbes magazine.
It estimates he earned $60m (£39m) last year, mainly from Magic Mike. It also reports that a chain of Magic Mike bars are in the pipeline.
It is the second such incident in the space of three days at the old Interfloor plant in Heathhall.
Emergency services were called out to the latest incident on Tuesday prompting the warning.
The SFRS said the site was dangerous and asked parents to be aware of their children's whereabouts at all times.
SFRS Dumfries and Galloway area manager Hamish McGhie said: "We are always concerned about the possibility of anyone accessing any empty premises.
"We have found from experience that unoccupied buildings can be targeted by malicious fire-raising.
"In such cases, we will always take a preventative approach by working with the owners and other local partners to secure such sites and raise awareness of the risks."
He added that they also tried to educate young people about the dangers of setting fires.
"Such activity is not only reckless and dangerous but can divert SFRS resources away from genuine emergencies," he said.
"However, through robust and flexible strategic planning, our crews are always ready to respond to any incident to keep our communities safe."
It is thought the marina scheme could bring about 30 new posts to the town - but with a price of £6m.
The report said it was important to consider the "wider social and economic benefits" the project could bring.
Councillors are set to consider a number of options for taking forward the project later this week.
The Stranraer marina plan is seen as a vital element in helping the town to recover from the loss of ferry services.
The business case states: "We understand that a marina is more than a boat park - it is a mechanism for developing the tourism, socio-cultural, arts and economic fabric of an area.
"This project can offer a rejuvenation of Stranraer's economy and infrastructure.
"By creating an attractive waterfront development, it encourages visitors (both boat nights and other tourists) as well as encouraging investment in the area by the private sector."
However, it accepts that the cost of the scheme per job created is much higher than the "generally accepted ceiling" of about £25,000.
Four options for the project have emerged but one has been earmarked as the preferred plan.
It is thought to be the "most complementary to adjacent development" and able to "maximise the use of associated development on the reclaimed land".
Dumfries and Galloway Council said it was also felt that it would generate the most "commercially viable marina development" and "have the greatest impact on the wider regeneration of the town".
The proposal includes:
The business case backs that option but accepts that a private operator would be unlikely to be found.
"Due to the low projected returns it seems unlikely, at this stage, that an independent marina developer would find the project appealing and therefore it is likely that the council will need to run the expanded marina or grant a management contract/ operational lease," it states.
Councillor Marion McCutcheon, who chairs the Wigtown area committee, said building the local economy was the "number one priority" for the council.
"Developing the Stranraer waterfront is key to the regeneration of the town," she said.
"Expanding the marina is a vital component.
"There are sound business reasons for this, including bringing more visitors to Stranraer, generating business, and creating employment."
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The 19-year-old uploaded an image of himself with team-mate Donervon Daniels and the caption "We are going to lose... Again" before their game at Sheffield Wednesday on Boxing Day.
The game ended 1-0 to Wednesday.
"It was totally unprofessional of me and a foolish thing to do," Murphy said in a statement on the club's website.
"I'd like to offer my sincerest apologies to the manager, my team-mates, the fans and everybody at Blackpool Football Club for the hurt and embarrassment that a recent photo message I sent has caused.
"I have loved my time at Blackpool so far, and I've been really grateful for the support I've received."
Blackpool are bottom of the table with 14 points from 24 games, nine points from safety. Their next match is an FA Cup third round tie at Premier League side Aston Villa on Sunday.
"I know I have let the manager and fans down badly but I aim to repay them by working even harder and helping the team climb up the league table," Murphy added.
"I'd also like to make clear that Donervon Daniels had no part in this and I apologise for implicating him."
Blackpool manager Lee Clark said: "I'm extremely disappointed because I expect nothing but total professionalism from my players.
"We will now investigate this matter internally before deciding upon an outcome."
Murphy has made nine appearances for Blackpool, scoring two goals, since joining them on loan from Norwich in November.
The incident comes a week after Blackpool chairman Karl Oyston apologised for abusive texts he sent to a supporter.
Oyston admitted sending the "unacceptable" texts in response to "a barrage of abuse" he received after his mobile number was placed on a social media website.
The Markit/CIPS UK manufacturing PMI came in at 55.5, up from 51.8 in September - any figure over 50 suggests expansion.
The result was considerably better than had been expected, showing the highest reading since June 2014 and one of the fastest rises since the survey began.
The improvement comes despite bad news for the steel sector during the month.
The pound rose following the release of the survey. It was up a fifth of a cent against the euro and two fifths of a cent against the US dollar.
"The revival provides a tentative suggestion that the manufacturers are pulling out of their recent funk, having been dogged by recession since the start of the year, and may help boost economic growth in the fourth quarter," said Rob Dobson, senior economist at survey compilers Markit.
"The big question now is whether this bounceback is a one-off or the start of a sustained re-emergence from recession."
The manufacturing sector has contracted in the last two quarters, meaning that by the usual definition, it is in recession.
It contracted by 0.3% in the third quarter and 0.5% in the second quarter, according to official figures from the Office for National Statistics.
Ruth Miller, UK economist at Capital Economics, said that the "figures offer some hope that the sector may now have passed the worst".
"However, we will need to see a few more upbeat surveys before a renaissance in UK manufacturing can be declared."
Hameed became the first Lancashire player ever to score two centuries in a Roses match in this week's County Championship draw with Yorkshire.
It also made the 19-year-old the youngest player to hit two hundreds in an English first-class game.
"I've never tried to hide away from the fact I want to play for England - the sooner the better of course," he said.
The former England Under-19 captain told BBC Radio Lancashire: "I realise the thing that will get me there is putting in performances for Lancashire consistently and that is my sole focus for now."
Hameed has only played 16 first-class matches after making his debut last season, but his 114 and 100 not out against Yorkshire took him past 1,000 runs for the season in his first full campaign.
When asked about Lancashire head coach and cricket director Ashley Giles comparing him to Joe Root, Hameed said: "That's special, being linked to one of my role models in the modern day.
"He's unbelievable in all three formats and I've mentioned before that I want to be like him in the future where you can play all three formats consistently."
The platinum-selling recording artist announced on her blog that she was postponing the adventure for "personal family reasons", giving no further explanation.
Brightman was due to fly to the ISS on 1 September as a tourist.
When, or even if, she will get to complete her dream of a 10-day holiday in orbit is not clear.
It is thought such a trip would cost her about $50m (£30m).
The company that was organising her trip, Space Adventures, is given only a very limited number of seats on Soyuz rockets to sell to tourists.
Who will take Brightman's berth in September is uncertain. It ought to be Brightman's back-up - a Japanese executive Satoshi Takamatsu, but Space Adventures has yet to confirm this.
Writing on her blog, Space Adventures' Eric Anderson said: “Since 2012, Sarah has shared her story of a lifelong dream to fly to space. Her international fame as the world’s best-selling soprano has enabled her message to circle the globe, inspiring others to pursue their own dreams.
“We’ve seen firsthand her dedication to every aspect of her spaceflight training and to date, has passed all of her training and medical tests. We applaud her determination and we’ll continue to support her as she pursues a future spaceflight opportunity.”
The European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, who was due to join her in the Soyuz in September, tweeted: "Sad to lose a fantastic crew mate. Best of luck, Sarah."
Flights to and from the ISS are currently on hold following the failure of a robotic cargo ship in late April.
The Progress freighter span out of control soon after launch, and then fell back to Earth.
The Russian and American space agencies want to understand precisely what went wrong before they permit normal crew rotations to resume.
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) made the "urgent" request and described the number of salmon in Welsh rivers as "cause for serious concern".
Habitat damage, pollution and illegal exploitation have put additional pressures on fish stocks, it said.
Dave Mee, senior fisheries advisor for NRW, said the survival of salmon at sea was at an "historic low".
He added: "Most anglers are already voluntarily releasing the fish they catch but we feel the situation is now so serious for salmon that we must ask all anglers to release all of their salmon.
"Anglers releasing their fish is one of the most effective way to help safeguard our stocks by allowing more fish to survive and spawn."
An annual assessment of fish stocks in 2016 showed all but two - the Severn and Usk - of the 23 salmon rivers in Wales were "at risk" or "probably at risk".
Shearer, who captained the Match of the Day team, beat Savage, who led the BBC 5 live team with 547 goals to 529.
More than 1,100 people played in the snow and rain outside BBC MediaCityUK in Salford since 09:15 on Thursday, raising £370,592 for Sport Relief.
All-time Premier League top goal-scorer Shearer was presented his winning trophy by Gary Lineker.
After scoring in extra time of the last game, Shearer said the challenge had tired him out.
"My back, my thighs, my knees - they're all in bits but it was all worth it."
Look back at coverage of Sport Relief's Battle of the Five-A-Sides
Ex-Wales player Savage said it had been "challenging but amazing".
He said: "I'm very proud of 'Team Savage', there were times when I was sure we'd be taking that trophy home.
"Thanks to everyone for their amazing support which is what Sport Relief is all about, getting together to raise some cash and feel proud."
Lineker came out earlier on Saturday to referee and poke fun at the captains, saying: "Just watching Shearer there, he could barely move... bit like when he played really!"
The day also saw professional boxer Scott Quigg commentating, former England right-back Danny Mills scoring for Team Shearer and Countdown star Rachel Riley slogging out a full 12 hours on the pitch.
Actor Ralf Little partnered with singer Lamar to try to bring Team Savage back into the game in the final hours.
McFly's Danny Jones and Josh Cuthbert from band Union J each did a 12-hour stint overnight.
Hip-hop star Fatman Scoop who was given a red card by Man United's winger Adnan Januzaj for persistent foul play.
American Scoop was not pleased but admitted he got an education in football, saying: "The guy puts a red card on me. I don't know what a red card is. Then everyone tells me to get off!"
Cast members from a variety of British soap operas - Emmerdale, Coronation Street and Hollyoaks - battled it out in game 100, calling themselves the "Northern Allstars".
The action saw celebrities including John Bishop, Hugh Dennis and Angus Deayton take on footballers Danny Mills, Kevin Kilbane and Dion Dublin.
The 57-hour duration of the match was chosen because it is the equivalent of a Premier League club's entire season.
The Premier League is matching all of the public's donations up to a maximum of £500,000.
The money will go towards helping disadvantaged people in the UK and overseas.
Accountants Deloitte said a consultant was given the specifications for a tender two days before his competitors.
It also recommended rule changes to its declarations of interest after considering a research firm contract.
Sport Wales - whose chairman and vice-chairwoman remain suspended amid concerns its board was dysfunctional - accepted the report.
But the body, which promotes and distributes money for elite and grassroots sport, said Deloitte found no impropriety.
Sam Whale, managing director of a firm called Unforgiving Minute, won a £33,600 contract in April 2016 to mentor Sport Wales staff.
The Deloitte report said he was given the tender specification by Sport Wales chief Sarah Powell on 4 April, two days before other bidders.
Emailing Sport Wales staff members on 4 April, Ms Powell said she was in the process of confirming Mr Whale's contract.
The email is one of a series seen by BBC Wales, including correspondence between the two discussing the terms of the contract, including work locations, timelines and prices, nearly a month before it went out to tender.
It culminates in an email, two days before the rest of the tender emails were sent, from Ms Powell to Mr Whale which said: "I'm still not 100% sure how we are going to finalise this tender but if you could provide us with a submission based on this I can at least get this moving in our system here.
"I was thinking if we did this I can send to a couple of people and apologise for the short notice but this is where we are and see who comes back?"
Unforgiving Minute was the only tender as the other companies were unable to respond within the required time frame.
Deloitte's report, leaked to BBC Wales, said: "There is a risk that there may be a perception of some bidders being given undue advantage during the tender process which may be perceived as undermining the spirit of transparency for public procurement."
There was no response from Mr Whale when contacted by BBC Wales. There was also no suggestion of impropriety by him in the report.
Deloitte also looked at four contracts, worth a total of £71,000, awarded to Beaufort Research since 2011.
The accountants said three out of four relevant tender evaluation forms could not be located, meaning Deloitte was unable to determine who was involved in assessing the tenders.
Deloitte described the lack of documentation as an oversight but said there was evidence elsewhere that proper procedures were being followed.
The managing director of Beaufort Research is Fiona McAllister, sister of the then chairwoman of Sport Wales, Laura McAllister.
Deloitte said there was no evidence the chairwoman was involved in the decision-making process but that, while earlier declarations of interest were made by Laura McAllister, she had not done so since 2013.
However, Sport Wales staff are only asked to declare interests of immediate family members, which does not include siblings, and Deloitte said Sport Wales may want to consider using a broader definition.
Beaufort Research also failed to make any explicit declaration of interest, even though the tender document asked it to make known any relevant conflicts of interest.
The report said: "There is a risk that the principle of transparency and fairness may be perceived to be undermined, resulting in reputational damage to Sport Wales if perceived conflicts of interest are not declared."
Laura McAllister said: "As confirmed by the internal auditors, all declarations of interest were made by me as chair in accordance with guidelines, in full at all times.
"Clearly, there would be no involvement from a board chair in contract awards of any kind."
Fiona McAllister said Beaufort Research "submitted a large number of tenders to Sport Wales, winning some contracts and losing others, but always via a competitive and rigorous procurement process".
"I was not involved in the bid team for the four contracts awarded since 2011 or in carrying out any of the research for these contracts," she added.
"Beaufort has always dealt with the Sport Wales research and evaluation team on tenders and projects, never with the chair or any of the board members.
"Therefore we did not believe there was a need to declare a conflict of interest."
A Sport Wales spokesman said: "This report made a number of recommendations relating to the procurement of external consultants across the organisation and identified a number of areas where procedures could be improved.
"As a result of these recommendations a set of management responses were provided to and accepted by Deloitte.
"Those responses were endorsed by the Sport Wales audit and risk committee at their meeting on 10 March 2017.
"At no point in this report do Deloitte suggest any impropriety on the part of staff within Sport Wales."
Welsh Conservative spokesman on sport, Russell George, said Sport Wales reputation was being "harmed by each revelation", saying ministers had to "consider its future very carefully".
Matthew James Cassidy, 19, from Merseyside, died at Bethel Place in Connah's Quay, on 29 May.
The woman, 19, and from Connah's Quay, was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder.
A 19-year-old man from Liverpool has already been charged with Mr Cassidy's murder and has been remanded in custody.
Police officers are continuing to search properties in the area following the latest arrest.
Shares in Microsoft, criticised for its slow response to the booming market for mobile devices, leapt 7.3% on the news.
Mr Ballmer, who last month unveiled a restructuring to address the criticism, said in a statement: "There is never a perfect time for this type of transition, but now is the right time.
"We need a CEO who will be here longer term for this new direction."
The world's biggest software company has created a special committee to find a replacement. This committee includes Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
Mr Ballmer, 57, succeeded Mr Gates in 2000. The two men met in 1973 while studying at Harvard University, and Mr Ballmer joined the company in 1980.
Microsoft emerged as the undisputed leader in the technology sector, and became the world's largest company by market value.
By Rory Cellan-JonesTechnology correspondent
Filling the shoes of one of the giants of the computing industry was never going to be easy - so you could say Steve Ballmer has done well to stay at the top for so long and leave Microsoft at a time of his choosing.
But the man crowned chief executive by Bill Gates in 2000 has never quite persuaded investors or the technology community that he has a compelling vision for the software company's future.
Microsoft has continued to make huge sums from Windows and Office - but it has looked flat-footed in addressing the new world of mobile computing.
Rivals like Google and Apple have surged ahead - both in terms of innovation and market value.
Steve Ballmer has been an energetic and combative leader - as I found in rather a testy encounter last October when I questioned his record on innovation.
But in the last few years he has lost many of the executives who might have been seen as potential successors. Now Microsoft's investors will be hoping their company can find someone who can inspire its engineers to conquer new markets.
But the company had been criticised by investors recently for not reacting quickly enough to the way Apple and Google have led the way in mobile devices.
Microsoft struggled as consumers began to shun desktops and laptops in favour of tablets and mobile devices.
While its Windows software is used on the vast majority of PCs, Microsoft made little impact in the fast-growing tablet and smartphone segments.
Microsoft's transformation plan, announced last month, is trying to address that.
In a memo to staff last month, Mr Ballmer said that the changes meant the company was "rallying behind a single strategy as one company - not a collection of divisional strategies".
The aim, he said, was to react faster to changes in the market.
Andrew Bartels, analyst at Forrester Research, said Mr Ballmer has been rightly criticised for being "caught flatfooted by the shift to tablets".
But he added that he should get big credit for successful products such as the Xbox and Bing.
"The problem for Microsoft is its revenue primarily comes from sales to business. It should be viewed more like IBM, but is viewed as consumer, like Apple," he said.
Mr Ballmer's planned departure comes shortly after activist investing fund ValueAct Capital Management took a small stake in the company, and started agitating for a change in strategy and a clear succession plan.
Despite the recent criticism, the timing of his decision to go surprised analysts.
"Yes, this was a surprise, especially considering how close it is to the recently announced strategic overhaul towards devices and services," said Sid Parakh, an analyst at McAdams Wright Ragen.
Born in 1956, Mr Ballmer grew up near Detroit, where his father worked as a manager at the Ford motor company.
Having graduated from Harvard with a degree in mathematics and economics, he worked for two years at Procter & Gamble as an assistant product manager and attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business before joining Microsoft.
The company has more than tripled revenues and doubled profits under Mr Ballmer's leadership.
The blaze erupted in a restaurant at Fleet services on the M3 at 22:30 GMT on 14 December. No-one was injured but the rear of the building was destroyed.
An investigation subsequently confirmed the blaze started in a coffee machine.
Operators Welcome Break said toilets and the forecourt were open, with food available from the Fleet North site.
It said a temporary Starbucks outlet and a Harry Ramsden truck would also open later this month.
A temporary building will be erected in the truck park in spring to provide full facilities while the new building is built.
The entrance which survived the fire is being used to allow customers access over the bridge on the northbound site which was unaffected by the fire.
About 100 firefighters were involved in tackling the blaze and part of the M3 was closed for a time before it was brought under control in the early hours.
The footbridge which runs over Fleet services on the M3, named after BBC Radio 1's Scott Mills, was also closed due to smoke logging.
Peter Francis, 68, was found dead in a field at Llanfynydd, near Mold, Flintshire, by his son Ian on 17 August.
An inquest opened in Ruthin on Monday and heard he left his farm at Burton, Wrexham, to tend to a cow that was about to calve.
It was adjourned until after the Health and Safety Executive has investigated.
A post mortem examination revealed Mr Francis died of major trauma injuries.
Jamie Proctor's first goal for the Wanderers put them ahead after he had earlier headed against the bar.
Kelvin Mellor and Brad Potts then scored twice in four minutes for the hosts, but Kaiyne Woolery levelled the score in injury-time for Bolton.
In an open extra-time period, Jim McAlister and John Herron sent the Seasiders past the League One team.
The win ends Blackpool's seven-year wait for a victory in the competition.
Match ends, Blackpool 4, Bolton Wanderers 2.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Blackpool 4, Bolton Wanderers 2.
Will Aimson (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kaiyne Woolery (Bolton Wanderers).
Brad Potts (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lawrie Wilson (Bolton Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Mark Davies (Bolton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Eddie Nolan.
Goal! Blackpool 4, Bolton Wanderers 2. John Herron (Blackpool) right footed shot from outside the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Brad Potts.
Foul by Kelvin Mellor (Blackpool).
Kaiyne Woolery (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Brad Potts (Blackpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Goal! Blackpool 3, Bolton Wanderers 2. Jim McAlister (Blackpool) right footed shot from very close range to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by John Herron.
Foul by Henry Cameron (Blackpool).
Dean Moxey (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Second Half Extra Time begins Blackpool 2, Bolton Wanderers 2.
Substitution, Blackpool. John Herron replaces Mark Yeates.
First Half Extra Time ends, Blackpool 2, Bolton Wanderers 2.
Attempt missed. Chris Taylor (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Mark Yeates.
Foul by Henry Cameron (Blackpool).
Chris Taylor (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Michael Cain (Blackpool) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Hand ball by Mark Davies (Bolton Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Brad Potts (Blackpool) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
First Half Extra Time begins Blackpool 2, Bolton Wanderers 2.
Second Half ends, Blackpool 2, Bolton Wanderers 2.
Goal! Blackpool 2, Bolton Wanderers 2. Kaiyne Woolery (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Blackpool. Henry Cameron replaces Mark Cullen.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Clark Robertson.
Clark Robertson (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kaiyne Woolery (Bolton Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Brad Potts (Blackpool) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Mark Davies (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Michael Cain (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mark Davies (Bolton Wanderers).
Attempt blocked. Chris Taylor (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from long range on the right is blocked.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by John Herron.
Will Aimson (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Liam Trotter (Bolton Wanderers).
In total, 15 allegations were made, of which six were historical (from the 1980s or before).
Ten of the allegations were of sexual abuse, of which three also involved physical abuse.
The Catholic Church said it was publishing the audit to show that it was being transparent and open.
The Diocesan Safeguarding Audit for 2013 showed that the remainder of the allegations involved physical abuse alone, emotional abuse and verbal abuse.
Ten of the allegations were reported to the police.
A Catholic Church spokesman said the five which were not reported to the police related to shouting at a group of children, poor boundaries and an abuse of power.
None of these were regarded as illegal actions but required a response from the Diocesan Safeguarding Advisor and Bishop.
As of November 2014, there were no prosecutions associated with 2013 allegations.
Two of the cases have been reported to the procurator fiscal, two of the alleged perpetrators have died, three have been removed from ministry, one is no longer a volunteer and two outcomes are unknown to the Church.
The Church spokesman said: "The Catholic Church in Scotland seeks to safeguard the welfare of people of all ages who are involved in whatever capacity with the Church and its organisations.
"The publication of this audit is an example of the commitment to transparency and openness made previously by Scotland's Catholic Bishops."
"The external Review of Safeguarding Protocols and Procedures being conducted by Dr. Andrew McLellan will report in 2015 and the Statistical Review of all Historic Cases of Abuse from 1947-2005 will be published at that time also."
He added: "The Catholic Church would support an evidence-based inquiry into abuse in care in Scotland."
Four blasts hit vehicles in Gaza City just after 06:00 (03:00 GMT). Two people suffered minor injuries.
News agencies said the five cars belonged to members of Hamas and the rival Islamic Jihad militant group.
Supporters of the so-called Islamic State group have threatened Hamas' leadership in Gaza in recent weeks.
The Jerusalem Post quoted one Hamas commander, Abu Hamar, as saying IS was to blame for Sunday's explosions. He called for Hamas to respond.
A video posted online last month by IS supporters in Syria made direct threats against what they called "the tyrants of Hamas" and said they would take over Gaza.
In Gaza, some Salafist groups - who adhere to a strict lifestyle based on that of the earliest followers of Islam - have started to support IS.
They have been blamed by Hamas for a series of explosions in the area. Dozens of Salafists have been arrested in recent weeks.
The castle is already Scotland's top paid-for tourist attraction, with 755,001 visitors between April and July - an increase of 8% on last year.
Historic Scotland said it also recorded 1.96 million visits to their 77 attractions across Scotland during the same period, 9% more than last year.
Several other paid-for heritage sites also broke their records.
Stirling Castle was second most popular attraction between April and July, with 215,461 visitors, while Urquhart Castle on the banks of Loch Ness was third with a 9% visitor increase to 192,191.
The Neolithic settlement of Skara Brae in Orkney took fourth spot, recording 56,386 visitors.
Doune Castle's jump to fifth place was credited to its TV role as the fictional Castle Leoch in the Outlander series which helped attract 40,751 visitors, a 23% increase.
Other attractions in the top ten are Linlithgow Palace, Iona Abbey, St Andrews Castle, Fort George in Inverness and Melrose Abbey.
Stephen Duncan, commercial and tourism director at Historic Environment Scotland, said: "This season has brought with it a raft of impressive new records and achievements for a number of our Historic Scotland attractions.
"With just under two million people turning out at our castles, palaces, abbeys and other historic sites throughout the country over a four-month period - it's proving to be a season for the record books."
11 April 2016 Last updated at 13:39 BST
He was attempting to cross the Abbey Slip in Penzance, Cornwall, when waves whipped up by 65mph winds on Sunday stopped him in his tracks.
Mobile phone footage showed the car being buffeted by the waves before it reached safety on the other side.
Video: Adam Lobb
Planned business rates increases could cripple parts of Scotland's hospitality industry, it has been claimed.
Some firms are facing rates rises of more than 100%, after new rateable values were given to their properties.
Mr Mackay made the commitment after meeting business leaders in Aberdeen.
It was to discuss their concerns about the new rates being introduced later this year.
He said: "I am looking at trying to provide a local solution."
Firms in the north east say they are being particularly badly hit as their property values were assessed while the region's economy was booming.
Mr Mackay announced a series of changes to business rates during his Scottish budget announcement in December.
In the changes due to come into effect from 1 April, business rates poundage will be reduced by 3.7% to 46.6p.
Goals either side of the break from Ian Henderson and Nathaniel Mendez-Laing clinched the win for the home side in what was at times a bad-tempered affair as Bury finished with nine men.
Neil Danns went close for Bury with a header towards Josh Lillis' near post but the Dale goalkeeper parried the effort.
The home side landed the first telling blow in the 38th minute with the award of a penalty as Matt Lund cleverly worked his way inside Jacob Mellis and went down, with Ian Henderson duly despatching the penalty to hand Dale the lead.
Bury striker James Vaughan had the ball in the net on the hour mark but was flagged offside and it was Rochdale who scored the second goal of the game when Mendez-Laing collected Andy Cannon's pass and fired beyond Williams on 75 minutes.
Kean Bryan was dismissed for a rash challenge on Cannon soon after, sparking a bout of pushing and shoving from both teams, and Mellis followed him off for a foul on Calvin Andrew.
Reports supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Rochdale 2, Bury 0.
Second Half ends, Rochdale 2, Bury 0.
Corner, Bury. Conceded by Joseph Rafferty.
Foul by Callum Camps (Rochdale).
Danny Mayor (Bury) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Andrew Cannon (Rochdale) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Joseph Rafferty (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James Vaughan (Bury).
Foul by Joe Bunney (Rochdale).
Hallam Hope (Bury) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Andrew Cannon (Rochdale) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Rochdale. Sanmi Odelusi replaces Nathaniel Mendez-Laing.
Second yellow card to Jacob Mellis (Bury) for a bad foul.
Calvin Andrew (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jacob Mellis (Bury).
Calvin Andrew (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Soares (Bury).
Calvin Andrew (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Niall Maher (Bury).
Attempt saved. Niall Canavan (Rochdale) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Rochdale. Conceded by Jacob Mellis.
Antony Kay (Bury) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Andrew Cannon (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Antony Kay (Bury).
Calvin Andrew (Rochdale) is shown the yellow card.
Joe Bunney (Rochdale) is shown the yellow card.
Ishmael Miller (Bury) is shown the yellow card.
Kean Bryan (Bury) is shown the red card.
Matthew Lund (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kean Bryan (Bury).
Goal! Rochdale 2, Bury 0. Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (Rochdale) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Andrew Cannon.
Attempt saved. Ian Henderson (Rochdale) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Antony Kay (Bury) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Bury. Conceded by Keith Keane.
Kean Bryan (Bury) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andrew Cannon (Rochdale).
Substitution, Bury. Ishmael Miller replaces Neil Danns.
Substitution, Rochdale. Andrew Cannon replaces Steve Davies.
James Vaughan (Bury) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Joe Bunney (Rochdale).
Held on Friday and Saturday, the event was marking its 10th anniversary.
Revellers turned up in the Wester Ross town to see acts such as Utah Saints, Twin Atlantic, Shed Seven, The Undertones, Alabama 3, Public Service Broadcasting and Hunter and the Bear.
About 2,500 people attended the event on each of the days it was held.
This year's event was sold out before any of the acts were announced.
It agreed to transfer powers to the Welsh and Scottish parties over issues such as Westminster candidate selections, and that both should have a representative on the NEC.
Welsh Labour leader Carwyn Jones said he was "delighted" by the plans.
The changes are subject to approval at the UK party's conference in Liverpool.
Following a disappointing result for Labour at the 2015 general election, first minister Mr Jones said it was "time for change in the structure of our party to take account of the new politics".
Former Welsh Government minister Leighton Andrews also warned that Welsh Labour could separate from the rest of the UK party if Jeremy Corbyn was re-elected as leader.
After several months of discussion, Welsh Labour's ruling body - the Welsh Executive Committee (WEC) - approved plans for greater autonomy at its own meeting earlier in September.
On Wednesday, Mr Jones said more Welsh Labour autonomy was "important progress reflecting the reality of devolution in Wales".
"As devolution matures across the UK it is right that our structures and politics should seek to match it," he said.
"I am delighted that these proposals have been agreed and look forward to them being passed by conference in Liverpool next week."
Labour AM Eluned Morgan said the "long overdue" changes would "correct the travesty where the Tory prime minister of the UK recognised Carwyn as the leader of Wales but the Labour Party did not".
The plans do not amount to a full separation - it is expected Welsh Labour will continue to share finances with the UK party.
If delegates at the Labour conference agree the plan, BBC Wales understands the WEC will consult party members on the details of the proposal, which include:
Darren Williams, a Cardiff councillor who sits on the NEC, told the BBC's Daily Politics he voted against the plan to have a Welsh Labour AM sit on the NEC.
He said it was "completely unworkable", as NEC meetings in London clashed with assembly plenary sessions on Tuesday.
"I am in favour of the principle, but I think those positions should be elected by ordinary members," he added.
The NEC also discussed proposals about the formation of the party's shadow cabinet in Westminster.
Having failed to reach an agreement after eight hours of talks, a decision was deferred for further discussion at the weekend.
Mark Hughes, 23, from Buckley, admitted to the possession of a sawn off shotgun and stun gun last summer, as well as drugs offences.
He said he found the weapons while digging in his grandparents' garden.
But that was dismissed as "utter nonsense" by Judge Rhys Rowlands at Mold Crown Court.
Hughes was found in possession of the double barrelled 60cm (24 inch) shot gun and the stun gun - which gives off an electrical charge - on 31 July 2016.
Both were in working order.
He told the court he had the weapons as he was considering taking his own life.
Judge Rowlands said it was a sad case and it was clear Hughes had suffered a very unpleasant injury.
But he dismissed his claim of finding the weapons in a garden.
He told Hughes: "You are addressing a very keen gardener. I don't come across weapons in my garden and I suspect no one else does either".
Judge Rowlands added that Hughes may well have considered harming himself, but if he persisted with his claims of how he came by the weapons, evidence would have to be called. He would then lose credit in sentencing.
Hughes will be sentenced next month.
The 23-year-old central midfielder joined the Mariners in 2012, scoring three goals in 62 appearances.
Mariners head coach Tony Walmsley said: "When I brought Caceres to the Mariners his potential was obvious. The move demonstrates how far he has progressed.
"We need to celebrate when players are sold to bigger clubs."
The Australian becomes City's first signing of the January transfer window.
For all the latest transfers check out our transfer deals page and for all the manager ins and outs, see the our list of current bosses.
Last week the World Health Organization called for a ban on their use in public places and workplaces. The group said it was concerned about the risk which use of the products presented and about their marketing via fruit and candy-style flavours.
Highly-respected bodies in the UK such as the British Medical Association and Faculty of Public Health have also sounded notes of caution.
But there is also a vociferous health lobby warning against over-regulation, arguing that getting smokers to switch to e-cigarettes could actually save lives.
Confused? You won't be the only one.
The arguments raging over the role and risks of e-cigarettes are typical of many that have been heard down the years in the field of health. That is to say it is all about balancing risk and benefit - and as evidence is still emerging it is natural to find a variety of opinion.
After all, e-cigarettes are a relatively new phenomenon. Since 2005, the e-cigarette industry has grown from one manufacturer in China to an estimated £1.8bn global business with 466 brands.
And it is worth noting, because of the unease it is causing health experts, it's an industry that tobacco firms are increasingly getting involved in.
But this debate is further complicated by the fact that it is not just the merits of e-cigarettes that is being discussed, but their impact on smoking tobacco products.
On their own, there is little to recommend the use of e-cigarettes. They contain some toxins and, therefore, in theory are potentially harmful.
But, of course, that cannot be seen in isolation. Smoking an e-cigarette - and this is about the only thing that is not disputed - is less harmful than tobacco products. Much less harmful, in fact.
This - according to those who are worried about the tough line being taken by some experts - should be the guiding principle while more research is carried out.
1. On some e-cigarettes, inhalation activates the battery-powered atomiser. Other types are manually switched on
2. A heating coil inside the atomiser heats liquid nicotine contained in a cartridge
3. Liquid nicotine becomes vapour and is inhaled. The 'smoke' produced is largely water vapour. Many e-cigarettes have an LED light as a cosmetic feature to simulate traditional cigarette glow.
But the problem for those who have been more circumspect is that there are a number of unknowns.
The major concerns about e-cigarettes is that they could act as a gateway to real cigarettes. The experts who are in the news today make a pretty strong case for that not being the case. But plenty of people are still not convinced.
However, there are other questions that need to be answered too.
Research has shown that while e-cigarettes can increase the chances of quitting, they are less effective than traditional "stop smoking" services.
If the availability of e-cigarettes is stopping people using official routes to quitting - and there is some evidence to suggest they may be - that could be a concern.
Another worry is that people who use e-cigarettes to quit could be more likely to relapse.
Meanwhile - and this is a point acknowledged by Prof Robert West who is one of the experts warning against an over-reaction to e-cigarettes - the presence of people "vaping" may encourage those who have quit successfully to take up the habit.
These are the sort of issues that are now being looked into by researchers across the world. While that is happening, it's a debate that still has a long way to run.
Members of the local government committee supported amendments to the Community Empowerment Bill to extend the right-to-buy to football fans.
Green MSP Alison Johnstone, who moved the amendments, told the committee that agreeing to the changes would turn the legislation into a landmark bill.
If passed by the full parliament, supporters' trusts would get "first refusal" when a club comes up for sale.
A supporters' trust with a registered interest in a football club would also have the right to buy shares in that club, including a controlling interest, at any point.
It is understood the Scottish FA and the Scottish Professional Football League are against the plans.
The bill was initially designed to allow community groups the right to purchase local land but could now be extended to football clubs.
Ms Johnstone said: "This is an extraordinary day for the future of Scottish football.
"We know how badly the game has been struggling, from Gretna to Hearts and Rangers, and we know fan ownership works.
"It's great that parliament has today united around the principle of a responsible fans' right to buy their clubs."
The Scottish Green MSP said that, if passed by the full Scottish Parliament, fans would have "nothing to fear from irresponsible owners like those who have undermined so many clubs".
She added: "We know there are plenty of good private owners of clubs, and this will not require fans to buy them out, but when they move on, fans will be in the right place to take over if they wish."
Ms Johnstone's amendments bring the principles of rural land reform laws, which help communities buy land, to supporters of football clubs.
The new legislation would mean that supporters' trusts would legally register an interest in a football club.
This would mean the owner of the club would be prohibited from "taking any action with a view to the transfer of ownership of that football club" until it had complied with the act.
The supporters' trust would then be given an opportunity to buy the club at a price assessed by an appointed valuer.
Local Government Minister Marco Biagi said the Scottish government wanted to give fans the right to buy their clubs using regulations which would be put in place after the bill was passed.
"Affirmative procedure for the development of the details, with the aim put in the bill, would allow consultation with the wider football community; it would allow consultation, as appropriate, with the parliament; and it would ensure that we don't just endorse the principle but we ensure that any legislation we introduce we get right," he said.
Scottish Labour's Ken Macintosh, who supported Ms Johnstone's amendments, said: "I believe it would be difficult for anyone in Scotland to stand up and defend the current state of Scottish football in terms of its accountability, its sustainability or simply its success.
"Football fans and local communities have not only lost out, they have been made to feel powerless, sometimes even taken advantage of or had their goodwill exploited."
"Fan ownership is not the only option but it should be one of the options open to all those who want to see Scottish football thrive."
Babolat, the French racquet manufacturer, began making strings for players in 1875, two years before the covers first came off at the All England Club in south-west London.
And now, 139 years later, no fewer than 170 entrants to this year's Wimbledon use at least one Babolat product.
Founded by Pierre Babolat in Lyon, Babolat originally made strings for musical instruments and sausage cases from animal intestines.
Its move into tennis came after one of the pioneers of the modern game, Walter Clopton Wingfield, approached Babolat to make natural gut strings for a new sport he called "sphairistrike" (Greek for ball game).
As tennis grew in popularity in the late 19th Century, and the rules were standardised, Babolat saw sales of its strings steadily increase.
In 1925 Rene Lacoste won the French Open using a racquet strung with Babolat strings. Since then Babolat strings have won at least one Grand Slam title every year.
Business of Tennis
Today Babolat remains a family-run business, and is led by 44-year-old Eric Babolat, the great-great-grandson of founder Pierre.
Under Eric's leadership, Babolat has been transformed from a company which until 1994 only made strings, to one of the biggest names in tennis racquets, clothing and footwear.
The decision to diversify the business away from just making strings was taken by Eric's father Pierre, who introduced the company's first tennis racquet in 1994.
But tragedy struck in 1998 when Pierre was killed when Swissair Flight 111 crashed off the coast of Canada while flying from New York to Geneva.
Eric, who was 28 at the time, was thrown abruptly into running the family business.
He had been working for the company for four years by then, and while he admits that he did not feel ready, he had no hesitations about taking up the top job.
"I had no pressure except from myself," he says. "I had people around me to help me, and I wanted to continue the story."
With the main aim being to increase sales of Babolat racquets, yet with little or no money to sign up established players to start using them, Eric instead decided to continue his father's policy of giving the racquets to players on the junior circuit.
And so unknown names such as Rafael Nadal, Andy Roddick and Kim Clijsters were given free Babolat racquets.
As those "unknowns" went on to win Grand Slam after Grand Slam using Babolat racquets, the company's sales skyrocketed.
Eric used the increased revenues to further diversify the business into making clothing, shoes and accessories.
This has been so successful that last year Babolat's turnover totalled 147m euros ($201m; £117m), compared with 23m euros when Eric took over at the helm of the company.
Despite the big growth in sales, Babolat remains 100% family-owned, and still even makes use of the original premises in Lyon where it was founded in 1875.
Eric indicates that not having to report to shareholders or worry about a share price greatly helps the firm's research and development.
"As a family-owned company we have the luxury of time," he says. "We don't say, 'OK if it's not a success in three months we'll just forget about it.' It takes time to make things better."
Now with 350 employees, Eric adds that he considers that Babolat remains a "human-sized business", where staff are considered to be one big family.
And to maintain close ties with the professional players that use Babolat products, they are all individually invited to its headquarters in Lyon, where Eric gives them a guided tour, and introduces them to all the workers.
It is not just players who will be using Babolat products at this year's Wimbledon, though - all the ballboys and girls have been kitted out with Babolat shoes.
Eric says it is "fantastic" to attend the Grand Slam events and watch all the players using his company's products, adding that the faith they have in Babolat "is pressure, but it is a good pressure".
On whether his young children will ultimately take over the running of the company, he simply says that he wants them "to do what they love".
He certainly loves doing what he does. "My wife knows my mistress - it is the company. I think I have got the best job I could have.
"Motivation is the key to everything, so loving what you do makes the difference."
Catalans led 14-0 through tries from Justin Horo, Jodie Broughton and Tony Gigot before Ben Jones-Bishop scored either side of half-time to reduce the deficit to two points.
Michael Sio then gave Trinity the lead before Vincent Duport and Broughton's second put Dragons back in control.
But Mickael Simon tied the game before Miller's winning 77-minute drop goal.
Having already squandered three of his five conversion attempts, Pat Richards could have won the game for Catalans just two minutes earlier, but his penalty hit the post.
The Wildcats came into the clash having won six of their last seven league games since Chris Chester took over in March, but they were without a win at Magic Weekend since 2012.
They faced a Catalans side who had not lost at Magic Weekend since 2011 and were also on an impressive run of eight wins in nine league matches.
Dragons, knowing a win would send them top, got off to a flying start, but they were pegged back by a resilient Wakefield side, who pulled level at 24-24 with eight minutes to play.
Following Richards' miss, Miller then lined up from 50 metres out and his stunning half-way line drop goal moved Wakefield up to sixth in the table, just four points off top spot.
Wakefield head coach Chris Chester:
"I thought, 'What are you doing?' I thought he had no chance but he got it through the posts and that just shows the confidence of Milky at the minute.
"He's playing with a lot of confidence, enjoying his rugby and he was very, very good again. On reflection, probably a draw was a fair result but I'll take the two points any day of the week.
"We've not just come back once, we've come back twice. That just shows the belief and spirit. We just found a way to win. We want to consolidate our place in the top eight. Nobody is getting carried away."
Catalans head coach Laurent Frayssinous:
"It happens to all goalkickers. I'm a former goalkicker and you get some days like that.
"I would never blame a goalkicker and I won't blame Pat. He hit the post at the end but we shouldn't have been in that situation.
"I've been really impressed with Wakefield. They work hard for each other and play good footy. Chris is doing a great job."
Wakefield: Jowitt; Jones-Bishop, Hall, Arundel, Johnstone; Miller, Finn; Scruton, Sio, Simon, Ashurst, Kirmond, A Tupou.
Replacements: B Tupou, Arona, Anderson, Annakin.
Catalans Dragons: Gigot, Broughton, Horo, Duport, Richards; Carney, Bosc; Taylor, Pelissier, Casty, Stewart, Anderson, Baitieri.
Replacements: Bousquet, Mounis, Mason, Da Costa.
Referee: Chris Campbell (RFL).
The Finch Farm training complex, owned by the council, is rented to the Premier League club.
The improvements include a recuperation suite for injured players, a new block for groundsmen and a 'show pitch' or mini-stadium.
The council's cabinet said it is a good investment, but critics have questioned the use of taxpayers' money.
Liberal Democrat opposition leader Richard Kemp said: "The further investment into Finch Farm is an investment shrouded in mystery.
"Why cannot the terms and conditions for this be made public?
"EFC now have a backer and more money - why cannot they finance it themselves?
"The Lib Dems have nothing against this development in principle, but these are the basic questions which are not mentioned in the report."
Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson insisted the rent will increase by more than 3% because of the improvements.
He said: "It's a fantastic deal for us and the city of Liverpool.
"It is like when you buy a house and you rent it out. If you want to put an extra room on it, you'll make sure it brings you extra revenue."
The council has defended the investment despite Finch Farm being in Knowsley, outside the Liverpool city boundary.
A council spokesman said: "This is a commercial arrangement which is an exceptionally good deal for council tax payers as we can reinvest the profits in delivering front-line services.
"In the first two years, we have already made £400,000 that we would not otherwise have had.
"The new investment will be paid back through additional rental income over the remaining term of the lease."
This is one of the schemes which mayor Joe Anderson calls "invest to earn". It's one of his flagship policies and something he's very proud of.
The idea is that the council buys an asset - sometimes borrowing money at a very low interest rate - and then rents it to an organisation to make a profit in the long term.
Now, as we know, the council's funding from central government has reduced over the past six years so they've had to be creative when it comes to generating income.
The council bought Finch Farm in 2013 for about £13m and rented it to Everton on a long lease.
They're getting about £200,000 a year profit and the lease has nearly 37 years left to run.
Woakes, 27, picked up 5-31 on day three of the first Test against Pakistan after his first-innings 6-70.
He has the second-best England match figures of this decade, after Jimmy Anderson's 10-45 against Sri Lanka in May.
Vaughan said Woakes' transformation was "staggering", adding: "He's been told to bowl quicker and he's done that."
Speaking to BBC's Test Match Special, Vaughan added: "It just proves to anyone that you can go away, work hard, improve your game, improve your mentality, and it just looks to me like he's that bit stronger.
"He bends his back that bit harder. He's one of the first names on the sheet. He deserves it."
England face a significant run chase against Pakistan, with the visitors finishing day three on 214-8 with a lead of 281.
Woakes had a disappointing tour of South Africa at the turn of the year, picking just two wickets in as many games. However, he improved to gather eight wickets in two Tests against Sri Lanka more recently.
"He's come back a bit stronger," said Vaughan, who expects Woakes to be in the side even when Jimmy Anderson and Ben Stokes return from injury for the second Test at Old Trafford.
"I think he puts more energy into the action, power into the ball. And that's why he's bowling quicker.
"I'm sure the coaches have helped, but he's done it himself. he's worked it out and come back a fantastic cricketer."
Woakes' efforts with the ball were complemented by his batting, notably when he tackled Pakistan's leg-spinning star Yasir Shah.
Five England batsmen fell to Yasir on Friday, but Woakes faced 51 of his deliveries to score 17 of his 35 runs.
Former England opener Geoffrey Boycott said: "He had confidence. It's not about runs all the time, but about the way he played him. He was comfortable. The other batsmen were like a cat on a hot tin roof. They were fidgety all the time.
"He wasn't hurried and wasn't frightened of the leg-spinner. He's made himself a really good cricketer now."
Vaughan too was impressed with the demeanour of Woakes, especially with bat in hand, adding: "You can see he puts his chest out, his shoulders are back and he says to the bowlers: 'Yeah, I belong at Test level.'"
"It's my ninth test. I probably haven't shown people what I can do on this arena so far. It's nice to have a really good Test match. It's just my day that I managed to get the wickets.
"The guys have already stuck the tape on the Lord's honours board for it to be engraved [for taking 10 wickets in a Test]. There are some amazing names on that board - the legends of the game.
"The 10th was in the back of my mind particularly when I got my third wicket in this innings. To get that 10th and get on the board, it was a lovely moment. When you take that 10th, it is hard to explain, but I suppose the celebrations tell a story as well."
Mike Ball: Woakes is going to be a more important all-rounder to England than Stokes, but what a team we'll have with them both playing.
David Beckett: Woakes is exceptional. Stokes and Anderson should come in for Finn and Ball. Maybe even Rashid for Moeen.
Thomas Measures: Starting to worry less about Anderson retiring with every games Woakes plays. Just getting better and better.
Little villain: Does anyone else think Woakes is bowling like Anderson? The similarities are spooky.
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Formed in the 1830s as a right-of-centre party, in favour of capitalism, free enterprise and minimal intervention by government.
Dominated British politics in the 20th Century, holding power for 57 years. Margaret Thatcher's administration (1979-90) had arguably the most profound impact, introducing a range of free-market reforms, and limiting the power of the trade unions.
The party spent 13 years in opposition following the 1997 landslide achieved by Labour's Tony Blair, but regained power as the senior partners in a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats under David Cameron in 2010.
The largest party in Westminster with 330 seats. Against expectation, David Cameron achieved a majority in 2015 when nearly all polls suggested another hung parliament. However, he resigned just over a year later after losing the referendum vote on whether the UK should leave the European Union.
As of December 2013, the last time figures were published, the Conservative Party had 149,800 members.
Prime Minister Theresa May. She may have emerged as leader only after her rivals fell by the wayside in rapid succession, but in 10 months, helped by increasingly glowing personal opinion poll ratings, she has stamped her authority on the party, and heads into the election as the most secure leader since Mrs Thatcher in her pomp.
It hasn't all been plain sailing - the rapid U-turn on plans to increase national insurance contributions for the self-employed announced in the Budget raised eyebrows. But Mrs May has set herself up as the calm and considered voice of strength and reason, and the key to the Tories' electoral success will rest squarely on whether the public is prepared to take her at her word.
Away from Mrs May, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has a remarkable ability to grab headlines. His critics think he has a similarly remarkable ability to put his foot in it.
Ruth Davidson has gained credit for leading a revival in Conservative fortunes in Scotland.
"I'm not a showy politician. I don't go drinking in parliament's bars. I don't wear my heart on my sleeve, I just get on with the job in front of me and you can judge me by my record."
"Instead of being open and willing to listen to differing views and incredibly complex issues, she's retreated into government by mantra: 'Brexit means Brexit', 'no running commentary', 'no deal is better than a bad deal' - bland phrases designed to shut out dialogue," Sir Keir Starmer, shadow Brexit secretary.
Theresa May wants a resounding majority to strengthen her hand in upcoming Brexit negotiations with the European Union. She is also thought to be keen to ditch some of the manifesto commitments of her predecessor, which have tied her hands.
Brexit. The public voted to leave the European Union, and although Mrs May described herself during the referendum campaign as a "reluctant Remainer", she has been equally decisive in styling herself as the one domestic political leader who can achieve that aim.
For it. Mrs May favours a "clean" Brexit. The UK would leave the EU single market, and the customs union, which Brexiteers argue is necessary to allow the UK to strike trade deals with other countries around the world.
The vast majority of Conservative MPs backed her position, although a few, such as Ken Clarke, Anna Soubry and Nicky Morgan continued to bang the Remain drum, along with veteran Europhile Michael Heseltine.
But, if press reports are to be believed, Mrs May's tough stance hasn't gone down well with her EU counterparts. EC President Jean-Claude Juncker is allegedly sceptical that a deal can be reached any time soon.
Shelter Scotland said a "chronic" shortage of affordable social housing was the root cause of the problem.
It called on the Scottish government to build at least 10,000 new social homes each year and begin to reduce long council house waiting lists.
The Scottish government said it was making "substantial progress" to tackle homelessness.
Shelter Scotland has launched its Christmas 2014 appeal.
Last month it released analysis of official figures which, it claimed, showed the number of children living in temporary accommodation across Britain was at a three-year high.
To launch its festive appeal, campaigners, MSPs and primary school pupils joined together to decorate a tree with little red houses to highlight the issue.
Shelter Scotland director, Graeme Brown said: "It's completely unacceptable that in the 21st century 4,228 children in Scotland will spend this Christmas homeless.
"That's enough to fill the Scottish parliament chamber 32 times over and equivalent to more than two homeless children for every primary school in Scotland."
Mr Brown added: "The temporary accommodation they are forced to live in is often poor quality housing where they can spend months or even years waiting for a home of their own.
"We need to see 10,000 new social homes built each year to tackle Scotland's housing crisis. That way, we can work towards a future where no child has to wake up on Christmas morning, or any other morning, in such awful circumstances."
The Scottish government said it was investing more than £1.7bn to deliver its target of 30,000 affordable homes during the lifetime of this parliament, it was working with local authorities to build record numbers of council houses, and had abolished the Right to Buy.
Housing Minister Margaret Burgess said: "Across Scotland we are making substantial progress tackling homelessness, with fewer households with children living in temporary accommodation in recent years.
"The vast majority of those children live in good quality, well managed social housing and will be waiting to move into more settled accommodation.
"If Shelter is aware of any substandard temporary accommodation, I would ask them to present evidence to the Scottish Housing Regulator."
The People's Bank of China (PBoC) reduced the amount of money banks must set aside as reserves by one percentage point in a bid to spur more lending.
The announcement on Sunday came in the wake of data showing the country grew at its slowest pace in six years.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 2.02% to 27,094.93, while the Shanghai Composite lost 1.64% to 4,217.08.
Mark Williams, chief Asia economist at Capital Economics, said China acted because "downside risks to growth appear greater now.
"The decision is a response to the weakness of recent economic data. Most of the activity and spending data for March came in below consensus.
"Further reserve-requirement ratio (RRR) cuts are likely - perhaps another 150 basis points before the end of the year - along with at least one more cut to benchmark interest rates," he said.
China's latest RRR cut is the largest since the global financial crisis, and analysts say the move will inject about 1.2tn yuan ($193bn; £129bn) of liquidity into the financial system.
However, stocks in Hong Kong and Shanghai have been swinging between gains and losses as investors digest a separate move by Chinese regulators made late on Friday.
The China Securities Regulatory Commission said it would clamp down on the use of leverage in margin trading and allow funds to lend to short sellers.
This includes banning brokerages from using so-called umbrella trusts and the use of shadow financing, or unregulated accounts, for stock purchases.
Chinese stock markets have seen a rapid run up in value recently, causing concern among policymakers about excess leverage and speculation.
Shanghai's bourse has gained more than 80% in the past six months while Hong Kong's stock operator has become the world's largest.
"We don't see any solid foundation in economic data for recent stock market gains, but as long as policymakers are still easing, it is hard to see the rally petering out any time soon," Mr Williams said.
Stocks across the rest of the region were also mixed amid concerns about a possible disappointing US earnings season.
Wall Street had closed sharply lower on Friday, with the S&P 500 losing 1.1% and the Dow Jones falling 1.5%.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei fell 0.09% to close at 19,634.49 points while the broader Topix ended 0.4% lower at 1,582.68.
South Korea's Kospi closed 0.15% higher at 2,146.71 points.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 Index fell 0.74% to close at 5,834.10 and New Zealand's NZX 50 Index fell 0.6% to 5,824.28.
Grants of up to £5,190 are available towards tuition fees, usually £9,000.
Welsh universities have said the grants - costing £229m in 2014-15 - could be better spent helping poor students.
Prof Sir Ian Diamond said Welsh students had less debt than those from England but there was a "lack of consensus on the way forward".
Summarising the evidence his review had received, Sir Ian said a "range of suggestions" for changes had been made, but "most respondents recognise that there is no easy solution and that difficult choices will have to be made".
Education Minister Huw Lewis said the interim report "identifies the key themes arising from that evidence" but "does not make any judgement about the validity or significance of that evidence".
Mr Lewis announced the Diamond review in November 2013, saying it was right to take stock at a time of "rapid and unpredictable change" for universities, but the final report is not due until September 2016.
Universities have argued the grant means tens of millions of pounds leaves the higher education sector in Wales and goes to colleges in England.
They recommend means-tested grants to help poorer students meet their living costs would be better.
Dr David Blaney, chief executive of the body funding Welsh universities - the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales - called Sir Ian's report a "good distillation of the evidence submitted so far".
"We are very keen to see the final conclusions of this review, and we are optimistic that the outcomes of this evidence-based policymaking process will indeed reflect the need to ensure a world-class Welsh higher education system which supports jobs and growth," he said.
Conservative Shadow Education Minister Angela Burns said Labour ministers' current policy "only serves to gather vast amounts of Welsh public money and dump it at the front door of English universities".
"All the while, our HE [Higher Education] sector continues to struggle," she said.
"It's unfair - it's disadvantaging Wales - and it's got to stop."
Welsh Liberal Democrat spokesman Aled Roberts said he believed the evidence backed his party's call for an approach to student finance "based on living costs rather than tuition fees".
Scottish students get free tuition at Scottish universities, along with students from any other EU country, except for those from the rest of the UK, who have to pay.
Scottish students going to university elsewhere have to pay tuition fees but can apply for loans of up to £9,000 a year.
Northern Irish students pay tuition fees of up to £3,805 a year to study in Northern Ireland, and up to £9,000 elsewhere in the UK. Loans are available to pay these fees, but no grants.
Students from England have to pay tuition fees at any UK university but can apply for loans of up to £9,000 a year.
Today is in some ways is the easy part - as Sir Ian Diamond says, almost everyone agrees that the status quo is not an option.
That status quo is based on a simple principle: wherever Welsh university students go to study, the Welsh government pays out - a Welsh student studying in England pays the first £3,500 of the fee, with the Welsh government paying the rest.
Simple and popular with recipients it may be, but it's expensive - one estimate is of a cost of £3.6bn over the next five years. And around £90m a year goes across the border to England; it's not difficult to see why Welsh universities aren't thrilled about that.
Now the tough part - what better system is out there? Transferring the cost back to the students brings Wales into line with England, but will lead to protests; paying the subsidy only to students who stay in Wales will lead to criticism of parochialism.
A tough call for the party manifesto writers as they prepare for May's elections - although the Conservatives have already promised to scrap the subsidy.
And they can't turn back to Sir Ian for the answer - his final report, the one with the recommendations, won't be published until after polling day.
Eric and Ann Whalley, originally from Cockermouth and Maryport, have given the money to the Cumbria Community Foundation's Flood Recovery Fund.
The appeal was launched in the wake of heavy storms in December.
The Whalleys, who now live in Boston, emigrated 27 years ago.
Mr Whalley lost sight in one eye and suffered shrapnel damage to his brain when terrorists detonated two bombs close to the finish line of the city's annual marathon on 15 April 2013.
His wife sustained shrapnel and burns injuries to her limbs, neck and face.
They underwent more than 20 operations each in the aftermath.
A social media campaign launched following the attack raised £100,000 for the medical bills of the former Cockermouth Grammar School pupils.
In a statement accompanying their donation, the couple, who are both 68, said: "We were so touched by the well wishes, kindness, support and generosity from family, friends and fellow west Cumbrians which helped significantly with our recovery.
"We are sad to learn about the devastation resulting from the floods in Cumbria and we would like to thank you all by giving forward."
Andy Beeforth, chief executive of the foundation said the Whalleys "embody the true 'Spirit of Cumbria' which we have seen time and again since the terrible floods".
A section of the northbound motorway in Northamptonshire was closed from about 03:00 GMT after the body was discovered on an unlit stretch.
Police said the death of the man, named as Ashley Hayes, 46, from Shepherd's Bush, London, could be suspicious.
Det Sgt Tony Hopkins said: "This may have been an accident or something more serious."
The carriageway was closed between junction 16 and 18 until about 14:00.
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Police were first alerted to the body, between junctions 16 and 17, just after 02:00 after receiving a number of calls from motorists.
They said Mr Hayes suffered "catastrophic" injuries on a 50mph stretch of the road near Watford Gap services.
Mr Hopkins said Mr Hayes may have been in the Toddington Services area, in Bedfordshire, at about 01:30.
"He may have been given a lift from there, or may have hidden himself in a lorry, to enable him to get to where we discovered him," Mr Hopkins said.
"This may have been an accident or something more serious. We need to determine the circumstances that led to his death."
Martin Hamilton's body was found near West Calder in West Lothian on 17 December.
Officers are now working in the Mosside area of Blackburn.
Police believe Hamilton, who suffered serious injuries before he died, was murdered soon after he was last seen in Glasgow in April.
Det Supt Kenny Graham said: "Whilst examinations and searches are ongoing near West Calder where Martin Hamilton's remains were found, we are now conducting further work in nearby Blackburn.
"As the investigation has progressed we have identified this area of Blackburn as of interest, and I am keen to speak to anyone living or working here who may have any information which could assist.
"As well as some search activity, officers will be carrying out extensive house-to-house inquiries and high-visibility patrols of the area."
Hamilton, from Glasgow, was previously one of Scotland's most wanted men.
He was released from prison in September 2014 but was sought by police in April for breaching the terms of his licence.
At the time, police described him as "potentially dangerous".
In October, an appeal was made on the BBC's Crimewatch programme and the Crimestoppers charity also offered a reward of £2,000 for information leading to his arrest.
Hamilton was nicknamed the Blackhill Butcher, after the Glasgow housing estate from which he operated.
He had been on the police's most-wanted list before he was jailed in 2000 over a string of charges including drug dealing, torture, abduction and sodomy.
Hamilton was sentenced to a minimum of nine years in prison after being found guilty at the High Court in Inverness.
The case was moved 200 miles from Glasgow amid fears that witnesses could be intimidated.
Hamilton had evaded justice on 12 previous occasions when witnesses were too terrified to testify.
Accident and emergency services at the hospital remain suspended for under 16s due to concerns about safety.
The hospital trust said it decided in September to ask the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) to carry out an independent review.
It is set to visit the trust for the first time on Thursday.
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The suspension of A&E services for children followed an external review by the West Midlands Quality Review Service and advice from senior clinicians.
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust said it would work closely with the RCPCH "to ensure they acquire all the necessary information to complete their review", which is due to end in January.
There have been more than 240 responses to a public survey by the RCPCH regarding children's emergency services at the hospital, which were halted for under 18s in August.
Services were reinstated on October 10 for people aged 16 and 17. A minor injuries unit for children at the hospital was "operating well", clinical director Dr Anne Marie Morris, said.
The hospital, under its former guise of Stafford Hospital, was the subject of a public inquiry after a higher than expected number of deaths between 2005 to 2008.
The trust took over the hospital in October 2015, after the previous trust was declared clinically and financially unviable.
The now-defunct Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust was fined £500,000 last year after admitting four charges over the deaths of elderly people, between 2005 and 2014.
Nine bus passengers and a soldier were shot dead after coming "face-to-face" with heavily armed militants in Zigague, they add.
The son of a local chief was kidnapped in the attack, local media reports.
Boko Haram, based in north-eastern Nigeria, has intensified cross-border raids into Cameroon in recent weeks.
It follows the deployment of more than 1,000 soldiers to Cameroon's long and porous border with Nigeria last month, in a bid to prevent such attacks.
"A group of people we think are linked with Boko Haram made an incursion this afternoon in Zigague. They blocked the road and opened fire," a police officer told AFP news agency.
The villagers were killed when the militants were confronted by Cameroonian soldiers, according to local media.
State radio said suspected Boko Haram militants - who are fighting for an Islamic state in northern Nigeria - were behind the attack.
Militants were also seen storming the house of a local chief and abducting his child, the radio reported, quoting an army commander.
Cameroonian President Paul Biya sacked two senior army officers at the forefront of the battle against Islamist militants last week.
The decision came just days after the deputy prime minister's wife was abducted by militants from the northern town of Kologata, along with her maid, a religious leader and the local mayor.
Militants have also kidnapped foreign nationals in northern Cameroon before, including a French family and Chinese workers.
They should also aim to build a lunar base in 30 years' time and send people to Mars by 2025.
Prof Hawking said that the goal would re-ignite the space programme, forge new alliances and give humanity a sense of purpose.
He was speaking at the Starmus Festival celebrating science and the arts, which is being held in Trondheim, Norway.
"Spreading out into space will completely change the future of humanity," he said.
"I hope it would unite competitive nations in a single goal, to face the common challenge for us all.
"A new and ambitious space programme would excite (young people), and stimulate interest in other areas, such as astrophysics and cosmology".
He addressed the concerns of those arguing that it would be better to spend our money on solving the problems of this planet along with a pointed criticism of US President Donald Trump.
"I am not denying the importance of fighting climate change and global warming, unlike Donald Trump, who may just have taken the most serious, and wrong, decision on climate change this world has seen," he said.
Prof Hawking explained that human space travel is essential for the future of humanity precisely because the Earth was under threat from climate change as well as diminishing natural resources.
"We are running out of space and the only places to go to are other worlds. It is time to explore other solar systems. Spreading out may be the only thing that saves us from ourselves. I am convinced that humans need to leave Earth," the Cambridge University theoretical physicist explained.
The head of the European Space Agency (Esa) Jan Woerner has said he envisages the construction of a Moon base to replace the International Space Station in 2024 and is collaborating with Russia to send a probe to assess a potential site. China has set itself the goal of sending an astronaut to the Moon.
Nasa has no plans to return to the Moon, instead focusing its efforts on sending astronauts to Mars by the 2030s. Though if other space agencies begin to collaborate on constructing a lunar base it would be hard to see Nasa not participating.
Prof Hawking said that there was no long-term future for our species staying on Earth: it would either be hit by an asteroid again or eventually engulfed by our own Sun. He added that travelling to distant worlds would "elevate humanity".
"Whenever we make a great new leap, such as the Moon landings, we bring people and nations together, usher in new discoveries, and new technologies," he continued.
"To leave Earth demands a concerted global approach, everyone should join in. We need to rekindle the excitement of the early days of space travel in the sixties."
He said that the colonisation of other planets was no longer science fiction, though he did pay tribute to the genre in his closing remarks.
"If humanity is to continue for another million years, our future lies in boldly going where no one else has gone before.
"I hope for the best. I have to. We have no other option".
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London Design Festival is hoping to raise £120,000 for the Visionary Crazy Golf, which has been dreamed up by artists and designers, including the late Dame Zaha Hadid.
Festival organisers say it will be "futuristic, functional, fun and free for the public to play".
Funding permitted, the golf course will run from 16-22 September.
The dates coincide with the London Design Festival.
Members of the public who pledge funds, from £5 up to £5,000, will receive rewards, including clothes and mugs, by one of the designers.
Organisers have until 6 June to raise the money.
The design teams involved include Mark Wallinger, Tom Dixon, Camille Walala, Ordinary Architecture, HAT Projects, Neon Studio, and Atelier Bow-Wow.
Each will create a miniature art installation, as part of the golf course, with each one making a statement about the future of architecture.
Holes include Tom Dixon's, with its funnel and nest of pneumatic tubes through which golf balls will hurtle; a circuitous maze by Mark Wallinger; and a netted driving range by the Japanese studio Atelier Bow-Wow.
The mayor's office has given permission for the scheme if funding is secured.
Liu became a sporting idol at home after winning China's first ever male track and field Olympic gold medal, but recurring injury meant he crashed out of two further Games.
Here are some of his career highs and lows in pictures.
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Liu first came to prominence in 2001 with first place finishes at the East Asian Games in Japan and China's Universiade and National Games, and a place in the semi-final at the World Championships in Canada.
After bronze medals at 2003's IAAF World Indoor Championships and World Championships in Athletics, Liu went on to take 110m hurdle gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics - China's first male Olympic gold in track and field.
His gold medal brought him fame and fortune at home and placed huge expectations on his shoulders.
In 2006, Liu was living up to the promise he showed in Athens. He set a new world record in the 110m hurdles with a time of 12.88 seconds, and in August 2007 he won gold in Japan to become World Champion for the first time.
But in May 2008, he was forced to pull out of New York's Reebok Grand Prix with hamstring problems. He turned his attention to training for his home games in Beijing that summer.
Defending champion Liu was China's best, and possibly only, hope for gold medal success at the Beijing Games 2008. His picture was everywhere, from billboards to sides of stadiums.
But ahead of his first round heat at the games, Liu appeared to be suffering.
The heat was cut short by a false start from another athlete, but instead of returning to the starting blocks Liu tore off his race number and walked away. An old injury to his Achilles tendon had flared up. The crowd were stunned to silence and his coach reduced to tears.
Liu faced months away from racing while he recovered.
Liu returned to some success after 2008 - notably gold at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix in 2011 - but disaster followed at the London Olympics in 2012. His Achilles injury returned and he crashed out at the first hurdle.
Liu's head trainer, Feng Shuyong, said at the time: "At the moment of take-off, the tendon would bear very, very big pressure. He could not make the movement."
Liu picked himself up and hopped all the way to the finish line, helped by fellow competitors. He kissed the last hurdle before being put in a wheelchair.
"Seeing him hopping to the line shows the true spirit of the Olympics. He was still determined to go to the line," said his trainer.
Despite being held back by his injuries, Liu achieved huge popularity in China and made millions of pounds from sponsorship deals with the likes of Nike and Coca-Cola. He was mobbed by journalists at China's all-party political conference in March 2015.
Liu announced his retirement on 7 April on Weibo - China's equivalent of Twitter - saying: "I'm retiring. I want to start a new journey. Though I still have hot blood pumping through my heart, my leg has time and again told me no."
For 10 years he resisted demands for reform until economic pressures finally saw the demise of Poland's last Communist leader.
Wojciech Jaruzelski was born on 6 Jul 1923 and raised on the family estate in Wysokie.
The signing of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact in 1939 persuaded Jaruzelski and his family to flee to Lithuania, before they were deported to South Western Siberia where his father died in a labour camp.
He too became a forced labourer in the Karaganda coal mines in Kazakhstan suffering permanent damage to his back and eyes as a result.
When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the Russians began forming Polish army units and the young Jaruzelski became one of the first to join.
He fought in the Battle of Berlin in May 1945 which saw the final collapse of Nazi Germany and ended the war as a lieutenant.
As an officer in the Polish People's Army he took part in the suppression of the Polish wartime resistance movement which was opposing Poland's pro-Soviet government.
After graduating from the Polish Higher Infantry School and general staff academy, Jaruzelski rose quickly through the ranks.
His career progression accelerated after the departure in 1956 of the Soviet Field Marshal, Konstantin Rokossovsky, who had been installed by Stalin as Poland's Commander in Chief and Minister of Defence.
Jaruzelski became the chief "political officer" of the Polish armed forces in 1960, chief of staff in 1964, and defence minister in 1968 shortly before the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in which Polish troops took part.
He was also moving up the ranks of the communist party becoming a candidate member of the Politburo in December 1970 and a full member the following year.
In 1971 Polish militia opened fire on striking shipyard workers in the Baltic ports and more than 40 people died.
Jarulzelski was later accused of ordering the action, something he later strenuously denied claiming the orders came direct from the Prime Minister.
In February 1981 he was appointed Prime Minister of Poland and, 10 months later, First Secretary of the Communist Party.
He found himself being squeezed between the growing popularity of the pro-democracy Solidarity movement within Poland and pressure from the Soviet Union which had massed 20 tank divisions on the border.
In December 1981 he declared martial law and thousands of Solidarity members were arrested including the movements charismatic leader Lech Walesa.
Jaruzelski justified his action as a means of preventing a Soviet invasion although the Russian leader Boris Yeltsin later released files which indicated that the Soviets had no such plans.
Martial law was lifted in 1983 although Solidarity remained a banned organisation.
It was economic pressure which forced change on the Jaruzelski government coupled with the influence of reform in the former USSR under Mikhail Gorbachev.
There was growing unrest in the country and a series of strikes forced Jaruzelski to begin negotiations with Solidarity in 1989.
After two months of talks Jaruzelski was forced to concede a radical change in the structure of the administration in Poland.
Solidarity triumphed in the resulting elections, despite the Communist party being guaranteed 65% of the seats in the new lower chamber.
Jaruzelski, whose name was the only one the communists allowed on the ballot for President, won by just one vote.
His offer of a coalition with Solidarity was turned down and, in December 1990, he stood down as Poland's leader to be replaced by Lech Walesa.
Jaruzelski went on trial in 2001 for his alleged part in the 1971 shipyard massacres but legal wrangling and his declining health saw no hope of an end to the hearings.
In February 2008 Jaruzelski told a reporter that he did not expect to be alive by the time any verdict was reached.
Solidarity activists attempted to have him tried for the imposition of martial law in 1981 but the courts refused to hear the case on the basis that the post-communist Polish Parliament had exonerated him in 1996.
Opinion polls also suggested that a majority of Poles were prepared to accept Jaruzelski's explanation of martial law as the "lesser evil" intended to prevent a Soviet invasion.
Described by many Poles as a dictator, who acted according to instructions from the Kremlin, he insisted he was a Polish patriot who had always tried to do the best for his country.
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The four-time major winner was five over par after six holes, but had four birdies on the back nine to card a 71.
He revealed caddie JP Fitzgerald lifted him on the sixth tee, saying: "You're Rory McIlroy, what are you doing?"
Meanwhile, co-leader Jordan Spieth rated his display as "nine out of 10".
The world number three shot a bogey-free round and is tied for the lead on five under par with fellow Americans Brooks Koepka, the US Open champion, and Matt Kuchar.
However, the 23-year-old will tee off in round two on Friday afternoon, which is when the weather forecast is predicting the strongest wind and heaviest rain.
"Given the forecast coming in, I thought you really needed to be in the red," said Spieth, a two-time major winner.
"Everything was strong. I give it a nine across the board for everything - tee balls, ball-striking, short game and putting. So things are in check. It's just about keeping it consistent.
"I'd call it a top five major round that I've played."
Northern Ireland's McIlroy, 28, has struggled for form this year after being affected by a rib injury, and missed the cut at the US Open, Irish Open and Scottish Open in recent weeks.
He said he thought he was destined for "another weekend off" before a pep talk from Fitzgerald changed his round.
He told BBC Radio 5 live: "It was a rough start, I was just indecisive out there. Mentally I was not engaged and I was half caught between playing the golf shot I needed to and my golf swing.
"My caddie JP gave me a talking to which helped to keep me positive. He tried to remind me who I was and that I had won this tournament before. He told me not to feel any pressure and to play my game and I started to play my game after that.
"It was nice to make birdies coming in. At least I feel I got myself back out of the hole I was in and get back into the tournament.
McIlroy, who will tee off at 09:47 BST on Friday, added: "With the weather expected tomorrow I feel like I am still right in this golf tournament. I will go out and play a good quality round of golf in the morning and try and get in the clubhouse somewhere around even par or under par and I will be well there for the weekend."
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Spain's Jon Rahm was at the centre of a rules controversy for the second time in two weeks.
He was penalised two shots for moving a plant close to his ball on the 17th hole but the penalty was lifted after rules officials accepted his explanation that the lie of his ball was not improved.
The 22-year-old, who ended one under rather than one over par, moved a piece of vegetation that he thought was dead and therefore a loose impediment. However, playing partner Lee Westwood realised it was growing.
"We asked the rules official. He said improving my lie by moving an impediment that was not loose was a two-stroke penalty.
"That is what we agreed on. They said it was a two-stroke penalty and we were going to review the footage afterwards. Unfortunately for me I was the only one that saw it, there were no cameras to back me up.
"But it was never on my lie, never on my line, never on my swing path. It was not going to bother me any way.
"I explained my version of what happened. Basically after that they made the decision there was no stroke penalty."
Rahm escaped punishment earlier in the month after a query relating to marking his ball on the sixth green on his way to victory at the Irish Open.
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England's Ian Poulter was the early clubhouse leader on three under par, after a 67 gave him his lowest opening round in his 54th major.
The 41-year-old missed last year's tournament with a foot injury that also ruled him out of the Ryder Cup and he was ranked outside the world's top 200 in March.
He was also in danger of losing his PGA Tour card, however a rule change allowed him to retain it for the remainder of the season.
Poulter was runner-up at the Players Championship in May and is back inside the world's top 100, but he had to come through qualifying to reach this year's Open.
"To go out there and post a red number on the board on a good, strong golf course always feels great, " said Poulter, who was runner-up to Padraig Harrington at the 2008 Open, the last time the tournament was played at Royal Birkdale.
"It feels even better that I had to go through qualifying to get here."
"I love this golf course, the love affair has not changed since 2008. I remember walking up the last hole with the scorecard in my hand and it was a pretty special feeling. I have gone out there today and performed just as well."
England's Paul Casey is tied for second place on four under par and will celebrate his 40th birthday on Friday.
"I don't mind working on my birthday," said Casey.
"Royal Birkdale is one of my favourite links courses, maybe the best in the world. I love being back in England and what a way to spend my birthday doing what I love to do and things are just getting going.
"I am not putting that much pressure on myself, but very much wanting to win it. The odds are in my favour. Seven first-time winners [in the past seven majors]. And it would be a hell of a party."
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Wales' Stuart Manley finished on two under on his major debut and he said his opening round of 68 exceeded his own expectations.
But the 38-year-old admitted he felt the nerves on the first tee.
The world 520, who had an eagle-birdie finish told BBC Radio Wales: "That's probably the most nervous I've ever been on a tee shot but at least I know what to expect for tomorrow now and I'll have a better game plan I guess."
Manley, who turned professional in 2003, is the only Welshman at Royal Birkdale this week.
He added: "I have quite a few guys up from my local golf club, Mountain Ash, and my family is here so it's nice to put in a good score for them.
"It hasn't sunk in yet. Maybe tonight when I watch a little golf it'll sink in but I'm pretty chuffed. I thought par would be a decent score on my first attempt."
Southport-born world number 14 Tommy Fleetwood finished fourth at the US Open and, allied to the fact he used to sneak onto the Royal Birkdale course as a child, had some tipping him for Open success.
But despite plenty of vocal support on the tees - and playing alongside joint leader Brooks Koepka - the 26-year-old felt luck deserted him as he struggled to a six-over-par 76.
"I got a few bad breaks. If I did hit a bad shot it really kicked me in the teeth. Then when I hit good shots I didn't make the birdie putts," he said.
Yet Fleetwood is confident he can still hit form for the fans who supported him on day one.
"It's so easy to feel like you've disappointed them a little bit when I played the way I did, but I will try my hardest tomorrow," he said.
"They did their part, I just didn't do mine - but I've come back from bad rounds before."
The procedure was performed on a woman aged 60 at Moorfields Eye Hospital.
It involved "seeding" a tiny patch with specialised eye cells and implanting it at the back of the retina.
The London Project to Cure Blindness was established a decade ago to try to reverse vision loss in patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Ten patients with the wet form of AMD will undergo the procedure.
All will have suffered a sudden loss of vision as a result of defective blood vessels in the eye.
They will be monitored for a year to check that the treatment is safe and whether their vision improves.
The woman who was the patient - and does not wish to be named - had the operation last month.
Prof Peter Coffey, of the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, who is co-leading the London Project, said: "We won't know until at least Christmas how good her vision is and how long that may be maintained, but we can see the cells are there under the retina where they should be and they appear to be healthy."
The cells being used form the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) - the layer of cells that nourish and support the photoreceptors in the macula - the seeing part of the eye.
In macular degeneration, the RPE cells die, and as a result the eye loses function.
Patients with AMD lose their central vision, which becomes distorted and blurred.
The cells used in the operation were originally derived from a donated early embryo - smaller than a pinhead - which has the potential to become any cell in the body.
Prof Lyndon Da Cruz of Moorfields Eye Hospital, who carried out the surgery, said: "This is truly a regenerative project. In the past it's been impossible to replace lost neural cells.
"If we can deliver the very layer of cells that is missing and give them their function back this would be of enormous benefit to people with the sight-threatening condition".
If the treatment is successful, the scientists say, it would also help patients in the early stages of dry AMD, and could potentially halt their vision loss.
AMD affects more than 600,000 people in the UK and is the leading cause of sight loss in the developed world.
It is estimated that one in every 10 people over 65 has some degree of AMD.
The team at Moorfields is working in partnership with the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, which is funding the trial.
It is not known how much the one-off surgical treatment might cost, although the scientists involved point out that treating and dealing with sight loss is a huge burden on the NHS.
It is not the first time that scientists have used stem cells derived from human embryos in patients with sight loss.
In 2012, patients with Stargardt's disease - which leads to progression deterioration of vision - were injected with embryonic stem cells in a safety trial carried out in the US and UK - which also involved a team at Moorfields.
Of more relevance to the current trial are the 40 AMD patients already treated at Moorfields with cells taken from their own eyes.
Prof Da Cruz said "We saw extraordinary recovery, with some people being able to read again and drive, and that recovery being sustained for years."
He explained that using the patient's own cells was complex and carried risks, which is why the London Project opted for the embryonic stem cell line, which can produce a limitless supply of specialist cells.
Prof Da Cruz said animal studies had shown that surgery to introduce the sheet of cells into the eye was feasible.
So although the team cannot say whether this trial will work, the years of planning give them confidence that this treatment has huge potential.
It is far too early to make any judgment, but if successful, it would be a stunning medical advance of huge implications.
The results from the first patient, and subsequent volunteers, will be eagerly awaited.
The Finance Bill amendment, which would have forced a negotiation with the EU for a reduction in the 5% VAT rate, was rejected by 305 to 287 votes.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) says the VAT rate charged on the items is the lowest allowed under EU law.
The government said change would need the agreement of every EU member state.
Financial Secretary to the Treasury, David Gauke, said during the debate that the government "sympathises [with] the aim of this clause" but said: "The UK does not have the ability to extend unilaterally zero rating to new products."
He said he would raise the issue with the European Commission and other EU member states.
Labour cut the rate when it was in government from the then standard rate of 17.5% - imposed in the 1970s - to the lower rate of 5%, but was prevented from going any lower by the European rules.
A petition calling for a change in the law has more than 250,000 signatures.
Labour MP Paula Sherriff's amendment, backed by shadow chancellor John McDonnell, would have required Chancellor George Osborne to publish, within three months, a strategy for negotiating an exemption with EU institutions.
One of the Conservatives supporting the motion, Bernard Jenkin, said the situation was "an example of where the EU has taken over jurisdiction over our tax where it should not have".
SNP MP Alison Thewliss added: "It is absurd that while men's razors, children's nappies and even products like Jaffa Cakes, exotic meats and edible cake decorations are free from VAT, women are still having to pay additional costs on what is already an expensive yet vital product."
A Treasury spokesman said: "The UK has set the VAT on sanitary products at the minimum rate permissible under EU rules."
Any change would require a European Commission proposal and the unanimous agreement of all 28 member states.
Asked about the calls for a zero VAT rate, the prime minister's spokeswoman said: "What is being proposed is not something that being looked at we think is achievable."
Over a long time it is thought that when bigger animals become extinct rats will grow to fill the environment that they lived in.
Rats are known to be really good at changing to survive wherever they live. The way animals change over a long time is called 'evolution'.
So scientists think that rats will 'evolve' to grow bigger and bigger - growing to the size of other animals.
Dr Jan Zalasiewicz said, "Given enough time, rats could probably grow to be at least as large as the capybara, the world's largest rodent, that lives today, that can reach 80 kilos ".
He expected rats to change in different ways other than becoming larger.
The expert from the University of Leicester also said "There will be future thin rats, future fat rats, slow and heavy rats, fast and ferocious rats, probably future aquatic rats - the list goes on. Other animals will likely follow the same pattern, such as domestic cats, rabbits, goats and more."
The largest extinct rodent known, Josephoartegasia monesi, lived three million years ago, was larger than a bull and weighed over a ton. It lived in South America like its modern-day relative, the sheep-sized capybara.
It will take a long time for rats to grow bigger though - so don't worry about seeing any giant rats anytime soon.
And they won't be the first species to grow over time. It's thought that fifty million years ago a relative of the species we now know as the blue whale was the size of a wolf!
They face Cardiff Blues, Ospreys and Scarlets in a round-robin event with the top two teams going forward to the finals in Coventry on Sunday, 7 August.
The other finalists will come from three groups involving the 12 English Premiership clubs.
"The Singha 7s has been an incredible success for the Dragons," said coach Nick Wakely.
Welsh regions have been included in the tournament since 2014, with the Dragons losing finalists in 2014 before beating Wasps to clinch the title in 2015.
Wakely, who coached the winners last season, says the event has been a valuable stepping stone for developing players.
"Angus O'Brien and Ashton Hewitt, Harrison Keddie have kicked on and hopefully will get more exposure this year," he added.
Keddie - who scored the winning try against Wasps in the 2015 final - is again included in a youthful Dragons squad.
Ospreys include Wales sevens specialist Morgan Williams and 15-a-side internationals Dafydd Howells and Jonathan Spratt in a squad which is coached by Tom Smith and Richard Fussell.
Scarlets include a number of Welsh Premiership club players and will be led by Carmarthen Quins' Iolo Evans and coached by Dai Flanagan.
Sevens specialists Evans, Jake Conway, Matthew Owen, Aron Evans, Shaun Pearce, Aaron Warren and Rhodri Jones all featured in last year's finals day at Twickenham.
Hosts Cardiff Blues include Wales seven internationals Adam Thomas, Ben Roach and Owen Jenkins in their squad.
They have also selected Wales Under-18 international James Botham - the grandson of England cricket legend Sir Ian Botham.
"We are lucky to have Adam Thomas, Owen Jenkins and Ben Roach, who are Cardiff Blues boys and have experience on the sevens stage," said elite performance pathway manager Richard Hodges.
"We've recruited them to be the real leaders in the group.
"Then we can expose our tier two academy, guys just out of the under-18s like Dane Blacker, Ben Jones, Callum Bradbury and Jimmy Botham."
Newport Gwent Dragons: Ross Wardle, Darran Harris, Harrison Keddie, Aled Brew, Ethan Davies, James Benjamin, Geraint Rhys Jones (capt), Elliot Frewen, Jonny Lewis, Arwel Robson, Chris Levesley, Luc Jones.
Ospreys: Joseph Scrivens, Steff Andrews, Will Jones, Dafydd Howells, James Ratti, Tom O'Flaherty, Morgan Williams, David Evans, Joe Gage, Phil Jones, Jay Baker, Jonathan Spratt (Capt).
Scarlets: Iolo Evans, Matthew Owen, Jake Conway, Shaun Pearce, Rhodri Davies, Ashley Evans, Aron Evans, Dion Jones, Rhodri Jones, Nathan Edwards, Scott Gibson, Aaron Warren.
Cardiff Blues: Adam Thomas, Ben Roach, James Botham, Luke Crocker, Joe Tomlinson, Ben Jones, Owen Jenkins, James Beale, Dane Blacker, Geraint Walsh, Ben Thomas, Declan Williams.
Fixtures (Friday, 22 July; all times BST): 19:00: Cardiff Blues v Scarlets. 19:25: Ospreys v Newport Gwent Dragons. 19:55: Ospreys v Scarlets. 20:20: Cardiff Blues v Newport Gwent Dragons. 20:50: Scarlets v Newport Gwent Dragons. 21:15: Cardiff Blues v Ospreys.
Sir Salman has made these remarks in his upcoming memoirs Joseph Anton, excerpts from which have been published in The New Yorker magazine.
Many Muslims regard The Satanic Verses as blasphemous. The book is still banned in India.
The writer won the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children in 1981.
He lived in hiding for many years after Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for his execution.
Sir Salman writes that on 6 October 1988, his friend Salman Haider, who was the deputy high commissioner of India in London, called to "tell him formally, on behalf of the government, that The Satanic Verses had been banned in India".
"The book had not been examined by any properly authorised body, nor had there been any semblance of judicial process," he writes.
"The ban came, improbably, from the finance ministry, under section 11 of the Customs Act, which prevented the book from being imported.
"Weirdly, the finance ministry stated that the ban 'did not detract from the literary and artistic merit' of his work."
"Thanks a lot, he thought," writes Sir Salman in the memoirs, which is written in third person.
In January, the author withdrew from attending India's Jaipur Literature Festival, saying that sources had told him of a death threat.
He was also forced to abandon plans to address the gathering by a video-link after protesters threatened to march on the venue.
Sir Salman was born in India but is a British citizen and has lived in the UK for most of his life.
They were under house arrest after accusations of inciting violence during anti-government protests in 2014.
The two have been taken to Ramo Verde military jail, family members say.
The Supreme Court, which critics say is dominated by government loyalists, said it had received intelligence reports alleging the two were trying to flee.
The court also said that it had revoked Mr Ledezma's and Mr López's house arrest because they had made political statements.
The UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, said he was "deeply concerned" that the pair had been taken back into custody.
The move comes just two days after a controversial vote for a constitutional assembly saw violence on the streets, with at least 10 people killed.
President Nicolás Maduro convened the assembly to rewrite Venezuela's constitution amid spiralling anti-government protests on 1 May.
He argued that the move would create peace and foster dialogue by bringing together different sectors of Venezuela's polarised society.
But the opposition accused the president of trying to rewrite the constitution in order to maximise his power and sideline the opposition-controlled legislature.
They boycotted the vote and called on Venezuelans to take to the streets in protest. The election was condemned by Latin American leaders, the European Union and the US.
The day of the election was the deadliest so far since the current wave of protest began.
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced on Monday that the US had imposed sanctions on President Maduro and called him a "dictator who disregards the will of the Venezuelan people".
Mr López was taken from his home at 12:27 local time (04:27GMT) on Tuesday, his wife, Lilian Tintori, wrote on Twitter.
A video posted showed him being taken away by members of the Venezuelan intelligence service, Sebin.
Lilian Tintori wrote that she would hold President Nicolás Maduro responsible if something were to happen to her husband.
The daughter of Mr Ledezma, Vanessa Ledezma, also posted a video of her father, wearing pyjamas, being taken away by the Sebin.
A woman can be heard shouting "They're taking Ledezma, they're taking Ledezma, dictatorship!"
The European Union criticised the detentions as a step in the wrong direction and Chile's foreign minister said they "sent an abysmal signal".
The US also condemned the arrests. Republican Senator Marco Rubio noted that US Vice-President Mike Pence has spoken to Mr López last Friday, and characterised the arrests as a response to the sanctions placed on Mr Maduro.
Both Mr Ledezma and Mr López were key figures in the wave of protests which swept through Venezuela in 2014 in which 43 people from both sides of the political divide were killed.
They have played a less prominent role in the most recent protests because they have been under house arrest but their video messages still get reported and shared widely on opposition websites.
The Scotland international, 34, will sign a one-year deal at Pittodrie, subject to completing a medical.
Maloney was offered a new one-year deal by Hull, where he played 14 games last season, but the lure of signing for his hometown club proved decisive.
The former Celtic winger should be available for the Dons' Europa League second round qualifier on 13 July.
The arrival of Maloney will help the Dons compensate for the loss of Jonny Hayes, who has moved to Celtic, and Niall McGinn, who is believed to be on the verge of a move to a South Korean club.
Maloney had two spells in the Scottish top flight with Celtic, interrupted by a year with Aston Villa.
He left the Glasgow club a second time in 2011 to join Wigan Athletic and joined Hull after leaving Chicago Fire.
Singer and songwriter Karine Polwart kicks off proceedings at the Easterbrook Hall in Dumfries on 26 May.
A wide range of theatre, music and comedy performances will follow throughout the region.
Billed as Scotland's largest rural performing arts festival, it runs until 4 June.
Among the events being highlighted by organisers are:
Ken Gouge, who chairs the festival, said the event had been going from strength to strength.
"We're anticipating our audience figures increasing again," he said.
"In the last two years we have more than doubled our audience figures and, indeed, our ticket income has gone up by 131% over the last two years.
"So we are clearly doing something right."
The full programme is available on the arts festival's website.
The Hearts centre-back, 19, needs more top-level experience, McManus believes, before he is ready to challenge for a senior Scotland call-up.
He is certain, though, that Souttar has the attributes to eventually make the grade at international level.
"He's going to be a tremendous asset for the country," said McManus, 34.
"He's not played in a lot of high-profile games, [but] he's developing very well. It's important with guys like that, that you don't pin all your hopes on them, because it puts pressure on their shoulders when they're so young.
"You need to nurture them. He's at a very good club with good people in charge. He's just got to concentrate on playing week in, week out at Hearts and performing the best he possibly can.
"Unfortunately for John just now, he's not tasting Champions League football, or European football.
"The one thing you know is going to happen with young centre-halves is that they're going to make mistakes. The one thing you need to do is earn the manager's trust, at international and club level, and you can only do that by limiting your mistakes and playing week in, week out."
Motherwell's McManus believes Scotland Under-21 cap Souttar can take "a lot of positives" from fellow Tynecastle defender Callum Paterson's place in Gordon Strachan's senior Scotland side.
"He [Souttar] will think there's no reason he can't be the next one," McManus explained. "Just now, the right thing is to go with the players who are there, the ones with experience. If John Souttar keeps progressing, he'll get in the squad soon enough.
"Of course you want players who are playing week in, week out, but the lads, especially the centre-halves like Russell Martin, Grant Hanley, Gordon Greer, they're experienced enough now, they know how to look after their bodies, they're professional."
Scotland opened their World Cup qualifying campaign with a 5-1 win over Malta on 4 September and the national team's next game is at home to Lithuania next month.
McManus scored when Scotland defeated Lithuania 3-1 at Hampden in 2007 and is confident, having worked with them both, that the management team of Strachan and Mark McGhee can steer Scotland to World Cup qualification.
McGhee is McManus's boss at Well and the defender previously worked with Strachan at Celtic and Middlesbrough.
"If I was with the group just now, I wouldn't want to work with anybody else than those two," McManus added.
"They're both managers, very good on the training ground, and they trust each other, they work well together.
"I believe in the group of players, the squad is settled and there are some very good players, who are starting to hit a bit of form."
The Newport Gwent Dragons captain, 34 returned to Wales from Clermont Auvergne for the 2014-15 season, but underwent surgery in November.
"I'm frustrated to be in this position, but happy to have fulfilled all my rugby ambitions at both club and international level," he said.
He helped Wales win the 2008 Grand Slam and scored 10-tries in a 46-cap career.
Byrne's last Wales appearance came as Wales beat Fiji 66-0 at the 2011 World Cup in New Zealand. He also won a British and Irish Lions cap in South Africa in 2009.
The former Scarlet and Ospreys player added: "I have made terrific friends and have had incredible experiences.
"I would also like to thank [director of rugby] Lyn Jones for making me the Dragons captain.
"I'm glad I had the chance to play a small part in this season's success and its great to know that I am leaving with the region on a high, with such good things to come."
Jones was saddened by Byrne's decision, describing him as "a fantastic rugby player" and "a great influence on many of our younger players".
Former Ospreys boss Jones recalled the first time he saw Byrne in action.
"I was in a pub in Neath watching Scarlets play out in France and I remember him kicking and I couldn't get over how far he was kicking the ball," Jones told BBC Radio Wales.
"I phoned [backer] Mike Cuddy up and suggested to Mike 'I think we've found our next full-back' that we needed at the time and we recruited Lee [in April 2006] to come and play for the Ospreys.
"And he was excellent for us and a very popular member of the squad.
"He had really good angles of running when he hit the line.
"He could really see a gap early."
Met Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said an investigation into the claims would report within six months.
He was facing questions from MPs on the Public Administration Select Committee.
Metropolitan Police officer James Patrick has alleged rape and sexual offences were being under-reported by as much as a quarter.
PC Patrick, who is currently subject to disciplinary proceedings by the force, told the committee in November that crimes had been reclassified to get them "off the books".
Massaging figures to hit performance targets had become "an engrained part of policing culture", he said.
The officer had found disparities between the numbers of burglary reports and those finally recorded while working in a specialist role looking at the recording of crime.
He had also found that "the Met had effectively been under-recording rape and serious sexual offences by between 22% and 25%".
Met Commissioner Sir Bernard told the committee some of the claims were "worthy of further investigation" but that he needed "to hear more detail".
He labelled some of the allegations incomplete, adding: "On occasion there might be some inaccuracy but I think on the whole there's a truth there we need to hear."
The commissioner said he had not spoken to PC Patrick about his claims but that the Met would in due course.
He refused to comment on the details of the misconduct allegations.
An internal inquiry, led by deputy commissioner Craig Mackey, has been launched into around 20 claims made by the officer.
"If he has been making these claims for a long time it would have been best they were resolved before now," Sir Bernard added.
Tom Winsor, who as Chief Inspector of Constabulary for England and Wales, is leading an inquiry into crime statistics, told the committee he was in no doubt it would uncover "some fiddling of the figures".
Arguing "it was just human nature" for people in all sorts of organisations to fiddle figures in order to make their performance targets look good, he said he did not believe any "institutional corruption" would be discovered.
Elsewhere, former commissioner Lord Stevens has said "fiddling of figures" has been going on since he joined the police.
He told the Home Affairs Select Committee on Tuesday that officers had warned him the massaging of crime statistics was the "biggest scandal coming our way", the Daily Telegraph reported.
The 26-year-old retired from boxing earlier this year after he had to be put into an induced coma following a defeat by Chris Eubank Jr.
Blackwell does not have a licence to fight because of his previous injury.
"I couldn't believe Nick would be so stupid as to put his health at risk," said his former trainer Gary Lockett.
"I can't believe the boxer he sparred with, and coach or coaches involved, would ever allow Nick to spar when he's had a brain injury.
"In due course, I hope they are dealt with by the British Boxing Board of Control in the correct manner."
Lockett said he was "shocked" when Blackwell's brother Dan, also a former boxer, told him the news.
He said: "I couldn't believe it. At this time, all our thoughts are with Nick and his family."
Lockett encouraged Blackwell to get his trainer's licence and he had been due to be in Liam Williams' corner for his fight in Cardiff on Saturday but was taken ill after sparring on Tuesday, 22 November.
"We thought that was all going very well and while we knew Nick missed boxing, we obviously didn't realise the extent to which he missed it," Lockett told BBC Wales Sport.
"I am deeply saddened by what has happened. Nick is not just an ex-boxer of mine, but also someone I consider to be a friend."
British Boxing Board of Control secretary Robert Smith says an investigation will begin on Monday.
"What we understand is that Nick Blackwell sparred, he was taken ill and taken to hospital where he is in a stable condition," he told the Telegraph.
"He no longer has a boxer's licence, but he does have a trainer's licence, which is a completely different thing. He should not have been boxing.
"I'm sickened by it. It's a very tough sport and the doctors here did a wonderful job to save his life.
"He made remarkable recovery and for somebody to go and do what he's done, for what I thought was a very sensible young man, is just beyond belief."
The Daily Mail reported Smith as saying: "We need to find out how this was allowed to happen. I really can't believe Nick has got in the ring again after what had happened, I honestly can't. I don't know what he was doing - it makes no sense."
Eubank Jr, tweeted: "Nick Blackwell is back in hospital, after he tried to start sparring again. He's a tough, tough kid, I know he'll get himself through it again.
"I honestly hope everything is OK and the procedure he's had is not a serious one."
The elevation of those nations by governing body, the International Cricket Council, means they can regularly play cricket's top nations.
"We now have a clear pathway that will enable us to get to Test status and full membership status of the ICC," Brian told BBC Radio Scotland.
"There's a good chance we will."
Brian, who became Cricket Scotland's chairman two years ago, is buoyed by Scotland's victory over Zimbabwe in Edinburgh on 15 June, which was the nation's first win over a Test-playing side in an official one day international.
"We beat Zimbabwe last week and Sri Lanka four weeks before so we've beaten two Test nations in the last month - something Scotland has never achieved before," he said.
"We have a bigger population and a bigger playing population than Ireland. We're seeing an improving men's team.
"What Ireland and Afghanistan have done, due to a change in the constitution of the International Cricket Council, is effectively break the glass ceiling that has been preventing associated nations like them and us becoming full members of the ICC and Test-playing countries.
"We're definitely on the right pathway and I'm very optimistic for the future."
The first public "flight" on the 531ft (161m) British Airways i360 tower on Brighton seafront is at 14:00 BST, with fireworks planned for 22:00 BST.
Fireworks were to have been set off on a boat off Brighton beach but it has been unable to get to the location.
Organisers blamed high seas caused by a storm off the Sussex coast.
Visitors to the i360 ascend 450ft (137m) in a 360-degree curved-glass pod on the site once occupied by the entrance to Brighton's ruined West Pier.
The attraction itself, which is fully booked on the opening day, will operate as planned.
The fireworks will be rearranged for another date, with tickets remaining valid.
The tower, which offers views of up to 26 miles of Sussex coastline, has divided local opinion.
Valerie Paynter, of the saveHove campaign, said it was "like something springing horribly out of the earth in a horror movie".
But Glynn Jones, chairman of the West Pier Trust, thought the "vertical pier in the sky" showed "the city is, once again, embracing and celebrating world-class, stunning architecture".
Those going on board can see from Bexhill in East Sussex to Chichester in West Sussex with the South Downs to the north.
Curtis, 61, is in charge until the end of the campaign after Swansea failed to find a long-term successor to Garry Monk.
Swansea are a point above the drop zone and Curtis says he would not have a problem stepping down.
"I've got no sort of vanity (that I must) be here until the end of the season," he said.
"I'd expect to be here until the end of the season, but if results go against us and the club deem it that they need to bring someone in at short notice, then so be it.
"We've worked hard to get into the Premier League. It's important we stay here not just for next season but for seasons to come as well."
Curtis was appointed until the end of the season after picking up five points from five games as caretaker following Monk's sacking on 9 December.
But Swansea have since been knocked out of the FA Cup and were beaten 4-2 at home by relegation rivals Sunderland on Wednesday.
The former Wales striker does not think the Sunderland defeat will have a long term impact on Swansea's bid to stay in the Premier League.
"There was a bit of anger, if anything, after the result on Wednesday," Curtis added.
"I would hope they would want to right the wrongs, they felt a couple of decisions went against us.
They are a strong group and you look to the leaders of the group like Ashley Williams. Leon Britton and Neil Taylor.
"They're the type of people who will come forward for us."
A senior police officer told the BBC that the man had been holed up in a house in Lucknow, the capital of northern Uttar Pradesh state.
He added that "the militant was part of an IS-linked group" which planned a train blast in central Madhya Pradesh state that injured nine on Tuesday.
Six more members of the group have been arrested from different locations.
The police operation happened on the eve of the last day of polling for critical assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state.
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Police spokesperson Rahul Srivastava told the BBC that the operation took 12 hours because they "wanted to catch the gunman alive".
"We had information about two men hiding in the house from our colleagues in Madhya Pradesh. But we found one heavily-armed person hiding there," he said.
Mr Srivastava added that the police had "recovered more than 600 bullets, pistols and an IS flag from the house".
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Mr Dean, who designed album covers for the likes of prog-rock bands Yes and Asia, filed a legal action at a court in New York last week.
He has accused Cameron of "wilful and deliberate copying, dissemination and exploitation" of his original images.
Nine time Oscar-nominated Avatar is the highest-grossing film of all time.
Since its release in 2009, the film, which used groundbreaking 3D technology, has made more than $2.8bn internationally.
It won three of the Academy Awards for which it was nominated in 2010, including best art direction, best cinematography and best visual effects.
Set on the alien planet of Pandora, the computer generated landscapes include vast floating islands, jungle wildlife and huge tree-dwellings.
In his legal action, Mr Dean - described in the papers as "an international artist and designer, whose evocative and visionary images... created a new genre of work" - has claimed Cameron had "studied and referenced his art in preparation for the film".
The papers continued: "The similarities of each such work are substantial, continuing, and direct so as to rule out any accidental copying or similarity in scenes common to the genre."
Mr Dean, who graduated from the Royal College of Art, in London, in 1968 said that, in particular, his paintings of floating islands and huge graceful arches in the sky, painted over the course of 40 years, were copied by the director.
The artist also pointed out the similarities between the Tree of Life and the Home Tree of Avatar's fictional alien race the Na'vi, and his works Pathway and Floating Jungle.
Mr Dean said his claims were backed up by "numerous comments on the internet".
Cameron - who won a best director Oscar for the film Titanic - has said publicly that he first came up with the idea for Avatar in 1995.
Mr Dean said he took a similar proposal to the Cannes Film Festival in 2005, four years before the film's release.
Mr Dean's is the second legal action currently being faced by Cameron over Avatar.
In March, a judge gave the go-ahead to screenwriter Bryant Moore, who claimed parts of two scripts he sent to Cameron's company were used in Avatar. In 2012, Cameron won two separate judgements against similar accusations.
The filmmaker has already announced two sequels to Avatar are already in pre-production. The first is due in December 2014 with the second to follow 12 months later.
He said: "We will not back off the throttle of Avatar's visual and emotional horse-power."
Walt Disney is also to build attractions based on the film at its theme parks.
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Hollywood director James Cameron has been sued by British artist Roger Dean for $50m (£33m) over claims he copied ideas for the 3D film Avatar.
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